Lawsuit over Lockport fire chief exam could be moot
LOCKPORT – State Supreme Court Justice Richard C. Kloch Sr. said Thursday he wants to know why the Lockport Civil Service Commission changed the rules on who is eligible to be promoted to fire...
View ArticleOusted head of Riviera Theatre locked in bitter legal fight with board
NORTH TONAWANDA – Frank Cannata was named Citizen of the Year by the Chamber of Commerce of the Tonawandas in 2011 and applauded for bringing the Riviera Theatre on Webster Street back to...
View ArticleFalls School Board votes to stay within state tax cap
NIAGARA FALLS – Niagara Falls taxpayers as a whole won’t have to shell out more to pay for the city’s public schools next year.The city School Board on Thursday voted to try not to exceed the state’s...
View ArticleLockport surgeon Schratz named to Fire Board
LOCKPORT – Dr. Jeffrey Schratz, a Lockport surgeon, was appointed to the city Fire Board Friday by Mayor Anne E. McCaffrey.Schratz fills the unexpired term left by longtime member Thomas W. O’Shea,...
View ArticleFalls man pleads guilty to having a half-ounce of cocaine
LOCKPORT – Tony L. Moore, who had about a half-ounce of cocaine when his car was stopped May 2 by Niagara Falls police, pleaded guilty Friday in Niagara County Court.Moore, 32, of Niagara Avenue in...
View ArticleFarkas dismisses woman’s charges after diversion success
LOCKPORT – A woman who entered the judicial diversion program of court-supervised drug treatment 15 months ago was declared Friday to have completed the program, and the felony drug case against her...
View ArticleTwo years in jail is sentence for two-time burglar
LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls man who pleaded guilty to two burglaries was sentenced Friday to two years in Niagara County Jail for violating the terms of his probation.Joseph A. Bishara, 24, of John...
View ArticlePorter man’s robbery sentence doesn’t extend his prison time
LOCKPORT – Jason J. Kester, the Porter man sentenced March 31 to 13 years in prison for invading a West Seneca woman’s home last year, won’t have to serve any additional time for violating probation...
View ArticleOntario trucker handed 14 years for border haul of Ecstasy
Osborne Young, 47, was arrested at the Lewiston-Queenston Bridge in a tractor-trailer in April 2012. Customs and Border Protection officers found the pills hidden in the rig’s refrigeration unit. U.S....
View ArticleLockport coal tar being burned in Falls incinerator
NIAGARA FALLS – Some 3,000 tons of soil contaminated with coal tar from a Lockport brownfield are to be burned at the Covanta Niagara incinerator in Niagara Falls.Kevin O’Neil, Covanta’s business...
View ArticleGasport man arrested for felony DWI in Leandra’s Law case
ROYALTON – A Gasport man was charged with felony driving while intoxicated in a Leandra’s Law case after sideswiping a parked car with his SUV on Dale Road shortly before 10 p.m. Thursday, state...
View ArticleRepair work to begin on four roads near Niagara outlet mall
TOWN OF NIAGARA – The annual road repair season should begin at the end of the month with work on four of the worst roads in town.Highway Superintendent Robert Herman told the Town Board Thursday that...
View ArticleLockport motorcyclist injured in Pendleton collision
PENDLETON – A Lockport motorcyclist was injured after being struck by a vehicle turning into a driveway on Fisk Road about 5:25 p.m. Friday, Niagara County sheriff’s deputies said. Richard Vanorder,...
View ArticleGraffiti Task Force in Niagara Falls targets skateboarders
NIAGARA FALLS – Just a few years ago, the Graffiti Task Force was created in Niagara Falls and the city’s police force worked hard to both identify and clean up the graffiti left by street gangs.The...
View ArticleThree hospitalized after bar fight in Lockport
LOCKPORT – Three people were injured early today in a bar fight at Lock 34 on Main Street, city police reported.Police said those who were injured during the 2 a.m. fight suffered cuts or stab...
View ArticleNiagara County reports first confirmed rabies case
A raccoon killed in a fight with two dogs on Stone Road in Hartland is the first confirmed case of rabies in Niagara County this year and a reminder to have all pets vaccinated. The Niagara County...
View ArticleLockport school budget cuts 2 teachers, 3 speech pathologists
LOCKPORT – Two teachers and three speech pathologists are the employees who would be laid off if the proposed Lockport City School District budget is passed by the voters, a district official...
View ArticleTwo people killed in Lockport house fire
LOCKPORT – Two people were killed early this morning in a house fire on Crosby Avenue, the Lockport Police Department said.A male and a female, whose names have not yet been released, died in the fire...
View ArticleTwo people killed in Lockport house fire
LOCKPORT – Two people were killed early this morning in a house fire on Crosby Avenue, the Lockport Police Department said.A male and a female, whose names have not yet been released, died in the fire...
View ArticleMotorcycle crash in Royalton sends two to ECMC with head injuries
ROYALTON – Two people suffered head injuries in a motorcycle crash shortly before 3:30 p.m. on Saturday on Hartland Road, between State Street and Slayton Settlement Road.The Niagara County Sheriff’s...
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