Cattaraugus County views state audit as learning experience
LITTLE VALLEY – What do you do when the state comes in to audit your municipality and you produce documentation that provides the answers they are looking for, only to see the problems cited and your...
View ArticleTime Warner’s extra charge for public access irks Common Council
Time Warner Cable’s decision to switch from analog to digital format for public access channels, which could cost some customers more, didn’t sit well with Common Council members this week.“These are...
View ArticleM&T profits rise 49 percent, boosted by stock sales
M&T Bank Corp.’s second-quarter profits rose 49 percent from a year ago, a strong showing bolstered by selling its holdings of Visa and MasterCard shares.The bank reported net income of $348.5...
View ArticleMedical Center sets picnic to promote breastfeeding
NIAGARA FALLS – The benefits of breastfeeding babies will be touted at a free community picnic starting at 10:45 a.m. Tuesday in Hyde Park. It’s sponsored by Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center’s...
View ArticleSenate ends filibuster on Perez’s nomination for labor secretary
WASHINGTON – The Senate voted by the slimmest margin Wednesday to end a filibuster against President Obama’s choice to head the Labor Department, as this week’s agreement averting a partisan clash...
View ArticleLockport Community Market announces this week’s lineup
LOCKPORT – Music by Jeff Krull and Shawn Duchscherer will highlight the Lockport Community market, open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday on Canal Street.Krull will perform from noon to 1:30 and...
View ArticleFree summer program offered at Delavan Grider Center
The Delavan Grider Center, 877 E. Delavan Ave., is offering a free summer youth program for kids ages 8 to 14 from 2 to 7 p.m. each weekday.The program will provide a variety of fun, educational and...
View ArticleCharles Tubbins exonerated in 2012 murder of Rashiene Carson in Buffalo
A judge Wednesday dismissed a murder charge and other counts against a Buffalo man after DNA evidence from the scene exonerated him. And DNA evidence led to another man’s being charged.Erie County...
View ArticleAmherst residents get a win as judge halts work on Hyatt Place
Temporary as it may be, opponents of a six-story Amherst hotel got their first big victory Wednesday in a long fight to stop the controversial project.The ruling by a State Supreme Court justice halts...
View ArticleAngered by tickets for tall grass, Buffalo residents point to eyesore city...
Clare Felsman lives on the far East Side, next door to a boarded-up, city-owned house, where kids hang out on the crumbling porch and harass her.But she’s the one police ticketed.Her crime? The tiger...
View ArticleLockport soldier dies in apparent drowning near Fort Hood
Pfc. Christopher Kent Heinz, 25, an Army combat engineer from Lockport, died Sunday in an apparent drowning near Fort Hood, Texas, the Fort Hood Public Affairs Office announced Wednesday. The drowning...
View ArticleMarriott Hotel will be part of Buffalo Sabres’ HarborCenter project
The hotel boom along Buffalo’s long-ignored waterfront took another step forward Wednesday with the announcement of a second Marriott International hotel coming to Canalside. HarborCenter Development...
View ArticleExpected 53% drop in premiums roils 'Obamacare' debate as N.Y. makes...
Residents of New York who buy health insurance on the state's new health insurance exchange will pay premiums that are less than half what they had been in the past, but that wasn't enough to stop the...
View ArticleGarden walks are plentiful this weekend around Buffalo’s suburbs
This weekend is a busy one for local self-guided garden tours. Six of them are scheduled. The real biggie – Garden Walk Buffalo with more than 380 gardens – takes place July 27 and 28; see...
View ArticleBuffalo Niagara posts gain of 4,000 jobs in June
The Buffalo Niagara region added 4,000 jobs in June from a year ago, a 0.7 percent increase that continued the recent pattern of a slowing strengthening employment market that isn’t improving nearly...
View ArticleFredonia truck driver dies in multi-vehicle accident
FREDONIA – A Fredonia man died after he lost control of the tractor-trailer he was driving on Thursday afternoon and struck several vehicles, police said. Leland Johnson was traveling eastbound on...
View ArticleTown of Carroll residents asked to conserve water
FREWSBURG – All residents of the Town of Carroll are being asked to conserve water until further notice following a break in a water main on Route 62 that cut off a large water storage tank in the...
View ArticleTrayvon’s father spoke of his son in visit to Buffalo
Grown men had tears in their eyes after listening to Tracy Martin talk about his son and the outcome of George Zimmerman’s murder trial, according to those who heard him when Martin was in Buffalo...
View Article$1.5 million advances removal of Falls parkway
NIAGARA FALLS – The removal of part of the Robert Moses Parkway, from John Daly Boulevard leading into Niagara Falls State Park, moved a step closer Thursday, as the board of Empire State Development...
View ArticleVictim shot on Northumberland Avenue
Buffalo police responded Thursday evening to a shooting on Northumberland Avenue that left a victim with a gunshot wound to the chest, authorities said.Much of Northumberland Avenue, which runs...
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