Five area food pantries received the contents of a tractor-trailer, 36,000 pounds of food, including Heart, Love & Soul in Niagara Falls, Care and Share Food Pantry in Ransomville, the Wilson Community Food Pantry, St. Brendan’s on the Lake in Newfane, and Newfane First Baptist. Goodman Farms also loaned a box truck to deliver food, with Wilson girls and boys basketball teams helping unload.
The man who allegedly strangled his girlfriend to death and killed his newborn baby in their Buffalo home in October died in jail on Wednesday. The Erie County Sheriff’s Office said Kidane Haile, 30, was found dead in the showers at the Erie County Correctional Facility in Alden around 9 p.m. Wednesday night. The death is being investigated as an apparent suicide.
Niagara County fire investigators are looking into a early Thursday morning fire that destroyed a barn in Newfane. The fire was reported about 2 a.m. at 7007 Ridge Road. Sheriff’s deputies arrived to find a 20-by-24 foot barn behind a home fully engulfed in flames.
A Christmas movie that was filmed around Western New York last February, including at the SPCA, is set to premiere this Friday. “A Royal Christmas Tail” will be playing at the North Park Theater in Buffalo and will release worldwide on the Great American Family Channel on Sunday.