Winter storm warning issued starting early Wednesday morning
Not again.Yup. Once again, the snows are heading this way.The National Weather Service this afternoon issued a winter storm warning for all of Western New York, from 2 a.m. Wednesday to 2 a.m....
View ArticleEgriu announces congressional challenge to Higgins
Emin “Eddie” Egriu, who calls himself a “liberal anti-war populist,” announced Monday that he will challenge Rep. Brian Higgins, a five-term incumbent, in the Democratic primary. Egriu, 52, announced...
View ArticleBrockport students charged with forcing dog to drink beer
Two Brockport State College students, one of them a 20-year-old from West Seneca, were charged with forcing a dog to drink beer from a keg at a party over the weekend, authorities said Monday.Robert...
View ArticleBuffalo man caught allegedly shoplifting
TOWN OF NIAGARA – A man was held on $10,000 bail after he was caught shoplifting in a Fashion Outlet store over the weekend.State Police charged Herman Menniweather, 45, of Buffalo after he was caught...
View ArticleFalls man arraigned in house burglary case
LOCKPORT – Sean Kent Jr., 20, of Buffalo Avenue, Niagara Falls, pleaded not guilty Monday in State Supreme Court to four counts connected with an alleged house burglary that occurred Aug. 20 on 24th...
View ArticleMan charged with stealing, scrapping metal from Falls house
LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls man was arraigned Monday in Niagara County Court on a three-count indictment charging him with stealing more than $3,000 worth of appliances, pipes and other metal objects...
View ArticleCheektowaga woman gets prison term for embezzling almost $92,000
A Cheektowaga woman convicted 18 years ago of embezzling $120,000 from her Buffalo employer was sentenced Monday to one to three years in prison for stealing nearly $92,000 from other Buffalo...
View ArticleJamestown alleged cocaine trafficker arrested
MAYVILLE – A 33-year-old Jamestown man suspected of trafficking in cocaine in the Jamestown area has been arrested by the Chautauqua County sheriff’s office on a indictment handed up by a county grand...
View ArticleWoman suspected of flooding her apartment in a landlord/tenant dispute
LOCKPORT – An apartment on Akron Road was deemed uninhabitable by the Town of Lockport building inspector after a woman left a flood of standing water in her apartment.On Saturday Niagara County...
View ArticleTown of Tonawanda man arrested for aggravated drunken driving
A 36-year-old Town of Tonawanda man was arrested by State Police for alleged aggravated drunken driving when he was pulled over on Main Street at Youngs Road in the Town of Amherst about 4 a.m....
View ArticleSpringville veteran recalls reaching targets first in nose turret of B-24...
Hard luck hit the Allan family in 1940 when John T. Allan, a carpenter and father of two sons, died of a massive stroke.His older son, also named John, quit high school and started working as a...
View ArticleShowplace Theatre being revived so it again fits the name
A former rock music mecca is coming back to life as a concert venue and events center.The Showplace Theatre, the movie theater-turned-concert hall that reigned from 1994 to 2008, will reopen following...
View ArticleSchumer touts Route 5 work
The push to install a new traffic signal and an access lane on Route 5 near a vacant stretch of land being eyed as a distribution site for FedEx is getting a boost from U.S. Sen. Charles E....
View ArticleCleveland BioLabs reduces losses, fights to boost share price
Cleveland BioLabs cut its operating losses almost in half during the fourth quarter as the Buffalo drug development company trimmed its research and development spending and took in almost twice as...
View ArticleQuasar plan reminds residents of Love Canal, threatens local produce sales
Opposition to Quasar Energy Group’s plans to store a fertilizer byproduct of its waste digester and spread the material on fields appeared Monday night to harden in two Niagara County communities –...
View ArticleBuffalo tops Forbes list of most affordable cities
The Buffalo Niagara region’s reputation for low-cost living is paying off, in the form of a No. 1 ranking by Forbes.The magazine named Buffalo the most affordable city in America, using data that...
View ArticleNews offers free digital access today, Wednesday
Due to approaching storm, The Buffalo News will offer free digital access to all content today and Wednesday.
View ArticleBuffalo police dispatcher arrested on second prostitution charge
A civilian dispatcher for Buffalo police who was placed on a paid suspension after a prostitution arrest last year was arrested again on a prostitution charge late Monday night.Police set up a sting...
View ArticlePlanning board approves Termini’s restaurant made of shipping...
Developer Rocco Termini won approval today for a downtown restaurant he plans to fashion out of eight to 10 metal shipping containers. Dog é Style, to be built close to the Catholic Health System...
View ArticleState Legislature re-elects three members to Board of Regents
ALBANY – Democrats today cobbled together enough votes to re-elect three members of the state Board of Regents, a task made politically simpler when a fourth member seeking another five-year term...
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