King Center Charter set to relocate, as former School 71 is bought in...
In an effort to accommodate more students, the King Center Charter School is moving to a new location.The school’s board of trustees approved the purchase of the former School 71, 104 Lang Ave., near...
View ArticleBudwey’s will keep doors open in NT and Newfane
It looks like Budwey’s Markets could live to see its 100th birthday.After announcing in October that he would sell the namesake stores that his grandmother founded in 1922, Frank Budwey said he just...
View ArticleNiagara Falls School Board approves plan to add more polling sites
NIAGARA FALLS – The city will have about three times as many polling places for the School Board election and school budget vote in May as it did last year.The city School Board on Thursday...
View ArticleWheatfield wants reduced speed limit near school
WHEATFIELD – The Town Board voted this week to ask the state Department of Transportation to allow creation of a school speed limit zone around Errick Road Elementary School, where the speed limit is...
View ArticleNFTA bus rear-ended on Sycamore at Loepere
An NFTA MetroBus bus was rear-ended by a passenger vehicle on an icy section of road on Sycamore Street at Loepere Street about 4:30 p.m. today, police reported. There were no reports of injuries.
View ArticleWoman with gun surrenders after a 4-hour standoff at Ashland apartment
An emotionally-distraught 28-year-old woman surrendered peacefully to Det. Sgt. Gary E. Teague and his Buffalo Police crisis management team about 11:20 p.m. Thursday, ending more than four hours of...
View ArticleU.S. Department of Education to probe racial bias in Buffalo Public Schools...
Federal authorities have decided to investigate an allegation that the Buffalo Public Schools discriminate against nonwhite students, resulting in fewer of them attending schools like City Honors,...
View ArticleJury begins deliberations in trial of Buffalo man accused of killing girl, 13
Jurors on Thursday began deliberating the fate of a man accused of killing a 13-year-old girl after they heard two contrasting portrayals of what happened.But both the defense and prosecution agreed...
View ArticleBuffalo school board candidate denies marijuana charge, knowledge of 2010...
Gizelle Stokes, a candidate for the Buffalo school board, has been released without bail and ordered to appear April 3 before a Buffalo City Court judge after transit police arrested her Tuesday.The...
View ArticleWegmans donates $1.05 million to Explore & More Children’s Museum
The Explore & More Children’s Museum in East Aurora received two gifts from Wegmans on Thursday totaling $1.05 million for its capital campaign to build a facility at Canalside in downtown Buffalo...
View ArticleEducation commissioner rejects petition to remove Hamburg School Board members
State Education Commissioner John B. King Jr. has rejected a petition to remove two Hamburg Central School Board members.King determined that most of the issues raised by parent Daniel Chiacchia in...
View ArticleGrand Island woman killed in Pennsylvania crash near state line
A 26-year-old Grand Island woman was killed in a two-vehicle crash Thursday morning when her vehicle crossed the center line and collided with an oncoming vehicle in Pennsylvania, just south of the...
View ArticleTeen charged in fight with 12-year-old in Evans
A teenager has been charged with beating up a 12-year-old boy in the Town of Evans.The fight happened at about 5:30 p.m. on March 9 on Commercial Street in the Village of Angola, said Lt. Peter...
View ArticleMorris found guilty on all counts in rape and murder of 13-year-old girl
A jury today convicted Darshawn Morris in the gruesome murder and attempted dismemberment of a 13-year-old girl last summer after a party at his apartment.Jurors apparently didn’t believe Morris, who...
View ArticleJudge rejects Tonawanda Coke’s request for acquittal
A federal judge has denied Tonawanda Coke’s request for an acquittal of all charges or a new trial.In rejecting the company’s motions, Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny said he found no...
View ArticleVideo: The politics of snow
From Mayor Stan Makowski's Blizzard of '77 struggles, to Jimmy Griffin's "grab a six-pack" saga in '85, McCarthy talks with Brian Meyer and about the politics of snow. They also discuss cleanup...
View ArticleSafeguarding Fruit Belt from gentrification
Buffalo is considering following the lead of other cities to find a way to protect longtime residents from being gentrified out of their homes.The immediate concern in Buffalo is the Fruit Belt, which...
View ArticleAs cold front nears, little relief in sight with spring only five days away
Winter’s numbers speak for themselves.One frozen lake. Two blizzards. Four straight months of below-average cold. Ten feet of snow.For winter-weary Buffalo Niagara residents, the magic number is five...
View ArticleLewiston Town Board sets special session
LEWISTON – The Lewiston Town Board will meet in special session at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday to discuss the CWM legal agreement. It then will go into executive session to interview candidates for the vacant...
View ArticleWilliamsville man charged in Clarence drug store robbery
A 32-year-old Williamsville man – already in custody at the Erie County Holding Center on earlier robbery charges – was formally charged Friday with robbery in a Feb. 18 incident in which he made off...
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