Wheatfield convenience store held up at gunpoint
A man bearing a long gun held up a River Road convenience store in Wheatfield late Monday, Niagara County sheriff’s deputies reported.The robbery occurred shortly before 10:30 p.m. at the Citgo Jolly...
View ArticleKing-inspired awards event to be held Thursday at Niagara Falls High School
NIAGARA FALLS - Awards in memory of Martin Luther King Jr. will be handed out Thursday night during a community celebration of the famed civil rights leader at Niagara Falls High School.The free event...
View ArticleBudget deal will ease Peace Bridge backups
WASHINGTON – The increasingly long lines of traffic waiting to enter Buffalo at the Peace Bridge may soon be a thing of the past, thanks to a House-Senate spending agreement that calls for the hiring...
View ArticleProsecutors drop lesser count in Marchant trial
LOCKPORT – Prosecutors, in an all-or-nothing move, dropped the less serious of the two manslaughter counts against Jennifer R. Marchant today.The decision to give up a second-degree manslaughter count...
View ArticleJury to resume deliberations in Marchant trial
LOCKPORT – A Niagara County Court jury of 10 men and two women will resume deliberations this morning in the trial of Jennifer R. Marchant, the North Tonawanda woman who stabbed her boyfriend to...
View ArticleThousands of dollars worth of equipment stolen from a work truck at a Fall...
NIAGARA FALLS – A supervisor for Environmental and Geotechnical Drilling Services of Syracuse told Niagara Falls police that someone took miscellaneous field equipment from a flat bed truck sometime...
View ArticleFalls man is jumped by two men and stabbed in a confrontation
NIAGARA FALLS – A 19-year-old youth told police two men confronted him just before 3 p.m. Monday in the 600 block of Ferry Avenue, struck him from behind and then started punching him.The victim said...
View ArticleHealth signups show 44% of new enrollees had been uninsured
People who signed up for insurance through New York’s health insurance exchange were older than desired by architects of the marketplace and many opted for coverage through lesser-known health plans...
View ArticleResidents take their flooding woes before the Common Council in North...
NORTH TONAWANDA – Flooded basements are nothing new given the recent weather woes, but several residents who appeared Tuesday at a meeting of the Common Council said they believe it can be...
View ArticleAwards to be presented at celebration of King
NIAGARA FALLS – Awards in memory of Martin Luther King Jr. will be handed out Thursday night during a community celebration of the civil rights leader at Niagara Falls High School. The free event...
View ArticleMetro on Sunday schedule for King Day holiday
Metro Bus & Rail will operate on the Sunday schedule Monday – Martin Luther King Jr. Day – according to the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority.
View Article10 Catholic elementary schools to close
Ten elementary Catholic school closings will be announced today as part of a sweeping effort to overhaul Catholic education in Western New York, ending months of anxious waiting and speculation about...
View ArticleYear after SAFE Act, groups seek more gun controls
By Tom Precious ALBANY -- Gun control advocates are out this morning with their legislative wish-list for the 2014 legislative session. They are proposing everything from new sales restrictions on...
View ArticleMarchant found guilty of first-degree manslaughter
LOCKPORT – Jennifer R. Marchant sat quietly Wednesday as a Niagara County Court jury declared her guilty of first-degree manslaughter in the stabbing death of her boyfriend last year.Marchant, 24, was...
View ArticleBuffalo Catholic Diocese to close 10 of its Erie County schools, including...
Ten suburban Catholic elementary schools suffering from low enrollments and struggling with finances will close in June, Bishop Richard J. Malone announced today.Many of the schools to be closed are...
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List of 10 Catholic schools closing: Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Elma)Fourteen Holy Helpers (West Seneca)Our Lady of Pompeii (Lancaster)Our Lady of the Sacred Heart (Orchard Park)St....
View ArticleNiagara Falls police searching for gunman who shot out store window
NIAGARA FALLS – A gunman wearing a bandana over his face fired off four shots just before 3 p.m. Tuesday and shattered a store window at LOEG at 2908 Pine Avenue, Niagara Falls police said. He was...
View ArticleSUV crashes into house, family left homeless
NIAGARA FALLS – A 30-year Niagara Falls man will not be charged after he apparently fell asleep at the wheel and drove his Dodge Durango into the front of a house at 2008 Hyde Park Boulevard at 8:20...
View ArticlePhoto gallery: The 10 schools that are closing
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View ArticleMother-and-son drug dealers avoid prison
LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls woman and her son each were placed on five years’ probation Wednesday for dealing drugs in the Falls in 2012.Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas imposed the sentences...
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