Amherst IDA OKs Zaepfel refinancing
The Amherst Industrial Development Agency, in an otherwise quiet meeting, agreed to allow Zaepfel Development Co. to refinance an existing mortgage on a cluster of eight properties in the Northpointe...
View ArticleEx-priest living out the cost of conscience
Roy Bourgeois’ conscience has landed him in federal prison and guided him on a 35-day hunger strike.More recently, it got him kicked out of the Catholic priesthood, after 40 years as a priest.The...
View Article‘One-stop’ center will help WNY veterans
Veterans can need different kinds of help – and when they do, it serves them better to have lots of resources in one place.That’s the thinking behind a new “one-stop” center for military veterans in...
View ArticleBoard questions tax hike to boost Williamsville school security
Williamsville School Board members are questioning the need to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on more school security in light of a budget that could raise taxes by more than 4...
View ArticleRailroad site may see new life
The cavernous space above Metro Rail’s shops in the former Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad terminal has a new champion – Rep. Brian Higgins.The Buffalo Democrat wants downtown developer...
View ArticleFire in LaSalle neighborhood blamed on teen playing with matches
A teenager lighting matches in a bedroom ignited a house on fire in the city’s LaSalle neighborhood, police and fire officials said Saturday.The fire started at around 6 p.m. Friday in a second-floor...
View ArticleSearch for illegal immigrant leads to weapons charges for two
Authorities arrested two men on weapons charges during a search of a West Side residence.Buffalo police were assisting U.S. marshals Friday afternoon in the search for an illegal immigrant in an...
View ArticleMoney, guns missing in Zoo theft
Officials at The Buffalo Zoo have reported that several hundred dollars in cash and other items have gone missing.Donna Fernandes, president of The Buffalo Zoo, filed a report with police on Friday...
View ArticleCandle lit during outage triggers fire in LaSalle home
NIAGARA FALLS – A LaSalle woman accidentally set her home on fire Friday night during a power outage, police said.The woman had lit candles in her home in the 200-block of 61st Street about 8 p.m.,...
View ArticleLoss estimated at $1,200 in Falls garage break-in
NIAGARA FALLS – Tools and electronic items worth $1,200 were stolen from a Lindbergh Avenue garage – the second such break-in since October, police said Friday,Police said a door to the garage was...
View ArticleCheektowaga man plays name game, is busted anyway
A Cheektowaga man was charged early Saturday with criminal impersonation and then arrested on an outstanding warrant after he was pulled over for having a headlight out.Troopers spotted a headlight...
View ArticleBuffalo woman charged with felony DWI
A Buffalo woman was charged with felony DWI early Saturday, after a breath test showed her blood-alcohol level at .21 percent, more than twice the legal limit.Transit Police Officer John Yuhnke said...
View ArticleLongtime legislator to resign next week
The Cheektowaga Town Board’s longest-tenured member, Patricia A. Jaworowicz, submitted a letter Friday of her intent to resign from a post she has held since 1982, effective next Wednesday, citing...
View ArticleA family on a mission
Ten-year-old Scotty Sell is considered a social butterfly, spending most of his time laughing and smiling.But the East Amherst youth also has a severe neurological disorder, Angelman Syndrome,...
View ArticleReporters’ Notebook
OLAF FUB SEZ: According to author and longtime Cosmopolitan magazine Editor Helen Gurley Brown, born on this date in 1922, “Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.” ...A Visit to the...
View ArticleErie County to take over Marilla water districts
After 11 water district public hearings held last summer and last week, the Marilla Town Board has unanimously agreed to turn the town’s four water districts over to the Erie County Water Authority to...
View ArticleNiagara Legislature may urge repeal of state gun law
LOCKPORT – The Niagara County Legislature may vote Tuesday to urge the State Legislature to repeal the expanded gun-control law that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo signed Jan. 15.The Republican-controlled...
View ArticleClock ticking on TAM Ceramics’ tax break
NIAGARA FALLS – TAM Ceramics is trying to persuade the Niagara County Industrial Development Agency not to take away the property tax break it received in 2010.IDA attorney Mark J. Gabriele sent TAM a...
View ArticleNational No-Kill advocate speaks in Buffalo, lauding how many animals are...
National no-kill advocate Nathan J. Winograd – who spearheads an ambitious large-scale mission to ensure animals are spared unnecessary euthanasia at animal shelters across the country – had an...
View ArticleMan reported dead in police custody
A 30-year-old man has died after suffering “a medical emergency” while in custody at the Jamestown Police Station, where he was shot with an electronic stun gun after he fought with officers, but...
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