An electric scooter rider, a 40 year old man from Niagara Falls, was seriously injured in a crash with a car at the intersection of Maple Road and North Bailey Avenue on Tuesday morning. D’Youville University announcing plans to launch a brand new medical campus along Delaware Avenue in the heart of Downtown Buffalo for a new College of Osteopathic Medicine. Lockport Police have identified the man who died June 9 after jumping off the Lockport Railroad Bridge as Mark Gross, 66 of Lockport The Town of Clarence is getting closer to approval to transition the Eastern Hills Mall into a town center. The town planning board on Wednesday will review the project for a State Environmental Quality Review Act to determine the environmental, social and economic impacts of the project. New York State Parks has completed another refurbishment effort at a Niagara County location, with Joseph Davis State Park getting a $3.4 million facelift.

45 year old Darryl Murphy of Atlantic City, pleaded guilty to possession of cocaine with the intent to distribute, maintaining a CDS production facility, and certain persons not to possess
weapons. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Murphy is expected to be sentenced to an
aggregate term of 10 years in New Jersey State Prison with five years of parole ineligibility.
On August 20, 2024, members of the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) task force
executed a search warrant for a motel room located in Absecon. Murphy was taken into custody
and found to be in possession of the motel room keys. Inside the motel room, police located over
one-half ounce of cocaine, baking soda used to cook crack cocaine, a large glass measuring cup,
a knife with cocaine residue on it, a scale, and multiple sized empty baggies. The cocaine and
paraphernalia were near a microwave, which are commonly used to cook crack cocaine

SUNY Niagara’s budget for the 2025-26 school year will see a major increase and is set at $51.4 million in expenses. That is a 6.7% increase from the 2024-25 school year, at $48.16 million.

A man was shot and killed on Shirley Avenue on Monday night. Officers found a male victim with a gunshot wound to the head, and he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Attorneys for the convicted owner of Pharaoh’s Gentlemen’s Club, Peter Gerace, accused a juror of suggesting the defendant’s decision not to testify or call witnesses had influenced his vote.

The Town of Lewiston has hired lawyer Edward Perlman of the firm Magavern Magavern Grimm to handle the FOIL requests the Lewiston Police Department receives.
The town board approved the hire at a recent meeting with his ad hoc rate set at $280 an hour and $140 an hour for paralegal services.

The New York State Department of Transportation announced that a portion of Route 33 will be closed on Wednesday, June 18 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The right lane of the Route 33 ramp to Route 198 will be temporarily closed in order to replace crash barrels.

The Middletown Senior Center has received the Parade Pioneer Award for Middletown Days 2025. The celebration takes place this weekend, with the parade on Saturday, June 21, starting at 10 a.m. in downtown Middletown.

Saturday from 10 til 2 or until supplies run out, The U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, Flotilla 08-08 of Lake County, in partnership with the Konocti Women’s Service Club, will hold a complimentary life jacket giveaway for kids. The Konocti Women’s Service Club members will register and weigh the kids, and then qualified Flotilla members will fit the child with the correct size and demonstrate to the parent the proper wearing of the life jacket. All children must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

The Lake County Board of Supervisors meets today and will consider salary raises to county employees, review an appeal against a bioenergy project by Scotts Valley Energy Corporation, and discuss Behavioral Health Services’ short-term loan request due to the annual Medi-Cal claim pause.

The inaugural Soda Bay corridor Community Fest is set for Saturday, June 21, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Riviera Elementary School in the Kelseyville Riviera. The event is geared toward families, helping teach how to prepare for fire season.

The No Kings Day of Defiance protests on Saturday drew good crowds in both Fort Bragg and Willits. In Fort Bragg, some 1200 protestors lined over a half mile of Highway 1 from South Street to Boatyard Drive. As the sidewalks became crowded, groups continued to the west side of the highway and past the intersections.

The Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity (LEO) has announced that 22 businesses in the U.P. will receive grant funding for employee training through the second cycle of the agency’s 2025 Going PRO Talent Fund. The Talent Fund grants awards to employees to assist in training, developing and retaining current and newly-hired employees. Training under this fund must be short-term, fill a demonstrated talent need experienced by the employer and lead to a credential for a skill that is transferable and recognized by industry. In Gogebic County, Bessemer Plywood Corporation and Mukavitz Heating, Inc., in Iron County, The Upper Great Lakes Family Health Center Ice Lake and the Upper Great Lakes Family Health Center in Ontonagon, Ontonagon County also received grants. Agencies and businesses in Chippewa, Delta, Dickinson, Houghton, Keweenaw, Marquette, Menominee and Schoolcraft also received allocations.

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Jun. 16, 2025 11:36 PM CST
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Marmet mayor-elect Frances Armentrout beat current mayor David Fontalbert by 114 votes. She talked with Eyewitness News, saying that improving safety is a top priority and she’s ready to hit the ground running. She said increased police protection would help when it comes to drug activity. Marmet’s police department currently has four officers working full-time but one is about to leave, taking them down to three. The new mayor said they hope to recruit about six full-time and about four part-time police officers to cover the city around the clock. Armentrout will be sworn in as mayor on July 1st in Marmet.