Niagara County data network battle continues
LOCKPORT – The Niagara County Legislature remains unable to decide which company should receive a contract for a new data and telephone network for county offices, needed for a planned new phone...
View ArticleLockport crack dealer pleads guilty
LOCKPORT – Ashley I. Boyer, who was one of nine people arrested in a Lockport drug sweep in November, pleaded guilty Wednesday.Boyer, 27, of Remick Parkway, admitted to fifth-degree criminal sale of a...
View ArticleArresting officer testifies in Mongielo trial
LOCKPORT – The Lockport policeman who arrested business owner David J. Mongielo June 27 testified Wednesday that he arrested Mongielo because he pushed back as the officer tried to get him out of his...
View ArticleFormer music teacher takes plea deal in decade-old sex abuse case
LOCKPORT – Michael J. Solomon Sr., the former Lutheran school music teacher whose initial conviction for sexually abusing a girl was overturned on appeal, took a plea deal Wednesday.Solomon, 48, of...
View ArticleFraudulent use of a Wheatfield debit card traced to the Town of Amherst
WHEATFIELD – A 30-year-old woman told Niagara County sheriff’s deputies Monday that she was notified by her bank that her debit card was used without her authorization to make over $72 in purchases on...
View ArticleOleans-Niagara BOCES honored nationally for its work with veterans
Orleans-Niagara Board of Cooperative Extension Services in Medina was one of three school districts chosen from across the nation as a grand prize winner in the 2014 Magna Awards, which recognizes...
View ArticleOrleans-Niagara BOCES honored nationally
Orleans-Niagara Board of Cooperative Extension Services in Medina was one of three school districts chosen from across the nation as a grand prize winner in the 2014 Magna Awards, which recognizes...
View ArticleFarkas hears guilty pleas from two crack dealers
LOCKPORT – Men from Lockport and Niagara Falls pleaded guilty to selling crack cocaine in appearances Wednesday before Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas.Nathaniel Carson Jr., 23, of Clinton...
View ArticleState seeks to hire consultant to manage Buffalo Billion project
State officials are looking to hire a consultant to oversee the implementation of the Buffalo Billion economic development initiative.The state is seeking proposals from companies specializing in...
View ArticleLockport father changes mind, pleads guilty to injuring infant son
LOCKPORT – A Lockport man, who last week rejected two plea offers for seriously injuring his five-month-old son, changed his mind Wednesday and accepted one of them.Christopher T. Fuller Jr., 23, of...
View ArticleSouth Dakota man pleads guilty in reservation fatal accident
LOCKPORT – A South Dakota man whose car broadsided another on the Tuscarora Indian Reservation on Sept. 8, killing his passenger and seriously injuring the other driver, pleaded guilty to...
View ArticleTourists ticketed for getting too close to the falls
NIAGARA FALLS – Two tourists from Pennsylvania put themselves in peril Wednesday afternoon when they went out on a closed off, ice-covered section of Terrapin Point at Niagara Falls State Park, park...
View ArticleNew Lockport mayor vows to turn the city around
LOCKPORT – Anne E. McCaffrey formally took the oath of office as Lockport’s 57th mayor Wednesday, telling residents that she knows their faith in city government has been shaken by the city’s fiscal...
View ArticleFormer music teacher takes plea deal in decade-old sex abuse case
LOCKPORT – Michael J. Solomon Sr., the former Lutheran school music teacher whose initial conviction for sexually abusing a girl was overturned on appeal, took a plea deal Wednesday.Solomon, 48, of...
View ArticleLockport father changes mind, pleads guilty to injuring infant son
LOCKPORT – A Lockport man, who last week rejected two plea offers for seriously injuring his five-month-old son, changed his mind Wednesday and accepted one of them.Christopher T. Fuller Jr., 23, of...
View ArticleLockport’s new mayor vows to get city back on track
LOCKPORT – Anne E. McCaffrey formally took the oath of office as Lockport’s 57th mayor Wednesday, telling residents that she knows their faith in city government has been shaken by the city’s fiscal...
View ArticleNiagara Falls Blvd. reopens after major water line break
NIAGARA FALLS – A major water line break closed off busy Niagara Falls Boulevard (Route 62) between 47th and 56th streets for more than three hours Wednesday night. The break was reported about 7 p.m....
View ArticlePlans call for 184-room hotel with tower on site of defunct Fallside Hotel...
NIAGARA FALLS – Renovation plans by a Canadian hotelier appear to be moving ahead at a condemned hotel and conference center overlooking the roaring rapids of the Niagara River.Preliminary plans...
View ArticleGreat Lakes’ ice cover could lead to flooding, chillier spring
WASHINGTON – Like a boxer who knocked his rival to the mat and who then gets down on his knees to keep pummeling the poor guy, the wicked winter of 2014 may not be done with us yet.Federal officials...
View ArticleBuffalo’s top lawyers join in labor racketeering trial
For the better part of two days this week, Buffalo’s top criminal defense lawyers took turns challenging, critiquing and at times even mocking the government’s case against Operating Engineers Local...
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