Cheektowaga News

The case of a man charged in the city's most recent homicide is heading from City Court to Niagara County Court.

People across western New York are honoring old glory this Independence Day. Thousands lined Harlem Road Saturday afternoon, for the annual Cheektowaga 4th of July parade, which included local law enforcement officials and firefighters, boy scouts, floats and animals.

Four western New York deaths in the last two months are being blamed on the drug Fentanyl.

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Goodwill Industries will open a new donation trailer in the Town of Tonawanda Wednesday, and another store by August, as part of an effort to combat the poor economy: More people with disabilities are looking for help finding jobs just as the funding that comes from store revenues slips.

New York's highest court has given Buffalo Crushed Stone permission to mine land across Indian Road in Cheektowaga, outside the boundaries of the town zoning district that allows mining.

Two emergency medical technicians were arrested Friday and accused of torching two vacant buildings in Buffalo.

Police, fire and rescue personnel are on the scene of a serious motor vehicle accident in Cheektowaga.

One vehicle slammed into a parked car in Cheektowaga, setting off a chain-reaction accident that ended with the first vehicle rolling over and its driver being charged with driving while intoxicated late Wednesday night, police said.

A line of severe thunderstorms that moved through Western New York Thursday afternoon caused power outages and damage.

A French maker of gloves and other body protection gear is shutting down its Cheektowaga plant and cutting 55 jobs as it moves production work to a new lower-cost plant in China.

A two-vehicle crash in Cheektowaga over the weekend has left a Buffalo man charged with aggravated driving while intoxicated and felony DWI, Cheektowaga police said Monday.

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A commercial vehicle checkpoint Tuesday resulted in about 40 percent of the vehicles being taken out of service for safety violations, as well as 412 violations and several arrests on various criminal charges, Cheektowaga police said Wednesday.

The U.S. Attorney's Office, along with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, say a ring that funneled Ecstacy from Canada into the United States has been derailed with the arrests of 20 suspects Wednesday morning.

One of two men being sought in connection with a Falls homicide is now in custody and charged with murder.

Niagara Falls police on Wednesday released the names and photos of two men wanted for questioning in connection with the fatal shooting of a man who was sitting on a porch of a Ferry Avenue home early Saturday morning.

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The owner of a Buffalo sub shop says allowing a slaughterhouse to open in the same building as his restaurant would kill his business.

Leaders of the Seneca Nation want to take a more direct and active role in the federal court slugfest over the legality of the Indian tribe's proposal for a major downtown Buffalo casino.