Opioid overdoses in Erie County will now be treated as crime scenes, local and federal law enforcement officials have announced. The initiative calls for state and local law enforcement officers who respond to an overdose in Erie County to input ...

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Erie County must provide 911 recordings to the plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed by the widow of a man who died in his car during a winter storm after a 911 dispatcher told him help was on the way. The ...

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Mark C. Davis, an attorney at Lippes Mathias Wexler Friedman LLP, has been appointed to the Erie County Citizens’ Budget Review Commission. The Commission was established to assist and advise the Erie County Legislature in the oversight of the county’s budget and to ...

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Joseph P. Heins, an attorney at Lippes Mathias Wexler Friedman LLP, has been appointed to the Erie County Citizens’ Budget Review Commission. The Commission was established to assist and advise the Erie County Legislature in the oversight of the county’s budget and ...

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A town justice in Erie County who was convicted of driving while ability impaired has agreed to never again seek judicial office. Evans Town Court Justice Timothy J. Cooper, who resigned from his seat effective March 4, agreed to the ...

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The Appellate Division reduced the sentence of a teenage boy convicted in 2014 of killing a toddler in Erie County. Dylan Schumaker was 17 when her was convicted of killing his girlfriend’s 23-month-old son. State Supreme Court Justice M. William ...

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BUFFALO –An Erie County doctor was sentenced to two years in prison for illegally dispensing drugs. U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced that Pravin Mehta, 78, of Amherst, who was convicted of conspiring to illegally dispense controlled substances from ...

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BUFFALO — A former auto bureau clerk admits he took bribes from people seeking learner’s permits. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Buffalo says 49-year-old Michael Young of Buffalo pleaded guilty Wednesday to a misdemeanor charge of obtaining information from a ...

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An Erie County jury Friday found Michael Rodriguez guilty of second-degree murder for the 1979 killing of his estranged wife, Patricia Scinta Rodriguez. Her body was found in a deserted section of Lackawanna’s Holy Cross Cemetery on Good Friday, April ...

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William E. Montgomery, a justice of the Colden Town Court in Erie County, has resigned from office after being served with formal disciplinary charges. Pursuant to a stipulation, Justice Montgomery agreed not to seek or accept judicial office in the ...

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The estate of a developmentally disabled North Collins woman, tortured and killed by her half-brother and mother, can proceed with a lawsuit against Erie County and the Erie County Sheriff’s Office for failing to protect her. The Appellate Division, Fourth ...

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Erie County may proceed with a lawsuit against its former commissioner of central police services. The Appellate Division, Fourth Department, in a 3-2 decision, last week upheld a lower court ruling by Erie County Supreme Court Justice John A. Michalek, ...

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