Disney vacation turns tragic for Buffalo firefighter
It seemed like a dream vacation for William Cybulski as he sat in Disney World on Sunday night.The Buffalo firefighter was relaxing by the pool – watching a Buffalo Sabres game – with his girlfriend...
View ArticleArgentine Cardinal Bergoglio becomes Pope Francis, first pontiff from Americas
VATICAN CITY — Argentine Jorge Bergoglio has been elected pope, the first ever from the Americas and the first from outside Europe in more than a millennium. He chose the name Pope Francis.After...
View ArticlePoloncarz calls for withdrawal of audit on '06 storm spending
Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz wants the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to withdraw what he called a “deeply flawed” audit of the way the county spent federal...
View ArticlePSC approves National Grid rate plan
The state Public Service Commission approved a three-year rate plan for National Grid that will lead to lower bills for its customers.The agreement, announced Thursday, takes effect April 1 and runs...
View ArticleFebruary bankruptcy filings fall 21% in area
Bankruptcy filings fell again in Western New York in February, to levels not seen in seven years, since right after federal bankruptcy reforms took effect.The slow activity during February – the...
View ArticleStraight from New York, it’s the Shea’s 2013-14 season
The distance between Broadway and Buffalo just got a lot shorter.Shea’s Performing Arts Center, whose reputation in the American theater world has been on the rise in the past several years, announced...
View ArticleSouth Buffalo gets a green-space makeover
The volunteer landscapers who gathered Thursday morning along McKinley Parkway in South Buffalo dug through frost-covered ground to begin work on the latest makeover of public green space sponsored by...
View ArticleSabres notebook: Power play gets needed attention
The Buffalo Sabres practiced their power play Thursday.“Is that surprising?” interim coach Ron Rolston said with a grin.No, it’s not a shock the NHL’s last-place unit spent a significant portion of...
View ArticleDunkirk School Board OKs budget that holds line on tax levy
DUNKIRK – The Dunkirk Board of Education on Thursday night approved a $40.8 million spending plan to be put before the voters in May.Board members gave unanimous approval to a plan that would have the...
View ArticleSalamanca assessor adds part-time staff
SALAMANCA – The assessor’s office in the City of Salamanca has become a busy place, at least busy enough to add staff, according to the Common Council.The Council on Wednesday night created part-time...
View ArticleFalls air base will lose two planes, not four
WASHINGTON – The Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station won’t be losing four of its 11 planes after all.Instead, it will lose only two C-130 cargo planes this year and will get another one back in fiscal...
View ArticleWest Seneca planners table proposal for indoor gun range
Restrictions in West Seneca's town code prevented the town's Planning Board from moving forward Thursday on a proposal to develop a 27,000-square-foot indoor public gun range on North America and...
View ArticleDWI-related injuries charged in Falls-area cases
LOCKPORT – A man who allegedly injured three Niagara Falls police officers after a drunken driving arrest and another man who was allegedly intoxicated before injuring two people in a collision were...
View ArticleJudge orders stabber to admit to his family that he was at fault
LOCKPORT – Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas on Thursday ordered a Wheatfield man to admit to his family that he was at fault in a stabbing before sending him to prison for six years.Farkas was...
View ArticleState likely to take on cleanup of ravine filled with incinerator ash
LOCKPORT – Veteran Lockport attorney Morgan L. Jones Jr. said Thursday he suspects ash dumped in a ravine in western Lockport came from the old city incinerator, but state environmental officials say...
View ArticleNHL gives OK to realignment
“Hockey Heaven” and “Hockeytown” will compete head-to-head every year as the Buffalo Sabres are set to get three new division rivals.The NHL board of governors approved the latest realignment plan...
View ArticleAgreement could trim Peace Bridge plaza expansion
WASHINGTON – A U.S-Canadian agreement to pre-inspect U.S.-bound truck traffic in Fort Erie, Ont., could mean there’s no need to add truck inspection lanes on the American side of the Peace Bridge,...
View ArticleUse of high-powered rifles in target practice leads to arrests
Four men and two women have been arrested by Brant police and Erie County sheriff's deputies for an allegedly beer-fueled target shooting spree with rifles off Route 5 near Commercial Street on Sunday...
View ArticleSilver Creek man becomes first arrest under new gun laws
ALBANY – A Chautauqua County man appears to be the first person arrested under New York’s new gun-control law, charged with selling newly banned assault-style weapons to an undercover police...
View ArticleTax cuts being eyed in state budget
ALBANY – Top state officials are negotiating a package of income tax breaks aimed at middle-class New Yorkers and are closing in on plans to hike the state tax deduction for household dependents and...
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