Wheatfield convenience store held up at gunpoint
A man bearing a long gun held up a River Road convenience store in Wheatfield late Monday, Niagara County sheriff’s deputies reported.The robbery occurred shortly before 10:30 p.m. at the Citgo Jolly...
View ArticleSnowflake Festival at Audubon Center on Feb. 1
JAMESTOWN – The annual Snowflake Festival will bring several activities to the Audubon Center on Saturday, Feb. 1. The day-long event, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., features horse-drawn sleigh rides,...
View ArticleSeneca Nation to offer ‘Hang Up and Drive’ programs
The Seneca Nation of Indians will sponsor “Hang Up and Drive” programs to stress the dangers of distracted driving at 10 a.m. Wednesday in the Cattaraugus Community Center, 12767 Route 438, Irving,...
View ArticleBuffalo Philharmonic to take part in King program at Kleinhans
The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra will take part in the annual Martin Luther King Celebration Program for the first time at 6 p.m. Sunday in Kleinhans Music Hall. The orchestra will be joined by a...
View ArticleTow truck attorney allowed to remain
The prosecution’s attempt to remove defense lawyer Steven M. Cohen from the case of a local tow truck company owner accused of bribing Buffalo police officers has failed. U.S. Magistrate Judge Hugh B....
View ArticleExplore & More receives more than $20,000 in grants
Explore & More Children’s Museum has received more than $20,000 in grants to support its exhibits and programs, Executive Director Barbara Park Leggett reports.The Erie Canalway National Heritage...
View ArticleKing-inspired awards event to be held Thursday at Niagara Falls High School
NIAGARA FALLS - Awards in memory of Martin Luther King Jr. will be handed out Thursday night during a community celebration of the famed civil rights leader at Niagara Falls High School.The free event...
View ArticleBudget deal will ease Peace Bridge backups
WASHINGTON – The increasingly long lines of traffic waiting to enter Buffalo at the Peace Bridge may soon be a thing of the past, thanks to a House-Senate spending agreement that calls for the hiring...
View ArticleLawmaker proposes banning Google Glass for drivers in New York
ALBANY – The father of the original law banning cell phone use while driving now has a new target: Google Glass.Before the eyeglass-wearing-smartphone hits the retail market sometime this year,...
View Article$100,000 in counterfeit clothing seized in raid on Fruit Belt market
A raid on a Fruit Belt food store where illegal guns were thought to be on the premises Monday night ended with the confiscation of more than $100,000 in counterfeit trademark clothing in a warehouse...
View ArticleProsecutors drop lesser count in Marchant trial
LOCKPORT – A Niagara County Court jury of 10 men and two women will resume deliberations this morning in the trial of Jennifer R. Marchant, the North Tonawanda woman who stabbed her boyfriend to...
View ArticleReporters’ Notebook
OLAF FUB SEZ: According to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., born on this date in 1929, “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do...
View ArticleSherman man arrested on gun and drug charges
JAMESTOWN – A 21-year-old Sherman man was arrested by state police on gun and weapons charges after he was stopped Sunday afternoon on State Route 304 in the Town of North Harmony because of a loud...
View ArticleFrewsburg man arrested for drug possession in Gerry
JAMESTOWN – A 20-year-old Frewsburg man was arrested by state police on drug charges after a routine traffic stop Friday on State Route 60 in the Town of Gerry, the police announced Tuesday. Riley S....
View ArticleWaterport man charged with leaving scene of a crash in Lyndonville
ALBION – A 25-year-old Waterport man was tracked down by Orleans County sheriff’s deputies and state troopers when he fled after crashing his pickup truck and severely damaging two businesses at Main...
View ArticleThousands of dollars worth of equipment stolen from a work truck at a Fall...
NIAGARA FALLS – A supervisor for Environmental and Geotechnical Drilling Services of Syracuse told Niagara Falls police that someone took miscellaneous field equipment from a flat bed truck sometime...
View ArticleFalls man is jumped by two men and stabbed in a confrontation
NIAGARA FALLS – A 19-year-old youth told police two men confronted him just before 3 p.m. Monday in the 600 block of Ferry Avenue, struck him from behind and then started punching him.The victim said...
View ArticleCleveland BioLabs sells shares, raising $7 million to keep going
Cleveland BioLabs raised $7 million in new cash – nearly enough to fund its operations through the end of the year – by selling additional shares of its common stock to a pair of institutional...
View ArticleCalling all ‘cool’ people: CBS correspondent Mo Rocca issues...
Attention, cool people of Buffalo: Mo Rocca wants to eat wings with you on national TV.For real.In a Twitter dispatch this week, the quirky correspondent for “CBS Sunday Morning” and former “Daily...
View ArticleThagard, mistakenly jailed in murder, says he holds no hard feelings
Jerome A. Thagard holds no hard feelings, though he lost more than 4½ years of his life in state prison for a murder he did not commit.“I want to say I’m not angry. I’m a firm believer that everything...
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