Air Base’s new mission is a controversial one
WASHINGTON – The lifeline that Congress threw to an Air National Guard unit in Niagara Falls last week may end up being a death sentence someday for terrorists holed up in the hills of Pakistan, Yemen...
View ArticleEx-student wrestler sues opponent over herpes
A former Williamsville South student who claims to have contracted skin herpes at a high school wrestling tournament last year has sued his opponent, three high schools and the doctors who cleared the...
View ArticleDelays in moving Williamsville toll barrier take a toll
Plans to move the Williamsville toll barrier have been delayed so long that of $6.1 million in federal Highway Trust Funds guaranteed toward the project in 1998, about $5.3 million has already been...
View ArticleCompanies find success in recruiting from Western New York’s...
In the mid-2000s, Melissa Balbach, an Orchard Park native, and her husband, John Bace, who is from Texas, were working in suburban Chicago, where they owned LS&S, a distributor of devices for the...
View ArticleSnow machine slacks off over much of region
The Buffalo region may get a dusting of snow today, after escaping Saturday with 3 inches of snow or less.The area is expected to get some snow showers this morning, but will see little accumulation,...
View ArticlePosal Service announces holiday closings; services resume Wednesday
All but one of the post offices in the Buffalo area will close at noon Monday, Christmas Eve, local U.S. Postal Service spokeswoman Karen Mazurkiewicz announced.The exception is the Cayuga Branch at...
View ArticleChristmas trees available Monday at Town of Tonawanda school
Free Christmas trees will be available from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday at Philip Sheridan School, back parking lot, 3200 Elmwood Ave., Town of Tonawanda.The trees are available to anyone in need. The...
View ArticleIndoor firing range debuts at Air Reserve Station
NIAGARA FALLS – Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station officials last week opened a new $6.5 million indoor firing range.The 28,000-square-foot small-arms range will provide year-round firearms training for...
View ArticleCondition of Roycroft Stock House stirs debate and frustration
Elbert Hubbard lovers know it has taken decades to get an ambitious restoration of the famed Roycroft Campus under way.Now that it’s happening, some in East Aurora are concerned about a deteriorating...
View ArticleThe Chaney family has plenty of love, and it’s freely shared
Rosie Chaney of Buffalo’s Riverside neighborhood is a 34-year-old mother of five who, despite her own struggles as a single parent, occasionally takes on the burden of caring for other people’s...
View ArticlePrevious drunken driving offender caught again
A Falconer man with two previous drunken driving convictions was caught again early today, Chautauqua County sheriff’s officials said.Jeremy P. Green, 33, was driving after 2 a.m. on Route 20 when...
View ArticleWarsaw man with no license charged with DWI
A Warsaw man who has not held a driver’s license in nearly 14 years was charged over the weekend with drunken driving and leaving the scene of an accident, Wyoming County sheriff’s officials said...
View ArticleAlden man, 20, charged with DWI, other counts, in Clarence
An Alden man was charged with driving drunk early Sunday after troopers found his car in a Clarence ditch, state police said.Matthew K. Frayne, 20, failed roadside sobriety tests after his car was...
View ArticleBuffalo police trim ranks of officers sidelined by injuries
It wasn’t that long ago when one of every seven Buffalo police officers was out on leave because of on-the-job injuries.Even worse, some were suspected of scamming the system.Eighteen months later and...
View ArticleReporters’ Notebook
OLAF FUB SEZ: According to iconoclastic investigative journalist I.F. Stone, born on this date in 1907, “The only thing God didn’t do to Job was give him a computer.” Hello SantaGo back, Easter Bunny!...
View ArticleLancaster inks new, cheaper contract on garbage disposal
The Town of Lancaster has signed a new garbage disposal contract with Waste Management Inc. that should save property owners hundreds of thousands of dollars in special-district taxes starting in 2014,...
View ArticleBroadway Market draws shoppers with mix of old and new
As the smell of doughnuts drifted through the Broadway Market over the weekend, vendors sold Polish specialties that are mostly associated with the East Side landmark during its busiest season:...
View ArticleChurch distributes toys to kids for 25th year
About 350 children from infancy to age 16 left New Creation Fellowship Church on Sunday evening in Cheektowaga with broad smiles and a couple of new toys tucked under their arms, all because of the...
View ArticleShooting suspect’s statement should be suppressed, lawyer says
LOCKPORT – The attorney for Niagara Falls shooting suspect Paul E. Buck Jr. argued last week that his client’s statement should be ruled inadmissible for his upcoming trial.Dominic Saraceno of the...
View ArticlePUSH’s most ambitious project yet is transforming the West Side
One of Buffalo’s most well-known housing organizations is preparing for its most ambitious project yet, with a goal of providing a warm, affordable place to live for dozens of lower-income West Side...
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