Credit card stolen at gym used for shopping spree
TOWN OF NIAGARA – Town of Niagara and Niagara Falls police Saturday morning arrested a Buffalo man accused of stealing a credit card the suspect used on a shopping spree. The credit card was stolen...
View ArticleNewborn Filipino babies fight for life in chapel-hospital
TACLOBAN, Philippines – Althea Mustacisa was born three days ago in the aftermath of the killer typhoon that razed the eastern Philippines. And for every one of those three days, she has struggled to...
View ArticleMan charged in firing of Civil War cannon replica at neighbor’s...
They were the shots heard ’round the world.Even newspapers in Britain are picking up the story of the Chautauqua County man accused of dealing with a neighborly dispute by rattling nearby houses with...
View ArticleMan accused of felony animal abuse pleads not guilty
Michael Tortorici’s defense lawyer says that he was justified in attacking his 86-pound German shepherd, even if he did end up killing the dog.Tortorici, who pleaded not guilty Friday to a felony...
View ArticleSheriff and Budget Office spar over vacancies in county’s Jail...
Erie County Sheriff Timothy B. Howard sparred with Budget Office officials Wednesday over the administration’s 2014 proposed funding of corrections officers and other staff at the Alden Correctional...
View ArticleDistrict attorney says co-worker’s porn conviction played no role in...
Ernesto Arechavaleta-Taureaux suffered from delusions that his co-workers at a downtown Delaware Avenue restaurant were members of a child-sex trafficking ring who wanted to kill him.So the dishwasher...
View ArticleMother says her prayers are answered at long last
Patricia A. Scinta picked up the telephone at 6 a.m. Wednesday and heard the news that the 81-year-old grieving mother had been praying to hear for 34 years.“We just arrested Michael Rodriguez in your...
View ArticleJudge awards $11.2 million in damages to estate of victim in Hassan murder...
A judge has awarded more than $11.2 million to the estate of Aasiya Zubair Hassan, the Orchard Park woman beheaded by her husband in 2009. But there are serious questions about whether the estate will...
View ArticleBurglar ruins Thanksgiving plans, but Salvatore donation saves day
The bad news arrived by email Tuesday, the day before 97 Rock’s DJ Jickster began his weeklong residency in a semi trailer for Operation: Rock Out Hunger to drum up donations of Thanksgiving turkeys...
View ArticleSedita cites lack of evidence in not prosecuting Rodriguez murder case
After State Police investigators concluded that they had solved the mysteries dwelling for 34 years in Patti Rodriguez’s cold case murder file, prosecutors faced a key question.Did they have enough...
View ArticleCity begins arbitration to recover marina funds
The City of Buffalo took a legal step Wednesday toward recovering nearly $350,000 that it says it is owed from the operator of the Erie Basin Marina and Hatch restaurant. “The City of Buffalo has...
View ArticleReviving the 500 block of Main Street in Buffalo
The 500 block of Main Street in downtown Buffalo is seeing a resurgence, as many of the once-derelict neighborhood’s buildings are being acquired and redeveloped into new residences, retail stores,...
View ArticleTown of Tonawanda police chief denies bias, harassment claims
The Town of Tonawanda Police Department on Wednesday again sought to counter mounting complaints of harassment and racial profiling by town police – most recently by the owner of a restaurant where a...
View ArticleTrooper killed in fall in Letchworth gorge
A 17-year veteran and decorated state trooper, husband and father of three young daughters died Wednesday after falling about 30 feet during a training exercise in a gorge at Letchworth State Park in...
View ArticleCollaborative show at New Phoenix explores infamous mutiny of HMS Bounty
The New Phoenix Theatre, at the edge of picturesque Johnson Park, has developed a reputation for producing haunting and innovative original theater. There was Franklin LaVoie’s thoroughly bizarre...
View ArticleHoliday theater season launches with ‘Gifts of the Magi’
Let the holiday theater season begin.The first entry in this year’s spate of local yuletide productions comes from Family Life Ministries, a faith-based theater company out of Bath, south of...
View ArticleGasport watercolorist breaks into national painting scene
For the past 16 years, prolific watercolorist Kathleen S. Giles has opened her studio one weekend each fall to visitors seeking a glimpse into her working process. She’ll host her 17th annual open...
View ArticleKnox Farm State Park Holiday Art Festival is Nov. 22-24
A picturesque country scene is the backdrop for a holiday art festival hosted by the Friends of Knox Farm State Park.The Knox Main House (437 Buffalo Road, East Aurora) will be the setting for the...
View ArticleArt Dialogue Gallery to reopen in new location
For more than 17 years, Don Siuta’s Art Dialogue Gallery and Western New York Artists Group shared a cozy gallery space at 1 Linwood Ave. But on Friday, Art Dialogue will begin its tenure at a new...
View ArticleTony’s Pizza and Pasta goes far beyond the usuals
The pizzeria roots of Tony’s Pizza and Pasta can be seen right inside the front door. Turn to the right, and you are in a small vestibule with a tiled counter where people place orders and pick up...
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