Increase in dog fighting in Buffalo prompts task force to reconvene
The signs of dog fighting are all around:A dead dog found hanging in the basement of an East Side house.Dog carcasses dumped in Cheektowaga cemeteries.A now-suspended employee of the Buffalo Police...
View Article$44,000 in relief goes to West Seneca victims of ice jam flooding
Money donated to help the victims of ice jam flooding in a West Seneca neighborhood is beginning to reach the families whose homes were damaged.About $44,000 worth of gift cards were scheduled to be...
View ArticleRegion’s transit funding gets a boost, but planners say it still...
ALBANY – The new budget being adopted by state lawmakers Monday fuels Erie and Niagara counties’ transit system at a healthier clip than what Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo first proposed in January, even if...
View ArticleMarketing VP named to stadium panel that meets today
Gary L. Ginsberg, a Buffalo native and Time Warner marketing executive based in New York City, is Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s sixth appointee to the panel tasked with exploring options for a new stadium...
View ArticleHernandez announces bid for another term on Buffalo School Board
Former School Board member Ralph R. Hernandez is running for another term on the board.Hernandez aid he waited to see who else was running before deciding whether to ask voters to return him to the...
View ArticleBuffalo police arrest two trespassers for fighting at McKinley High
Two young Buffalo men were arrested Monday by Buffalo police on disorderly conduct and criminal trespass charges at the request of McKinley High School administrators for having gotten into a fight on...
View ArticleFour community leaders to be honored at Citation Banquet
Four community leaders will be honored as the National Federation for Just Communities of Western New York holds its 2014 Citation Banquet at 6 p.m. April 10 in the Hyatt Regency Buffalo. The honorees...
View ArticleWestfield Village Board members may sue over energy contract
WESTFIELD – Threats of lawsuits over a disputed energy contract were made by members of the Westfield Village Board Monday during a special budget hearing that attracted about 100 residents.During the...
View ArticleBuffalo school board apparently violates Open Meetings Law
The Buffalo School Board apparently violated the state’s Open Meetings Law when it held a two-hour budget meeting Monday morning without providing notice to the public.Six board members met at 8:30...
View ArticleProposed charter school for Falls loses 5-0 vote in Council
NIAGARA FALLS – The City Council on Monday night voted unanimously to oppose a proposed charter school that city School District officials assert would take revenue away from the district and cause...
View ArticleEmotions run high at final meeting on Ken-Ton consolidation plan
The fourth and final public meeting on the Kenmore-Town of Tonawanda School District’s four school consolidation plans Monday evening turned into a spirited and sometimes tearful defense of Thomas...
View ArticleSheriff warns of telephone scam
One Elma couple already has lost thousands of dollars, as Erie County Sheriff Timothy Howard warned on Monday about an out-of-state telephone scam about persons claiming to be related to homeowners...
View ArticleState Legislature’s 11th-hour budget helps businesses, taxpayers
ALBANY – With a frenzied pace Monday night, state legislators approved thousands of pages of the 2014-15 state budget, adopting the $138 billion spending plan that boosts overall aid to education by...
View ArticleTail light problem leads to drug arrest
A 20-year-old man from Freedom was arrested on marijuana charges after he was pulled over on Austin Street near Thompson Street in Buffalo because the left turn light of his car was not working about...
View ArticleWoman robbed and her house burglarized
A 54-year-old Lewis Street man was arrested about 1 a.m. Monday for allegedly robbing an East Side woman at knifepoint as she walked to a friend’s home on Ashley Street, and then burglarizing her...
View ArticleWoman arrested in arson
A 28-year-old Babcock Street woman was charged with a felony count of third-degree arson and other charges for allegedly starting a fire in a neighbor’s house by setting fire to a blanket in the house...
View ArticleBalance of Buffalo Billion ‘ready to be spent,’ as a promise...
If anyone doubted that the Buffalo Billion was real, the proof is in the state budget.Beyond the plans that have steadily trickled out over the last two years for hubs that specialize in clean energy,...
View ArticleKelly's chemotherapy treatment postponed a week till Monday
Jim Kelly has encountered another setback in his cancer fight.Five days after Kelly learned surgery wasn't a current option to treat the cancer spreading inside his head, Monday's scheduled start for...
View ArticleState grants Buffalo school administrators internship certificates
Two high-ranking Buffalo school administrators who do not have the certification to be district leaders are likely to continue working for the district with “internship certificates” that they just...
View ArticleDisparity in school aid among school districts stirs mixed reaction among...
Members of local school boards for weeks have been clamoring for state lawmakers to stop taking money from school districts to balance the state’s books.The state budget passed by the State...
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