Village of Lewiston mayor receives two political endorsements
LEWISTON – Lewiston Mayor Terry C. Collesano who is the Republican candidate for re-election in the June 17 village election, has received endorsements from two party leaders.Collesano will be...
View ArticleTwo shotguns are stolen from a pickup in Falls
NIAGARA FALLS – A back door window was ripped off a pickup to gain entry and two shotguns stored under a backseat were stolen while the truck was parked in the 1000 block of Niagara Avenue on Monday,...
View ArticleMan reports being robbed by two armed rappers in a Falls hotel
NIAGARA FALLS – A Falls man said he was robbed of $5,000 in cash after shooting a rap video in a hotel in the Falls.The 20-year-old victim told officers on Monday that two suspects that he knows only...
View ArticleShoplifter gets away with nearly $1,500 worth of jewelry
NIAGARA FALLS – A store manager at the Hobby Lobby on Military Road contacted police on Monday after they reviewed store surveillance that shows a woman taking sterling silver jewelry late last week....
View ArticleWomen in Lockport report being approached by an unknown man
LOCKPORT – Two women in separate cases have reported being approached by a suspicious man in a black mini van while in or near a parking lot on South Transit Road, according to the Niagara County...
View ArticleHigh speed chase of a man driving a Jaguar ends in his arrest
NIAGARA FALLS – A State trooper who tried to stop the driver of 1999 Jaguar XJ8 for not wearing a seatbelt found himself in a high speed chase with the driver Monday.The driver who was identified as...
View Article10 years in prison for triple gas station robber
LOCKPORT – A man who robbed three Lockport gas stations in one day was sentenced Tuesday by Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas to 10 years in prison and five years of post-release...
View ArticleFire causes $50,000 damage at Lockport Delphi plant
LOCKPORT – Fire caused by a ruptured hydraulic fluid line did an estimated $50,000 damage to an industrial heating unit Tuesday at the Delphi plant on Upper Mountain Road, Assistant Chief Joseph A....
View ArticleTwo Niagara County crack dealers plead guilty, enter diversion
LOCKPORT – Two men pleaded guilty Tuesday in courtrooms here to selling crack cocaine in separate incidents, and both were assigned to the judicial diversion program of court-supervised drug...
View ArticleMan pleads guilty to role in burglary of vacant Falls business
LOCKPORT – A City of Tonawanda man pleaded guilty Tuesday in Niagara County Court to third-degree burglary for his role in the Aug. 31 attempt to steal metal from an abandoned business in the Highland...
View ArticleDEC sets hearings, doubles length of public comment period on CWM expansion
LEWISTON – The state Department of Environmental Conservation announced Tuesday that it is doubling the length of the public comment period on CWM Chemical Services’ proposed expansion of its Porter...
View ArticleThee abandoned kittens put up for adoption by Niagara SPCA
LOCKPORT – Three kittens recovered by Niagara County sheriff’s deputies Monday morning in a field near the old Summit Park Mall were put up for adoption later in the day by the Niagara SPCA. Sheriff’s...
View ArticleLockport claims it will run out of money in August without fire cuts
LOCKPORT – In court papers filed Tuesday, Lockport officials asserted that the city will be unable to pay its bills by August unless it is able to reduce the number of firefighters working on each...
View ArticleLockport residential burglary suspect arrested
LOCKPORT – A 24-year-old Town of Lockport man was arrested Tuesday by the Niagara County Sheriff’s Criminal Division for allegedly burglarizing at least three homes in the Lockport area recently....
View ArticleNiagara governments mull joint health coverage
LOCKPORT – Most of Niagara County’s 21 local governments were represented Tuesday at a meeting to hear about the possibility of joining into a single health insurance consortium in hopes of eventually...
View ArticleHall & Oates show versatility in Artpark series
LEWISTON – Anyone who spent his or her early-’80s childhood within an earshot of a radio or an arm’s length of a television learned plenty of lessons from the music of Hall and Oates.A “Maneater” is a...
View ArticleNorth Tonawanda seeks funding for final phase of Gratwick Marina upgrade
NORTH TONAWANDA – The city-owned Gratwick Riverside Marina, which sat vacant and dilapidated for six years, has undergone a multimillion-dollar renovation over the past three years. Tuesday, the...
View ArticleA mother accused of forcing her daughter into a fight appears in court
NIAGARA FALLS – No plea is being offered in a case where a Niagara Falls mother allegedly forced her teenage daughter into a fistfight with another girl on the street two months ago.Eula L. McCray,...
View ArticlePolice make arrest in Lockport shooting
LOCKPORT – Few details have been offered by police about what led to a shooting that injured a Lockport man on Tuesday, but a day later a Buffalo man was in custody.Anthony J. Ervin III, 29, was...
View ArticleFacebook friend suspected in jewelry theft
LOCKPORT –A woman said a man she met on Facebook and allowed to stay in her house may be a suspect in the theft of nearly $2,000 worth of jewelry, sneakers and a 60-inch television.The 28-year-old...
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