Stocks in the news / Week of April 1
INCREASED DIVIDENDS Quarterly unless noted otherwise City Holding Co .37 from .35 Kayne And Engy Dev .435 from .43 Kayne And Midstrm En .45 from .4425 MFA Financial .22 from .20 Oxford Inds .18 from...
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Columbus McKinnon Corporation appointed Lawrence Gavin executive director and chief procurement officer. Gavin, a member of the company’s executive committee, recently served as procurement director...
View ArticleSchool Board candidate’s job offer stirs speculation
Adrian F. Harris was all set to file petitions Tuesday to run against Carl P. Paladino for the South District seat on the Buffalo School Board.That was until Mayor Byron W. Brown personally offered...
View ArticleCoast Guard rescues 3 men from frigid Lake Ontario
YOUNGSTOWN – Rescue crews battled 5-foot swells Saturday afternoon as they raced to the scene of a capsized boat with three men aboard in the frigid waters of Lake Ontario, about four miles from the...
View ArticleUB cleanup project seeks to connect with future Fruit Belt neighbors
The University at Buffalo has had to deal with plenty of town-gown issues – and even full-blown controversies – with its closest University District neighbors near the South Campus.But now, as UB...
View ArticleApril fools' joke shows renewed interest in grain elevators
It seemed too perfect to be real.On Monday, as word of a proposed Buffalo Mustache Hall of Fame and Museum and a mega-mural known as “Mount Stachemore” spread across Facebook, Buffalo-boosters far and...
View ArticleDisqualified Olympian sues maker of supplement over failed drug test
LOCKPORT – A lawsuit filed here last week pits a Hungarian discus thrower, who was barred from last summer’s Olympic Games in London because of a failed drug test, against a Canadian company that he...
View ArticleBicyclist killed by vehicle in Wheatfield
WHEATFIELD – A bicyclist was killed late Saturday night when he was hit by a vehicle on Lockport Road near Walmore Road in the town of Wheatfield, the Niagara County Sheriff’s Office reported.Deputies...
View ArticleLabor of love lights up Lackawanna church
From the outside, it’s a simple brick building, a place you might drive quickly by on bustling Abbott Road.Among Lackawanna churches, others cast far bigger shadows.Our Lady of Victory Basilica, for...
View Article3 rescued after boat capsizes in Lake Ontario
YOUNGSTOWN – Rescue crews battled 5-foot swells Saturday afternoon as they raced to the scene of a capsized boat with three Allegany County men aboard in the frigid waters of Lake Ontario, about four...
View ArticleDry, windy conditions spur four rural fires
SHERIDAN – Four fires in wooded, rural areas kept firefighters in northern Chautauqua County busy this morning. The largest of the fires was in the town of Sheridan on Route 39. The call went out at...
View ArticleTesting the upper limits of taste
It isn’t exactly grocery wars, but life is about to get more interesting for Buffalo shoppers.A week from today, homegrown Tops Friendly Markets will open an upscale health food and gourmet store...
View ArticleWaterfront’s future should honor its storied past
Buffalo’s waterfront renaissance offers hope for the future, and is long overdue.Piece by piece, bits of the river and lake shorelines are opening to public access with new green spaces and new...
View ArticleVolunteers gather to remember project in West Africa
It was the summer of '69 when Amherst High School teacher Reed Taylor led a team of college students to a remote West African village in Sierra Leone to build a jungle hospital – brick by brick – from...
View ArticleWatchdog's critical of 'gimmicks' in budget
When Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo touted his 2013-14 state budget in Buffalo and Rochester last week, legislators and budget officials stood close by, leading the cheers for his newly passed $141.3 billion...
View ArticleSilo City Rocks hopes elevators will rope climbers in
Some people look at them and see architectural beauty. To others, they are haunting reminders of Buffalo’s industrial past.But for many people gathered near the grain elevators off Childs Street on...
View ArticlePolice investigate theft from woman’s bank account
RANSOMVILLE – Investigators are trying to figure out how an elderly Randall Road woman’s bank card information may have been stolen recently, resulting in more than $800 being emptied from her...
View Article3 safely escape Dysinger Road house fire
LOCKPORT – Three persons escaped safely Sunday afternoon from a fire that resulted in heavy fire and water damage to a home at 6565 Dysinger Road, near Raymond Road in the Town of Lockport, the...
View ArticleDriver charged with aggravated DWI after being found slumped over at the wheel
A 24-year-old Sherman man found slumped over in the driver’s seat of a vehicle that was stopped in the travel lane, with its motor running, was charged with aggravated driving while intoxicated over...
View ArticleFake bomb prompts traffic diversion in North Buffalo
What appeared to be three sticks of dynamite left on the steps of a business on the 1800 block of Elmwood Avenue this morning turned out to be a fake bomb, authorities said.But for more than an hour,...
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