Gender discrimination case against Sterling Jewelers thrown out
Two local judges have thrown out a nationwide gender discrimination suit against one of the country’s biggest jewelry chains.The judges dismissed a four-year-old suit against Sterling Jewelers after...
View ArticleTonawanda Coke’s sentencing won’t include victim compensation
People who think they’re a victim of Tonawanda Coke’s environmental crimes will get their day in court – but not this week.A federal judge has rejected a request that Grand Island and Town of...
View ArticleWhy should kids just ‘sit and stare’? as parents, school...
A few weeks before third- through eighth-graders across New York take state-mandated tests that now, for the second year, reflect the new, more rigorous Common Core standards, a small but growing...
View ArticleOut to Eat: Vegetarian appetizers reappear at Nektar restaurant
Over its lifetime, Ambrosia earned a reputation for providing Greek food with soul, in addition to all the usual suspects for breakfast and lunch. When it closed last summer, fans thought they had...
View ArticleMercy Hospital plans new $4.8 million unit for patients
Mercy Hospital of Buffalo is planning to build a $4.8 million unit for patients undergoing treatment and diagnostic procedures in the hospital’s interventional labs, the hospital announced...
View ArticleCamp counselors are sought for a summer youth program at Niagara University
LEWISTON – Niagara University is looking for individuals to help with its Summer Youth Camp. Counselors do not have to be Niagara University students. The camps, for youth between ages 6 to 12, will...
View ArticleMan pleads guilty to assaulting two Falls nurses
LOCKPORT – A man who injured two nurses June 13 in Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center accepted a plea offer Wednesday in State Supreme Court.Rashaad R. Welch, 23, of Niagara Street, Niagara Falls,...
View ArticlePendleton man avoids prison on double DWIs
LOCKPORT – Joseph D. Ehrenreich, who admitted last September that he was driving drunk in a stolen car while on probation for another felony driving while intoxicated conviction, was placed on five...
View ArticleMan who shot at ex-girlfriend’s dad pleads guilty
LOCKPORT – Donald L. Smith of Niagara Falls is headed for state prison for the third time after pleading guilty Wednesday to illegal gun possession in connection with shots fired at his...
View ArticleLockport man pleads guilty to crack dealing
LOCKPORT – A man who was charged with selling crack cocaine to a police informant twice last summer pleaded guilty Wednesday and was assigned to the judicial diversion program of court-supervised drug...
View ArticleOrleans County man to serve 12 years for sex abuse of boys
LOCKPORT – A Medina man was sentenced Wednesday to 12 years in prison and 15 years of post-release supervision for sexually abusing two boys in Somerset.The penalty for Gerald L. Wolter, 38, of...
View ArticleStrong winds and a little snow in the forecast for Thursday in Buffalo
NCAA fans, we hope you brought your winter coats because it looks like we’re getting a little bit of snow and wind Thursday. But don’t worry, it’s not going to be anything like those Buffalo blizzards...
View ArticleMercy Flight helicopter makes emergency landing in East Aurora
A Mercy Flight helicopter on the way to pick up a patient made an emergency landing at the Bob-O-Links Golf Course in East Aurora at about 10 a.m. today when the pilot suspected some possible...
View ArticlePerry woman accused of five years of welfare fraud
WARSAW – The arrest of a 49-year-old Perry woman by New York State Police and investigators from the Wyoming County Department of Social Services for allegedly obtaining over $30,000 in government...
View ArticleTraveling salesmen turn out to be thieves
CAMBRIA – A man told Niagara County sheriff’s deputies he went to his 79-year-old mother’s house Wednesday morning for a lift assist and found some things out of place, including his mother’s purse,...
View ArticleDriver swerving in and out of traffic lanes is charged with drunken driving
WHEATFIELD – Niagara County sheriff’s deputies said they found a car swerving in and out of its lane multiple times as it traveled north on Williams Road after 12:30 a.m. Wednesday and charged the...
View ArticlePickup is stripped of its entertainment system while parked in the driveway
WHEATFIELD – A 31-year-old man told Niagara County sheriff’s deputies Wednesday that sometime overnight someone smashed the driver’s side window of his 2004 Dodge Ram while it was parked in his...
View ArticleNiagara Falls woman accused of trying to smuggle marijuana into the Niagara...
LOCKPORT – Niagara County Jail corrections officers stopped a woman who had concealed a small amount of marijuana in her mouth before visiting a woman prisoner in the jail just before 6 p.m....
View ArticleParolee sentenced to another year in jail
A parolee convicted of attacking a Buffalo police officer who stopped him after he was seen driving erratically and hitting parked cars was sentenced Wednesday to one year in the Erie County...
View ArticleCuomo takes to the phone lines to push for fiscal restraint
ALBANY – It’s an election year so politicians will make some bold claims.On a “town hall’’ telephone conference call Tuesday night with an unknown number of residents in a large geographic area of the...
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