Cheektowaga News

For some, October is the month of Halloween. For others, it's a celebration of Oktoberfest.

November 25, 2009, 7:03 AM / The parents of a man who was found beaten to death and floating in a Sloan reservoir in 2002 praised the persistence of Cheektowaga police after a suspect in the case pleaded guilty to manslaughter Tuesday.

A Cheektowaga man now admits to his role in a seven-year-old homicide. The father of 24-year-old Samuel Ciapa says, after seven long years he can rest easier now knowing someone has admitted to killing his son.

November 23, 2009, 7:02 AM / Fire caused extensive damage to a Cheektowaga home Sunday night.

A 30-year-old Cheektowaga man has confessed to being involved in the drug-related murder seven years ago a Buffalo man whose body was found beaten, strangled, stabbed and tethered to a cinder block in the Sloan Reservoir, police said this afternoon.

Call it a sign of the times. Hundreds of people waited in line for hours Friday at a Wheatfield medical equipment store to pay $20 for swine flu shots.

November 21, 2009, 6:44 AM / State police charged an Orchard Park woman with aggravated driving while intoxicated after troopers said she recorded a blood-alcohol level of 0.19 percent, more than twice the state's legal limit.

Longtime Cheektowaga Central Schools administrator Dennis M. Kane has been named superintendent for the district.

The Erie County Legislature's emboldened Republican caucus has opened its collective heart to a marriage of convenience with a Democrat willing to be made chairman in exchange for certain considerations.

Things have usually settled down by this time of year at Cook Moving Systems, a United Van Lines agency in Cheektowaga.

November 14, 2009, 8:08 AM / Cheektowaga and Buffalo police were searching for three men, all armed with handguns, who robbed the HSBC Bank branch on Union Road Friday morning before fleeing in what appeared to be a red taxi.

Patricia Chronister answered her door Thursday morning in a bathrobe and stocking feet and with a bemused look as a police officer, housing inspector and recreation worker asked if she had any problems.

November 12, 2009, 10:54 AM / Erie County sheriff's deputies early Thursday charged a 27-year-old Cheektowaga woman with driving while intoxicated after they stopped her vehicle for failing to keep right in the Town of Clarence.

Three men were wounded, one seriously, in separate shooting incidents early Sunday, Buffalo police report.

Erie County Sheriff Timothy B. Howard reports that observations made by Sheriff's Detectives led to a search warrant being executed at a Town of Collins residence late Friday evening, and the recovery of a stolen vehicle.

A Buffalo-area county sheriff at the center of a controversy over management of local jails has been elected to a second term.

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.