Parents seek aid for prescription drug addicts
ALBANY – When advocates get their way on an issue at the state Capitol, they usually disappear, quietly and happily.Not so with a group of Buffalo parents who helped lead the political push in Albany...
View ArticleEnemies in high places – Paladino vs. Higgins
Every day for the last six months, approximately 37,000 commuters on the southbound Niagara Thruway get an in-your-face dose of one of the most bitter and deeply personal feuds in the history of...
View ArticleCanadian casinos, in midst of swift decline, offer lesson for New York
NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. – Casino gambling made this city a boomtown, spurring hotels, restaurants and all the draws of a teeming tourism capital.But the glitzy casinos that tower over Niagara Falls are...
View ArticleAuditor defends critical report on ’06 storm aid
WASHINGTON – A top federal investigator is defending his agency’s critical audit of Erie County’s use of disaster aid following the surprise snowstorm of October 2006, saying that the county hasn’t...
View Article9.8% tax levy rise looms as Clarence school budget evolves
Clarence Central School District residents would face a 9.8 percent increase in the tax levy for the 2013-14 school year, under the latest version of the district’s proposed spending plan.The final...
View ArticleSabres fall in shootout to Rangers
NEW YORK — Nearly everything was going as planned for the Sabres. Buffalo was playing a solid road game in New York, keeping the normally raucous fans in Madison Square Garden quietly planted in their...
View ArticleTaking a wade-and-see approach
OLCOTT – Nearly 600 hardy swimmers from across Western New York and even outside the region braved the chilly water and biting winds of Lake Ontario on Sunday for the Olcott Lions Club’s annual Polar...
View ArticleEast Aurora, Holland considering football merger
Holland High School may finally get a football team – but only if its athletes line up beside their counterparts from East Aurora High School.Holland is too small to support a team, and East Aurora’s...
View ArticleSwindled clients get $164,564 from lawyers’ fund
Two clients of disbarred Niagara County attorney Roger J. Niemel and a client of late Buffalo attorney Richard L. Baumgarten have been awarded a combined $164,564 through the New York State Lawyers’...
View ArticleU.K. soccer lifeline from Rich frays as club gets tangled in ropes of debt
Northeastern England’s Bedlington Terriers Football Club gained international attention when Robert E. Rich Jr., billionaire owner of the Buffalo Bisons baseball team, sponsored and assisted the...
View ArticleEnemies in high places – Paladino vs. Higgins
Every day for the last six months, approximately 37,000 commuters on the southbound Niagara Thruway get an in-your-face dose of one of the most bitter and deeply personal feuds in the history of...
View ArticleDriver charged with aggravated DWI after arrest on Grand Island
Erie County sheriff’s deputies charged a 28-year-old man with aggravated driving while intoxicated early Monday morning, saying he had a blood-alcohol level more than twice the legal limit.Deputy...
View ArticleNo peace for residents near bridge
Matthew Westerholt’s question is simple: What’s going to end up in his backyard?Westerholt, 27, awoke two Saturdays ago to the sound of demolition crews preparing to tear down eight houses on Busti...
View ArticleTwo arrested in Jamestown group attack and stabbing
Jamestown police have made two arrests in a group assault late Sunday night that left one man stabbed in the knee and struck with a bottle.Police officers responding at about 11 p.m. to an assault...
View ArticleOrleans County officials investigate apparent homicide
Orleans County sheriff’s officials investigators early Monday afternoon remained at the scene where a woman’s body was found at mid-morning, after she apparently was the victim of a blunt-force-trauma...
View ArticleHolimont sells 17 lots for $2.73 million
Holimont Ski Area generated $2.73 million from auctioning 17 single-family residential lots at the Ellicottville private ski area, said Cash Cunningham, whose firm oversaw the process.Holimont used...
View ArticleFalls man reports $3,800 damage to vehicle
NIAGARA FALLS – Heavy damage was reported in a vandalism in a parking lot at Packard Court, police reported.The victim said sometime between 10 p.m. Saturday and 7:30 p.m. Sunday someone entered his...
View ArticlePhotos of the week
From the hardwood to the harbor, a glimpse of some of the best things our staff photographers captured over the past week.
View ArticleAudio: Kaleta says ‘trying to do my job’
By John Vogl RALEIGH, N.C. -- With a disciplinary hearing coming at 3 p.m., the Sabres' Patrick Kaleta declined to get into specifics regarding Sunday's boarding penalty on the Rangers' Brad Richards....
View ArticleHealthNow profits soar
HealthNow New York, the region’s largest health insurer, said Monday that its profits for last year soared nearly eight-fold, as a jump in revenues and slightly lower administrative expenses offset an...
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