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View ArticleState audit leads to arrest of former Almond town clerk
BELMONT – The former Almond town clerk was charged with two felonies in connection with the disappearance of $3,785 during her tenure, State Police announced today.Maureen E. Haynes, 64, was charged...
View ArticleTwo teens are arrested after they were found with stolen electrical equipment
NIAGARA FALLS – A 16-year-old male and a juvenile were charged with criminal possession of stolen property after a burglary was reported Wednesday just before midnight from the yard at MGM Electrical...
View ArticleGovernment shutdown is tied to loss of contract at Olean airport
OLEAN – The 16-day partial shutdown of the federal government in October cost the Cattaraugus County-Olean Airport a contract that was all set for a Buffalo firm to build hangars and do other...
View ArticleCheektowaga police arrest pair in string of robberies
Cheektowaga police say they may have put an end to a string of as many as 21 armed robberies across the area with the arrests early this morning of two men.Anderson Arroyo, 29, of Amherst, and Timothy...
View ArticleAnother Sam’s Club coming to Falls
NIAGARA FALLS - Sam’s Club is ready to move forward with plans to build a new location in the Walmart plaza on Military Road, just south of the Fashion Outlets of Niagara Falls.The company will be...
View ArticleEscapee pleads not guilty to second drug indictment
LOCKPORT – Adaberto Olivieri-Perez, who escaped from a patrol car Jan. 14 after being arrested on a bench warrant, pleaded not guilty Thursday to his second drug-dealing indictment of the month.State...
View ArticleReporters’ Notebook
OLAF FUB SEZ: According to actress and bon vivant Tallulah Bankhead, born on this date in 1902, “If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.”...FRIDAY FARE – A breaded...
View ArticleArea lawmakers hit shortfall in NFTA funding
ALBANY – The Cuomo administration’s transportation commissioner Thursday defended the governor’s state aid to the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority.Transit officials and lawmakers say the aid...
View ArticleRegents policy on makeup exams raises questions
When cold temperatures prompted dozens of area schools to close this week and forced the cancellation of Regents tests, some parents might have questioned why the state won’t allow makeup exams. State...
View ArticleSix local deaths prompt warning about sleeping with infants
Six infants have died this month – three in just the past week – in Erie County because of unsafe sleeping arrangements, prompting Erie County Health Commissioner Gale R. Burstein to warn adults...
View ArticleArriving on a cloud of opulence, ‘The Donald’ is in town today...
It doesn’t quite rank on the grandiosity scale with Air Force One.And it won’t be crawling with Secret Service agents, though all sorts of aides-de-camp to the celebrity onboard are sure to emerge.But...
View ArticleSchools respond to student involvement in wild house party
The principals and administrators of City Honors School, Canisius High School, Nardin Academy and St. Joseph’s Collegiate Institute have all sent letters to parents and alumni this week in response to...
View ArticleAfter-school program helps students improve skills
It’s 5 p.m., yet the classrooms of Buffalo’s School 54 still bustle with activity.A kindergarten teacher prompts her students to think of the biggest and fastest animals they know before reading a...
View ArticleSnowmobiler, 70, found dead in Sheldon after extensive overnight search
A 70-year-old Marilla man who left home on a snowmobile Thursday morning was found dead near his crashed snowmobile in the Town of Sheldon early this morning after an extensive search that included...
View ArticleBuffalo woman admits stealing $6,000 in jobless benefits
A Buffalo woman convicted of welfare fraud in 2007 pleaded guilty Thursday to third-degree grand larceny for stealing more than $6,000 in unemployment benefits from another government agency.Paulette...
View ArticleThis weird trick will change your life
Time-wasting, chicken-wings eatin’ Americans, listen up:You can save a whole 3-½ minutes consuming a plate of one dozen wings by turning to one of two highly efficient eating styles.The “typewriter”...
View ArticleECMC’s Lomeo named interim chief at Kaleida in dramatic restructuring
James R. Kaskie, who played key roles in the consolidation of Kaleida Health and construction of the Gates Vascular Institute, has been forced out as head of the hospital system, and officials are not...
View ArticleKaskie instrumental in building Buffalo Medical Campus
When James R. Kaskie joined Kaleida Health in 2004 as chief operating officer, the downtown medical campus was more vision than reality.Today, a decade later, the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus is...
View ArticleBuild up of coke gas causes loud boom in Town of Tonawanda
A large build up of gas in a coke oven at Tonawanda Coke just before noon caused a loud boom heard for miles when a safety valve activated and the pressure was released, Town of Tonawanda police...
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