Key IDA panel OKs $8.4 million in tax breaks for Uniland project
A key panel of the Erie County Industrial Development Agency approved a set of tax breaks totaling $8.42 million for Uniland Development Co.’s proposed 12-story office and hotel tower in downtown...
View ArticleWeathers may come from San Diego to Erie County IDA
The former head of a world trade center in San Diego, Calif., is in line to become the top executive at the Erie County Industrial Development Agency.Steven W. Weathers, who resigned Nov. 20 as the...
View ArticleMan admits break-in at county executive’s home
A Buffalo man today admitted breaking into Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz’s parked vehicle and then his Buffalo home last summer as Poloncarz slept.Avello Pena, 22, of Richmond Avenue,...
View ArticleMan sentenced to nine years in prison for breaking into home of Bennett High...
A Chautauqua County man, one of three ski-masked men armed with shotguns who broke into a Buffalo home last year looking for a man with drugs, was sentenced today to nine years in prison.State Supreme...
View ArticleBuffalo man wants to withdraw guilty plea in wife’s killing
A Buffalo man who was supposed to be sentenced Monday in the fatal beating of his wife last March asked to withdraw his guilty plea and wants a new attorney.Antoine Mattox, 32, of Andover Avenue,...
View ArticleSmall SUV hits Schwabl's in West Seneca
There is never a good time to have a vehicle crash into your business, but for Schwabl’s restaurant, this was the worst possible time.“This is our busiest time of the year. This is the most horrible...
View ArticleLackawanna subdivision finally getting off ground
It might not seem like the ideal time to begin building a house.But a little snowfall last week didn’t prevent a backhoe from digging out a new basement in Lackawanna and ending more than two years of...
View ArticleBail jump suspect found hiding under a mattress
NIAGARA FALLS – The United States Marshal Felony Task Force found a man wanted on a felony warrant hiding in a bedroom under a mattress and forcibly arrested him at 10 a.m. Monday in the 1600 block of...
View ArticleRefugees turn hard work into better future
Refugees from Burma and Nepal sort products for shipment at American Sales Co. in Lancaster.Over at Greatbatch Medical in Lancaster, an Eritrean forced to flee his country works as a welder.At...
View ArticleRodriguez lawyer says blood on knife handle was from another man
Blood was found on the handle of a knife allegedly used in the fatal stabbing of a Lackawanna woman 34 years ago in a Lackawanna cemetery, said an attorney representing Michael Rodriguez, the woman’s...
View ArticleTops Markets returns to local ownership
For the first time in 22 years, Tops Markets is back in the hands of local owners.Six years to the day after Frank Curci returned to Buffalo to run the Tops supermarket chain for its new Wall Street...
View ArticleHoliday parade to light up Newfane’s Main Street Friday
NEWFANE – Santa will arrive by horse-drawn wagon to kick off the Holiday Light Up and Parade at 5:30 p.m. Friday on Main Street.Area volunteer fire company trucks decorated with Christmas lights will...
View ArticleBorder trade imperiled by border traffic
Even as Sen. Charles E. Schumer pointed over his shoulder Monday to a long line of trucks crawling across the Peace Bridge, more than 100 business, government and economic development officials were...
View ArticleArmy veteran witnesses WWII’s heavy toll on older brother
Sitting in the family backyard on Townsend Street on Buffalo’s East Side in the summer of 1942, Matthew Gagat listened as his older brother Jim spoke of wanting to enlist in the Marine Corps, eager to...
View ArticleComptroller wants nonprofit to take over city’s home repair program
Two years ago, Betty Hathcock applied for a loan to repair her leaky roof on Laurel Street on Buffalo’s East Side.Despite her frequent calls to the city, she is still waiting. If the roof had been...
View ArticleMcGuire joins with Paladino to find academic reuse for former Holy Angels...
The owners of the former Holy Angels Academy building in North Buffalo are looking for a charter school or other new academic tenant for the Hertel Avenue site.Just a few months after Carl P....
View ArticleEternity in a big way, as Salvatore plans mausoleum in front of his Transit...
No, it won’t have a glass elevator whisking seasonally attired characters up and down, and there’s no word whether any crystal chandeliers will be inside.But it’s true.Restaurateur Russell J....
View ArticleNiagara Falls man accepts plea deal in gun case
LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls man pleaded guilty to possession of a gun as his trial was about to begin Tuesday in Niagara County Court.Anthony Bogan Sr., 55, of LaSalle Avenue, admitted to a reduced...
View ArticleWoman, live-in boyfriend given probation for thefts from employers
LOCKPORT – A Newfane woman and her live-in boyfriend appeared before Niagara County Judge Matthew J. Murphy III Tuesday for sentencing over thefts from their former employers.Christine Gardner, 42, of...
View ArticleMan awaiting surgery placed on probation for selling morphine
LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls man who is awaiting hip surgery, according to his attorney, was placed on five years’ probation Tuesday for selling morphine to a police informant in Niagara Falls last...
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