Niagara Falls News

The general manager of the Niagara Falls Bridge Commission suddenly left the agency's top job Monday, a commissioner confirmed Tuesday, but she wouldn't say if Thomas E. Garlock quit or was fired.

Apparently anticipating confirmation to a state position, Niagara County Sheriff Thomas A. Beilein has filed papers to retire as sheriff, Peter P. Lopes, county human resources director, confirmed Tuesday.

"The building caught on fire about a year ago, and ever since there are people breaking in and stealing stuff right off the building.

The battle over whether the Buffalo casino can stay open heads back to court next month.

A man was charged with kicking out a patrol car window after his neighbors told deputies he pulled out a handgun at a party early Saturday morning.

Police investigating a burglary-in-progress call at a vacant house on Whitney Avenue arrested a homeless man late Saturday.

Boats have chugged through the waters below the American and Horseshoe falls as far back as 1846, but unusual lease arrangements as old as the Maid of the Mist Steamboat Co.

Niagara Falls Fire Department Calls for service For the period of July 11-17 the Niagara Falls Fire Department responded to 98 calls.

After an hour-long search Friday night, members of a rescue team pulled the body of a 28-year-old man who drowned in the Niagara River near Fishermans Park.

Drunken driver, passenger seriously injured in crash Two people from Niagara Falls were seriously injured early Saturday morning in an alcohol-related one-car crash.

A 23-year-old woman said she was attacked by a woman with a knife who cut her in the face and left her with a broken left foot.

A second-level supplier to former Niagara Falls cocaine kingpin David A. Phelps pleaded guilty Friday in Niagara County Court, bringing the total number of convictions in the case to 20.

Niagara County is planning to install three permanent receptacles for household hazardous waste, one in each of the county's three cities.

Mayor Paul A. Dyster has raised $22,016 in campaign contributions during his first six months in office, including donations from several top city workers and companies that have done work for the city.

A former West End businessman who pleaded guilty to stealing money from an elderly friend has been sentenced to five years probation.

When a 15-year-old girl met an older man named Kenneth Lashway online, she was lonely and flattered by the attention he gave her.

A Niagara Falls High School teacher accused of having an intimate relationship with a 16-year-old female student appeared in a pretrial hearing in Niagara Falls City Court on Tuesday.

Overgrown reeds, dandelions and trees that line the LaSalle Expressway on state land behind a chain-link fence have prompted residents and Councilman Robert A. Anderson Jr.

Last week I received a press release from Mike Rizzo, owner of The Mob Tours : Things have always been a little different in Niagara Falls, New York.

Mayor Paul A. Dyster and the City Council bolstered the city's budget Monday by $500,000 to hire private attorneys after a federal judge ruled last week that a casino in Buffalo can't legally operate on land ...