Rick Pfeiffer

1 week ago | niagara-gazette.com | Rick Pfeiffer

The Falls City Council has given its unanimous approval to a plan to rescue an abandoned housing rehabilitation project in the city's South End. Council members Ok'd the sale of 10 blighted and condemned residential properties to Restore Niagara Falls LLC., a woman-owned business led by realtor Renee Moran. She is also the owner-operator of Red Door Real Estate WNY, LLC., a Michigan Avenue-based real estate agency.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Rick Pfeiffer

NIAGARA FALLS — It was a pile of metal and wood, lying in a heap at the city’s public works yard. It could have stayed there, rotting away. But city officials, the local construction trade unions and leaders in the Falls schools district had a better idea. Collectively they took that pile of materials and in less than a school year constructed one of the largest shelters in the Niagara Falls parks system. On Wednesday, the Charles B.

2 weeks ago | niagara-gazette.com | Rick Pfeiffer

LOCKPORT — A Buffalo man is on his way to prison for up to the rest of his life after a chaos-filled sentencing hearing in Niagara County Court Friday morning. Keith William Hill, 32, was in the courtroom of Judge Caroline Wojtaszek, awaiting sentencing on his guilty plea to charges of second-degree murder, aggravated criminal contempt and second-degree criminal contempt in the death of Tania Wilson when the trouble started. kAmpD (:=D@?VD E66?286 52F89E6C 3682?

2 weeks ago | niagara-gazette.com | Rick Pfeiffer

Niagara Falls• ARREST: A Falls man was arrested after a shoplifting incident at a store in the 1500 block of Military Road at 12:45 p.m. Tuesday. He was charged with petit larceny and is accused of taking more than $716 worth of merchandise with out paying for the items. kAm• kDEC@?8mp##t$%k^DEC@?8mi p u2==D >2? H2D 2CC6DE65 27E6C 2 D9@A=:7E:?8 :?4:56?E 2E 2 DE@C6 :? E96 `___ 3=@4< @7 !@CE286 #@25 2E `iae A]>] |@?52J] w6 H2D 492C865 H:E9 A6E:E =2C46?J 2?5 :D 244FD65 @7 E2<:?8 >@C6 E92?

2 weeks ago | niagara-gazette.com | Rick Pfeiffer

A Niagara Falls man has been arrested and charged in connection with an officer-involved shooting on the 1100 block of Connecting Road in April. Falls Police detectives, assisted by other local law enforcement agencies, said they picked up Anthony Ciccarelli, 24, of the Falls, around 4 p.m. Wednesday and charged him with first-degree reckless endangerment and multiple vehicle and traffic (V&T) law charges stemming from his actions in fleeing from a police traffic stop.