Springville to publicize property code violators
The Village of Springville will begin posting and publishing violations to village property codes, Village Administrator Tim Horner said this week.Of 128 distressed properties, 56 percent were...
View ArticleOlean School Board reduces meeting schedule
OLEAN – The city’s School Board has reduced its meeting schedule to once a month instead of the previous twice a month.Superintendent Colleen Taggerty said each meeting probably would last about 90...
View ArticleHouse Republicans plan series of attacks on Affordable Care Act
WASHINGTON – The memo distributed to House Republicans this week was concise and blunt, listing talking points and marching orders: “Because of Obamacare, I Lost My Insurance.” “Obamacare Increases...
View ArticleTown of Tonawanda police chief denies bias, harassment claims
The Town of Tonawanda Police Department on Wednesday again sought to counter mounting complaints of harassment and racial profiling by town police – most recently by the owner of a restaurant where a...
View ArticleLockport Council passes budget with 16 layoffs, slight rise in property tax
LOCKPORT – The Common Council unanimously passed a 2014 city budget Wednesday that cuts 16 city jobs while raising property taxes slightly.The $23.7 million spending plan includes the layoffs of eight...
View ArticleFormer Bills receiver Reed among 25 Hall of Fame semifinalists
Buffalo Bills great Andre Reed is among 25 semifinalists for induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.The Hall on Wednesday night released the results of voting that brought a preliminary list of...
View ArticleDepth, rush schemes put Bills on pace for team sacks record
The Buffalo Bills are on pace to set a team record for sacks in a season. Their 37 sacks lead the league and they already have surpassed last year’s total by one. The Bills’ ability to put pressure on...
View ArticleTrip to Philadelphia a test of young Sabres’ character
Ted Nolan remembers what it was like to take a young team into Philadelphia.The Flyers are tough, aggressive and their fans are passionate. It’s not an easy place to play. And back in 1995, during his...
View ArticleSabres recall McNabb, Adam to face Philly, but Grigorenko placed in limbo
Three prospects arrived from Rochester and skated Wednesday morning with the Buffalo Sabres in First Niagara Center. Two will be in the lineup when the Sabres play the suddenly-streaking Philadelphia...
View ArticleSheriff and Budget Office spar over vacancies in county’s Jail...
Erie County Sheriff Timothy B. Howard sparred with Budget Office officials Wednesday over the administration’s 2014 proposed funding of corrections officers and other staff at the Alden Correctional...
View ArticleDistrict attorney says co-worker’s porn conviction played no role in...
Ernesto Arechavaleta-Taureaux suffered from delusions that his co-workers at a downtown Delaware Avenue restaurant were members of a child-sex trafficking ring who wanted to kill him.So the dishwasher...
View ArticleJudge awards $11.2 million in damages to estate of victim in Hassan murder...
A judge has awarded more than $11.2 million to the estate of Aasiya Zubair Hassan, the Orchard Park woman beheaded by her husband in 2009. But there are serious questions about whether the estate will...
View ArticleBurglar ruins Thanksgiving plans, but Salvatore donation saves day
The bad news arrived by email Tuesday, the day before 97 Rock’s DJ Jickster began his weeklong residency in a semi trailer for Operation: Rock Out Hunger to drum up donations of Thanksgiving turkeys...
View ArticleSedita cites lack of evidence in not prosecuting Rodriguez murder case
After State Police investigators concluded that they had solved the mysteries dwelling for 34 years in Patti Rodriguez’s cold case murder file, prosecutors faced a key question.Did they have enough...
View ArticleClassic cars destroyed in three-alarm fire in Boston barn
At least 15 antique, classic cars that were part of collection begun in the 1950s were destroyed Wednesday morning when flames consumed a barn in the Town of Boston where they were stored.Vehicles...
View ArticleMother says her prayers are answered at long last
Patricia A. Scinta picked up the telephone at 6 a.m. Wednesday and heard the news that the 81-year-old grieving mother had been praying to hear for 34 years.“We just arrested Michael Rodriguez in your...
View ArticleFan who fell at Buffalo Bills game to face criminal charges
Criminal charges are expected to be filed this week against the football fan who fell from the top deck of Ralph Wilson Stadium into the stands below during Sunday’s Buffalo Bills game.The Erie County...
View ArticleRodriguez pleads not guilty in '79 slaying
The South Buffalo man charged with murdering his wife 34 years ago in Lackawanna was ordered held without bail today.Michael Rodriguez, 59, pleaded not guilty before State Supreme Court Justice...
View ArticleTrooper killed in fall in Letchworth gorge
A 17-year veteran and decorated state trooper, husband and father of three young daughters died Wednesday after falling about 30 feet during a training exercise in a gorge at Letchworth State Park in...
View ArticleCuomo to announce $225 million high-tech, clean-energy development in Buffalo
In the largest down payment on his Buffalo billion-dollar commitment, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo this morning will announce the creation of a clean-energy research campus on 90 acres of land along the...
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