Who’d brutally beat a 96-year-old?
Levi Clayton’s family members can’t imagine who brutally attacked their 96-year-old uncle Saturday evening in his East Side home.“They’re monsters. It’s just horrible some young men would beat a...
View ArticleFedEx delivers donated jet to NFTA to train airport firefighters
Capt. Grant Story taxied Federal Express jet N268FE toward the cargo terminal at Buffalo Niagara International Airport at 10:08 a.m. Wednesday – not unlike the plane’s previous 39,448 landings.But when...
View ArticleFBI, Buffalo officers search towing business in bribery, police corruption
A long-rumored investigation into bribery and police corruption in Buffalo’s lucrative towing business became public Wednesday when FBI agents and Buffalo police searched a Bailey Avenue tow truck...
View ArticleWilliamsville South senior dreams of music career
For many teens, following childhood dreams seems to have become a thing of the past, especially in an area as big as the music industry. For Williamsville South High School senior Colby Hampton,...
View ArticleBuffalo man charged with assaulting, robbing cab driver
A 19-year-old Buffalo man and three juveniles were charged earlier this week with mugging, pistol-whipping and robbing a Buffalo cab driver of $190 and his personal papers, including a Hungarian...
View ArticleWilson holiday home tour features Pan Am 1901 house
WILSON – A home built for the Pan Am Exposition in 1901 will be one of five residences featured when the Wilson Free Library hosts its third annual Christmas Tour of Homes at noon Saturday.The tour...
View ArticleOrchard Park Town Board endorses golf course
Orchard Park Town Board members Wednesday night heartily endorsed the improvements planned for Harvest Hill Golf Course, the public course now owned by personal injury attorney Ross Cellino.The board...
View ArticleSabo questions school field-trip policy
SANBORN – The president of the Niagara Wheatfield School Board would like to refine the district policy on field trips.President Steve Sabo on Wednesday night said although there have been no specific...
View ArticlePastor exhorts current generation to keep fighting for social justice
The battle to overcome racism, bias and discrimination is a fight every generation must wage.And the National Federation for Just Communities is dedicated to that fight by building understanding,...
View Article7 things you need to know to start your day
1. The radioactive fuel is long gone from the former nuclear research reactor on the University at Buffalo’s South Campus on Main Street, and it has been shut down since 1994. Demolition work on the...
View ArticleServices provider to open new company in Williamsville
Greystone Consolidated Companies, a provider of environmental, health, engineering, and management services headquartered in Saratoga Springs, in January will open a separately operated company,...
View ArticleFalls officer faces assault charge in Darien concert incident
A charge against a veteran Niagara Falls police officer accused of attacking a woman at a Darien Lake concert last summer has been upgraded from harassment to assault.Kelly Alcorn, 47, of Grand Island,...
View ArticleResidents flee house fire on Plymouth
Residents of a West Side carriage house were driven from their home by fire early this morning, but no injuries were reported, fire officials said,The fire started at about 2 45 a.m. in a rear...
View ArticleClarence reviews guidelines for new apartment projects
The Clarence Town Board is considering a new method to guide decisions on where apartment projects could be built.The apartments issue has come to the forefront with several developments either...
View ArticleMan gets maximum term for home invasion, murder
Dressed in a suit and tie, Edward McCloud stood in a courtroom today looking like a successful businessman, Erie County Judge Sheila A. DiTullio said.But McCloud’s trade for more than two decades has...
View ArticleSpirit starting flights to Myrtle Beach earlier
Spirit Airlines has moved up the start date for its 2013 seasonal service between Niagara Falls International Airport and Myrtle Beach, S.C., and will bolster its service to Fort Lauderdale, Fla.Two...
View ArticleAmherst man gets 6 months for fatally shooting best friend
An Amherst man was sentenced Thursday to six months in jail for fatally shooting a lifelong friend in September 2011 when the friend tried to stop him from driving after several hours of drinking.“I...
View ArticleS.C. Sen. DeMint resigning to head conservative group
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Republican U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint, a tea party favorite who has bucked party leaders to back challenges to centrist veterans he didn't view as conservative enough, said Thursday he was...
View ArticleFeds confiscate near-record $53.7 million from criminals
Pastor Antwan Diggs’ message was no different than that of the phalanx of law enforcement officials standing behind him but his came with a not-so-subtle reminder about ill-gotten gains.“God takes...
View ArticleSpaulding Commerce Park in Tonawanda ready for business
A 47-acre former manufacturing site on Wheeler Street in the City of Tonawanda is ready for new business.The site of the former Spaulding Fibre manufacturing plant has undergone $20.6 million in...
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