Amherst police recovered a stolen handgun and some Ecstasy pills in an investigation launched after they stopped a suspicious vehicle driving around a Main Street parking lot early Thursday.
A South Carolina man faces drunken driving charges after driving the wrong way on the Niagara Thruway and colliding with a tractor-trailer shortly before 1 a. m. Wednesday.
Erie County Executive Chris Collins is willing to turn the 391-acre Beeman Creek Park, one of the county’s “natural” parks, over to the Town of Clarence.
An Akron man remained hospitalized in critical condition late Tuesday in Erie County Medical Center after being struck by a pickup truck while lying in the road early Sunday morning, authorities reported.
By Harold McNeil
NEWS STAFF REPORTER
Updated: 05/06/08 6:46 AM
The Tonawanda Town Board on Monday agreed to pay a settlement of $625,000 in a labor lawsuit filed by 120 town police officers who alleged they had been cheated out of overtime between 2003 and 2005.
State police at Clarence now believe there may have been more than one occupant in the truck that ran over a man lying in the road early Sunday morning, leaving him critically injured.
So many people showed up to voice support or opposition to the Amherst Town Centre development Monday that hundreds packed the Amherst Town Board chambers. Town police officers were forced to bar entry to anyone who didn't have a seat, resulting in a human traffic jam that extended down the hall and rear staircase.
