Lewiston standoff ends after man sets fire to home
LEWISTON – A 51-year-old village man was being questioned late Sunday after holding police at bay for more than 12 hours and setting fire to his West Lane home before surrendering, state police...
View ArticleWWII paratrooper’s closest call comes from an artillery shell...
Leslie R. Stainbrook, 89 Hometown: Kansas City, Mo.Residence: AmherstBranch: ArmyWar zone: EuropeYears of service: 1943-45Rank: SergeantMost prominent honors: Purple Heart, Bronze Star, Combat...
View ArticleUB’s Tripathi was highest-paid president in SUNY in 2012-13
University at Buffalo President Satish K. Tripathi was the highest-paid president in the State University of New York system in 2012-13 and the 29th highest-paid public university chief executive in...
View ArticleDemocratic officials assail Astorino over Buffalo Billion opposition
Nearly two dozen elected officials, all of them Democrats, challenged local Republicans Sunday to reject GOP gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino’s renunciation of the Buffalo Billion Investment...
View ArticleWitness says ‘no argument’ preceded beating of Guardsman at...
No angry words or bar fight preceded the assault on William C. Sager Jr. a week ago Sunday, a witness told The Buffalo News on Sunday.Sager and a friend went to Molly’s Pub in University Heights after...
View ArticleCraft brewers hail local farmers’ role
Until recently, brewers in Buffalo’s growing craft beer scene have had to look outside New York for the barley and hops needed to make their small batches.But these brewers say they’re pleased that an...
View ArticleMedina student arrested in threat
MEDINA – A Medina High School junior has been suspended from school, and he was arrested Sunday evening for allegedly threatening to harm other students at school today.Medina Police Chief Jose Avila...
View ArticleGreen Code workshop at 6 p.m. today
There will be a neighborhood workshop for Buffalo‘s emerging Green Code at 6 p.m. today at Hutchinson Technical High School, 256 Elmwood Ave.The draft Unified Development Ordinace prioritizes the form...
View ArticleDriver faces three charges
NIAGARA FALLS -- A LaSalle man faces three charges stemming from a Friday night incident in which he nearly struck the unmarked vehicle of a Niagara Falls police captain, according to reports.Dylan G....
View ArticleMobile home broken into for second time
TOWN OF LOCKPORT -- A home in the Village Mobile Home Park on South Transit Road was broken into over the weekend for the second time in the past month.
View ArticleWoman is victim of fraud
TOWN OF LOCKPORT -- A Dysinger Road woman learned she had been the victim of fraud Thursday morning when she received her daily text update from her bank.The victim was told that her account balance...
View ArticleBurglar leaves window open; loss is $1,500
TOWN OF LOCKPORT -- A Rapids Road woman returned from work Friday afternoon to a cold house -- caused by a kitchen window left open by a burglar.
View ArticleArea police aware of suspect’s record, as run-ins go back 15 years
Jeffrey J. Basil gets into fights, drinks and drives, and knows about the drug culture.Police in Amherst, Cheektowaga, Orchard Park, Buffalo and Niagara Falls have been aware of him.That much can be...
View ArticleUB graduate's plans take a hit
The weekend was bittersweet for Long Nguyen. He graduated Saturday from the University at Buffalo with his doctorate in pharmacy – a milestone the 26-year-old had been itching to hit.Feeling the...
View ArticleYoungstown, Ohio, is a city changed by fracking
Last of three partsYOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – You might think an earthquake would be enough to make a town turn against fracking, but no, not here, not with a new billion-dollar steel plant open along the...
View ArticleTwo cars broken into near Delaware Park
Three visitors to Delaware Park lost purses, credit cards and a passport after two cars were broken into Saturday near the park’s Middlesex Road entrance.Windows were smashed on a Buffalo woman’s 1998...
View ArticleBuffalo News staffers win 19 statewide AP awards
Buffalo News reporters, photographers, editors and graphic artists won 19 awards, including eight first-place awards from the New York State Associated Press Association during the 2014 annual meeting...
View ArticleStabbings send two Buffalo men to hospital
Two Buffalo men were injured Saturday in separate stabbings.Raymond Jeffrey, no age listed, was stabbed in the abdomen about 4 a.m. near Broadway and Detroit Street, in the Broadway Fillmoe...
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