North Tonawanda News

North Tonawanda LARCENY: Janel M. Duggan, 28, 2 Traymone St., Buffalo, was charged with petit larceny at 9 a.m. Wednesday.

Four Kalieda Health employees have been arrested for using a computerized bonus point system to take money.

Greens fees at Deerwood Golf Course will be raised $1 next year for residents and non residents alike, with non-residents paying an extra $2 for an 18-hole round.

A new business on Oliver Street is capitalizing on an historic old building and an equally historic array of antiques and other goods to be sold there.

North Tonawanda is pulling away from Section III's Baldwinsville in the Class AA state football semifinals, making it look like four Section VI teams will be playing in next weekend's finals.

Defense attorney David E. Blackley, representing alleged rapist Daryl Burton, raised several questions during a cross examination of the prosecution's second witness - the victim - in day two of Burton's trial in Niagara County Court.

Day three of Daryl Burton's trial for allegedly raping two women began with the judge declining a request that the allegations be split into separate trials.

A teen accused of killing her boyfriend in a drunken driving crash in North Tonawanda last spring took a plea deal Wednesday in Niagara County Court.

The North Tonawanda Common Council approved a hiring freeze at Tuesday's meeting as it waits to evaluate the effectiveness of a retirement incentive designed to eliminate five full-time positions by the end of this month.

Prosecutors called several witnesses in the opening day of the rape and assault trial against Daryl L. Burton, who is accused of sex crimes in North Tonawanda and Lockport.

Town of Tonawanda IMPERSONATION: Henry Santiago Jr. was charged with false personation and speeding at 11:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Love takes on a whole new vibe when it involves fur and feathers. Just ask Jeff Musial, a Niagara County Community College graduate who has an entire collection of exotic animals and reptiles.

At a time when most people are happy to have one job, a local bank employee counts herself lucky to have found exciting new work without having given up her career.

About 31 people attended the first meeting of North Tonawanda's new "Citizens on Patrol" watch group Thursday at a church on Thompson Street.

Paroled sex offender James McKinney violated a half dozen terms of his controversial release last spring, according to Assistant state Attorney General Wendy Witing.

By Eric DuVall eric.duvall@gnnewspaper.com A lot of things have changed since Ron Hawkins was on the stage at Gateway Harbor in North Tonawanda in 2006.

North Tonawanda city council members again found themselves debating the city's 2010 budget Tuesday, two months after it was adopted.

When North Tonawanda residents were invited to speak publicly for the third time in September, anger over vice, vandalism, drugs and decay around Oliver Street had given way to talk of solutions.

Last year, volunteers at North Tonawanda's Community Outreach Center were outraged by a senseless act of vandalism.

When the creators of "Sesame Street" first pitched the idea of a fuzzy elephant and digit-loving vampire teaching children, youth-oriented programming was sparse.