Brother of deputy police commissioner pleads guilty in drug case
When Dale Lockwood was arrested two years ago, he warned investigators about his ties to a high-ranking Buffalo police officer.“Do you have any idea who I am?” he said. “My brother’s the deputy police...
View ArticlePolice break up two huge drinking parties, in Wyoming and Orleans counties
Twenty-two people, all between 18 and 20 years old, have been arrested in connection with a pair of large drinking parties in Wyoming and Orleans counties early Monday and early Sunday.The more recent...
View ArticleCSEA sues Thruway Authority over layoffs
ALBANY – The largest state government workers union on Monday filed two federal lawsuits against the state Thruway Authority, alleging the agency’s April layoffs illegally targeted only unionized...
View ArticleState will suspend driver’s licenses of tax scofflaws
ALBANY – You can’t drink and drive, or text and drive, and now it is illegal to be a tax scofflaw and drive.A new program approved in this year’s budget kicked in Monday, allowing New York State to...
View ArticlePoloncarz endorses Brown for re-election
Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz today endorsed Buffalo Mayor Byron W. Brown as Brown seeks a third term.Brown and Poloncarz, both Democrats but from different wings of the party, expressed...
View ArticleOlean senator heads state GOP Senate campaign
By Tom Precious ALBANY -- Senate Republicans are turning to an Olean senator to help them maintain their partial control of the Senate in the 2014 elections. Sen. Catharine Young, first elected to the...
View ArticleBatavia man sent to prison for taking girl, 16, across state lines
A Batavia man was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to 56 months in prison for taking an underage girl out of state for the purpose of having sex with her.Timothy Logsdon, 29, had...
View ArticleAngola slide show and bus tour to be held this Saturday
A slide show and bus tour of the historic Village of Angola will be held from 8:30 a.m. to noon on Saturday.The slide show – which will depict the community over the years – will start at 8:30 a.m. in...
View ArticleErie County Comptroller’s Office saving money by leaving some jobs...
The Erie County Comptroller’s Office will save $476,058 in this year’s budget, a majority of that coming from not filling several vacant positions right away, according to Comptroller Stefan...
View ArticleNiagara Falls man recovering from shooting is shot again
NIAGARA FALLS – Police are receiving little help from the public as they search for a suspect in a shooting that happened just after 2:30 a.m. Sunday inside a crowded Highland Avenue bar. The victim,...
View ArticleNo dinosaurs in Buffalo’s Delaware Park, but other archaeological...
Evidence of Buffalo’s prehistoric past can be found at Delaware Park, if one knows how and where to look for it.A team of University at Buffalo archaeologists has been doing just that, recently...
View ArticleFormer political prisoner from Burma to give talk
Aye Chan, an historian and former political prisoner in Burma, will speak about Burma’s cross-border migration and ethnic violence at 2 p.m. Aug. 17 in Bulger Communication Center East, Buffalo State...
View ArticleFire at Westminster School doused, students safely evacuated
An estimated 150 to 160 people, many of them youngsters, safely evacuated Westminster Community Charter School this afternoon after a fire broke out in a first floor art room, according to Buffalo...
View ArticleLancaster teen dies in hit-and-run in Northern New York
MORRISTOWN – A young man from Lancaster has died after he was struck by a sport utility vehicle while he was walking along a road in Northern New York state, authorities said Monday.State police said...
View ArticleTips lead police to a suspect in an armed robbery of a 7-Eleven in May
NIAGARA FALLS – A man wanted for his role in an armed robbery in May was arrested by Niagara Falls detectives this morning.Patrick D. Cronan, 49, of Main Street was charged with first-degree armed...
View ArticleDriver arrested in Hanover, Chautauqua County
HANOVER – A 44-year-old Ohio man was arrested on aggravated drunken driving and traffic charges after he was stopped on Allegany Road in this township by Chautauqua County Sheriff’s deputies about...
View ArticleWilliamsville man pleads guilty in pipe-bomb case
Duncan Badding, the Williamsville man accused of owning materials used to make pipe bombs, pleaded guilty Monday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Leslie G. Foschio to knowingly making a destructive...
View ArticleEvans, FDIC strike deal stemming from Waterford Village shutdown
Waterford Village Bank closed four years ago, but a deal struck in its aftermath has just ended.Evans Bancorp and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. have wrapped up an agreement that helped fill the...
View ArticleCanisius gets $3.4 million for autism research
Canisius College has received its largest grant in school history to continue its research on autism.The four-year, $3.4 million federal grant has been awarded to the college’s Institute for Autism...
View ArticleHistoric Buffalo mayoral race has voters asking, ‘What will you...
Maybe it’s the fact that Buffalo voters have twice elected a black mayor. Or maybe it’s because they have twice helped elect a black president. Whatever the reason, the presence of two...
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