House races expected to be spirited
ALBANY – An empty seat and swing districts loom large as Republicans and Democrats look to pick up House seats in New York this year.Eight months before the general election, a half-dozen or more of...
View ArticleGirl beaten in Riverside attack by four men offering to sell marijuana
Four men are wanted on felony gang assault charges in Riverside after a girl turned down an offer to buy marijuana at Tonawanda Street and Riverside Avenue Saturday morning, police said.A woman who...
View ArticleRumore in Albany hospital recovering from fall
Buffalo Teachers Federation President Phil Rumore has been laid up in an Albany hospital for a week with broken ribs and a possible punctured lung after slipping on ice outside his Buffalo...
View ArticleArray of vehicles targeted in theft at Adam’s Mark Hotel
Several vehicles parked at the Adam’s Mark Hotel in Buffalo were broken into overnight Friday, with items ranging from coats to iPads being stolen.Buffalo Police said the windows of several vehicles –...
View ArticleBuffalo gets a double-dose of playwright Suzan-Lori Parks on Tuesday
Draft the proclamation. Call the mayor. Dust off the ceremonial keys.If Tuesday isn’t officially Suzan-Lori Parks Day in Buffalo, it should be.In a serendipitous turn of events that has the city’s...
View ArticleNew mission for the 107th Air Wing is filled with controversy
It’s called a Reaper, and commanders in the Air National Guard think it’s a savior: saving the 107th Air Wing in Niagara Falls from the threat of extinction as well as the lives of American troops in...
View ArticleTown of Somerset fire district to include Village of Barker
The Somerset Town Board and Barker Village Board have voted to sponsor legislation to expand the town’s fire protection district to include the village.Town and village officials are seeking this...
View ArticleTurning page on one career for love of books
Mary Jean Jakubowski started her professional career in the health care field of occupational therapy, where she worked for 13 years. But it was a master’s degree in library science that opened the...
View ArticleBoy's grave prognosis blindsides his family
In Clarence this January, a tousle-haired 4-year-old boy who likes to hunt frogs, build forts and play with sticks started telling his mom and dad that his head hurt.The headaches became more painful...
View ArticleBirthing center becoming more popular with expectant mothers, but not insurers
When Amanda Scates-Preisinger started planning for the birth of her second child, she wanted the baby born somewhere other than a hospital.She did not want an institutional setting.Scates-Preisinger...
View ArticleFalls man collects more than $900,000 from hoarder’s estate
NIAGARA FALLS – An 80-year-old Niagara Falls man has been awarded the million-dollar estate of his first cousin in Niagara County Surrogate’s Court, wrapping up the case of a dead hoarder found under...
View ArticleWinter storm warning issued starting early Wednesday morning
Not again.Yup. Once again, the snows are heading this way, and they may be worse than first anticipated.The National Weather Service this afternoon issued a winter storm warning for all of Western New...
View ArticleTwo residents burned in Darien apartment-house fire
Two tenants suffered minor burns and were treated at the scene, following an early-morning two-alarm fire that broke out in the downstairs garage of an apartment house in Darien, Genesee County...
View ArticleHornblower picks names for its new Niagara Falls catamarans
NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. – The two new catamarans providing boat rides near Niagara Falls will be called the Niagara Wonder and the Niagara Thunder, Hornblower Niagara Cruises announced Monday.The company,...
View ArticlePoloncarz hires last manager in DSS overhaul
Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz today announced the completion of his reorganization of the county’s Department of Social Services with the hiring of Marie Cannon as first deputy commissioner...
View ArticleHigh BAC level leads to aggravated DWI charge in Wyoming County
CASTILE – A one-vehicle crash in Wyoming County late Sunday night led to the arrest of a Castile man accused of having a blood-alcohol level more than three times the legal limit, Wyoming County...
View ArticleNorth Buffalo man gets prison term for robbing Amherst bank
A North Buffalo man who robbed an Amherst bank of nearly $4,000 after threatening to blow it up if the teller didn’t give him the money was sentenced Monday to two to four years in prison.Erie County...
View ArticleNew York health exchange reports 590,639 enrolled
More than 908,590 New Yorkers have completed applications for coverage on the state insurance exchange and 590,639 have enrolled for coverage since the start of the exchange on Oct. 1 last year, the...
View ArticleNorth Tonawanda Common Council meeting is canceled
NORTH TONAWANDA – The North Tonawanda Common Council will not have its regularly scheduled workshop meeting Tuesday night.The Council will be back in regular rotation for its meeting next week at 6:30...
View ArticlePolite robber is unsuccessful in bid to rob Falls convenience store
NIAGARA FALLS – A man on Sunday night threatened a clerk in a 7-Eleven on Niagara Falls Boulevard, indicating that he had a gun and demanding money. When the clerk refused, the robber tried a...
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