IDA cancels tax break to clear the way for sale
LOCKPORT – The Town of Lockport Industrial Development Agency has canceled a tax break on one of the two now-vacant Custom Laser buildings in the town industrial park, clearing the way for its sale to...
View ArticleStorm repairs complete at Duke Senior Center
NIAGARA FALLS – The John Duke Senior Center on Hyde Park Boulevard will resume normal operations and hours on Monday because repairs have been completed from damages sustained in the July 19 storm.The...
View ArticleWoman shot in foot at birthday party
A birthday party on Freund Street was interrupted early Saturday morning by a gunshot, Buffalo police said.A woman was shot in the foot while at a birthday party for her mother that lasted until 3:15...
View ArticleLaptop robber flees on pink bicycle
A woman walking on Merrimac Street in the University Heights neighborhood had her laptop forcibly taken from her Friday afternoon, officials said.She was walking home and was robbed at the corner of...
View ArticleFired assistant DA is refunded $1,000 donation to Sedita campaign
A dismissed Erie County assistant district attorney who claimed he was coerced into donating $1,000 to District Attorney Frank A. Sedita III’s campaign committee fundraiser in May has received...
View ArticleTeens on the ‘edge’ use art to tackle problems
The usually quiet campus of Villa Maria College was transformed this week into Edgemont High School, where gossip flew through the hallways, bullies intimidated students and pupils cut class for...
View ArticleDriver snoozing in Jeep charged with DWI, drug possession
NORTH TONAWANDA – A North Tonawanda man driving on a conditional license because of four previous alcohol-related offenses was arrested for drunken driving and drug possession early Friday, Niagara...
View ArticleBPO pianist Claudia Hoca critically injured in Thruway crash
Claudia Hoca, a noted pianist for the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, was seriously injured in a car crash last week on the Thruway near Hamburg.Ted Hoca, her brother, said there is “no guarantee she...
View ArticleCasino lobbying soars in Albany
ALBANY – In the final weeks of the legislative session, when the final provisions of a casino bill were being crafted, lobbyists for the gambling industry could be found everywhere at the Capitol –...
View ArticleNew York’s new, cheaper health insurance: How can they do that?
Few people in New York State today buy their health insurance directly from an insurer, largely because the cost is so high. For a single person in this region, the premiums alone can exceed $1,200...
View ArticleCliffe says Niagara County needs to hire a mosquito fighter
WHEATFIELD – Supervisor Robert B. Cliffe proposed that the Niagara County Health Department should beef up its mosquito control program, since wet conditions have brought an insect problem in their...
View ArticleNiagara Falls police officer exchanges gunfire with shootout suspect
NIAGARA FALLS – In a scene that could have been out of a Hollywood action movie, a Niagara Falls police officer investigating an exchange of gunfire between the occupants of two vehicles at about 3...
View ArticleColor Run 5K brings a rainbow of fun to Buffalo’s Canalside
By the end of the first Buffalo edition of the international Color Run 5K at the waterfront, Ruth Tagg’s hair, forehead and heart-shaped sunglasses were dusted in pink and orange powder that, like...
View ArticleVandals at LaSalle Water Park cause $200 in damage
NIAGARA FALLS – Vandals broke the flush sensors on two urinals overnight Friday at the LaSalle Waterfront Park on Buffalo avenue, police said. About 8 a.m. Saturday, workers discovered the damage in...
View ArticleJamestown man charged with DWI after crashing into embankment
KIANTONE – A crash early Saturday resulted in a drunken-driving charge against a Jamestown man, Chautauqua County sheriff’s officials said.Christopher J. Conti, 42, was driving south on Peck...
View ArticleVictims in separate Buffalo stabbings taken to ECMC
A Buffalo man remained in stable condition Saturday at Erie County Medical Center after an attacker stabbed him in the chest Friday night.The attack occurred just before 10 p.m. on Byrd Way, off...
View ArticleMan arrested in Target fire admits to crime, police say
The man accused of starting the fire Thursday that caused as much as $5 million damage to the Target store on Niagara Falls Boulevard returned to the Amherst store on Friday, was arrested and admitted...
View ArticleDamage estimated at $25,000 in Winslow Avenue house fire
A fire Saturday caused extensive damage to a home near East Ferry Street and Jefferson Avenue.Firefighters were called just after 7 p.m. Saturday to extinguish a blaze in a 2½-story house at 20...
View ArticleGunman robs Buffalo man of iPhone and $150 on Grote Street
A Buffalo man told police he was robbed at gunpoint early Saturday morning on Grote Street, off Military Road.The robbery occurred shortly after 2 a.m., when the victim was approached by the gunman...
View ArticleTolbert, citing police union, accuses Brown of manipulating crime statistics
Mayoral challenger and former federal law enforcement agent Bernard A. Tolbert on Saturday attacked the Brown administration, saying it has manipulated crime statistics to make Buffalo seem safer and...
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