Bills linebacker given adjournment in marijuana arrest
Buffalo Bills linebacker Nigel Bradham was told by Tonawanda Town Justice Daniel T. Cavarello that as long as he leads a law-abiding life for the next six months the marijuana violation and...
View ArticleLockport Council begins budget work behind closed doors
LOCKPORT – The Common Council began its work on the 2014 city budget in a closed session Wednesday, with no data released.Mayor Michael W. Tucker said the budget materials contain sensitive...
View ArticleNiagara County to renew contract with Medicaid auditor
LOCKPORT – The Bonadio Group of Pittsford is to receive a new contract to continue auditing providers of Medicaid services in Niagara County, looking for fraud.Two County Legislature committees...
View ArticleSection of Moses Parkway to be closed for four weeks
PORTER – A section of the Robert Moses Parkway near Four Mile Creek State Park will be closed for about the next four weeks because of bridge maintenance work.The section that’s closed is between...
View ArticleIDA transfers tax break for new owner of medical building
WHEATFIELD – The Niagara County Industrial Development Agency voted Wednesday to transfer the seven years left on a property tax break for a renal dialysis clinic in the Woodlands Corporate Center off...
View ArticleDEC says brownfield cleanup needed at Fashion Outlet expansion site in Niagara
TOWN OF NIAGARA – The state Department of Environmental Conservation said Wednesday that its testing shows a cleanup is needed at the site of the former Sabre Park mobile home community, slated to be...
View ArticlePresumed also-ran from S. Buffalo out front as he bucks Cheektowaga...
One of the biggest surprises in Tuesday’s Democratic primaries was the three-way contest for the Erie County Legislature’s Seventh District seat.Conventional wisdom had it that Patrick B. Burke, the...
View ArticleState parks police on lookout for missing man along Niagara River
NIAGARA FALLS – New York State Parks Police were on the lookout Wednesday night for a man reported missing early in the afternoon along the Niagara River. Officials said a search would be resumed...
View ArticleSUNY Buffalo State to unveil new Technology Building
All the attention is on the University at Buffalo’s growth on the downtown medical campus, but check out what’s happening at the other state school across town.SUNY Buffalo State unveils a new $36.5...
View ArticlePartisanship, Syria tensions mar 9/11 commemorations
WASHINGTON – President Obama and other national leaders tried Wednesday to put aside partisan differences and commemorate victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, but tensions over Syria, Libya and...
View Article20% turnout for Democratic mayoral primary is by far the lowest in memory
Democrats mostly stayed home for Brown-Tolbert primary, leaving political analysts to sort out why.By Robert J. McCarthyNews Political ReporterIn a city of about 261,000 residents, only about 14,000...
View ArticleNorth Tonawanda gets piece of World Trade Center for its 9/11 Memorial
NORTH TONAWANDA – Newly appointed Alderman-at-large Robert J. Clark, a retired Air Force chief master sergeant, was at ground zero 12 years ago. As an Air Force medic he was called like many others to...
View ArticleMaid company is rebuffed on easement at Falls hotel site
NIAGARA FALLS – The downtown hotel owned by Maid of the Mist Corp. has been using a 14-by-200-foot slice of city land for 25 years without authorization, and the company is now requesting official...
View ArticleChef’s celebrates 90th anniversary with ‘World’s...
Stan and Diane Nowak of Amherst, flying an American flag from the window of their car, were among the early arrivals Wednesday evening at Chef’s Restaurant on Seneca Street for the “World’s Largest...
View ArticleSedita decides not to prosecute Niagara Legislature clerk in petition flap
LOCKPORT – Niagara County Legislature Clerk Mary Jo Tamburlin will not be prosecuted for turning in some nominating petitions that Democrats claimed were fraudulent.Erie County District Attorney Frank...
View ArticleSchool administrator saves life of young girl
Eleanor Payne, assistant principal of Grand Island’s Veronica Conner Middle School was credited Wednesday by fire and police officials for saving the life of a 10-year-old girl who collapsed in the...
View ArticleNiagara IDA gives tax break for warehouse to be built at power plant in Falls
WHEATFIELD – The Niagara County Industrial Development Agency board voted Wednesday to grant the new owners of a Niagara Falls power plant a tax break on a $3 million warehouse they plan to erect to...
View ArticleCar and bicycle collide in West Seneca
West Seneca police and medical crews were at the scene of an accident involving an automobile and a bicycle shortly after 10 p.m. tonight at Seneca Street and Harlem Road. No further information was...
View ArticleOrchard Park assessments up slightly
Assessments in Orchard Park have grown slightly, Town Board members learned Wednesday night. Wayne Drescher, the town’s accounting consultant, said the 0.8 percent increase is “not great,” but every...
View Article‘Street kid’ who escaped life in the barrio now on mission to...
The four young men grew up on the rough streets of the barrio, in northeast Los Angeles, in the 1960s.One of them was taken to his first drive-by shooting at age 12. The others ranged from a hardened...
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