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CRIME: Crego is out on bail in Indiana
The Lockport assault suspect whose Facebook and MySpace postings on his whereabouts gave police the goods to capture him is out on $25,000 bail near Terre Haute, Ind.
COURTS: Assault, robbery suspects plead not guilty
Two of the three defendants charged with robbery and assault in December pleaded not guilty Monday in Niagara County Court.
BLOTTER: Police reports published Feb. 9
PROJECT: NYPA awards $16.6M contract
A Buffalo firm has been awarded a contract for about $16.6 million to build a new warehouse and office complex for the Niagara Power Project.
POLICE REPORTS: Published Feb. 8
STANDOUT: Lockport honoring quality students
Once again, Lockport High School wants to showcase some quality students at a special dinner to be held next month.
CHARGED: Arrested mom left baby at home
A Lockport man and woman and a Rochester man were arrested in related incidents early Sunday morning.
REVITAL-ICED: Outwater Park great for skating again this year
The homemade sign on the door of the old warming building at Outwater Park reads, “The Ice Rink is Open,” and the words have spread around the neighborhood.
ROY-HART: First Winterfest is a success
SAFETY: Determined teen takes on tough task in rural area
WILSON: UB grad students come up with ideas for business growth
Ideas flowed from University at Buffalo graduate students at the 14th annual University at Buffalo MBA Case Competition, which was held at Wilson High School for the first time on Friday night.
BLOTTER: Police reports published Feb. 6
CITY OF LOCKPORT: Fire Board advises turning central dispatch duties to LPD
The Lockport Fire Department is one step closer to handing over central dispatch duties to the city’s Police Department.
SCHOOLS: Lockport High School celebrates black history
Langston Hughes. Martin Luther King Jr. Michael Jordan all have something in common, Buffalo City Schools Superintendent James Williams told Lockport High School on Thursday.
SCHOOLS: LHS capital project 2-weeks behind schedule
The $23.5 million capital project for Lockport High School is about two weeks behind schedule, and state red tape is at fault. That’s what the district architect reported to the school board Wednesday.
CITY HOUSING COURT: Distant landlords hit with big fines
Fines exceeding $10,000 were imposed on two errant property owners recently in city court.
WILSON: Date changed for sheriff’s town hall meeting
The date has been changed to March 1 for the Niagara County sheriff’s monthly Town Hall meeting in Wilson.
COURTS: Two robbery, weapon defendants on probation
A defense attorney said Thursday in Niagara County Court that his client denies a gun was used in a city robbery last April. The victim of the robbery told police differently.
SLIDESHOW: At Starpoint, 'Let them make cake!'
TOWN OF LOCKPORT: Fatality prompts road safety questions
Residents are complaining about the lack of sidewalks and lights on Dysinger Road, in the wake of Monday’s accident in which pedestrian Joyce M. Garvey, 44, was struck and killed by a state plow while crossing the road.
LOCKPORT SCHOOLS: District may close one elementary school
In light of hard financial times and a state budget crisis, Lockport City Schools will be making some difficult cuts that could result in the closing of an elementary school.
CRIME: Facebook, MySpace pages lead to man’s capture
U.S. marshals captured a Lockport man Wednesday in Terre Haute, Ind., after Lockport Police learned his whereabouts via his Facebook and MySpace pages.
CITY OF LOCKPORT: City is backing 100-mile race
The Beast of Burden Winter 100-Miler and 24-Hour Ultra Marathon will be run later this month between Lockport and Middleport.
Race director is Sam Pasceri, an “ultra” athlete who takes on double and triple triathlons and 100-mile marathons.
CITY OF LOCKPORT: Council settles City Centre ‘legacy’ issue
Developer David Ulrich kept up his end of the bargain when he built City Centre, so the city should not hold him to any further construction requirements, the Common Council decided Wednesday.
POLITICS: Local developer Carl Paladino considering run for governor
Carl Paladino says New York has a sick governor’s office, a sick Legislature and a sick government. He’s so sick of it all that he is planning to run for office as the state’s top executive, in an effort to bring about the type of change he believes only a self-described “politically incorrect” individual like him can deliver.
STARPOINT: Fricano principal's reward to readers really takes the cake
You would need a lot of ingredients to make a cake from scratch. But to turn a principal into a cake, just add some kids who like to read. In front of the kindergarten, first- and second-graders of Fricano Primary School, Principal Bonnie Calamita was turned into a cake Wednesday.
BLOTTER: Police reports published Feb. 4
FLIGHT 3407: Pilot error blamed in crash
Pilot error was the probable cause of an airline crash into a house in Clarence Center last year, but the accident’s root problems extend far beyond a single event, a federal safety panel said Tuesday.
TOWN OF LOCKPORT: Searching for answers in pedestrian's death
A day after a woman was killed by a state snowplow as she walked across Dysinger Road, Niagara County sheriff’s investigators disclosed that the pedestrian was legally blind and had alcohol in her system.

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