High street man arrested for punching woman during argument
A 26-year-old High Street man was arrested at a Phyllis Avenue home about 5:25 p.m. Friday for allegedly assaulting a woman during an argument.Brandon N. Crawford was charged with third-degree assault...
View ArticleHolding Center inmate and estranged girlfriend plead to drug charges
A 34-year-old Buffalo, man already jailed for a local robbery arrest, and his now-estranged girlfriend have pleaded guilty to felony drug charges for allegedly trying to sneak Soboxone into the Erie...
View ArticleSeneca Niagara Casino takes ‘Smartest Company’ crown
Seneca Niagara Casino hit the jackpot on Friday.Its team won the eighth annual edition of Buffalo’s Biggest Trivia Competition, which benefits Cradle Beach and allows the winner to boast of being...
View ArticleSupervisors fear Newfane hospital may close
NEWFANE – Town supervisors in northern Niagara County said Friday they are trying to mobilize to prevent a feared closure of Eastern Niagara Hospital’s Newfane site.Hospital spokeswoman Carolyn Moore...
View ArticleCheektowaga drug dealer gets seven years behind bars
A Cheektowaga man who kept dealing marijuana after he was arrested twice in Buffalo with pounds of pot in rental cars he was driving was sentenced Friday to seven years in prison.Before Andre Sumpter...
View ArticleErie County real property transfers go paperless
Real property transfers in Erie County are going paperless.County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz announced Friday that municipalities can now receive real property tax transfer reports and deed...
View ArticleKenmore house heavily damaged in Friday night fire
A Kenmore home was heavily damaged in a fire Friday night.The Kenmore Fire Department was called to 114 Nassau Ave. at about 9:30 p.m. where they found a fire had started on the second floor of the...
View ArticleHorse country celebrates Equifest
At Equifest, the free festival of all things horse-related Sunday at the Hamburg Fairgrounds, thousands are expected to come from as far as Syracuse, Ohio and Canada to shop for trailers and saddles...
View ArticleU.S. sled hockey team goes for the gold
Maybe it was just meant to be.While the United States and Russia face off in an international war of words over the Ukraine and Crimea, the Paralympic gold medal will be contested today by sled hockey...
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Videos: Front-row seat at St. Patrick's Day Parade
Irish eyes, and everyone else's, were smiling Saturday in Buffalo as the St. Patrick's Day Parade made its way through Buffalo's Old First Ward. News Staff Reporter T.J. Pignataro brings us the...
View ArticleDevelopers offer opposing plans for historic Fruit Belt property
After helping restore the dome of Buffalo’s Botanical Gardens, the historic Nash House off Michigan Avenue and the windows at the King Urban Center on Genesse Street, John Gulick turned his attention...
View ArticleBuffalo’s ‘Old Neighborhood’ St. Pat’s parade...
Thousands of green clad residents of Irish ancestry and those Irish in spirit for a day converged on the annual “Old Neighborhood” St. Patrick’s Day parade Saturday afternoon in the city’s Old First...
View ArticleState commissioner wants dysfunction Hamburg School Board to get along
At the conclusion of the Hamburg School Board meeting Tuesday night, board president David Yoviene was picking up the pieces of the gavel broken during the raucus session. Yoviene may be able piece...
View ArticleLockport solicits buyers for closed elementary school
LOCKPORT – The Lockport City School District is seeking purchase offers for the former Washington Hunt Elementary School, even though neither the Board of Education nor the voters have approved the...
View ArticleBig picture is the focus of Friday burglary in Niagara Falls
NIAGARA FALLS – A 64-inch television was stolen during the burglary Friday of a LaSalle Avenue home, Niagara Falls police said.A resident returning home about 3:20 p.m. discovered a rear door ajar and...
View ArticleFailure to signal draws attention to aggravated DWI suspect
NIAGARA FALLS – A Niagara Falls man was charged with aggravated driving while intoxicated early Saturdday after pulling into two closed gas stations without using his signals, police said. Weston W....
View ArticleDevelopers offer opposing plans for historic Fruit Belt property
After helping restore the dome of Buffalo’s Botanical Gardens, the historic Nash House off Michigan Avenue and the windows at the King Urban Center on Genesse Street, John Gulick turned his attention...
View ArticleDamage considered heavy as fire engulfs garage in Wilson
WILSON – Investigators are probing the cause of a fire that heavily damaged a garage at 3789 Beebe Road Friday night. Niagara County sheriff’s deputies said they discovered the garage fully engulfed...
View ArticleTrump tweets that he won’t run for governor
ALBANY – Donald Trump, a man seldom at a loss for words, took to character-limiting Twitter to announce something that surprised few Democrats or Republicans: He won’t be running for New York...
View ArticleGetting around Buffalo during the NCAA tournament
Two shuttle buses holding 30 to 40 people will pick up and unload from Canalside, a short walk from the arena, and drive in a loop that stops at Delaware Avenue and Chippewa Street and also Franklin...
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