Ransomville man avoids prison in felony DWI case
LOCKPORT – Ronald A. Bugyi Jr., 40, of New Road, Ransomville, pleased and surprised Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas by his success on six months of interim probation for felony driving while...
View ArticleTurnaround plans for troubled Buffalo schools now ‘properly...
It is hard to find someone in the state Education Department who can recall a time when a frustrated commissioner ordered a local school district to report to Albany because the district needed help...
View ArticleLockport man charged under Leandra’s Law after one-car crash
CAMBRIA – A 33-year-old Lockport man who was injured in a one-car crash was charged with felony drunk driving under Leandra’s Law Friday for having three children in his vehicle, the Niagara County...
View ArticleTwo accused of selling pot on West Ferry
Two men were charged with selling marijuana in the second block of West Ferry Street early Thursday, Buffalo police reported Friday.Niles Jones, 32, of Whitney Place, and Joseph Dodds, 22, of Grant...
View ArticleClaremont Avenue woman charged with stabbing neighbor
A 55-year-old Claremont Avenue woman was arrested for allegedly stabbing a male neighbor six times during an argument about 11 p.m. Thursday. Karen Showalter was charged with first-degree assault for...
View ArticleMan charged with drinking in car near traffic checkpoint
A 34-year-old West Delavan Avenue man was arrested for drunken driving and other counts when police found an open container of alcohol in his car at a traffic checkpoint in the first block of...
View ArticleBronx man arrested for illegally entering the country
A 44-year-old Bronx man was arrested by federal agents in Buffalo Friday and charged with fraud and misuse of immigration documents. U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. said Abdus Samad attempted to...
View ArticleCheektowaga man, 81, found safe in New York City after five-day search
On Tuesday, an elderly Cheektowaga man missed his connecting flight to Buffalo at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York City and promptly disappeared. For days, relatives frantically phoned area...
View ArticleKen-Ton schools mourn loss of student in bike accident
Despite heroic efforts by a group of passers-by, the 12-year-old bicyclist who was freed from beneath a car on Sheridan Drive in the Town of Tonawanda Thursday afternoon has died, police reported...
View ArticleAnalysis: Obama using education tour to seek help for future battles
SCRANTON, Pa. – President Obama sold his college-costs plan to audiences that were more than happy to buy it here and in Binghamton on Friday, but at the same time, it seemed the president was also...
View ArticleWork on Kensington Expressway to end this morning
Two months of milling and repaving work on the Kensington Expressway from downtown to the Scajaquada Expressway is expected to wrap up this morning. But plenty more work is on tap this year and in...
View ArticleIMMCO Diagnostics accepted Trinity bid because of commitment to Western New...
IMMCO Diagnostics executives received multiple offers for the Amherst-based medical-testing company, but they accepted Trinity Biotech’s bid because the Irish corporation vowed to maintain and expand...
View ArticleAlbright-Knox buys mammoth painting by German artist Anselm Kiefer
In his first big move as director of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Janne Sirén announced this week that the gallery has purchased a major new painting by the German-born artist Anselm Kiefer that...
View ArticleLaurie Kaiser: Finding a home in city of good neighbors
In the summer of 2011, my husband and I were newcomers to Buffalo. Southerners, we’d lived separately and together in numerous cities chasing newspaper careers until those jobs evaporated. We landed...
View ArticlePaladino buys former Holy Angels Academy
Carl Paladino, the real estate developer who is also the Park District member of the Buffalo School Board, has purchased the former Holy Angels Academy on Hertel Avenue.Paladino submitted the high bid...
View ArticleMan slain in vehicle on Buffalo’s East Side
A 21-year-old man was slain early Saturday morning while sitting in a vehicle on the first block of St. Mary’s Road near Walden Avenue, Buffalo police reported.Police responded to a “shots fired” call...
View ArticleVolunteer crews help keep things shipshape on the USS The Sullivans
Visitors to the three retired naval vessels on the Buffalo waterfront this weekend are in for some commotion. Over the sounds of buzzing grinders and banging hammers on the USS The Sullivans, four...
View ArticleNiagara GOP backing Palmer for Lewiston supervisor
LEWISTON – Because of “a legal cloud hanging over his head,” the Niagara County Republican organization has decided it cannot support Supervisor Steven L. Reiter in his re-election bid.County GOP...
View ArticleRiverwalk drainage issues under discussion in Lewiston
LEWISTON – Easements and memorandums of understanding are under negotiation to allow drainage issues to be addressed for Riverwalk subdivision residents who have been plagued for years by flooding.The...
View ArticleTowns reject Erie County’s 1% increase in offer for snowplowing...
Erie County upped its offer for towns plowing county roads, but the towns say that it still is not enough.“It’s not going over well with the highway superintendents or the supervisors,” Concord...
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