Bicyclist struck in City of Lockport
LOCKPORT – Police are investigating after a person on a bicycle was struck by a vehicle just before 3:30 p.m. today at Market and Exchange streets.The person riding the bike, who was not immediately...
View ArticleFoul play ruled out in woman’s death
Foul play has been ruled out in the death of a Niagara Street woman whose body was found in her apartment after police received a call Friday to check on her welfare, authorities said Monday.The...
View ArticleCheck point by North Tonawanda Police screens over 1,600 drivers
NORTH TONAWANDA – Dozens of drivers were arrested or ticketed in a STOP-DWI sobriety checkpoint conducted by the North Tonawanda Police Department from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. on Friday.A total of 1680...
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OLAF FUB SEZ: According to golf legend Arnold Palmer, born on this date in 1929, “The road to success is always under construction.”...CENTENNIAL SPECIAL – Every dish that’s ordered this week at...
View ArticleLawmakers outraged by staff bonuses amid tragic VA medical problems in...
PITTSBURGH – The upstate head of the Veterans Health Administration received nearly $26,000 in bonuses at the same time as employees at the Buffalo VA Medical Center were improperly reusing insulin...
View ArticleCattaraugus eyeing $8 million on road work next year
LITTLE VALLEY – Road projects topping $8 million are slated next year in Cattaraugus County, according to proposals made by Joe Pillittere, county commissioner of public works.One of the projects – a...
View ArticleCattaraugus County man gets 12 years for forcing sex on child
Harold R. Hunt, a 39-year-old Versailles man who pleaded guilty to forcing a 12-year-old to submit to oral sex in the Town of Yorkshire six years ago, was ordered Monday by Cattaraugus County Judge...
View ArticleAuthor John Henry to discuss book on Great Lakes travel at group’s...
As a boy in the late 1940s, John Henry was thrilled by the paddlewheel passenger ships of the Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Co. steaming past the family summer home on Lake Erie during the...
View ArticleMychajliw criticizes Poloncarz for lack of year-end budget projections
The Erie County Comptroller’s Office on Monday took County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz to task for failing to include year-end budget forecasts in the administration’s last two budget monitoring...
View ArticleErie Community College president leads public payroll in Western New York
The upper crust of local-government employees tends to wear uniforms and carry badges, according to the Empire Center for Public Policy, a conservative-leaning think tank that crunched public payrolls...
View ArticleCambria to hold public hearing on raising contributions for volunteer...
CAMBRIA – The Cambria Town Board will hold a public hearing at 8 p.m. Thursday to consider local volunteer fire companies’ request to raise the town’s contribution to the firefighters’ service award...
View ArticlePrimary races for mayor, sheriff command attention
It’s Primary Day – and while the big Democratic contest for Buffalo mayor pitting challenger Bernard A. Tolbert against incumbent Byron W. Brown draws the most attention, it has proved downright...
View ArticleGender ID law for California schools angers conservatives
LOS ANGELES – Californians jolted by the mental image of children sharing lavatories and locker rooms with opposite-sex classmates are campaigning to repeal the nation’s first law requiring schools to...
View Article$1,000 reward offered in store holdup
Police announced Monday that a reward of up to $1000 is being offered for the arrest and conviction of an armed robber who held up the Holly Farms Market at 233 Allen Street early Thursday. At just...
View ArticleHSBC signs come full hexagon for construction worker
HSBC Bank’s logos have come off the top of the downtown tower, but they are in good hands.Fred Laurich was part of the crew that fastened the signs high above the city in 1994. Over the past few days,...
View ArticleAccounting firm to fill in for Aurora bookkeeper
The Aurora Town Board voted unanimously Monday to hire an accounting firm, following the abrupt resignation of bookkeeper Nicole Serra last week.Serra, who submitted her resignation letter Sept. 3,...
View ArticleLanguage barriers complicate life at Lafayette
Girukwishaka Elize kept quiet his first three years at Lafayette High School, silently trying to decipher what the teachers were saying and fearful that speaking would invite more questions. “People...
View ArticleCuomo defends harbor plan for Buffalo
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s announcement last week that New York State is taking over Gallagher Beach and Buffalo’s Small Boat Harbor came within several years after some area parks were closed because of...
View ArticleMan charged for his role in robbery
NIAGARA FALLS – A city man was charged Monday for his role in an assault and robbery.Kennith L. Graham II, 25, of Lafayette Avenue was arrested at his home by Niagara Falls police and charged with...
View ArticlePennies stolen in burglary
PENDLETON – A 67-year-old man said Monday that a Coke bottle filled with $300 worth of pennies was stolen from a locked room in his basement in the 6100 block of Campbell Boulevard sometime between...
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