Farkas dismisses woman’s charges after diversion success
LOCKPORT – A woman who entered the judicial diversion program of court-supervised drug treatment 15 months ago was declared Friday to have completed the program, and the felony drug case against her...
View ArticleTwo years in jail is sentence for two-time burglar
LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls man who pleaded guilty to two burglaries was sentenced Friday to two years in Niagara County Jail for violating the terms of his probation.Joseph A. Bishara, 24, of John...
View ArticleErie County Social Services sets informational events for child abuse...
The Erie County Department of Social Services has scheduled two community forums to raise local awareness about child abuse.The free events are both set for noon to 1 p.m. and will be held in the Ring...
View ArticleJamestown man accused of stabbing during break-in
JAMESTOWN – A Jamestown man being held on felony assault and burglary charges is accused of stabbing a man after breaking into the victim’s second-floor flat on Willard Street about 2:30 a.m....
View Article19th annual Grassroots Dinner on tap for April 26
Grassroots – the Buffalo-based, Democratic political organization – will hold its 19th annual dinner on April 26 in the New Golden Nugget Banquet Hall, 2046 Fillmore Ave.This year’s dinner will...
View ArticleBuffalo State’s Start-Up NY plan for tax-free zone is approved
The state has approved SUNY Buffalo State’s plan to take part in Start-Up NY, which establishes tax-free zones to draw new jobs and companies to colleges and universities statewide.Buffalo State is...
View ArticlePorter man’s robbery sentence doesn’t extend his prison time
LOCKPORT – Jason J. Kester, the Porter man sentenced March 31 to 13 years in prison for invading a West Seneca woman’s home last year, won’t have to serve any additional time for violating probation...
View ArticleOlmsted golf passes on sale for city golf course openings April 25
The Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy is selling 2014 golf season passes this weekend in time for the opening its golf courses on April 19.Passes will be available for purchase from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m....
View ArticleTwo men arrested after fight in car parked in Little Valley
LITTLE VALLEY – Cattaraugus County sheriff’s deputies arrested two men after a fight broke out shortly before 6 p.m Tuesday in a car parked in Little Valley, with two children in the back seat. Zeno...
View ArticleFour arrested in drug raids on two Jamestown addresses
JAMESTOWN – Four people were arrested early Friday during joint raids by Jamestown and state police in a crackdown on trafficking in heroin and crack cocaine.Jamestown Police Capt. Robert Samuelson...
View ArticleForestville seeks help from Chautauqua County
FORESTVILLE – Mayor Kevin Johnson is hoping Chautauqua County will give the cash-strapped village of Forestville a $100,000 break.In a letter sent Thursday to County Executive Vince Horrigan, Johnson...
View ArticleObama says Republicans endangering the right to vote
NEW YORK – In an unsparing critique of Republicans, President Obama on Friday said the GOP is threatening voting rights in America more than at any point since the passage of the historic 1965 law...
View ArticleChadwick Bay bylaws approved
SILVER CREEK – Communities involved in the Chadwick Bay Regional Development Corporation will look at new projects that increase economic development along the Lake Erie shoreline. During a meeting of...
View ArticleHarborCenter races toward completion in downtown Buffalo
Looking at the HarborCenter construction site in downtown Buffalo, it is hard to imagine Canisius College will play hockey there in six months.Nine months into building the $172.2 million sports and...
View ArticleOntario trucker handed 14 years for border haul of Ecstasy
Osborne Young, 47, was arrested at the Lewiston-Queenston Bridge in a tractor-trailer in April 2012. Customs and Border Protection officers found the pills hidden in the rig’s refrigeration unit. U.S....
View ArticleConservative firepower has Senate Democrats playing defense
Democrats in races that will help determine control of the Senate are rapidly burning through their campaign cash, whittling away their financial advantage over Republican opponents as they fend off...
View ArticleGrand jury probe focuses on unsolved hit-and-run death in Evans
Erie County prosecutors have begun presenting evidence to a grand jury in connection with a controversial and mysterious hit-and-run death in the Town of Evans.The district attorney’s office is...
View ArticleLockport coal tar being burned in Falls incinerator
NIAGARA FALLS – Some 3,000 tons of soil contaminated with coal tar from a Lockport brownfield are to be burned at the Covanta Niagara incinerator in Niagara Falls.Kevin O’Neil, Covanta’s business...
View ArticleQuinn raises $34,000 in run for Buffalo School Board
Some of Buffalo’s most prominent business leaders are funneling money into one candidate’s campaign for the school board, their donations serving as a symbolic show of discontent with the city’s...
View ArticleAllentown Industries honors its own
Carol Blum began working at Allentown Industries in 1984, assembling, packaging and collating items for various area companies. In 1994, Fred Siegel came onboard at the downtown factory, landing a job...
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