Impending debut of potent prescription painkiller Zohydro fuels debate over...
A powerful new prescription painkiller that’s packed with hydrocodone and provides 12-hour pain relief will be available in pharmacies in the next couple of weeks.Both the manufacturer of Zohydro and...
View ArticleAt least one person dead in South Buffalo house fire
At least one person apparently died in a fire Tuesday night in a 1½-story wooden house at 65 Sirret St. in South Buffalo.The Erie County medical examiner was called to the scene to pick up a body just...
View ArticleAcqua recommended to run waterfront restaurant
Buffalo officials have recommended that the operators of Acqua, a restaurant along the Niagara River, take over the Hatch restaurant at Erie Basin Marina.Common Council members will review the...
View ArticleBuffalo schools see leap in college enrollment
Two-thirds of graduating Buffalo Public Schools seniors enrolled in college last fall – the highest percentage in at least seven years.The Class of 2013 showed a 9 percent increase in college...
View ArticleHealthNow paid ex-CEO $6.4 million in 2013
Alphonso O’Neil-White, who stepped down as president and CEO of HealthNow New York last summer, was paid $6.4 million in 2013 in compensation, including a retirement payout, according to the insurer’s...
View ArticleGuinn’s return adjusts school hierarchy, freeing up superintendent to...
Now that Mary E. Guinn is back with the Buffalo Public Schools as interim deputy superintendent, she will be walking into a hornet’s nest of issues.She will be focusing on improving academic...
View ArticleThe musical chairs hurt city schools
In a city whose top elected officials haven’t exactly been models of progressiveness, the idea of turning Buffalo’s schools over to the mayor – a concept finally embraced by Byron Brown – invites...
View ArticleMcKinley High student arrested for ninja knife in school
A McKinley High School student was charged Wednesday with criminal possession of a knife after a school administrator reportedly found in his coat pocket a three-bladed Ninja knife. Police officers...
View ArticleNew Lockport mayor vows to turn the city around
LOCKPORT – Anne E. McCaffrey formally took the oath of office as Lockport’s 57th mayor Wednesday, telling residents that she knows their faith in city government has been shaken by the city’s fiscal...
View ArticleFormer Amherst woman arrested after Franklin Street apartment incident
A 23-year-old former Amherst woman was arrested about 2:15 a.m. Wednesday after she broke a window in the multiple-unit Franklin Street apartment building where she currently lives and then allegedly...
View ArticleSuspect arrested with stolen cell phone
A 21-year-old Delaware Avenue man was arrested on Niagara Street about 1 p.m. Wednesday with a cell phone he had purchased with a stolen credit card, police said.Miguel J. Pratts was arrested in the...
View ArticleDriver arrested for drugs after making an unusual lane change
A 55-year-old Lackawanna man was charged with drug possession after his 14-year-old luxury car was pulled over in the 600 block of Amherst Street after he allegedly made a curious lane change about 2...
View ArticlePridgen celebrates ‘wedding anniversary’ of...
Buffalo Common Council President Darius Pridgen on Wednesday celebrated what he called the golden wedding anniversary of civil and rights by challenging their children, the beneficiaries of the Civil...
View ArticleFormer music teacher takes plea deal in decade-old sex abuse case
LOCKPORT – Michael J. Solomon Sr., the former Lutheran school music teacher whose initial conviction for sexually abusing a girl was overturned on appeal, took a plea deal Wednesday.Solomon, 48, of...
View ArticleLockport father changes mind, pleads guilty to injuring infant son
LOCKPORT – A Lockport man, who last week rejected two plea offers for seriously injuring his five-month-old son, changed his mind Wednesday and accepted one of them.Christopher T. Fuller Jr., 23, of...
View ArticleLockport’s new mayor vows to get city back on track
LOCKPORT – Anne E. McCaffrey formally took the oath of office as Lockport’s 57th mayor Wednesday, telling residents that she knows their faith in city government has been shaken by the city’s fiscal...
View ArticleNiagara Falls Blvd. reopens after major water line break
NIAGARA FALLS – A major water line break closed off busy Niagara Falls Boulevard (Route 62) between 47th and 56th streets for more than three hours Wednesday night. The break was reported about 7 p.m....
View ArticleBrown gives self-evaluation as she goes before School Board
Echoing what has become her mantra in recent months, Pamela C. Brown on Wednesday touted what she considers her accomplishments as Buffalo school superintendent during a self-evaluation before the...
View ArticleSynacor CEO Frankel to step down as profits plunge, 12 jobs are cut
Synacor Inc., the Buffalo Internet content provider, announced Wednesday that longtime CEO Ronald N. Frankel will step down from his job as soon as a successor is found.Synacor’s announcement came as...
View ArticleGreat Lakes’ ice cover could lead to flooding, chillier spring
WASHINGTON – Like a boxer who knocked his rival to the mat and who then gets down on his knees to keep pummeling the poor guy, the wicked winter of 2014 may not be done with us yet.Federal officials...
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