Reed’s law firm operated under his name
WASHINGTON – Rep. Tom Reed’s Corning law office continued to operate under his name while he has been serving as a member of Congress, despite House ethics and American Bar Association rules that...
View ArticleOrchard Park man accused of false report involving prostitute
A man was arrested early Saturday after Orchard Park police said he patronized a prostitute and let her use his vehicle that was later involved in a hit-and-run crash involving another vehicle in...
View ArticleCommunities are divided on practice of treating waste for fertilizer
“Equate” is what Quasar Energy Group calls the fertilizer it produces in Wheatfield and West Seneca.State and federal regulatory agencies use the terms “digestate” and “biosolids.”Local residents have...
View ArticleIt’s Robert Shibley’s city; we’re just living in it
In many ways, Buffalo is Robert Shibley’s city. We’re all just living in it.The dean of the University at Buffalo’s School of Architecture and Planning and recipient of the 2014 Thomas Jefferson Award...
View ArticleAnguish unrelenting in unsolved hit-and-run
When the Rev. Francis X. “Butch” Mazur read about the recent hit-and-run fatality in the Town of Evans, the news story hit him like a thunderbolt.“I know exactly how these people feel,” Mazur said,...
View ArticleTV, prescription drugs stolen from Hyde Park-area home
NIAGARA FALLS – The home of an elderly woman was burglarized Friday while she was away for several hours for a medical procedure, police said.Upon returning home about 4:30 p.m., the victim found the...
View Article‘Half a world away, we learned an enduring lesson about family.’
CHI THANH, Vietnam – Sixteen people crowded around a long table at a rustic riverside restaurant best reached by riding a motor scooter on a winding path past rice paddies, coconut trees and humble...
View ArticleEighth child in Amherst family earns Scouts’ highest honor
Seventeen-year-old Peter Knox of Amherst knew he had quite a legacy to live up to, so – with a great deal of hard work and commitment – he did what he had to do.The Sweet Home High School senior...
View ArticleBroken water mains are draining area resources
On an all-too-typical chilly morning last week, Kenmore crews were called to fix three breaks in just one stretch of water main pipe under the 2600 block of Elmwood Avenue.“Any change, any ground that...
View ArticleNew rinks are a hit with pond hockey players
Hockey took center stage Saturday – and the stage itself might have been the most valuable player of the seventh Labatt Blue Buffalo Pond Hockey Tournament.The refrigerated rinks at Buffalo...
View ArticleProfiles in Education: Samuel L. Radford III
Samuel L. Radford III remembers the days after a bullet pierced his skull. Swamped with fear and anger, he recalls being a 25-year-old man unable to cope.“I remember sitting there, being afraid and...
View ArticleChoolokian seeks new athletic fields for Falls
City Councilman Glenn A. Choolokian wants Niagara Falls to consider spending some casino revenue on building three new sets of athletic fields.The city lawmaker said he has been talking with...
View ArticleNiagara County sheriff to sell swindler’s businesses
LOCKPORT – The businesses that Kenneth Heitzenrater and his wife started with money stolen from a now-deceased neighbor will go up for bids next month.A sheriff’s sale will be held March 13 for the...
View ArticleAt landmark museum in North Tonawanda, the art of woodcarving is kept alive
NORTH TONAWANDA – Woodcarving is an art that could easily be lost – but not in North Tonawanda.Here the beauty and intricacies of great carving are preserved at the Herschell Carrousel Factory Museum...
View ArticleHelicopter hero to retire after decades of high drama
It was perhaps the scariest of many harrowing moments in more than four decades that Capt. Kevin R. Caffery has flown for the Erie County Sheriff’s Office.Caffery and flight officer Arthur Litzinger...
View ArticleMan stabbed in store parking lot
LOCKPORT – An argument that began inside a discount department store led to a serious stabbing in the store parking lot Sunday afternoon, the Niagara County Sheriff’s Office reported.The victim,...
View ArticleUse of torch leads to fire on William Street
A two-story house at 664 William Street caught fire when a torch was used to repair a roof, according to the Buffalo Fire Department. The fire was called in at 1:16 p.m. Sunday, and fire crews were on...
View ArticleDoctors tend bar to benefit Sisters Hospital
The Rev. Richard “Duke” Zajac has talked to a lot of people in his 31 years as chaplain at Sisters Hospital. That background, and the time he spent at Casey’s Tavern in Black Rock as a young man,...
View ArticleAmherst fire causes $500,000 in damage
Damage was estimated at half a million dollars after a fire Sunday afternoon in the offices of Orkin Pest Control in the Amherst Inducon Park Business Development at Earhart and Wehrle drives. The...
View ArticleArmed robbery at Lockport gas station
LOCKPORT – A man displayed a knife and demanded money at 3:20 p.m. Sunday in a South Transit Road gas station and then fled in a car parked nearby, according to the Niagara County Sheriff’s Office. A...
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