Expansion costs hit Taylor Devices on the bottom line
Taylor Devices’ expansion of its North Tonawanda facilities took a heavy toll on its second-quarter profits.The North Tonawanda shock absorber manufacturer’s earnings fell for the third straight...
View ArticleSeals-Nevergold seeking re-election to School Board
Buffalo School Board President Barbara Seals-Nevergold has decided to run for a full term as an at-large member in May.Seals-Nevergold’s announcement today puts to rest months of speculation...
View ArticlePhiladelphia company picked to manage Canalside
The free Thursday concert series on the waterfront may have a new producer this summer.Global Spectrum, a subsidiary of Comcast Spectacor, was chosen Monday by Erie Canal Harbor Development Corp. to...
View ArticleAuthorities charge seven in probe of Medina drug ring
Seven people have been charged with selling marijuana and prescription drugs in the Village of Medina, Orleans County authorities announced Monday. Four of them also were charged with welfare fraud,...
View ArticleBankruptcy judge grants Lake Shore hospital more time
A U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge today granted permission to the operator of Lake Shore Health Care Center to stay open through Jan. 22 by drawing down on money advanced to the Irving hospital by its...
View ArticleTown of Tonawanda man charged with felony DWI
State Police at Boston arrested a Town of Tonawanda man for felony driving while intoxicated over the weekend and accused him of driving with a blood-alcohol level more than twice the legal...
View ArticleReporters’ Notebook
OLAF FUB SEZ: According to author and columnist Maureen Dowd, born on this date in 1952, “The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.”...LETTER PERFECT –...
View ArticlePergament: WBEN should be ashamed of its handling of Bauerle
By Alan Pergament The management of WBEN-AM should be embarrrassed, and ashamed of itself for its handling of talk show host Tom Bauerle. According to Sunday's story in The Buffalo News about...
View ArticleMan finds a burglar climbing out a window
NIAGARA FALLS – A 53-year old man called police when he spotted the silhouette of a man climbing out of his window in the 900 block of Grove Avenue at 1:25 a.m. Monday.The victim said he left at 12:30...
View ArticleLawyer’s office is burglarized
NIAGARA FALLS – A local lawyer, who provides public defender services in the city, was the victim of a break-in over the weekend.The owner of a building at 1520 Pine Ave., which houses the legal...
View ArticleDefendant in extortion case pleads guilty
On the eve of his trial, a defendant in the Local 17 extortion and racketeering case took a plea deal Monday.Jeffrey C. Lennon, a former member of the Operating Engineers union, pleaded guilty to...
View ArticleSheriff says stay off the ice
Erie County Sheriff Timothy B. Howard is warning residents living near the Lake Erie shoreline to stay off the ice.Capt. Kevin Caffery of the sheriff’s office Air One helicopter has seen many children...
View ArticleToronto man admits trying to import ecstacy pillls
A Toronto man pleaded guilty Monday before U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Arcara to the importation of ecstasy pills.Anthony Ighodaro, 32, was stopped on July 25, 2010 by Customs and Border...
View ArticleTheft of tree stand leads to two arrests
State Police at Boston have made two arrests in an unusual larceny – the theft of a tree stand.Last Friday afternoon, a state trooper investigated a complaint from a property owner on Bleistein Road...
View ArticleBauerle tells listeners he is ‘mentally fit’ to be on the air
WBEN talk show host Tom Bauerle took to the airwaves during his usual time slot today, reiterating to listeners that he has “been under a lot of physical duress” and underscoring that he will continue...
View ArticleBuffalo man pleads guilty to gun violation
A Buffalo man charged with violating the state’s gun control law last year after a foot chase through an East Side neighborhood ended with the recovery of a 9 mm handgun has pleaded guilty to...
View ArticleMoog CEO Scannell adds chairman’s duties
John R. Scannell, chief executive officer of Moog Inc., has added the title of chairman of the board for the Elma-based aerospace and motion control company.Scannell’s appointment as chairman took...
View ArticleWest Seneca residents begin cleaning up from flood damage
More than 18 hours after the neighborhood flooded, a man made his way through the intersection of Brian Lane and Gregory Drive in West Seneca on Sunday afternoon – in a rowboat.The night before, when...
View ArticlePorch fire on Buffalo’s East Side leaves 3 homeless
A porch fire at an East Side house left an adult and two children homeless early today, fire officials said,The fire was reported at about 2 a.m. on the front porch and spread into the house at 42...
View ArticleEden motorist charged with DWI after crash
An Eden resident was charged with driving while intoxicated after a one-car crash Monday night on the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation, according to Erie County sheriff’s deputies.A report of a...
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