Clarence Chamber honors head of 3407 memorial group
Michael B. Powers, who helped establish a memorial at the site of the crash of Flight 3407 in Clarence Center, was named 2013 Citizen of the Year by the Clarence Chamber of Commerce.Powers, as...
View ArticleSurgeon to be nominated as NFTA commissioner
Democrats in the Erie County Legislature plan to recommend a surgeon to serve as a Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority commissioner.Legislature Chairwoman Betty Jean Grant, a Buffalo Democrat,...
View ArticleTwo charged in copper theft from vacant NFTA building
Two Clarence men have been charged in the theft of copper wire and pipes from a vacant Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority building in Cheektowaga on Thanksgiving Day, the authority reported...
View ArticlePrime 490 restaurant on West Side closes
Prime 490, a Rhode Island Street restaurant that had been put up for sale during the summer of 2011, has closed suddenly.The well-known West Side restaurant, located near the Essex Street Pub and the...
View ArticleSix guns reported stolen from Cambria home
CAMBRIA – A 73-year-old man told Niagara County sheriff’s deputies that six guns, valued at more than $1,500 were stolen from a gun cabinet in his home in the 3700 block of Ridge Road.The victim said...
View ArticleBuffalo man held in Amherst store burglary
A Buffalo man was ordered jailed by Amherst Town Justice Mark Farrell following his arrest Wednesday for burglarizing the D&B Liquors store on Niagara Falls Boulevard in the town’s Willow Ridge...
View ArticleAmherst man accused of selling counterfeit sports caps
TOWN OF NIAGARA – An Amherst man was arrested by Niagara County sheriff’s deputies Wednesday for selling alleged counterfeit sports caps like those made by New Era and other manufacturers at the...
View ArticleNorth Tonawanda murder case moves to county level
Brian C. Lowry appeared in North Tonawanda City Court today on charges of second-degree murder . He waived his right to a felony hearing and the case will be moved to Niagara County Court.Lowry, 32, of...
View ArticleNew car sales slip in October in WNY
New car sales by franchised auto dealers in Western New York fell 2.1 percent in October, driven by another big drop for Ford vehicles that was offset somewhat by another surge for Toyota. The pace of...
View ArticleFalls City Council acts to cut taxes, restore some jobs
NIAGARA FALLS – City lawmakers on Wednesday took the ax to Mayor Paul A. Dyster’s proposed budget, making a slew of cuts that would erase a proposed 8 percent tax hike and restore half of the two dozen...
View ArticleOlean burglar gets two to six years
LITTLE VALLEY – An Olean man was ordered by Cattaraugus County Judge Larry Himelein on Wednesday to serve a combined prison term of two to six years on his burglary and attempted burglary...
View ArticleEmergency doctor arrested on federal drug charge
A Youngstown doctor faces a federal misdemeanor drug charge after his arrest by agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and members of the Niagara County Drug Task Force.Dr. Daniel...
View ArticleWoman in collision that killed baby had prior DWI arrest
The woman charged with vehicular manslaughter and driving while intoxicated in a fatal crash that claimed the life of a 7-month old girl Tuesday morning was arrested on a DWI charge three years ago in...
View ArticlePenksa leaving City Hall for medical campus start-up
Janet E. Penksa, a top official in the Brown administration, is leaving to join a small but innovative nonprofit institute in the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus. Penksa’s departure will leave a void at...
View ArticleFalls girl recovering from surgery following shooting
NIAGARA FALLS – A 2-year-old girl caught in the crossfire of a drive-by shooting is recovering today in Women and Children’s Hospital as police continue to look for a shooter.“I talked to [the child’s]...
View ArticleErie County budget debate stalls on cuts to avert tax hike
A budget meeting that ran more than two hours Wednesday left Erie County legislators exactly where they started at the beginning of the day: with no approved changes to a $1.38 billion budget proposed...
View ArticleUB dentist helps fellow Syrians at refugee camps in Turkey
As he walked among Syrian refugees living in tents this summer in Turkey, Othman Shibly couldn’t help but picture himself and his family.Having grown up in Syria, Shibly identified with the pain and...
View ArticleSabo questions school field-trip policy
SANBORN – The president of the Niagara Wheatfield School Board would like to refine the district policy on field trips.President Steve Sabo on Wednesday night said although there have been no specific...
View ArticlePastor exhorts current generation to keep fighting for social justice
The battle to overcome racism, bias and discrimination is a fight every generation must wage.And the National Federation for Just Communities is dedicated to that fight by building understanding,...
View ArticleLocal Citigroup plans hazy
Citigroup expects to eliminate up to 2,100 jobs in New York as part of its plan to slash its workforce by as many as 11,000 jobs, but the company wouldn’t say Wednesday how its back-office operations...
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