Transgender Falls resident wins court fight over free name change
LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls resident with disabling health problems who is hoping for a sex change operation was able to win a name change last month without having to pay a court filing fee.“I knew...
View ArticlePlan proposed to deal with toxic algae in lake
Toxic blue-green algae again threaten the Ohio side of Lake Erie and its shorelines this summer.In Buffalo, government officials and environmentalists on Monday took aim at stopping the cyanobacteria...
View ArticleAllegany County man to appeal dismissal of Facebook lawsuit
Paul Ceglia is not giving up his federal court lawsuit claiming partial ownership of Facebook.The Allegany County man recently filed his intention to appeal U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara’s...
View ArticleNiagara Falls dance show spurs lawsuit when it accepts a competitor’s...
NIAGARA FALLS – “The Spirit of the Mist” debuted downtown last spring. Dancers in Native American dress, flanked by tepees aglow in orange light, tell the story of the world famous falls to pulsating...
View ArticleDunkirk to repay federal grant money
DUNKIRK – City council members authorized a repayment Tuesday to the federal government of $153,520 as a result of an audit on the spending of grant funding.A total of $126,346.52 will be paid from an...
View ArticleState hires firm to study sites for Bills stadium
ALBANY – A California architectural and planning firm has been tapped by the Cuomo administration to quickly begin scouting locations for a new stadium for the Buffalo Bills, and to come up with a...
View ArticleMychajliw, Grant take first swings in Erie County government’s...
As the claims and counterclaims about wasteful spending ratchet up between Republicans and Democrats in Erie County government, so, too, have the attempts at “gotcha politics.”It’s the start of a new...
View ArticleLittle valley criminal court cases
A 49-year-old Olean man pleaded guilty Monday in Cattaraugus County Court in Little Valley to a third-degree rape charge for having sex with a 16-year-old girl in Olean in the summer of 2011 and...
View ArticleSelf-defense claim is issue in attempted murder trial
LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls man testified in Niagara County Court Tuesday that he was stabbed repeatedly by a man he’d known for 10 years after a day of drinking and drugs.However, defense attorney...
View ArticlePiecing together events that led to Ameer's death
They might have looked like two 13-year-old boys out for a friendly bike ride last Friday afternoon in Black Rock.But police say Jean Sanchez was leading Ameer Al Shammari to a former golf park where...
View ArticlePatricia Parete and WNY trooper honored at Albany ceremony
Patricia A. Parete, the Buffalo police officer who died of complications from the on-duty gunshot wound that left her paralysed from the neck down for more than seven years, and Ross M. Riley the...
View ArticleFour-car crash on Thruway near Walden sends woman to hospital
A woman who complained of neck pains was taken to Erie County Medical Center shortly after a four-car rear-end collision on the eastbound Thruway near the Walden Avenue exits about 5:30 p.m. Tuesday,...
View ArticleNiagara legislators present community grants
LOCKPORT – For the 17th consecutive year, the Niagara County Legislature presented a batch of grants to business and community groups Tuesday.The William G. Mayne Jr. Business and Community...
View ArticleAmherst head-on crash sends two drivers to hospital
A 32-year-old Buffalo woman and a 60-year-old Cheektowaga man were taken to Erie County Medical Center for treatment of what Amherst police described as serious injures after a head-on crash in the...
View ArticleNew Dunkirk law establishes ‘best value’ practice for contracts
DUNKIRK – Members of the Dunkirk Town Board on Tuesday approved a new local law establishing a “best value” practice that allows the town to award contracts to firms that may not be the lowest bidder....
View Article2 once-in-a-lifetime events were on the North Tonawanda Council agenda
NORTH TONAWANDA – Two very separate events – one a devastating storm that happens once every 150 years and the other a hero bringing his gold medal back to his hometown – were both on the agenda...
View ArticleNone at public hearing support dissolving Village of Medina
MEDINA – Not a single speaker at a public forum here Tuesday was in favor of dissolving the village, as Mayor Andrew Meier and a study committee want.A crowd of about 200 in the Wise Middle School gym...
View ArticleHamburg superintendent's car vandalized
Turmoil and dissension in the Hamburg Central School District reached a new level when the superintendent discovered his car had been vandalized and a threatening note left on it while he was...
View ArticleQuinn, Pierce, Nevergold apparent winners in Buffalo School Board race
In a show of discontent over the direction that the Buffalo Public Schools are headed, voters Tuesday elected Larry Quinn and Patti Bowers Pierce to the school board, upsetting the majority that...
View ArticleOrchard Park Town Board to hold hearing on soccer facility
A public hearing about a controversial proposal for soccer training at a former Freeman Road stable will be held as part of the Orchard Park Town Board’s meeting at 7 p.m. tonight in Town Hall.About...
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