Few dozen customers still without power
National Grid reported a handful of power outages this morning in Western New York, most of them affecting only a few customers one day after storms moved through the area.The largest, near Niagara...
View ArticleFour persons hurt in motorcycle accident
Four people suffered injuries Saturday when their motorcycles crashed in the Village of Little Valley, the Cattaraugus County Sheriff’s Office reported.Garry Pugrant, 61, of Bradford, Pa., failed to...
View ArticleDWI arrest in Chautauqua County
A Billings, Mont., man was charged early Sunday morning with driving while intoxicated after allegedly driving erratically on Bemus Ellery Road in the Town of Ellery, the Chautauqua County Sheriff’s...
View ArticleLackawanna school board president says a national search for superintendent...
The president of the Lackawanna School District Board of Education disputed another board member’s contention that the board didn’t do a thorough search for the district’s next superintendent.The...
View ArticleBuffalo expands search for deputy school superintendent
Buffalo School Superintendent Pamela Brown is expanding her search for a candidate to take the No. 2 job in the city school district.Originally, a permanent deputy superintendent was to be named early...
View ArticleWar hero pays heavy price with post-traumatic stress from Vietnam
Life has been more than painful these past 43 years since Vietnam War veteran Thomas A. Gena received a Silver Star for his war heroism in saving another soldier’s life.Post-traumatic stress, he says,...
View ArticleMan injured by fall in North Tonawanda
North Tonawanda police and firefighters were called to a home on Robert Drive Sunday night after a man apparently was injured during a fall from an upper story window.The incident happened in the 100...
View ArticleWoman robbed at automatic teller machine
A man stole $100 from a woman after pointing a gun and threatening to “blow her brains out” at an automatic teller machine at a Seneca Street bank branch.The armed robbery took place at the Bank of...
View ArticlePolice divers, firefighters pull man from creek
A man who appeared to be intoxicated was pulled from Cazenovia Creek by Buffalo Police divers and city firefighters Sunday night.The man, who had been swimming in the creek for at least a half-hour,...
View ArticleState to urge insurers to let patients buy locally
Health insurance companies should allow certain patients to buy “specialty” drug prescriptions at community pharmacies rather than requiring the use of mail-order services, according to the state...
View ArticleQuintana to appeal ruling he is fit to work
Buffalo Police Officer Robert Quintana’s efforts to avoid working light duty because of his claims of a disabling work-related back injury from eight years ago have been rejected by a State Supreme...
View ArticleReporters’ Notebook
OLAF FUB SEZ: Ginsberg’s Theorem, devised by poet Allen Ginsberg, born on this date in 1926, goes like this: “1. You can’t win. 2. You can’t break even. 3. You can’t even get out of the game.”...June...
View ArticleLafarge won’t answer questions about plans because of lawsuit
LOCKPORT – Lafarge North America said last week it won’t respond to a letter from the Town of Lockport, seeking details about its future expansion plans, until after a lawsuit over a near-term,...
View ArticleECC eyes changes to give each campus a theme
Constructing a new academic building in Amherst isn’t the only big idea being suggested for Erie Community College.The two-year college should consolidate some of its programs and reorganize them in a...
View ArticleAn 'Ecstatic' show of pride
Pamela Barres drove from Rochester to attend Buffalo’s Gay Pride Parade and Gay Pride Festival to have fun and drum up support for a proposed state law to make it illegal to discriminate against...
View ArticleVisiting choir’s spirited revue spotlights the plight of children in...
The lighthearted, colorful song and dance subsided, the glistening smiles faded, and a more somber, serious tone commanded the stage.The lighting shifted, individually spotlighting each child as he or...
View ArticleAnswering the call to a new life
John E. Stanton Jr. has often bowed his head in prayer inside Our Lady of Victory Basilica in Lackawanna.He did so before passing the New York CPA exam, in advance of the state bar exam and before...
View ArticleSome sailors left high and dry by dock delay
As summer rolls in, sailors like Carl McElwin get anxious. They tinker with their rigging, buff their hulls and prepare for the weeknight races outside the Buffalo breakwater.But this summer, that...
View ArticleSoftBank Capital raises $54 million for tech investments
New York’s funding-starved early stage technology companies may find it a little easier to raise the cash they’re seeking.SoftBank Capital has raised $54 million in funds, mainly through a $51 million...
View ArticleBill would define Niagara Greenway boundaries
How far inland should be considered “waterfront”?The question vexed some lawmakers seven years as ago as they tried to determine the eastern edge of a proposed waterfront revitalization area called...
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