Indictment accuses woman of possessing a wide range of drugs
LOCKPORT – A Town of Niagara woman pleaded not guilty Thursday in State Supreme Court to a six-count indictment accusing her of possessing five different drugs when the car in which she was riding was...
View ArticleFalls man to try treatment after cocaine plea
LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls man risked up to nine years in prison Thursday as he entered the judicial diversion program of court-supervised drug treatment following his guilty plea to cocaine...
View ArticleAuction of swindler’s property postponed because of tax lien
LOCKPORT – Concerns over a state tax lien caused a postponement Thursday of the auction of property owned by a criminal who was ordered to pay restitution for stealing about $600,000 from an elderly...
View ArticleWoman says she is a victim of fraud from a caller who claims to be from...
WHEATFIELD – A 74-year-old woman told Niagara County sheriff’s deputies Thursday that she got a call at her Nash Road home Wednesday evening from someone claiming to be from Microsoft who talked her...
View ArticleBudwey’s will keep doors open in NT and Newfane
It looks like Budwey’s Markets could live to see its 100th birthday.After announcing in October that he would sell the namesake stores that his grandmother founded in 1922, Frank Budwey said he just...
View ArticleNiagara Falls School Board approves plan to add more polling sites
NIAGARA FALLS – The city will have about three times as many polling places for the School Board election and school budget vote in May as it did last year.The city School Board on Thursday...
View ArticleWheatfield wants reduced speed limit near school
WHEATFIELD – The Town Board voted this week to ask the state Department of Transportation to allow creation of a school speed limit zone around Errick Road Elementary School, where the speed limit is...
View ArticleAs cold front nears, little relief in sight with spring only five days away
Winter’s numbers speak for themselves.One frozen lake. Two blizzards. Four straight months of below-average cold. Ten feet of snow.For winter-weary Buffalo Niagara residents, the magic number is five...
View ArticleCo-defendant arraigned in Falls crack deal
LOCKPORT – A man who allegedly took part in a Feb. 21, 2013, crack cocaine sale to an undercover police officer in Niagara Falls pleaded not guilty Friday in Niagara County Court.Wayne Payne Sr., 57,...
View ArticleWheatfield cocaine dealer sentenced to state prison
LOCKPORT – A man who violated the terms of court-supervised drug treatment by being caught with more than a half-ounce of cocaine was sentenced Friday by Niagara County Judge Matthew J. Murphy III to...
View ArticleFalls hotel burglar who left area gets maximum sentence
LOCKPORT – A man who angered Niagara County Judge Matthew J. Murphy III by heading for Georgia after the judge freed him from jail for Christmas was sentenced Friday to the maximum of 3½ to seven...
View ArticleAttorney says genetics, not assault, may have left baby blind in one eye
LOCKPORT – The new attorney for Kenneth S. Lathrop Jr., who pleaded guilty Dec. 6 to beating his baby son, said Friday he will seek to withdraw the plea because a genetic defect, not an assault, might...
View ArticleLew-Port School District hit with credit downgrade
LEWISTON – Lewiston-Porter Central School, which was had the second-worst financial score in the state in January when the State Comptroller’s Office declared it to be under “significant financial...
View ArticleFalls air base backers show new logo, brochure
WHEATFIELD – The Niagara Military Affairs Council, the citizen group that leads efforts to promote new missions and oppose closure threats at the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station, showed off a new...
View ArticleMeeting clarifies Niagara County data network bids
LOCKPORT – Advance 2000 is the low bidder for a new data network for Niagara County government, but it remains uncertain whether its bid will be accepted, because legislators aren’t sure whether price...
View ArticleLewiston Town Board sets special session
LEWISTON – The Lewiston Town Board will meet in special session at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday to discuss the CWM legal agreement. It then will go into executive session to interview candidates for the vacant...
View ArticleSupervisors fear Newfane hospital may close
NEWFANE – Town supervisors in northern Niagara County said Friday they are trying to mobilize to prevent a feared closure of Eastern Niagara Hospital’s Newfane site.Hospital spokeswoman Carolyn Moore...
View ArticleLockport solicits buyers for closed elementary school
LOCKPORT – The Lockport City School District is seeking purchase offers for the former Washington Hunt Elementary School, even though neither the Board of Education nor the voters have approved the...
View ArticleSkateboard group may take charge of Fallen Heroes Memorial in Lockport
LOCKPORT – The group that funds and operates the city’s skateboard park may do the same for the planned Fallen Heroes Memorial, city officials said last week.The Lockport Community Services Group may...
View ArticleHeartfelt thanks offered as North Tonawanda History Museum Executive...
NORTH TONAWANDA – Donna Zellner Neal, as volunteer executive director of the North Tonawanda History Museum, has made the success of the museum her top priority for the past 10 years. But when she...
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