Cheektowaga News

Voters in most of Erie County bid farewell to the traditional "pull the curtain and flip a lever" kind of voting machine Tuesday, and enough are unhappy with it that a local assemblyman is pledging to try and block its implementation when the current "pilot project" ends.

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SPCA Officers raided a home on Royal Palm Drive in Cheektowaga, finding animals and children living in deplorable conditions.

Children and dozens of animals were removed from a house that had deplorable living conditions, and this isn't the first time officials have been to the location.

Stench of animal waste coming from a Cheektowaga home led to complaints and an arrest of a woman with almost a decade-long record of animal hoarding.

Despite the series of recent controversies surrounding Erie County's jails, voters have chosen to give Tim Howard a second term as sheriff.

Three Democrat incumbents defeated Republican challengers Tuesday in races for new-four year terms on the Cheektowaga Town Board.

Four people were arrested Monday by Amherst police in connection with the burglary of the Miller Tennis Club on Sheridan Drive in Amherst.

The victim of a suspected sexual predator is talking Wednesday night. He told Senior Correspondent Rich Newberg about his horrible nightmare, and he isn't the suspect's only victim.

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He lives in the Edgebrook Estates in Cheektowaga and over several years has allegedly abused at least three male juveniles.

October 28, 2009, 7:11 AM / Two young men were treated for stab wounds Tuesday in Erie County Medical Center following an incident at Main and Allen streets, according to Buffalo police reports.

Firefighters pulled an elderly woman out of the Cayuga Creek in Cheektowaga, Wednesday night.

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Police are trying to unravel the mystery behind the death of a Cheektowaga woman, who vanished two weeks ago.

Could anything more have been done to save a missing Cheektowaga woman before she turned up dead? Cheektowaga Police say their focus to find 69-year-old Anne Levisy was based on information provided by Levisy's family.

Eyewitness News captured a dramatic rescue Wednesday night after an elderly woman drove her car into Cayuga Creek in Cheektowaga.

The case against a Cheektowaga woman accused in a deadly accident in Amherst, will return to court Tuesday.

Congressman Brian Higgins and Town of Cheektowaga Supervisor Mary Holtz announced the town has been awarded a $20,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice.

October 20, 2009, 3:35 PM / Cheektowaga highway workers this morning found the body of a woman reportedly suffering from dementia who had been missing for a couple of weeks.