2 suspects arrested in purse snatch
JAMESTOWN – Two women are held in City Jail pending arraignment on charges stemming from a purse snatching about 7 p.m. Tuesday in the parking lot of the Big Lots store, 39 S. Main St., city police...
View ArticleA Lockport man is charged with trying to sell a stolen ATV
CAMBRIA – A Niagara Falls man alerted Niagara County sheriff’s deputies Tuesday after he learned that a man was trying to sell his all-terrain vehicle which had been reported stolen in Niagara...
View ArticleElectronics are stolen in the burglary of a motor home in the Falls
NIAGARA FALLS – A 71-year-old man said someone removed a windshield to climb into his 2004 motor home while it was parked in an alley in the 2700 block of Woodlawn Avenue, sometime between 6 p.m....
View ArticleSalamanca residents approve sale of former school to Senecas
SALAMANCA – Residents of the Salamanca Central School District on Tuesday approved selling a former elementary school and buying a piece of land. The sale of the former Seneca Elementary School...
View ArticleTwo houses on adjoining streets are hit by gunfire in Falls
NIAGARA FALLS – Police investigating calls of shots fired at 20th Street and Woodlawn Avenue just after 3 a.m. Tuesday found two houses on 22nd Street and Woodlawn Avenue damaged by gunfire.Police...
View ArticleMayor Griffin’s blizzard quote still applies today
At the Blackthorn Restaurant and Pub on Seneca Street where the late Mayor Jimmy Griffin was known to hold court over a pint or two, it seemed the regulars were heeding the four-term mayor’s famous...
View ArticleBank seeks $250,000 from Forestville to pay off old note
FORESTVILLE – Evans Bank has filed a legal action against the village of Forestville seeing repayment of a $250,000 revenue anticipation note to pay for the demolition of a building in 2009. Village...
View ArticleAs groups press for funding, Assembly passes one-house budget bill
ALBANY – A range of groups, from medical marijuana advocates to public school organizations, made a last-ditch effort Wednesday to get their issues considered in the 2014 state budget that is slowly...
View ArticleState GOP chief lauds elections panel’s probe of Pigeon...
The chairman of the New York State Republican Party Wednesday praised state elections commissioners for tackling what he says Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s anti-corruption commission would not –...
View ArticleNiagara Falls woman jumps to her death
NIAGARA FALLS – A 61-year-old woman jumped to her death Wednesday from a 15th floor window at the apartment tower at 901 Cedar Ave., according to Police Lt. Michael Trane. The woman died at the scene...
View ArticleCattaraugus County to abolish its Civil Service Commission
LITTLE VALLEY – After about a year in committee, a plan to do away with the Cattaraugus County Civil Service Commission in favor of a personnel director was approved Wednesday by the County...
View ArticleIt’s business almost as usual for Western New Yorkers
With schools closed, the children stayed home. So did a lot of their parents, whose plants or offices were closed Wednesday because of the March blizzard.But Derrick Simmons opened Bertha’s Diner, the...
View ArticleBlizzard ends but frigid air continues
And, just like that, it was over.Buffalo Niagara absorbed a 12-hour sock in the face from a wild, second blizzard in three months Wednesday.By about 9 p.m., the storm was winding down, according to...
View ArticleRegion says ‘enough is enough’ as season’s second...
They don’t happen a lot. Once every few years, by most accounts.But not this winter. No, we’ve already had two and we’re still a week shy of spring.We’re talking blizzards, the kind that literally...
View Article3 members of Board of Regents re-elected as 4th bows out
ALBANY – Democrats cobbled together enough votes Tuesday to re-elect three members of the state Board of Regents, a task made politically simpler when a fourth member seeking another 5-year term...
View ArticleComprehensive storm coverage
Coverage of today's storm will be compiled here. Region says ‘enough is enough’ as season’s second blizzard hits Mayor Griffin’s blizzard quote still applies today A closer look: Charles Burchfield's...
View ArticleChautauqua County program will spay or neuter pit bull breed dogs for free
DUNKIRK – A free program to spay or neuter pit bull breed dogs has been announced for Chautauqua County. The program is being coordinated by the Chautauqua County Humane Society and Pet Smart. The...
View ArticleOrchard Park schools closing $2.2 million budget shortfall
The Orchard Park School Board faced sobering news this week when it learned that 14.5 full-time equivalent jobs would be cut and intramurals and some co-curricular clubs would face the budget ax in...
View ArticleBuffalo’s record snowfall to give way to roller coaster in temperatures
NEWS STAFF REPORTERThe record snowfall of Wednesday will give way to a roller coaster of temperatures over the next couple of days, with temperatures dropping to single digits, rising to the mid 40s...
View ArticleTwo Buffalo police officers hurt in Kensington Expressway accident
Two Buffalo police officers suffered injuries just after 10 a.m. today when their patrol vehicle was involved in an accident with a second car on the westbound Kensington Expressway near the Grider...
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