Delivery of some papers delayed due to weather
Due to the overnight snow and poor driving conditions today throughout Western New York, Buffalo News delivery contractors in Erie County will have until 10 a.m. to complete deliveries. For routes...
View ArticleThree arrested in Lockport home invasion
Three people were arrested Saturday night in connection with a home invasion in Lockport.Police said the robbery at 237 Lock St. began when suspects kicked in the door of the residence and,...
View ArticleThree hit in Clinton Street shooting early today
Buffalo police are investigating an overnight shooting on Clinton Street that left three men injured.Homicide detectives said the victims, ranging in age from mid 20s to mid 30s, were struck by...
View ArticleRemembering the short run of Buffalo United Artists Theatre
The worst curse and greatest virtue of theater its impermanence.Great performances exist only in the instant, preserved as hazy impressions in the memories of the performers and audience members lucky...
View ArticleCellphone gets driver in double trouble
A Buffalo man is charged with making a fake 911 call while pulled over for a traffic stop.Police say Giulio V. Cedri, 53, of 15th Street, was being stopped at Parkside and Woodbridge avenues at about...
View ArticleTailgaters tap Bills tradition to honor Wilson
Hundreds of Buffalo Bills fans turned out Sunday afternoon to celebrate the life of Ralph C. Wilson Jr., honoring the memory of the team’s only owner in what many said was the best way they could...
View ArticleLatest snow comes with a choice: shovel or wait
Uncle.Throw in the towel.Raise the white flag.Pick your cliche. It doesn’t matter. They all apply to the thousands of Western New Yorkers who woke up to another, yes another, day of shoveling...
View ArticleWest Seneca children’s psych center to stay open another year
The state budget being finalized Monday will contain money to keep the Western New York Children’s Psychiatric Center in West Seneca open for the next fiscal year, according to state Sen. Patrick...
View ArticleReporters’ Notebook
OLAF FUB SEZ: According to former Vice President Al Gore, born on this date in 1948, “Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo.”...Naked TreeHaven’t seen your...
View ArticleQuasar responds to Wheatfield residents’ concerns about...
WHEATFIELD – Quasar Energy Group responded last week to a stack of questions posed by the Town of Wheatfield about its system of turning food waste and sewage sludge into methane gas and fertilizer.In...
View ArticleHolland School Board to seek voter approval for 2.5 percent tax hike
The Holland School Board has tentatively agreed to exceed the tax cap for the 2014-15 school year and to present voters with a budget that calls for a 2.5 percent tax increase.For many districts, that...
View ArticleA taxing district to end roller coaster ride of library funding? Elected...
Officials of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library have grappled with three major budget cuts over the last decade, leading them to lose faith in the ability of elected officials to fund the...
View ArticleBoyhood plane ride leads to dodging enemy fire as WWII cargo pilot
Robert F. Rohde, 91 • Hometown: Buffalo• Residence: Lancaster• Branch: Army Air Forces, Air National Guard• War zone: China-Burma-India Theater• Years of service: 1942-83• Rank: Lieutenant colonel•...
View ArticleAppeals court revives case of man shot by Niagara County deputy
The Town of Niagara man who was shot on his front porch by a Niagara County sheriff’s deputy in 2007 will have his day in court after all.Michael J. Rew’s case was incorrectly dismissed in 2012, the...
View ArticleRiding the library funding roller coaster
Officials of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library have grappled with three major budget cuts over the last decade, leading them to lose faith in the ability of elected officials to fund the...
View ArticleSchool aid rises 4.35 percent in New York’s budget for 2014-15
ALBANY – State financial aid for Buffalo schools – which goes a long way toward determining how much property owners will have to pay in local taxes – will be increased by 4.35 percent, or $23.3...
View ArticleHolley woman plans to challenge Maziarz
Gia Arnold, a 24-year-old Orleans County mother of three, is trying to climb what might be the highest mountain in Western New York politics.The Holley woman has announced that she intends to mount a...
View ArticleFired engineer sues Falls to get job back, recover pay
NIAGARA FALLS – Jeffrey Skurka, who was fired last year as city engineer, sued the city last week to get his job back and also to collect about $150,000 in lost pay and benefits.Skurka, who was hired...
View ArticleFestival celebrates an appetite for words
As attention-grabbers go, the sentence uttered Sunday afternoon by Chris Fritton as he stood atop a chair near the entrance of Western New York Book Arts Center, turned some heads.“No eating of the...
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