Armed robbery at Lockport gas station
LOCKPORT – A man displayed a knife and demanded money at 3:20 p.m. Sunday in a South Transit Road gas station and then fled in a car parked nearby, according to the Niagara County Sheriff’s Office. A...
View ArticleLockport youth director’s lawyer sees claim in credit card dispute
LOCKPORT – The attorney for Lockport Youth and Recreation Director Melissa I. Junke said he intends to file a notice of claim against the city, a mandatory preliminary to a lawsuit.George V.C. Muscato...
View ArticleProposed cuts to Medicare Advantage might mean higher costs for local...
WASHINGTON – Western New York seniors on Medicare Advantage plans – particularly those offered by BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York – could see higher costs and reduced services next year due...
View ArticleLockport gas station robbery suspect arrested
LOCKPORT – A 24-year-old Town of Lockport man was arrested Tuesday and was being held on $100,000 cash bail for his alleged role in the daylight armed robbery Sunday of the Noco gas station at 6233...
View ArticleMcCaffrey to sell Lockport mayor’s car
LOCKPORT – Mayor Anne E. McCaffrey announced Tuesday that she intends to auction off the mayor’s city-owned car and not replace it.Traditionally, the city supplies the mayor with a car and the...
View ArticleNew stamp honors Shirley Chisholm
Shirley Chisholm, known by her campaign slogan “Unbought & Unbossed,” was a trailblazer – the first African-American woman to serve in Congress, and the first to seek a major party’s nomination...
View ArticleSuspect in armed robbery of Falls gas station charged in 2 home burglaries
NIAGARA FALLS – A suspect in gas station armed robbery is additionally facing two separate burglary charges, including a case where he allegedly broke in and tried to climb through a window while a...
View ArticleWilson teacher discipline case drags on amid hearing officer’s health...
WILSON – For five years, the Wilson Central School District has been trying to fire a teacher and have his teaching certificate revoked.But major health problems for the state hearing officer who is...
View ArticleNiagara County revises bids again, plans to hire Lucent dealer for data...
LOCKPORT – Over protests from its information technology director and the Niagara County Legislature’s senior Democrat – but not for the same reason – a Legislature committee voted 3-2 Tuesday to...
View ArticleWoman wounded in Niagara Falls police confrontation
NIAGARA FALLS – A woman allegedly charged at city detectives during a drug investigation about 8:30 p.m. Tuesday near 27th and Niagara streets, and another woman nearby was shot in the thigh when an...
View ArticleCastellani Art Museum workshop to demonstrate Turkish art of paper marbling
NIAGARA FALLS – A master of ebru, the Turkish art of paper marbling, will lead a workshop in the technique from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, March 2, as part of the Master Makers and Players Series in the...
View ArticleHope for Tomorrow Foundation offers free cosmetic surgery for up to 5 children
The Hope for Tomorrow Foundation will donate cosmetic surgery for up to five children from Western New York whose physical appearance has caused them to become victims of bullying or suffer severe...
View ArticleFalls woman charged in gun altercation with police, grazing of bystander
NIAGARA FALLS – A woman grabbing at a police detective’s gun caused it to fire, grazing the thigh of another woman who was nearby Tuesday night, police said.Brittany Blenker, 23, of Main Street, who...
View ArticleVideo games and game systems reported stolen from a car
NIAGARA FALLS – More than $1,000 worth of video games, two Nintendo 3D game systems and accessories, a backpack and a floor mats in a car were reported stolen over the weekend from a parking lot at...
View ArticleBusiness owner says he was scammed out of $500
WHEATFIELD – The owner of Kim’s International cafe on Lockport Road told Niagara County sheriff’s deputies Tuesday that he responded to a call from a man claiming to be from National Grid who...
View ArticleA $10,000 construction trailer is reported stolen in Lockport
LOCKPORT – A 2012 construction utility trailer belonging to Custom Crews at 6111 Old Niagara Road is believed to have been stolen some time in the past three months.An employee for the company told...
View ArticlePolice zero in on fingerprints and footprints left behind in a Falls burglary
NIAGARA FALLS – A 43-year-old man said he arrived home and found that his door had been kicked in and his house was ransacked, sometime between 5:30 a.m. and 10:15 p.m. Tuesday in the 3000 block of...
View ArticleMan rejects plea offers in shaken-baby case
LOCKPORT – A Town of Lockport man, charged with seriously injuring his 5-month-old son by violently shaking him Jan. 22, refused two pre-indictment plea offers Wednesday in State Supreme Court.Deputy...
View ArticleBuffalo man draws prison sentence in domestic violence case
LOCKPORT – Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas said Wednesday she was “surprised” that a Buffalo man she imprisoned Wednesday in a domestic violence case has a new girlfriend.“Does she know your...
View ArticleMan draws one year in jail in sex case
LOCKPORT – A man who is in federal custody for violating probation on a weapons possession conviction in North Carolina was sentenced to a concurrent year in jail Wednesday for a sex-related case in...
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