Niagara receives state aid for program against gun violence
LOCKPORT – Niagara County agencies have been allocated $640,000 in state funds for a new program to develop strategies to combat and prosecute violent crimes committed with guns.The GIVE program,...
View ArticleNiagara receives grant for new public defender
LOCKPORT – Niagara County will be hiring a new assistant public defender for work in Family Court, thanks to a grant from the state Office of Indigent Legal Services.The County Legislature will vote...
View ArticleDEC says no further cleanup needed at Falls brownfield
NIAGARA FALLS – The state Department of Environmental Conservation has decided that no further work is needed at Tract I, a former industrial site on Highland Avenue in Niagara Falls, now owned by...
View ArticleLearning-disabled man beaten
NIAGARA FALLS -- A learning-disabled, 22-year-old man suffered multiple possible facial fractures after being lured into a Niagara Avenue home and beaten early Saturday, police reported.The victim...
View ArticleCamp Happiness expects more kids than ever
SOMERSET – Organizers said they expect a record number of campers this year at Camp Happiness, a one-week day camp experience for people with intellectual and other developmental disabilities, opening...
View ArticleFalls resident reports theft of items from backyard
NIAGARA FALLS – A 1996 Mercury engine was among the items stolen from the backyard of a 12th Street home on Friday, police said.The elderly resident told police someone entered his yard around...
View ArticleState suspends work on new police station
NIAGARA FALLS – State officials announced Sunday that work is being suspended on a new State Park Police station that would overlook the Niagara Gorge.Sam Hoyt, local head of Empire State Development...
View ArticleHiggins says proposed parks police station would violate federal regulations
NIAGARA FALLS – State officials were violating federal regulations with the plans to build a new State Parks Police station on the Niagara Gorge, Rep. Brian Higgins said today.The plans, which were...
View ArticleChanges in recycling to be discussed
NIAGARA FALLS – Residents interested in learning more about the upcoming changes to the city’s garbage and recycling program are invited to City Hall on Saturday morning.City officials and...
View ArticleState leads successful weed pulling effort
More than 300 volunteers pulled 5,100 pounds of an invasive “garlic mustard” plant as part of a competitive nine-week effort to reduce the weeds at nature preserves.The Buffalo Audubon’s Beaver Meadow...
View ArticleRumors on social media prompt security concerns at Niagara-Wheatfield...
WHEATFIELD – Police patrolled the Niagara-Wheatfield high school and middle school campus throughout the day today after rumors on social media over the weekend came to the attention of school...
View ArticleChildren observed playing in the street; mother charged
WILSON – A Wilson mother was charged with endangering the welfare of her children after Niagara County sheriff’s deputies found two unsupervised children had been riding their scooters in the street...
View ArticleSeven-time drunken driver goes to jail
LOCKPORT – A North Tonawanda man, who pleaded guilty in April to his seventh alcohol-related driving charge, was sentenced Monday to two years in the Niagara County Jail by State Supreme Court Justice...
View ArticleLockport man admits to role in Pine Street theft
LOCKPORT – Quincy R. Byrd, who took part in the robbery of a man in a Pine Street apartment during a March 29 break-in, pleaded guilty Monday in Niagara County Court.Byrd, 18, of Elmwood Avenue,...
View ArticleNorth Tonawanda man admits stealing $215,000 from elderly aunt
A North Tonawanda man accused of stealing $215,121 from his elderly aunt’s bank account over a six-year period while she was living in a nursing home in Erie County pleaded guilty Monday to...
View ArticleMan who allegedly fought cops is committed to mental institution
LOCKPORT – Allan T. Spedding, who was charged with injuring two policemen during a Jan. 5 fracas in a Lockport fast-food eatery, has been committed to a state mental institution for up to a...
View ArticleLockport rink installs drain tile as leak continues
LOCKPORT – As the saga of the broken water line at the new Lockport ice arena entered its second week Monday, the construction crew installed drain tile and dug a well pit to direct the flow into a...
View ArticleWater leak stopped at Lockport ice rink site
LOCKPORT – Water stopped flooding into the foundation of the city’s new ice arena Monday evening, as two nearby water mains were shut off. Mayor Anne E. McCaffrey said one is the source of the...
View ArticleTown of Niagara hopes to unload road millings
TOWN OF NIAGARA – The town wants to unload an estimated 500 tons of millings, left over from the current blitz of road repaving projects, that are now stockpiled at the LaSalle Sportsmen’s Club on...
View ArticleLockport to seek emergency state borrowing authority
LOCKPORT – The City of Lockport will ask the State Legislature today for emergency authority to try to borrow its way out of the red.A special meeting of the Common Council has been called for 6 p.m....
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