PSC hearing set on plan to bring gas line to Cambria Asphalt plant
SANBORN – The state Public Service Commission has scheduled public hearings for Wednesday on a request by Cambria Asphalt Products to construct a natural gas supply line to its Junction Road plant in...
View ArticleNiagara sheriff probes report of witness tampering
TOWN OF LOCKPORT – Sheriff’s investigators were looking into reports Sunday that a witness in a recent robbery case was offered a bribe to not show up to testify.The robbery occurred July 20, and...
View ArticleRoute 93 reopens to traffic
LOCKPORT – Route 93, between Upper Mountain Road and Route 31, which was closed for more than a week, reopened today.The entire road, both eastbound and westbound, was closed after power lines were...
View ArticleCuomo signs Jay J.’s Law, closing child abuse loophole
ALBANY – A year ago, relatives of Jay J. Bolvin, a young North Tonawanda boy severely injured at the hands of his father, were huddled in a third-floor office at the state Capitol trying to convince...
View ArticleNew York Power Authority grants low-cost power to three local firms
Three Erie County businesses have been awarded 890 kilowatt-hours of low-cost hydropower by the New York Power Authority under a state program to encourage capital investment.None of the companies...
View ArticleComment sought on projects seeking Greenway funding
The Niagara River Greenway Commission is seeking public comment on four projects that have applied for Greenway funding.The Buffalo Lighthouse Association is seeking $825,000 to renovate the...
View ArticleNew nursing director named at Schoellkopf Health Center
NIAGARA FALLS – JoAnn Getman, a veteran registered practical nurse, was announced Monday as the new director of nursing at Schoellkopf Health Center in Niagara Falls.Getman was most recently director...
View ArticleThe Buzz: Of bats, Beach, Bauerle and ballet
Same bat channel Two images to take with us from Artpark’s big birthday bash last week: One was a bat, orbiting the stage in the program’s first half. That is so Artpark! The second was Broadway...
View ArticleA jazz renaissance in Buffalo
We were once a must-play tour stop for jazz, a city known among artists as one comprising an open-minded and “into it” group of listeners who not only would fill the club, but give back to the...
View ArticleJudge’s error produces mistrial for Lockport ‘sign guy’
LOCKPORT – The judge made a mistake, the defense attorney called him on it, and the result was an instant mistrial Monday in the case of a Town of Lockport business owner charged with violating the...
View ArticleLockport building to be demolished in wake of smoky fire
LOCKPORT – Thick black smoke could be seen for miles and a number of roads in the City of Lockport were rerouted as crews battled a fire Tuesday afternoon at the old Kohl’s Cycle Sales at 71 Gooding...
View ArticleFalls motel guest is robbed at gun point
NIAGARA FALLS – A Michigan trucker told police he was forced into his motel room and robbed at gun point just after 1:30 a.m. Monday.The victim said he had left his motel room on Niagara Falls...
View ArticleArson at old South Junior High School is part of a pattern of reported arson...
NIAGARA FALLS – City fire crews were called to douse a minor arson at about 8 p.m. Monday at 561 Portage Road, at the old South Junior High School.Firefighters found an old tire with paper trash that...
View ArticleTeen faces manslaughter and assault charges in Lewiston crash killing...
LEWISTON – A high school classmate was criminally charged Tuesday for the May 19 crash that killed Jasmin P. Dubuc, a 19-year-old Niagara Wheatfield High School senior.Taylor J. Clause, 18, of Walmore...
View ArticleBuffalo man accepts plea deal for helping killer of Cheektowaga girl
LOCKPORT – Tyler S. Best, the Buffalo man charged with helping a killer dispose of a 5-year-old girl’s body, said Friday he did it because he “felt threatened” by John R. Freeman Jr., who woke him up...
View ArticleCrash victim, defendant address each other during court sentencing
A heartfelt exchange between a convicted drunken driver and the woman he severely injured in a March crash created a dramatic scene in Erie County Court on Friday morning.“That’s pretty sobering,...
View ArticleBurglars hit two e-cigarette shops in Niagara County
Two electronic cigarette shops have reported recent break-ins, one of them for the third time recently.The owner of NY Vapor in Niagara Falls told police that someone forced their way into his...
View ArticleFalls police make five arrests for selling drugs
Niagara Falls police arrested five people over the past week for selling drugs, Detective David LeGault said Friday.Edward H. Weston, 60, of Welch Avenue, was charged with illegal possession of a...
View Article‘Con man’ jailed for $10,000 business fraud
LOCKPORT – A man who swindled a victim out of $10,000 in what a prosecutor called “a moderately elaborate scheme” was sentenced to a year in jail Friday by Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon...
View ArticleNiagara Falls man who shot himself takes plea deal in another shooting, drug...
LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls man who spent most of his court appearance Friday staring down at the table and mumbling his answers pleaded guilty to shooting an alleged drug dealer, accidentally shooting...
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