Grant builds momentum for Williamsville’s vision
Williamsville’s vision for a secondary business district around the historic water mill on Spring Street is gaining momentum.Just last week, Sweet Jenny’s – the popular village ice cream and chocolate...
View ArticleCabbie opts for wallet, credit card instead of fare
Thomas McDonnell says the cab driver who took him home Sunday morning left him without his wallet and credit card.McDonnell told Buffalo police that he left the cab waiting while he went inside his...
View ArticleDunkirk plant to remain open, convert to natural gas
DUNKIRK – Hundreds of people packed a small banquet room on the Dunkirk Harbor this morning to hear Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announce an agreement that will keep the city’s aging power plant operating and...
View ArticleThieves hit three cars at Adams Mark
Three people reported having their cars broken into at the Adams Mark hotel today.Buffalo police said the victims, who are from Cheektowaga, Olean and Attica, reported losing cash, credit and debit...
View ArticleThe secret world of volunteer firefighters
When you join a volunteer fire department, you know that you will have to complete challenging training in firefighting and often in emergency medical care.You know you’ll be learning to put out...
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OLAF FUB SEZ: According to philosopher George Santayana, born on this date in 1863, “We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering...
View ArticleCorrection
Kelsey Russell, 20, was charged with five counts of petit larceny after a string of car break-ins in the Cambria area Nov. 7. The suspect, who was arrested Friday, was misidentified in a report...
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TRIBUTE TO MANDELA: We Are Women Warriors will present a tribute to Nelson Mandela at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Frank E. Merriweather Library, 1324 Jefferson Ave, Buffalo. For more information, call...
View ArticleTwo charged with felony assault in brutal beating of Falls man
NIAGARA FALLS – A Cleveland Avenue man and his girlfriend were arrested in the bludgeoning of a man who came to their home early Sunday to collect a personal debt, Niagara Falls police said.Robert W....
View ArticleClarence pub destroyed by fire blamed on faulty ventilation pipe
A pesky fire that restaurant employees thought they put out with a fire extinguisher about 3 a.m. Sunday ended up destroying a Clarence pub later that morning.State police based in Clarence said the...
View ArticleFire that consumes car closes Route 50 north of Jamestown for an hour
JAMESTOWN – An intense car fire on Route 50 near Van Cobb Road just north of Jamestown closed the roadway for an hour Sunday morning. State Police Trooper Jake Opala said the fire caused the Kia...
View ArticleLancaster holiday effort benefits recipients – and volunteers
The Lancaster Youth Bureau’s annual Christmas giveaway to families in need has grown into a festive tradition more than 25 years old that attracts a few hundred volunteers and gifts – from the family...
View ArticleFalls man stabbed in the back with kitchen knife during party
NIAGARA FALLS – A Walnut Avenue man was stabbed in the back late Saturday following an evening of beer drinking, Niagara Falls police said. Timothy C. Heinrich, 19, was stabbed with a kitchen knife...
View ArticleAfter D-Day, keeping planes armed to ensure Allied air support
Edgar L. Hoffman arrived at Utah Beach five days after D-Day, the Allied invasion at Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944.The bloodiest of the fighting was finished. Yet right there up in the sky, he...
View ArticleThief makes off with ATV equipped with snowplow
NIAGARA FALLS – A thief drove away from a 21st Street home early Sunday in a Polaris all-terrain vehicle with snowplow, police said.The ATV was chained to a trailer in the backyard of the home, and...
View ArticleDunkirk to use state grant for improvement of waterfront
DUNKIRK – The City of Dunkirk and its northern Chautauqua County neighbors stand to benefit from three state grants announced this week by the office of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.The grants include $1...
View ArticleLake-effect snow hammering points east and south of metro Buffalo headed...
The squalls that dumped half a foot of snow on areas south and east of Buffalo earlier this evening are quickly moving further south, the National Weather Service said. Forecasters say that for the...
View ArticleStory of abandoned, injured puppy highlights vet care crisis
The story of an unemployed Angola man who claimed he had found an abandoned, injured puppy in the woods, then confessed that the dog was his and that he made up the story because he was unable to...
View ArticleTwo die, three injured, in Olean house fire
OLEAN – A fire early Sunday in a South Second Street home claimed the lives of two people.The blaze, which broke out about 2:30 a.m., also left three others with minor injuries. They were able to...
View ArticleMore clients of corrupt Erie County lawyers repaid
Three more Erie County clients cheated by crooked lawyers have been repaid a total of $142,371 embezzled from them as part of the latest reimbursements from the state’s Lawyers Fund for Client...
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