Woman charged with violating probation in DWI fatal is freed
LOCKPORT – A Tuscarora Indian Reservation woman was released from jail Friday, but still faces a probation violation on her plea to criminally negligent homicide and driving while intoxicated for...
View ArticleGenesee Community College staffers resign under fire
BATAVIA –Two Genesee Community College staff members resigned this week after having been charged with crimes.Renee A. Smith, 28, of Livonia, who coached the women’s softball team, is accused of...
View ArticleBrockport man injured in Orleans County farm accident
RIDGEWAY – A Brockport man was flown to Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester by Mercy Flight Friday afternoon after Town of Ridgeway firefighters extricated him from the cab of the 10-wheel hydraulic...
View ArticleSex offender charged with molesting boys in Batavia, Somerset
A Level 3 sex offender from the Finger Lakes is in jail in Genesee County, charged with molesting underage boys in that county from the late 1990s until the present.Sean M. Vickers, 44, of Geneva,...
View ArticleHearing set on tax breaks for Dick’s Sporting Goods store
BATAVIA – The Genesee County Economic Development Center will hold a required public hearing Tuesday on its plan to grant $1 million in incentives to COR Development for a Dick’s Sporting Goods...
View ArticleMoog profits rise slightly, but forecast softens
John Scannell, the chief executive at Moog Inc., which cut 97 jobs worldwide, including 18 locally, earlier this week, still isn’t sure how the Elma motion control equipment maker will be affected by...
View ArticleGreatbatch earnings soar as it lowers costs
Greatbatch Inc.’s profits jumped by 27 percent during the first quarter as lower research spending and productivity improvements from the move of its Swiss orthopedics business to North America offset...
View ArticleWoman injured in collision with truck in town of Lockport
A woman driver was seriously injured this afternoon in crash involving a tractor-trailer and a car at Leete Road and Sunset Drive in the Town of Lockport, the Niagara County Sheriff’s Office reported....
View ArticleFalcon at University at Buffalo finds new mate
He wasn’t happy when authorities captured his old lady last month and hauled her away for her crimes.But it also didn’t take him long to get over her.In fact, he’s already settled down with a new...
View ArticleRumore will push to rescind approval of evaluation agreement
The head of the Buffalo Teachers Federation is retreating from his vow to pursue legal action in order to enforce an agreement with the district that would have barred administrators from using two...
View ArticleBridge Authority erupts in animosity
FORT ERIE, Ont. – When Anthony M. Annunziata, of Ontario, accepted the rotating chairmanship of the Peace Bridge Authority on Friday, he praised 200 years of peace between Canada and the United States...
View ArticleKen-Ton consolidation scenarios, presented the old-fashioned way
The Ken-Ton School District is exploring possible ways it could consolidate its schools.Eight scenarios have been presented by SES Study Team, the Canastota-based consulting firm that was hired to...
View ArticleFor patient and daughter, a heartfelt rite of passage
ROCHESTER – Erin Day made her First Holy Communion on Friday afternoon in a hospital chapel while her proud father, Tim Day, looked on, attached to a cardiac monitor that traced each of his precious...
View ArticleFive-year sentence for man who beat up pro boxer
LOCKPORT – Attorneys in the case of Michael P. Vicki, the Town of Niagara man who used a metal object to beat up a pro boxer in a fight over a woman, continued to argue Friday over how badly junior...
View ArticleBuffalo-born screenwriter is not in Narnia any more
He’s not in dwarf country anymore.Neither, for that matter, in the land where superheroic powers do battle with the forces of evil.No, Christopher Markus has made a shift in his latest movie to...
View ArticleUpgrade set for disputed Williamsville toll barrier
The Williamsville toll barrier – despised by generations of residents and officials who fought to have it moved – will remain in place.It could also become the toll plaza of the future, Thruway...
View ArticleLocal canine response team aided Boston bombing probe
The dust had barely settled when Gerry O’Sullivan and Dolly arrived in Massachusetts the morning of April 16, several hours after a pair of bomb blasts during the Boston Marathon killed three people...
View ArticleBuffalo Police Housing Unit makes 9 arrests
Nine people were arrested recently by the Buffalo Police Department’s Housing Unit, authorities said.Three men were facing gun and other charges after a traffic stop at Sycamore and Herman streets...
View ArticleCitizen’s group sues to block Lafarge expansion of quarry
LOCKPORT – A group of residents who live near the Lafarge North America stone quarry filed suit last week seeking to overturn the Lockport Town Board’s decision to allow Lafarge to mine a larger...
View ArticleCivil War program planned in Cattaraugus County
LITTLE VALLEY – Cattaraugus County will explore its deep ties to the Civil War this summer with a series of lectures, musical performances and re-enactments.The 154th New York was raised from the...
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