Christmas Masses offered at area cemeteries
As they have done for some 30 years, Catholic priests will offer special Christmas Masses at 5:30 p.m. today and Thursday inside mausoleums at local Catholic cemeteries.Today’s services will be held in...
View ArticleBatavia Peace Garden has memorial to Newtown victims
BATAVIA – Friends of the Peace Garden near downtown will have a memorial to the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn., for the remainder of the holiday season. Pink...
View ArticleScience Museum offers ‘family fun’ events
The winner of an autographed Mario Williams Buffalo Bills jersey will highlight a week of “family fun” at the Buffalo Museum of Science in the days between now and New Year’s.The museum, 1020 Humboldt...
View ArticleShea’s goes nautical with Jan. 26 bash
Shea’s Performing Arts Center will turn into “the SS Shea’s” for an evening of food, cocktails, entertainment and raffles from 8 to midnight Jan. 26.Tickets are $20, $25 at the door. For more...
View ArticleMan in Newfane Highway warehouse said he lived there
NEWFANE – A man found inside the warehouse of the town Highway Department on Monday afternoon claimed to live inside the facility, Niagara County sheriff’s deputies reported.Shortly before 4:30 p.m.,...
View ArticleMissing siblings found at relative’s home
Buffalo police who had issued an alert for two children – ages 5 and 13 – who went missing from their Cambridge Avenue home Monday found them later that evening at a relative’s home. Police said...
View ArticleBuffalo man critical with stab wound suffered on Christmas Eve
A Buffalo man is in critical condition in the Erie County Medical Center, where he is being treated for a stab wound suffered Monday night, Buffalo Police reported.Carlos Stanley, 31, whose street...
View ArticleSnow, wind due to arrive this afternoon
Dust off that snow shovel. Gas up the blowers. And kids, get your sleds ready.Heavy snow is headed our way.A “very large system” was expected to hit the region this afternoon, bringing strong winds and...
View ArticleMass shootings voted top 2012 news story
NEW YORK – The horrific massacre of 26 children and staff at a Connecticut elementary school, along with other mass shootings, was the top news story of 2012, narrowly edging out the U.S. election,...
View ArticleMr. Maz ends 30 years as Cheektowaga-Sloan school superintendent
James P. Mazgajewski was appointed superintendent of the Cheektowaga-Sloan School District on a Friday.The following Monday, the Erie 1 BOCES superintendent told him one of the board members had...
View ArticleDemolition of Bethlehem building could start Friday
Demolition of the historic Bethlehem Steel Administration Building in Lackawanna could begin as early as Friday.The building’s owner, Gateway Trade Center, has advised Lackawanna city officials that it...
View ArticleBurglars hit one city location within a week
A home in the 400 block of West Utica Street was hit by burglars Tuesday evening for the third time in the past week, a resident told Buffalo Police.This time, intruders left a tire iron on the...
View ArticleSpringville man charged with aggravated DWI after crash in Concord
A Springville man was charged with aggravated driving while intoxicated after he crashed his car in Concord early Wednesday, Erie County Sheriff’s officials said.The crash, which involved just one car,...
View ArticleFire drives residents from Hamburg home
Six people and their dog were left homeless a day after Christmas when their two-story house in the Village of Hamburg was heavily damaged by fire.Two adults and four children, including the family...
View ArticleNiagara County denied trust fund share, still seeks land
LOCKPORT – Niagara County has been denied a share of the Oppenheim Zoological Society’s trust fund, but a judge has yet to rule on whether the county may grab the 15.3-acre site of the former Oppenheim...
View ArticleDog hailed as Gainesville family’s lifesaver
Four Wyoming County residents believe they probably would not be alive if not for Spanky, a 12-year-old pitbull.In late November, after living for years in the home of Ray Barlow Jr., the dog began...
View ArticleBreaking point is near, Cleveland Hill school chief says
As budgets increase and with state funding not rising at the same level, Cleveland Hill School Superintendent Jon MacSwan has suggested that school districts like his are coming to a breaking...
View ArticleRoadside utility worker killed during storm by motorist in Chautauqua County
A utility worker was killed during Wednesday’s snow storm when hit by a car in Chautauqua County, just south of the Village of Westfield.State police said that Billy J. Johnson II, of Crown City, Ohio,...
View ArticleGoat on the lam caught near Buff State
It was a goat chase. No kidding.A runaway goat led officers from several different law enforcement agencies on a frantic, hourlong chase through the Buffalo State College area Wednesday...
View ArticleHutch-Tech alumni come home to help their roots
Lavone Rodolph graduated from Hutch-Tech in 1999, and Mwita Phelps in 1991.A lot has happened at their high school since then.A $31.6 million renovation project, completed in 2008, brought the building...
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