At Youngstown diner, a full crowd and a whiteout view
YOUNGSTOWN – The Village Diner on Main Street was buzzing around lunchtime.“I guess people get cabin fever,” said waitress Maureen Olson, who only came in to work because someone else had to go...
View ArticleFinding refuge from the storm at a diner
As morning headed to afternoon and the snow began to fall more thickly, Jan Smolinski’s husband kidded about her canceled morning flight to Florida see their daughter.“I’m here in sunny North...
View ArticleBlizzard continues as air gets colder, snow 'fluffier'
The second blizzard of the winter season was continuing to pound Buffalo Niagara with heavy snow and wind on another record-breaking day for winter weather.Hang in there a few more hours.Unlike the...
View ArticlePolice report most Niagara County roads are passable
Most Niagara County roads were open and passable late this afternoon, police said, though there were reports of a few minor accidents and cars sliding off the road, especially in open stretches of...
View ArticleCandy, coffee, beer and rye flour on blizzard day shopping lists in Youngstown
YOUNGSTOWN – The whipping winds of a winter storm stood in their way, but those in search of something to eat and drink on Wednesday plowed towards their destinations despite the blizzard...
View ArticlePharmacy in Wilson reports a bottle of narcotic pills stolen prior to delivery
WILSON – The owner of the Wilson Community Pharmacy told Niagara County sheriff’s deputies on Tuesday that someone took a bottle containing 1,000 pills of the narcotic painkiller hydrocodone from a...
View ArticleToughing out the storm with pizza
At Tonawanda’s Fat Man Pizza orders for pies were down, but delivery tips were up. “They’re just surprised that we’re open. And happy,” said Dena Aksoy, a co-owner, whose two out-of-school children...
View ArticleA Lockport man is charged with trying to sell a stolen ATV
CAMBRIA – A Niagara Falls man alerted Niagara County sheriff’s deputies Tuesday after he learned that a man was trying to sell his all-terrain vehicle which had been reported stolen in Niagara...
View ArticleElectronics are stolen in the burglary of a motor home in the Falls
NIAGARA FALLS – A 71-year-old man said someone removed a windshield to climb into his 2004 motor home while it was parked in an alley in the 2700 block of Woodlawn Avenue, sometime between 6 p.m....
View ArticleTwo houses on adjoining streets are hit by gunfire in Falls
NIAGARA FALLS – Police investigating calls of shots fired at 20th Street and Woodlawn Avenue just after 3 a.m. Tuesday found two houses on 22nd Street and Woodlawn Avenue damaged by gunfire.Police...
View ArticleNiagara Falls woman jumps to her death
NIAGARA FALLS – A 61-year-old woman jumped to her death Wednesday from a 15th floor window at the apartment tower at 901 Cedar Ave., according to Police Lt. Michael Trane. The woman died at the scene...
View ArticleBlizzard ends but frigid air continues
And, just like that, it was over.Buffalo Niagara absorbed a 12-hour sock in the face from a wild, second blizzard in three months Wednesday.By about 9 p.m., the storm was winding down, according to...
View ArticleRegion says ‘enough is enough’ after season’s second...
They don’t happen a lot. Once every few years, by most accounts.But not this winter. No, we’ve already had two and we’re still a week shy of spring.We’re talking blizzards, the kind that literally...
View ArticleOrder of Hibernians sets St. Patrick’s Day party
NIAGARA FALLS – A St. Patrick’s Day party, hosted by the Ancient Order of Hibernians, will be held Monday in Conference & Event Center Niagara Falls.The organization’s 32nd annual celebration will...
View ArticleHospital hockey teams to play in fundraiser
NIAGARA FALLS – Hockey teams from two area hospitals will face off to raise money for cancer research. Doctors, nurses and staff from Mount St. Mary’s Hospital in Lewiston and from Niagara Falls...
View ArticleBuffalo’s record snowfall to give way to roller coaster in temperatures
NEWS STAFF REPORTERThe record snowfall of Wednesday will give way to a roller coaster of temperatures over the next couple of days, with temperatures dropping to single digits, rising to the mid 40s...
View ArticleSummit Park Mall in Wheatfield sold
The long-neglected Summit Park Mall in Wheatfield finally has a new owner.Zoran Cocov, a developer and real estate broker from Brampton, Ont., completed his purchase of the mostly empty retail...
View ArticleAlleged serial burglar given minimum sentence
LOCKPORT – A man who was suspected in as many as 13 Lewiston burglaries drew the minimum sentence Thursday from Niagara County Judge Matthew J. Murphy III.Michael T. Nolfi, 27, of Cherry Lane,...
View ArticleLockport woman pleads guilty in meth case
LOCKPORT – A woman whose boyfriend pleaded guilty two weeks ago to making methamphetamine in a parked car accepted the same plea offer herself Thursday.Niagara County Judge Matthew J. Murphy III...
View ArticleFalls man draws 7 years for robbery and burglary
LOCKPORT – Tyrell J. Jordan, a Niagara Falls man whose attorney called him “a young man who is desperate to obtain property to sell for drugs,” was sentenced Thursday to seven years in prison and five...
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