Buffalo teen arrested on Metro bus with loaded handgun
NFTA police officers, with weapons drawn Wednesday, took a .22-caliber handgun with its serial number scratched off from a 16-year-old on a public bus.Charged with felony counts of criminal possession...
View ArticleFlights out of Buffalo airport are delayed mainly by problems elsewhere
Look around. Seem familiar?It’s been a while since Buffalo took the brunt of a full-fledged winter storm. The last real blast, in December 2010, caught an array of plow crews flatfooted and stranded...
View ArticleIn Focus: Carrie Meyer of First Night Buffalo
Thousands of local residents will celebrate the new year in family-friendly style when First Night Buffalo stages its 24th annual New Year’s Eve event in the Buffalo Niagara Convention Center.Carrie...
View ArticleDeveloper gets OK for $40 million housing plan near LaSalle Station
The University at Buffalo medical school’s move downtown has inspired plans for $40 million in new rental housing. The medical school is moving near Metro Rail’s Allen Street Station, and Legacy...
View ArticleBelmont Housing gets $50,000 for “green” initiative
Belmont Housing Resources for Western New York has received a $50,000 grant to help create greener, safer and healthier homes in the City of Buffalo.The grant, from the Community Foundation of Greater...
View ArticleNCCC gets $2.5 million in grants
SANBORN – Niagara County Community College has received four grants totaling nearly $2.5 million, President James P. Klyczek announced.The largest grant is $350,000 each year for five years from the...
View ArticleHamburg Casino offers daytime New Year’s countdown
The countdown to 12 o’clock is the quintessential New Year’s Eve activity. Who cares if it’s noon, instead of midnight?The Hamburg Casino will count down to 2013 at noon Monday with the traditional...
View ArticleWounded firefighters in Webster mending
WEBSTER – Two firefighters wounded by a gunman who set his home on the Lake Ontario shore ablaze and killed two of their colleagues in an ambush with weapons he wasn’t allowed to own were on the mend...
View ArticleBuffalo man suffers life-threatening gunshot wound
A man suffered life-threatening wound when he was shot just after 8 a.m. Thursday in the Broadway-Memorial neighborhood, according to Buffalo police.Homicide detectives were called to the shooting...
View ArticleBuffalo weathers first snowstorm in a couple years
Western New Yorkers were shoveling out their driveways – and their neighbors, too – Thursday following a winter storm that dumped about a foot of heavy snow across the region overnight.The snowstorm,...
View ArticleCounty, state cut funding for children's services
One program provides volunteer advocates for neglected and abused children in Family Court.A second program helps child care centers work with preschool kids with severe behavioral problems.Both are...
View ArticlePowerful storm brings back the snow
Look around. Seem familiar?It’s been a while since Buffalo took the brunt of a full-fledged winter storm. The last real blast, in December 2010, caught an array of plow crews flatfooted and stranded...
View ArticleCheektowaga man charged with aggravated DWI
A Cheektowaga man was charged with aggravated driving while intoxictaed Thursday night after Erie County Sheriff’s deputies observed him failing to keep his vehicle in his lane on Broadway in Buffalo,...
View ArticleWoman arrested in connection with Webster firefighter shooting
WEBSTER (AP) — A 24-year-old woman was arrested Friday and charged in connection with the Christmas Eve ambush slaying of two volunteer firefighters responding to a house fire in upstate New York.Dawn...
View ArticleIllegal parking curbs metal-scrapping ambitions of Jamestown man, police say
PERRYSBURG – Police suspect a Jamestown man was trying to become the latest metal scrapper at the former J.N. Adams grounds on Thursday.But before he could get away with the metal, police said, Michael...
View ArticlePolice interrupting nature’s call threatened with machete
A Buffalo man was arrested on multiple charges Thursday after he pulled a machete on police officers who tried to stop him from urinating in public, Buffalo police said.Juakeen Gleen, no age available,...
View ArticleFour arrested in Alden on drug charges
Two men and two youths were arrested Friday afternoon in Alden on drug charges, Erie County Sheriff’s officials said.Sheriff’s deputies arrested Donald L. Cordova, 30, Rande Fisher, 21, a 17-year-old...
View ArticleWoman pleads guilty to attempted bribing of witness
A 23-year-old woman has pleaded guilty to attempted bribing of a witness, the Erie County District Attorney’s Office announced.Nikole L. Ward admitted offering $1,000 to a witness in a Black Rock home...
View ArticleLe Roy mayor seeks plan for decrepit hotel
LE ROY – The village’s oldest hotel – and, for decades, its only hotel – has a doubtful future, despite efforts being made to restore it as a downtown landmark.The Wiss Hotel, named in 1869 for tavern...
View ArticleNew Year’s holiday hours posted for Western New York
Many post offices in Western New York will close at noon on Monday, New Year’s Eve, but more than a dozen will stay open until 5 p.m., U.S. Postal Service spokeswoman Karen Mazurkiewicz...
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