Buffalo mayoral race is a study in contrasts
A pair of appearances over the past few days by the two candidates competing in Tuesday’s Democratic primary may sum up the low-key campaign for mayor this year.Standing in the lobby of Lafayette High...
View ArticleProgress reports on Erie County’s jails to remain secret, judge rules
As part of a historic settlement that grew out of a rash of inmate suicides, Erie County has agreed to hire two independent experts to monitor its jails and file progress reports with the U.S. Justice...
View ArticleTokyo wins goal of hosting 2020 Olympic Games
RIO DE JANEIRO – Tokyo won the right to host the 2020 Olympics, overcoming apathy by the Japanese public and a recent nuclear accident to get the Summer Games for the second time.The Japanese capital...
View ArticleCouple takes their love of dance to Clarence’s Eastern Hills Mall
Do I hear a waltz?It’s a question you might ask at midnight in Paris. It’s not a question you expect to be asking at 8 a.m. at Eastern Hills Mall, in front of a Dollar Store and a Payless Shoe Source...
View ArticleNiagara County Peach Festival organizers hope for a sunny Sunday
LEWISTON – The nearly deserted midway, the easy parking and the bored-looking vendors told their own story on a rainy Saturday afternoon: the Niagara County Peach Festival took a hit from the...
View ArticleJay Skurski’s five-star scouting report: Grabbing momentum early...
1. Stay on the field. The Bills’ plan to run an up-tempo, no-huddle attack is risky against New England. The Patriots ran an average of nearly 75 plays per game last season. If the Bills can’t stay on...
View ArticleOperation learning on the fly begins for Buffalo
The Buffalo Bills still are in the football business. ¶ Over the past nine months, though, they’ve operated like a crime-scene cleanup company. They’ve torn up the stained carpets, bleached the walls...
View ArticleFire causes roof collapse at vacant restaurant
Buffalo firefighters battled a blaze early this morning that caused $10,000 damage to a vacant two-and-a-half-story restaurant at 1646-1650 Genesee St. on the city’s East Side. The cause of the fire...
View ArticleCall about ‘troubled’ customer leads to DWI and narcotics counts
Erie County sheriff’s deputies arrested a Delevan man early this morning on felony drunken driving and narcotics charges after receiving a call from an Olean Road business in the Town of...
View ArticleEcho Art Fair draws light crowds, high praise to the Central Library
The third annual Echo Art Fair got off to a subdued but jovial start on Saturday as art fans made their way through the drizzle and into the art-filled second floor of the Buffalo & Erie County...
View ArticleNiagara County faith-related events Sept. 8-15
Monday PRAYER: The Healing Rooms of Buffalo Niagara is open for prayer for anyone who needs physical, emotional or spiritual healing, 7 to 9 p.m., at the Potters House Christian Community Church, 723...
View ArticleBuffalo police probe fatal stabbing
Buffalo police are investigating a fatal stabbing that occurred Sunday just after 2:15 p.m. in the 600 block of Virginia Street, which is in the city’s near East Side, east of Ellicott Street.A...
View ArticleCattaraugus County lawmakers discuss possible uses for casino money
LITTLE VALLEY – Cattaraugus County has received $500,000 of the $6.7 million expected from the pot of delinquent casino revenue. County Administrator Jack Searles, who said the remainder of that sum...
View ArticleCattaraugus County unable to help with squalor problems in Olean
LITTLE VALLEY – Over the last two months, residents of Olean have addressed the Common Council about deteriorating neighborhoods – and, in particular, slumlords.During one meeting, residents of Ward 1...
View ArticleCounty commits $500,000 to JCC Olean skilled-trades project
LITTLE VALLEY – Plans to develop an advanced manufacturing facility at the Jamestown Community College Olean Campus have taken a big step forward with the Cattaraugus County Legislature Finance...
View ArticleChautauqua County sheriffs make two separate DWI arrests Saturday
Chautauqua County sheriff’s deputies charged two men over the weekend in separate incidents involving drunken driving.Charged with drunken driving Saturday on Central Avenue in Brocton just before...
View ArticleLanguage barriers complicate life at ‘failing’ Lafayette
Girukwishaka Elize kept quiet his first three years at Lafayette High School, silently trying to decipher what the teachers were saying and fearful that speaking would invite more questions. “People...
View ArticleBrown widens lead against Tolbert ahead of primary
If there is one figure in the latest Siena College poll that explains incumbent Byron W. Brown’s commanding lead in Tuesday’s Democratic primary for mayor, it may very well be the 78 percent of...
View ArticleSabres camp will feature teaching moments
It’s been more than four months since the Sabres ended a forgettable year. The long offseason featured the retaining of Buffalo’s top stars, a call to prepare for suffering, a tantalizing draft and a...
View ArticleThe Greenans: One year later
They’ve had quite a year.For the Greenans of West Seneca – a family with five children, all of whom have been diagnosed with autism – the period since they were featured last summer in a Spotlight...
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