Bills add big-body Branch
The Buffalo Bills added some flexibility and insurance on their defensive line Monday by signing Seattle Seahawks free agent Alan Branch to a one-year contract.Branch is a 6-foot-6, 324-pounder from...
View ArticleBucky Gleason: Trust in Regier all but gone
Terry Pegula has better things to do, but it would be nice if he emerged from the shadows and addressed the current state of his hockey team. He hasn’t spoken publicly since the beginning of the...
View ArticleSabres win but face trade decisions
PITTSBURGH – It’s time to find out if the Buffalo Sabres are ready for an immediate, franchise-altering rebuild. The NHL trade deadline is 3 p.m. today, and the Sabres have significant decisions to...
View ArticleHigh rank in State Senate brings power that is often corrupting
ALBANY – The title of State Senate majority leader exudes Albany power.But with the arrest Tuesday of Democratic Sen. Malcolm Smith of Queens, three of the four most recent majority leaders have later...
View ArticleNonprofits here say 24 agencies save taxpayers $200 million
Would you invest $1 to save $11?That’s the return rate for tax dollars spent on a variety of services provided by area nonprofit agencies, according to a new study by a local group of nonprofit...
View ArticleBuffalo Niagara region’s unemployment rate still high at 9.2%
The Buffalo Niagara region has experienced four years of continuous private- sector job growth, but the region’s unemployment rate has remained stubbornly high – 9.2 percent for February, the state...
View ArticleOnline firm ranks Buffalo 9th in banking
Tired of all these ratings of the best and worst cities? Here’s one you can take to the bank.According to an online firm called – appropriately enough – NerdWallet, Buffalo is the ninth-best city in...
View ArticleRoad extension and bridge project authorized
NORTH TONAWANDA – The Common Council authorized work this season on two construction projects that have been years in the making and have the potential to boost the economy – extending Meadow Drive as...
View ArticleLake Shore opens branch
Lake Shore Savings Bank is opening its 11th full-service branch in Western New York and its sixth in Erie County with a new office in Snyder.The subsidiary of Dunkirk-based Lake Shore Bancorp launched...
View ArticleHead of cocaine ring in Wheatfield gets 8-year prison term
The head of a large-scale cocaine ring that operated out of bars in northern Erie County and Niagara County was sentenced Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to eight years in...
View ArticleMoody’s, Fitch, Standard and Poor’s rate Buffalo highly
Three credit rating agencies affirmed the City of Buffalo’s A-level ratings as the city prepares to refinance old debt. The city received an “A1” rating with Moody’s Investor Services, an “A+” from...
View ArticleContract agreement reached at Niagara Falls Medical Center
A three-year contract agreement has been reached between the Niagara Falls Medical Center and the 650-person 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East union at the hospital. Union members will have a...
View ArticleDeadline day quiet around the NHL
The morning of the NHL trade deadline produced no activity of note, with the biggest news being that Calgary goaltender Miikka Kiprusoff doesn’t want to be traded to Toronto or anywhere else and that...
View ArticleIn Focus: Barbara Carr, local SPCA director
The nation’s second-oldest humane society has witnessed dramatic changes over the past 146 years in the way animals are sheltered, adopted and treated. At a time when a number of SPCAs in the region...
View ArticleDriver shot by Buffalo police had high blood-alcohol level
The driver Buffalo police fatally shot in December before his out-of-control vehicle crashed into three light poles, killing a female pedestrian, had a blood-alcohol level four times the legal limit,...
View ArticleHigh-rise hassles in the heart of suburbia
The two hotel projects being built on the outskirts of Williamsville are dividing the community.Some say the projects are just what the Main Street corridor needs to continue developing into a...
View ArticleSabres' GM reiterates need to focus past this year
By John Vogl The Sabres' impressive win over Pittsburgh apparently has not changed Darcy Regier's plan for his team. The general manager told Sabres.com this morning that this trade deadline day is...
View ArticleFormer police adviser pleads guilty to drug charge
Two years ago, Ricky M. Allen Sr. led an effort to improve Buffalo’s police department.Today, he’s a convicted drug dealer.Allen, former interim chairman of the Buffalo Joint Commission to Examine...
View ArticlePolice, feds raid Perry Homes for guns, cocaine
Federal and local police made several arrests, confiscated several guns and seized as much as three and half pounds of crack cocaine during raids this morning at the Commodore Perry Homes.Most of the...
View ArticleEllicott plans apartments at site
Carl Paladino’s Ellicott Development Co. has been fined $44,000 by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration for 10 “serious violations of workplace health and safety standards,” after the...
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