Using life lessons to help others heal
Darcy Thiel has been through personal wars. She got married two weeks after she landed her bachelor’s degree, and was divorced before she got her master’s.She started school with plans to become a...
View ArticleNU coach is certain his mom’s spirit infused team
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – Joe Mihalich apologized. He said he was trying his best to maintain his composure, but he needed to share the memory. Mihalich knew I had also lost my mother to cancer last...
View ArticleBuffalo police looking for information on cab driver’s mailed wallet...
Buffalo police are asking for the public’s help in determining how the driver’s license of a slain taxicab driver was put into a mailbox after his body was discovered Wednesday morning.Police also are...
View ArticleRandolph school bus driver jailed on sexual-abuse charges
A 66-year-old Randolph school bus driver is in the Chautauqua County Jail without bail, following his arrest on felony sexual-abuse charges involving a child, authorities reported.John Hitchcock has...
View ArticleFirefighters battle three fires Saturday
Buffalo firefighters spent a busy late morning and early afternoon Saturday, battling three blazes in occupied homes that caused more than $180,000 in damages and left seven people temporarily...
View ArticleAmbulances dispatched to crash on outbound Kensington near Bailey Avenue
Emergency crews and police converged on the scene of a crash on the outbound Kensington Expressway near the Bailey Avenue exit about 3:30 p.m. Saturday. Outbound traffic was backed up considerably,...
View ArticleChimney fire chases elderly couple from Town of Lockport home
TOWN OF LOCKPORT – A blaze chased an elderly couple from their Crosby Road home Friday night after a chimney fire spread into the upstairs ceilings, authorities said.The fire, which broke out about...
View ArticleMan, woman questioned as possible suspects in holdups
CAMBRIA – Investigators are questioning two Lockport residents as possible suspects in a recent bank robbery, after they were pulled over Friday morning while police sought suspects from another bank...
View ArticleTools valued at $2,000 stolen in Chilton Avenue truck break-in
NIAGARA FALLS – At least $2,000 worth of hand and power tools were stolen from a truck parked outside a Chilton Avenue home overnight Friday, police said.Items stolen include several saws, routers,...
View ArticleFour shot, one fatally, in city’s Bailey-East Delavan area
Four people were shot, one fatally, overnight Friday in three incidents within a 10-block area of the city’s Bailey-East Delavan neighborhood.A 22-year-old man who was shot drove a couple of blocks...
View ArticleTheft of high-voltage wiring traced to electrician
LE ROY – A LeRoy man has been charged with theft of high-voltage wiring, police said Saturday.Michael A. Nicometo, 28, was charged with third-degree burglary, second-degree grand larceny and...
View ArticleCollege fair to feature workshops, 200 schools
The annual Buffalo National College Fair will be held March 26 and 27 in Buffalo Niagara Convention Center.The event is free and open to the public.Now in its ninth year, the college fair allows...
View ArticleNew radio system part of planned Niagara security boosts
LOCKPORT – Niagara County’s new $10 million emergency radio system is expected to come on line this fall, Fire Coordinator Jonathan F. Schultz said last week. Previously, officials had said they hoped...
View ArticleLawsuits put Maid of Mist in a bind as time is running out for construction...
The Maid of the Mist needs to start work within weeks on a new boat storage facility in order to protect its fleet from next winter’s icy waters.But with a lawsuit filed by its Canadian competitor,...
View ArticleChestnut Ridge Park’s changes favor public access over rental income
Congregants of Armor Bible Church in Orchard Park for decades have gathered for a sunrise Easter service inside the stone-and-timber casino building at Chestnut Ridge Park.The tradition will come to...
View ArticleDismissed coach files petition to get job back
The Billies of Williamsville South High School opened their varsity basketball season with three straight wins en route to another league title a year ago.But not even some lopsided scores could mend...
View ArticlePressured police union treasurer resigns
A raucous meeting last week of Buffalo police union members upset over past PBA spending practices ended in the resignation of a longtime treasurer and the tabling of a resolution to oust the union’s...
View ArticleDo Catholics care who fills Peter’s...
Jim Conrad of Clarence hopes to see an evangelical pope who emphasizes tradition and orthodoxy.Phylis Slattery of Williamsville expects whoever is elected as Benedict XVI’s successor to clean up the...
View ArticleGun-control laws create ‘stampede’ of weapon buying
At the Niagara Gun Range on the border of North Tonawanda, pistol permit classes are booked through May.People coming for target practice have had to wait an hour and a half to shoot.And the store can...
View ArticleWilliamsville South’s divisive season
Dec. 9, 2011: Monaco talks to players in locker room about issues dividing team after Cataract Classic win in Niagara Falls.Dec. 29, 2011: A player’s father claims Monaco cursed at his son during...
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