2 of 3 achieve success in program of court-supervised drug treatment
LOCKPORT – Two defendants successfully completed a court-supervised drug-treatment program Thursday, while a third was ejected from the program and is headed to prison.The judicial diversion program,...
View ArticleLockport IDA moves forward on GM land seizure
LOCKPORT – The Town of Lockport’s plan to take land from General Motors to expand the town industrial park moved another step forward Thursday.The town Industrial Development Agency voted to start the...
View Article‘Asking to be at the table’ to decide their future
Residents of McCarley Gardens apartments and the surrounding Fruit Belt neighborhood near the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus want to know why the area’s future is being planned by a panel that...
View Article'Hello, Mobile!': Cruise ship docks in Alabama
MOBILE, Ala. — At nearly 900 feet long, the 14-story Carnival Triumph is the largest cruise ship that has ever sought to dock at Alabama’s only seaport of Mobile. Authorities said the Triumph’s final...
View ArticleVulgar tweet to teacher upsets West Seneca district
West Seneca East senior Brandon Guzda will serve the final day of his five-day suspension today for sending a vulgar message about an English teacher at the school over the social media site...
View ArticleMuir Woods project a go after lawsuit is dismissed
A lawsuit that has delayed the Muir Woods development in Amherst for five years has been dismissed, paving the way for the construction of one of the largest developments in the town after years of...
View ArticleHearings shed light on major crime case
In a downtown Buffalo courtroom, with a phalanx of U.S. marshals standing watch, the chilling details of one of the biggest organized-crime cases in decades are starting to unfold.Five murders,...
View ArticleLocal travelers wait for effects of American-US Airways merger
The planned merger of American Airlines and US Airways would create the world’s biggest airline and bring together the third- and sixth-busiest carriers at Buffalo Niagara International Airport.The...
View ArticleState threatens canal, Thruway layoffs in contract fight with union
Operating hours on the Erie Canal and other canals might be reduced this year in the face of layoffs threatened by the Thruway Authority, a union spokesman charged Friday.A Thruway Authority spokesman...
View ArticleMan allegedly fired into neighbor’s house
A North Tonawanda man was arrested Friday after he fired a handgun through his kitchen window into a neighbor’s house, police said.Michael Stafford, 64 of Fairmont Street, told authorities he did not...
View ArticleMarilla Car Show back on, despite split in organizing committee for the event.
The 2013 Marilla Car Show is scheduled to go on as planned this summer, despite what appears to be a split in the committee that has organized the event over the past 10 years.According to town...
View ArticleNiagara ready to let baseball tourney use park
TOWN OF NIAGARA – The Town Board appears to be ready to tell a baseball tournament to “play ball” this summer at Veterans Memorial Park.Neal Turvey, event coordinator for the “Battle at the Falls,”...
View ArticleJamestown girl killed in sledding accident
JAMESTOWN – A 5-year-old girl was fatally injured when her sled was struck by a car on Foote Avenue south of Arterial Street about 6 p.m. Friday, police said. The victim who was not identified, was...
View ArticleBlack says everyone with Sabres under scrutiny
With the Buffalo Sabres wallowing at the bottom of the Eastern Conference, no one in the organization is above scrutiny, team president Ted Black insisted Friday during an interview at The Buffalo...
View ArticleSabres Notebook: Myers returns to good form
This version of Tyler Myers was a much closer facsimile to the guy who won the Calder Trophy three years ago. To the guy the Buffalo Sabres gave a $38.5 million contract to prior to last season. To...
View ArticleKeyCorp settles overtime suit
KeyCorp has agreed to pay $4.9 million to settle a class action lawsuit by a group of employees who claim the bank failed to pay them properly for all overtime hours.The Cleveland-based bank, the...
View ArticleScotty inspires parents to work to raise awareness of Angelman’s...
Ten-year-old Scotty Sell is considered a social butterfly, spending most of his time laughing and smiling.But the East Amherst youth also has a severe neurological disorder, Angelman Syndrome,...
View Article‘One-stop’ center will help WNY veterans
Veterans can need different kinds of help – and when they do, it serves them better to have lots of resources in one place.That’s the thinking behind a new “one-stop” center for military veterans in...
View ArticleLongtime legislator to resign next week
The Cheektowaga Town Board’s longest-tenured member, Patricia A. Jaworowicz, submitted a letter Friday of her intent to resign from a post she has held since 1982, effective next Wednesday, citing...
View ArticleAmherst IDA OKs Zaepfel refinancing
The Amherst Industrial Development Agency, in an otherwise quiet meeting, agreed to allow Zaepfel Development Co. to refinance an existing mortgage on a cluster of eight properties in the Northpointe...
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