Doing the math on promised jobs for genomics project
When Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo unveiled a major genomic medicine development for Buffalo in last month’s State of the State address, the participating research institutions and companies were left...
View ArticlePresidents Day, Buffalo Style
They keep watch over Buffalo from the steps of City Hall. They are Grover Cleveland and Millard Fillmore, the two men who made it from Buffalo all the way to the White House.Few are the cities that...
View ArticleDeputy arrests Wales man for DWI on Route 400
A Wales man was arrested Friday night on the Aurora Expressway in Elma by an Erie County sheriff’s deputy, who charged him with driving while intoxicated.The deputy responded to a report of a vehicle...
View ArticleWith space race long gone, planetariums at Buffalo State and Williamsville...
The 1960s was a decade of space exploration and flights to the moon, when John Glenn, Neil Armstrong and other astronauts were national heroes.It was also a time when the nation, worried about Soviet...
View ArticleOne dead in Amherst apartment fire
The occupant of an Amherst apartment building died in a fire that caused a partial roof collapse and more than $1 million in damage early today.Firefighters were called to the eight-unit complex at...
View ArticleReporters’ Notebook
OLAF FUB SEZ: According to German poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht, born on this date in 1898, “Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.”...Brrrr …All the snow and...
View ArticleLoss of brother, words with MacArthur remain vivid for veteran from Lancaster
Army Gen. Douglas MacArthur, commander of Allied forces in the Pacific, was known for his trademark corncob pipe.But 89-year-old Frank R. Klinger, at the time a sailor on the light cruiser USS Phoenix...
View ArticleMan shot during fight in parking lot
A man suffered a gunshot wound to the leg late Saturday during a fight in the University Plaza parking lot at 3500 Main Street, Amherst police reported.Police responded around 11:15 p.m. for a report...
View ArticleFive prison guards hurt while restraining inmate
ATTICA — Two sergeants and three corrections officers were injured Saturday evening at the Wyoming Correctional Facility while restraining an inmate, the state Department of Corrections...
View ArticlePresence of sex offender changes Newstead neighbors’ position on...
When the neighbors of a recently opened group home for people with developmental disabilities on Rapids Road in Newstead first heard about the facility opening, they were receptive to having the human...
View ArticleFive charged after fleeing from stolen vehicle
A vehicle reported stolen at knifepoint Friday in Riverside was recovered Saturday night when five males abandoned it on the East Side while being pursued by officers responding to a robbery call,...
View ArticleDeputies charge two drivers with DWI
Erie County sheriff’s road patrols made two DWI arrests late Saturday of drivers who refused to consent to breath tests, according to a report.Deputies patrolling Main Road in the Town of Newstead...
View ArticleGreenan leaving Erie County for Sheriff's Office
John W. Greenan is leaving his position as Erie County personnel commissioner and is headed for the Sheriff’s Office to serve as its chief of administrative services, beginning Wednesday.His...
View ArticleMan robbed of $20 on East Side
A man was robbed at gunpoint of $20 late Saturday on the East Side by a group of individuals, Buffalo police reported.The victim told police he was approached at Lasalle Avenue at Bailey Avenue around...
View ArticleGillibrand's stature in capital skyrockets
WASHINGTON – Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand may or may not win this week when the Senate finally votes on her legislation putting the prosecution of sexual assaults in the military in the hands of trained...
View ArticleNew York State agency silent on thousands of reports of disabled abuse
ALBANY – The agency established last year to protect the disabled in state-funded institutions has received nearly 25,000 reports of significant incidents, abuse, neglect and deaths in its first six...
View ArticleDelaware North to acquire high-end restaurant group
Delaware North Cos. has an appetite for some fine dining.The Buffalo-based food service and hospitality giant has agreed to buy a majority stake in the Patina Restaurant Group, which operates high-end...
View ArticleSchneiderman targets 'zombie' properties
State Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman is the latest public official targeting “zombie properties” that have been abandoned and left to deteriorate.Schneiderman today is expected to announce...
View ArticleShoplifters steal $1,000 worth of goods from Lockport WalMart
TOWN OF LOCKPORT – Three alleged professional shoplifters needed only a couple minutes to loot more than $1,100 worth of merchandise from the South Transit Road WalMart store Thursday evening,...
View ArticleDiocese, Falls school to be tried over role in girls’ harassment
Vanessa De Rosa was in eighth grade in 2002, when, she says, her computer teacher at St. Dominic Savio Middle School in Niagara Falls went to her cheerleading practices, offered her rides home and...
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