Thruway back open as snow buries Southtowns
Storm totals of 30 inches for southern Erie County and ski country are now forecast by the National Weather Service in Buffalo. The weather service has twice upped its estimated totals from the...
View ArticleOwner of Ying’s Wings and Things charged with assaulting employee
The restaurateur who last month accused town police of harassment and racial profiling – claims they denied – was arrested Tuesday on a felony charge of strangulation and misdemeanor assault against...
View ArticleStepdad of teen with cancer convicted of raiding benefit fund
The stepfather of an Orchard Park teenager with cancer was convicted Wednesday in the theft of $6,363 from a benefit fund that was set up last year to help pay for her medical treatment.Prosecutors...
View ArticleNiagara County Jail corrections officer kicked in a confrontation with an...
LOCKPORT – A Niagara County Jail corrections officer was threatened and then kicked as he attempted to secure a cell door on Saturday. A report on the case was released on Wednesday.The inmate, Hayes...
View ArticleTriple felon in sex case facing 11 years in prison
LOCKPORT – A Level 3 sex offender who pleaded guilty to three felonies was sentenced to 11 years in prison and 15 years of post-release supervision Wednesday by Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon...
View ArticleFalls burglar sentenced to 3 to 6 years in prison
LOCKPORT – Steven H. Heylek, 31, of Eighth Street, Niagara Falls, was sentenced Wednesday to three to six years in state prison for burglarizing an apartment on his street June 10.Niagara County Judge...
View ArticleTwo convicted of theft from Depew construction business
Two men were convicted Wednesday of taking more than $26,000 worth of metal and construction materials from a Depew construction business.Shawn W. Hilliker, 23, of Manor Lane, Hamburg, and David M....
View ArticleJudges: Kiko the chimp is not a person
NIAGARA FALLS – Sorry, Kiko. You’re a chimp, not a person.Three judges across the state have ruled in recent days that chimpanzees are not legal people, denying an animal rights group’s request to...
View ArticleSome question limits on audience for Buffalo education forum
When the state education commissioner stops at WNED’s studios in Buffalo on Thursday night, some educators and community advocates worry that the event will have been staged in an attempt to limit the...
View ArticleKey Center owner threatens lawsuit on ECIDA incentives for Uniland project...
The owner of Key Center at Fountain Plaza is threatening legal action over some of the incentives that the Erie County Industrial Development Agency may provide to Uniland Development Co. for a...
View Article“Moderately stressed” Lockport to seek state grants
LOCKPORT – The city, whose finances are rated as “moderately stressed” by the State Comptroller’s Office, is planning to seek advice and perhaps money from a state agency.At a work session Wednesday,...
View ArticleColors of South African flag to be projected on cataracts in honor of Mandela
NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. – Floodlights will project the colors of the South African flag on Niagara Falls Sunday evening in memory of South African leader Nelson Mandela, who will be laid to rest in an...
View ArticleFalls chapter of Links to hold gala on Saturday
NIAGARA FALLS – The Niagara Falls Chapter of The Links Inc. will hold its annual Emerald and Ivory Gala Saturday evening in the Conference Center Niagara Falls, 101 Old Falls St.The program will begin...
View ArticleIt’s King-size epidemic of child anxiety
Talk about misplaced priorities. John B. King Jr. is coming here again tonight to talk about torturing children with high-stakes tests that bureaucrats designed to justify their paychecks. Instead,...
View ArticlePoloncarz taps insider for new administrative post
Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz has filled two of three administrative posts created through a reorganization of the Department of Social Services earlier this year.Brian Bray, who had been...
View ArticlePolice reports show McParlane’s car swerved before fatal crash
Daniel S. McParlane’s car crossed over the center line and into the path of an oncoming motorist on Indian Church Road in West Seneca early in the morning of Nov. 27, causing a crushing T-bone...
View ArticleAlbany sends ‘job-creation vehicles’ as $60.8 million overall...
ALBANY – Several local projects dubbed “job-creation vehicles” – including expansion of an advanced computing center for the University at Buffalo, a new hockey arena in Lockport and money for the...
View ArticleFederal judge’s ruling on Detroit pension vulnerability downplayed in...
In the aftermath of a federal judge’s ruling that state constitutional protections do not shield pension obligations for retirees in Detroit, unions and others across the country say public employee...
View ArticleMarket Arcade projectors not funded in city’s capital budget
Despite the wishes of city lawmakers, funding for new digital projectors at the Market Arcade Film and Arts Centre was not included in Buffalo’s capital budget approved for next year.However,...
View ArticleRochester developer sees Thruway as way to grow casino industry
ALBANY – Maybe the Thruway should consider a name change: Casinoway.In a year or so, drivers heading from Albany to Buffalo could find it as easy to drop money into slot machines near a Thruway exit...
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