The Robin Hood of Niagara Falls

You want to know why the Canadian side of the Falls is booming and the American side looks like Flint, Michigan? Watch this two minute clip from WIVB.

200 people showed up at a Lewiston Fire Hall to honor three time convicted felon John Gross before he goes off to jail yet again...

Dick Paladino of Laborers Local #91 said, "There's not anybody coming here tonight who can't say thank you to John and that's why they're here. he has done more favors for more people in the last 50 years, never got any recognition for it, never wanted it."

The tickets were $35 a piece payable to the Niagara Falls Republican Committee which plans to send the leftover proceeds to three of Gross's favorite charities.

Me, myself, and I? The event was actually organized by the Niagara Falls Republican Committee! The best quote of the night came from Gross himself, in response to whether the people in the room owed him something.

Gross said, "Everybody owes. You owe, I owe and we all help each other and that's what makes a community."

Vito Corleone couldn't have said it better himself...

Community bids farewell to contractor going to prison | WIVB.com

Fond farewell for contractor going to jail: wivb.com

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Gender bender

A Niagara Falls High School student was ordered to take off the high heeled shoes he wore to class today. No word yet on whether they made him take off the pimp style hat as well. In an apparent show of solidarity, channel 4's Don Postles wore high heeled shoes under his desk while reporting this important story...

High heeled boy prompts protest at school: wivb.com

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Close encounter at Falls

Two police officers were rescued 1000 feet from the foot of Niagara Falls yesterday. From WGRZ Channel 2...


Actually, this was the second near fatal incident in the last two weeks. We found this footage of the other one. "What a nice man!"...

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Model employee

It looks like Niagara Falls Public Works employee James Curtis is in trouble with the law again. This time Curtis picked up a known prostitute while working for the city...

You might remember Curtis in 2008, was the city employee who wrote "whites only" on a water fountain at work.(They really need to find more work for this guy to do.) We actually found footage of this troubling incident...

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Pay up, sucker!

A Buffalo man got stiffed in Niagara Falls after winning $600 in a poker game...

NIAGARA FALLS—A gambler who lost $600 in a poker game at Seneca Niagara Casino left without paying the winner at 7:30 a. m. Wednesday, city police said.

The poker shift manager confirmed that a man known only as “Troy” refused to pay the Buffalo man who won, telling him, “The hand was dead.”

The suspect was told by the manager that he must pay or be banned from returning to the casino. But he left with his $600 worth of poker chips.

The winner told police he wants to pursue charges and security video was handed over to police.

Police have released this surveillance photo of the suspect...

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Niagara Falls flash mob

The word hate does not describe how I feel about these "flash mob" people. They were in a Niagara Falls food court the other day and broke out in song. They are almost as annoying as mimes, except mimes have the decency not to make any noise. I wish the people trying to eat their lunch would have thrown it at them...

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A dark knight in Niagara Falls

I thought he was supposed to be one of the good guys...

NIAGARA FALLS—A newspaper deliveryman was robbed early Saturday by a man dressed in black and wearing a Batman mask, police said.

The 45-year-old victim told police he was delivering the newspapers on his bicycle in the 500 block of Ninth Street about 7:45 a. m. when he was knocked off the bike and had $20 in cash and personal effects stolen from home.

Robbing a paperboy. How low can you get? The suspect fled, but the victim was able to snap this cell phone picture of his vehicle...

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Niagara Falls sign lady

This lady in Niagara Falls likes her signs. Apparently, her eight year old son was molested by an eleven year old neighbor and the suspect is still in the neighborhood, while the wheels of justice slowly turn...

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Niagara Falls food fight

Foiled thief hurls hamburgers, hot dogs
NIAGARA FALLS—Quick action about 10:30 p. m. Friday by an employee of the Misty Dog Grill on Main Street foiled a thief who was trying to sneak off with hamburgers, hot dogs and chicken from the restaurant freezer, police said.
As the thief emerged from the walk-in freezer loaded with $100 in food, the employee slapped the bundle from his grasp. In retaliation, the would-be thief hurled some of the food items at the employee before fleeing on foot, police said.

Niagara Falls police are not naming any suspects at this time. However, they have released this picture of someone they are describing as a "person of interest."

Guitar hero

Attack with guitar results in arrest

NIAGARA FALLS—A Whitney Avenue man is accused of hitting a woman in the back with a guitar following an argument early Wednesday in their home.
Michael B. Duncan, 38, was charged with second-degree assault and harassment. Police said the attack occurred just before 3:30 a. m. The victim fled to a friend’s house on 17th Street and called 911, police said.

Niagara Falls police have released footage of Duncan from a previous incident: