NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. -- The two people killed when their car crashed into a border checkpoint in Niagara Falls and exploded in a fiery wreck were identified Friday as a western New York husband and wife whose family owns a lumber business and several hardware stores in the Buffalo area. The Niagara Falls Police Department named the couple as Kurt P. Villani and Monica Villani, both 53, of Grand Island, N.Y., a leafy Buffalo suburb close to the falls. Online business records and the company website indicate that the victims'...

Investigation continues after a vehicle exploded at a checkpoint on the US side of a bridge connecting the two countries at Niagara Falls. The two people killed when their luxury car crashed into a border checkpoint in Niagara Falls and exploded in a fiery wreck have been identified as a New York husband and wife, police said. The couple’s 2022 Bentley Flying Spur slammed into a row of security booths at the Rainbow Bridge and burst into flames on Wednesday. The investigation into what caused them to race through an...

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) -- The two people killed when their car crashed into a border checkpoint in Niagara Falls and exploded in a fiery wreck were identified Friday as a western New York husband and wife whose family owns a lumber business and several hardware stores in the Buffalo area. The Niagara Falls Police Department named the couple as Kurt P. Villani and Monica Villani, both 53, of Grand Island, New York, a leafy Buffalo suburb close to the falls. Online business records and the company website indicate the...

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — The two people killed when their luxury car crashed into a border checkpoint in Niagara Falls and exploded in a fiery wreck were identified Friday as a western New York husband and wife whose family owns a lumber business and several hardware stores in the Buffalo area. The investigation into what caused the 2022 Bentley Flying Spur to race through an intersection, hit a low median and become airborne Wednesday continued, with investigators looking at whether medical or mechanical issues may have contributed, Niagara Falls...

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. — The two people killed when their car crashed into a border checkpoint in Niagara Falls and exploded in a fiery wreck were identified Friday as a western New York husband and wife whose family owns a lumber business and several hardware stores in the Buffalo area. The Niagara Falls Police Department named the couple as Kurt P. Villani and Monica Villani, both 53, of Grand Island, New York, a leafy Buffalo suburb close to the falls. Online business records and the company website indicate the victims’...

GRAND ISLAND, N.Y. (WIVB) — Just days after a fiery crash at the Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls, police identified the driver and passenger who died and provided new details of the ongoing wreck investigation. Kurt and Monica Villani, both 53 years old and from Grand Island, were driving a 2022 Bentley Flying Spur when it went over an embankment, flew through the air, crashed and exploded near the Customs and Border Protection building by the bridge, as seen in surveillance video released by the CBP on Wednesday evening. “It’s...

Police in Western New York have identified the couple who were killed in a vehicle explosion at the New York-Canada border when their car crashed at the Rainbow Bridge on Wednesday. WIVB reports Niagara Falls police said Friday the victims are Grand Island residents Kurt P. Villani, and his wife, Monica Villani, both 53 years old. Video showed their car traveling at a high rate of speed before hitting a median, going airborne and hitting a structure near the U.S. border inspection booths before exploding and bursting into flames, killing...

On the day before Thanksgiving an American and his wife reportedly drove their that starts in the U.S from Niagara Falls, New York, and ends on the other side in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. They didn't make it to the other side. Their "speeding car crashed in flames," reported Wednesday. The couple died. reported the mayor of Niagara Falls, NY, "said the couple had originally been headed to a concert in Canada, and investigators believe it was a Kiss show that was called off after a band member’s illness." The...

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. -- The FBI has ended its investigation of a fiery car wreck that killed two people at a border checkpoint in Niagara Falls after finding no evidence that it was a terror attack, easing a period of high tensions as Americans headed into the Thanksgiving holiday. The FBI's decision late Wednesday came several hours after the vehicle raced through an intersection, hit a median and was launched through the air before slamming into a line of booths and exploding at the Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls. Local...

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. — The FBI has ended its investigation of a fiery car wreck that killed two people at a border checkpoint in Niagara Falls after finding no evidence that it was a terror attack, easing a period of high tensions as Americans headed into the Thanksgiving holiday. The FBI’s decision late Wednesday came several hours after the vehicle raced through an intersection, hit a median and was launched through the air before slamming into a line of booths and exploding at the Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls. Local...