Two former Catholic school girls to receive settlements in harassment case
LOCKPORT – Two former students of St. Dominic Savio Middle School in Niagara Falls will receive cash payments under terms of a settlement of their lawsuit against the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo, the...
View ArticleAs winter storm hits South, WNY is in for reprieve
As Mother Nature threatens to paralyze Georgia and parts of the Carolinas with 2 inches of snow and three-quarters of an inch of ice, Western New York is about to enjoy a midwinter reprieve.After a...
View ArticleDecrepit Graystone Hotel reborn as luxury apartment complex
After years of abandonment and decay so severe that trees grew through the roof of the six-story building, the former Graystone Hotel in downtown Buffalo has been given new life as a 42-unit apartment...
View ArticleRegents put reprieve for teachers on hold in Common Core
The state’s top education leaders Tuesday put a proposal to give teachers a temporary reprieve from a new teacher-evaluation system on hold after Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo lambasted the plan.The Board of...
View ArticleRevisiting hallowed ground of loved ones, Families of Flight 3407 mourn 5...
Five years after losing their loved ones in a preventable plane crash, the Families of Continental Flight 3407 tonight will find themselves back again in the same place, at a memorial service in...
View ArticleOne more night of extreme cold in store
Here’s a switch. The National Weather Service local forecast for the next three days includes the word “sunny,” as in “mostly sunny” or just plain “sunny.”We will be spared any serious effects from...
View ArticleRussert office scene moving to Buffalo for permanent display
WASHINGTON – It’s a little messy for a memorial. It’s a desk filled with papers and magazines, with a Pellegrino bottle off to the side and a big plaque on the front that says “Thou shalt not whine,”...
View ArticleDrive-by shooting victim suffers grazing wound
A 35-year-old Buffalo man who suffered a grazing bullet wound to his hip during a drive-by shooting Wednesday afternoon on the city’s West Side was treated for his injury and discharged from Erie...
View ArticleYahoo approved for slightly enlarged Lockport call center
LOCKPORT – The town Planning Board gave the green light Tuesday for a slightly enlarged site plan for Yahoo’s call center on its Lockport campus.The building size was increased by 19,000 square feet,...
View ArticleLockport referendum on veterans’ school tax exemption won’t be...
LOCKPORT – The Lockport Board of Education is likely to ask voters whether they favor veterans’ exemptions for school taxes, but the answer won’t be binding.Board Vice President David M. Nemi said...
View ArticlePedestrian killed in multi-car crash on Niagara Falls Boulevard
An unidentified female pedestrian was killed when she was struck by a car as she was crossing Niagara Falls Boulevard near East Robinson Road at about 9 p.m. Wednesday, according to Amherst police.She...
View ArticleElma extends moratorium on multiple dwellings
The year old moratorium on multiple dwellings in Elma was extended another six months after a public hearing at Wednesday’s meetng of the Elma Town Board.The multiple dwelling committee will continue...
View ArticleAnother defendant pleads guilty in cocaine case
A 58-year-old Buffalo man has become the 27th of the 30 suspects in a local cocaine trafficking ring smashed in July 2008 to plead guilty. Jerome C. Crosby pleaded guilty Wednesday before U.S....
View ArticleThree arrested in Jamestown marijuana case
JAMESTOWN – Three Jamestown suspects, a man and two women, were being held Wednesday in the Cattaraugus County Jail on felony charges of criminal possession of marijuana for the seizure Tuesday of a...
View ArticleArtist Janelle Iglesias to construct enormous bird’s nest in UB Art...
For a new exhibition opening Feb. 27 in the University at Buffalo Art Gallery, artist Janelle Iglesias will construct an immersive bird’s nest in the venue’s two-story Lightwell Gallery that mimics...
View ArticleGroundbreaking comic Lea DeLaria brings her variety show to the Allendale...
Lea DeLaria is not exactly thrilled with the state of the world.So when the veteran comedian, jazz singer and “Orange is the New Black” cast member comes to the Allendale Theatre on Saturday to...
View ArticleOut to Eat: SeaBar’s Cuban sandwich offers fish-phobics another...
From the day he got a full kitchen at SeaBar (475 Ellicott St.), Chef Mike Andrzejewski has tried to make sure there was something on the menu for people who recoil at the suggestion of raw fish.“We...
View ArticleTheater Jugend to produce Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s...
Drew McCabe has a serious thing for Trey Parker and Matt Stone.His company, Theater Jugend, which he co-founded with playwright Justin Karcher in 2011, produced a stage version of Parker’s 1993 cult...
View ArticleBuffalo schools renew contracts with three partnerships
The Buffalo Board of Education on Wednesday approved contracts with three educational partnership organizations – or EPOs – that will allow the organizations to continue operating in four struggling...
View ArticleHamburg Schools offers retiring teachers 4 years of health insurance
Hamburg Central School teachers and staff who retire this year will have some or all of their health insurance paid for several years, after the School Board approved an incentive Tuesday night.The...
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