Falls sex offender arraigned on two felonies
LOCKPORT – A Level 1 sex offender who allegedly left the state without permission pleaded not guilty to a two-count felony indictment in Niagara County Court Thursday.Derrick J. Houser, 26, whose last...
View ArticleNorth Tonawanda cocaine deal leads to guilty plea
LOCKPORT – A Buffalo man who sold cocaine in North Tonawanda July 6 pleaded guilty in State Supreme Court Thursday, and was assigned to a court-supervised drug treatment program.Trey A. Donaldson, 19,...
View ArticlePolice on scene of Woodlawn Avenue shooting
Buffalo police are at the scene of a shooting that took place earlier this evening on the East Side.Officers were called about 7 p.m. to 111 Woodlawn Ave., near Masten Avenue.Police would not say at...
View ArticleWheatfield man who pulled razor on security guard is jailed
LOCKPORT – Joshua K. Allen, who converted a shoplifting incident into a felony by pulling a razor blade on a store security guard, was blasted as an incompetent criminal and a bad person Thursday by...
View ArticleNiagara County taxes to rise 1.89 percent
LOCKPORT – The Niagara County Legislature adopted a 2013 budget Tuesday night that increased the amount to be collected in property taxes by 1.89 percent.The budget passed by a 10-5 vote at about 11:30...
View ArticleTree of life hangs heavy this year
More than 100 red bows were affixed to 6-foot-tall tree Wednesday in the Frank E. Merriweather Jr. Library, allowing local family members to commemorate the lives of their loved ones cut short by...
View ArticleMan charged with sex crimes needs new lawyer
LOCKPORT – David J. Grover, the Town of Tonawanda man accused of kidnapping and sexually abusing a 5-year-old North Tonawanda girl July 28, lost his attorney this week. Assistant Public Defender...
View ArticleOne woman succeeds, another fails, in court-supervised drug treatment
LOCKPORT – One woman successfully completed her court-supervised drug treatment program this week in Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas’ courtroom, but another who failed in the program was sent...
View ArticleNorth Tonawanda woman pleads guilty, spurns drug treatment
LOCKPORT – A North Tonawanda woman pleaded guilty in Niagara County Court this week to selling the drug Suboxone, but her attorney said she decided against entering the judicial diversion program of...
View ArticleMan arrested in Lockport drug raid pleads not guilty
LOCKPORT – A man accused of having nearly an ounce of cocaine when police raided his Lockport home Sept. 12 was arraigned this week in Niagara County Court.Ulford G. Jenkins, 41, of Elmwood Avenue,...
View ArticleLoud exhaust leads to gun and drug arrest
A Buffalo man driving a car with a loud exhaust system faces weapons, drug and marijuana charges after being pulled over Thursday on Curtiss Street.State police said James P. Grey Jr., 69, had a bag of...
View ArticleInjured worker wins jury award
A Lancaster man who sued Buffalo Hospital Supply after suffering injuries in a 2007 work accident was awarded $1.95 million by a jury though he will collect less than that.Bradley R. Pettit, 60,...
View ArticleLatest class of police graduates includes 32 additions to city force
Graduates of the 120th Basic Police Officer Training Class were urged to be more than just enforcers of the law Friday during a standing-room-only ceremony in Canisius College’s Montante Cultural...
View ArticleState rips fundraising agencies used by charities
For-profit telemarketers for 10 area charitable organizations – mostly representing fire and law enforcement charitable entities – collected $577,386.50 in 2011.In all, those groups pocketed...
View ArticleDefendants in beating of boxer, fatal accident offered plea bargains in Falls
LOCKPORT – The defendants in a fatal car-pedestrian accident and the beating of a professional boxer were offered plea bargains this week, and both will return to court early in January to say whether...
View ArticleLord Amherst renovation gets tax breaks amid neighborhood concerns
The Amherst Industrial Development Agency on Friday approved nearly $2 million in tax breaks for Iskalo Development Co.’s renovation of the Lord Amherst Hotel and Sonoma Grille restaurant, despite...
View ArticleHow the deal finally came together
ALBANY – In a first-floor conference room of the Millennium Hotel in Cheektowaga in early October, senior state and Erie County officials sat on one side of a U-shaped table. Representatives from the...
View ArticleProtestors target Walmart in Cheektowaga
Social activists demonstrated outside a Walmart in Cheektowaga Friday to call attention to claims about the retailer’s labor and supplier practices. But Walmart said the absence of Walmart employees...
View ArticleMan accused of setting dog on fire rejects plea
A judge would not offer to chop time off a maximum prison sentence, so the man accused of dousing a Jack Russell terrier with lighter fluid and setting the puppy on fire in October refused to plead...
View ArticleBail set at $1 million for Clarence suspect in child molestation,...
A Clarence man is being held in lieu of $1 million bail following his arrest by the Erie County Sheriff’s Office on child molestation and pornography charges, authorities announced Friday.Armed with a...
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