Report of missing kayakers turns out to be unfounded
A report that four kayakers were missing Thursday in the lower Niagara River near Whirlpool State Park in Niagara Falls turned out to be unfounded, police said. However, investigators were checking on...
View ArticleFree workshop to profile business incentive programs
WILSON – Economic development agencies will host a free workshop Wednesday in Town Hall, 375 Lake St., to discuss business incentive programs available on the county, state and federal levels.The...
View ArticleDA pressing for maximum sentence for ex-con
Erie County District Attorney Frank A. Sedita III said Thursday that he plans to recommend the maximum prison term for Alfred Mack, the 58-year-old Buffalo ex-convict who was found guilty last week of...
View ArticleWestern New Yorkers for Public Education hold forum on standardized tests
Eric Mihelbergel, of Kenmore, is part of a growing legion of parents who believe that the quality of their children’s education is being sacrificed to excessive standardized tests they say are...
View ArticleAttempted murder plea by african immigrant
A 33-year-old Eritrean immigrant pleaded guilty before State Supreme Court Justice Deborah A. Haendiges on Thursday to a charge of attempted murder for stabbing his estranged wife repeatedly Jan. 14...
View ArticleState agency seeks developer for abandoned Falls mall
NIAGARA FALLS – Companies interested in redeveloping the 200,000 square feet of space left in the old Rainbow Centre Mall have until May 20 to make their pitches.Officials of the USA Niagara...
View ArticleMarketing guru Godin warns against being average
Seth Godin thinks people take away the wrong message from the myth of Icarus.Yes, Daedalus warned his son not to fly too high, because the sun would melt the wax that held together his wings, but he...
View ArticleJapan hopes to lift economy by driving down value of yen
TOKYO – Japan is taking aggressive action to lift consumer prices, encourage borrowing and help pull the world’s third-largest economy out of a long slump.Like the U.S. Federal Reserve, Japan’s...
View ArticleMontana fines Olean radiologist over patient records
An Olean radiologist has been fined $1,000 for being unable to provide the medical records of patients he saw during a five-day medical marijuana event held in February and March of 2010 in Helena,...
View ArticleFree Wilson workshop set on business incentive programs
WILSON – Economic development agencies will host a free workshop Wednesday in Town Hall, 375 Lake St., to discuss business incentive programs available on the county, state and federal levels.The...
View ArticleTraffic stop leads to drug charge
A 23-year-old Colvin Avenue man was charged with drug possession after a routine traffic stop at the intersection of Military Road and Ruhl Avenue at about 6 p.m. Wednesday.Aaron Gordon’s nervousness...
View ArticleMan, 18, indicted in Feb. 3 store robberies
An 18-year-old Buffalo man with no known permanent address was sent to jail after his arraignment Thursday before State Supreme Court Justice M. William Boller on an indictment charging him with...
View ArticleLate spring is cold comfort for farmers
Gardeners can relax. They have plenty of time to get out in the yard.And growers, feel free to rejoice, or at least to exhale.Unlike 2012, when March felt more like June, Buffalo’s winter settled in...
View ArticleConfession aired in killing of 5-year-old girl in Falls
LOCKPORT – John R. Freeman Jr. grasped the situation he was in last summer after his accomplice told Niagara Falls police that Freeman had killed a 5-year-old Cheektowaga girl.“I’m going down, and it...
View ArticleRevised audit still seeks $48 million from Erie County
When federal auditors earlier this year criticized the way Erie County spent disaster aid after the surprise snowstorm of October 2006, county officials were confident they had a response that would...
View ArticleMan accused of damaging church statues found not competent for trial
A Cheektowaga man charged with damaging three statues at St. Philip the Apostle Catholic Church in Cheektowaga has been found mentally incompetent to stand trial.Michael Taylor, 32, who was reading...
View ArticleEagle Scout leads local push to open ranks to gays
A local campaign is being waged to persuade the Boy Scouts of America to allow gay members, and an Eagle Scout is leading the effort.Matthew Wilcott, a 29-year-old Town of Tonawanda resident, says it...
View ArticleRoswell Park faces research cut
Researchers trying to find a cure for cancer in Buffalo labs and doctors fighting cancer in their patients’ bodies are bracing for the effects of across-the-board federal cuts resulting from...
View ArticleJudge halts work on Maid of the Mist facility
A State Supreme Court judge today put a temporarily halt to construction on the Maid of the Mist’s new boat storage facility in the Niagara Gorge.Judge Ralph A. Boniello III signed a temporary...
View ArticleFalls man denies selling crack in Lockport
LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls man pleaded not guilty Friday in Niagara County Court to charges that he sold crack cocaine twice to a police informant in the City of Lockport.Deandre M. Mathews, 22, of...
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