George Will to headline commencement slate at Niagara University
LEWISTON – Syndicated columnist and television pundit George F. Will is scheduled to give the commencement address to graduate students at Niagara University at 7 p.m. May 8, the university announced...
View ArticleMiddleport librarian wins Key to the Locks Award
LOCKPORT – Rosemary Bernard, librarian at the Royalton-Hartland Community Library in Middleport, has been named the winner of the 2014 Key to the Locks award, presented annually by the Erie Canal...
View ArticleFamily member is suspected in a Cambria break-in
CAMBRIA – A window was smashed to gain entry into an unattached garage in the 3700 block of Ridge Road sometime between 10 p.m. Sunday and 6 p.m. Monday, according to Niagara County sheriff’s...
View ArticleSix-year-old finds a piece of meat in an envelope in the mailbox
LOCKPORT – Niagara County sheriff’s deputies were called to a home in the 4900 block of Sunset Drive after an envelope, containing meat in a refrigerator bag, was found in the mailbox on Tuesday.The...
View ArticleNiagara Falls Police are enlisting national help to find a runaway girl
NIAGARA FALLS – The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children had been called to help Niagara Falls Police in their search for a runaway 15-year-old girl.Dalene Mcilwain, a habitual runaway,...
View ArticleStreet milling in Lockport makes progress
LOCKPORT – Milling of pavement on Summit Street, Lincoln Avenue and Pine Street has been completed, Mayor Anne E. McCaffrey said Tuesday.In the city’s continuing effort to grind away pothole-strewn...
View ArticlePolice investigating man suspected in rash of car burglaries
LOCKPORT – The Niagara County Sheriff’s Office and State Police charged a man believed to be breaking into cars in the Woodlands Trailer Park over the weekend.Joseph J. Zavarella, 27, of Lockport was...
View ArticleNiagara County set for $33.4 million in public works projects
LOCKPORT – A Niagara County Legislature committee authorized $33.4 million worth of road, bridge and building repair projects Tuesday, with almost one-third of the money to be borrowed.If the full...
View ArticleProhibition on ‘equate’ is OK’d in Wheatfield, but with...
WHEATFIELD – The Town Board yielded to public demands Monday night in agreeing to a local law banning the use or storage of sludge-related products, but after the crowd went home, the board passed a...
View ArticleTown of Niagara supervisor considering guilty pleas
Longtime Town of Niagara Supervisor Steven C. Richards is considering pleading guilty Monday in the public corruption case against him, according to legal sources.Meanwhile, Richards cleaned out his...
View ArticleMount St. Mary’s to join Catholic Health System
Top officials at Mount St. Mary’s Hospital and Health Center in Lewiston said their planned affiliation with the Catholic Health System makes sense because the organizations share the same values and...
View ArticleCuomo hires law firm to keep Bills in Buffalo
ALBANY – The Cuomo administration will be hiring a consultant to quickly turn around a plan to present to would-be owners of the Buffalo Bills in the months ahead depicting everything from possible...
View ArticleBuffalo woman indicted in Lockport store burglary
LOCKPORT – A woman who was accused of a July 21 theft from the Bon Ton store on South Transit Road in Lockport was arraigned Wednesday in State Supreme Court. Catrina M. Contrereaz, 26, whose last...
View ArticleBuffalo man pleads guilty in NT cocaine case
LOCKPORT – A Buffalo man admitted Wednesday in State Supreme Court that he possessed cocaine with the intention of selling it to a police informant June 10 in North Tonawanda.David A. Lee, 23, of...
View ArticleHeart of Niagara offers an animal adoption event
LEWISTON – Heart of Niagara Animal Rescue will present adoptable dogs from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday at Grandpaws Pet Emporium, 784 Center St, near the corner of Eighth Street.Visitors will be...
View ArticleA gun safe and laptop are stolen in a Newfane burglary
NEWFANE – A 35-year-old woman told Niagara County sheriff’s deputies that sometime between 3 p.m. Monday and 6:30 a.m. on Tuesday someone broke into her home in the 3700 block of Day Road.She said she...
View ArticleA Chinese food delivery driver is jumped and robbed in Falls
NIAGARA FALLS – A 45-year-old Chinese food delivery man said he was jumped and robbed at gunpoint by five men at 10:15 p.m. Tuesday as he made a delivery in the 700 block of Townsend Place.The driver,...
View ArticleMan said he was temporarily blinded in a beating in Newfane
NEWFANE – A North Tonawanda man told Niagara County sheriff’s deputies that he was beaten in the face by a man wearing large metal rings on his fingers. He said he was blinded in his right eye for...
View ArticleLockport-based debt collection agency shut down
A Lockport-based consumer debt collection agency that “repeatedly violated the law by harassing customers” was shuttered Wednesday by State Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman, according to...
View ArticleOne Niagara misses back taxes deadline
NIAGARA FALLS – The owner of a piece of prime downtown property that has been tangled in legal disputes missed Wednesday’s deadline to settle up with the city over back taxes, as word emerged of a $5...
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