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'Extreme Makeover' comes knocking for Buffalo family

Updated: 10:31 AM /
Television personality Ty Pennington this morning knocked on the door of a Jamaican immigrant living on Buffalo's West Side.

Follow today's playoff action with Prep Talk Live

12:01 PM /
Alden is taking on Cheektowaga right now in high school football playoff action at Ralph Wilson Stadium. Follow the game action live with reporter Keith McShea and photographer Mark Mulville.

Driver in crash that killed four was going 90 mph, deputies say

Updated: 10:05 AM /
A day before Viktor Shapiro drove 90 mph to his death with three other Amherst teenagers, he raced down the same road in Clarence with a friend doing 115 mph.

•Friends of crash victims find comfort together

Delores Powell, center, and her four children in the backyard of their Massachusetts Avenue home in April 2008. From left are Deborah, Gabrielle, Delores, Anschell and Joel.
Charles Lewis/News file photo

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News & Opinion

Got jobs?

The breaking news on the economic front this morning is the latest, and still frightening, unemployment situation:…

— from Strictly Business

Editorials: Today's editorial board meeting (11/6)

Hi, all. Today's board meeting opened with discussion of the tragedy at Fort Hood, but we're not going to weigh in…

— from Matters of Opinion

Sports

A winning weekend: One Friday down, one Saturday to go

Football, cross country, soccer, volleyball, field hockey. A total of 17 team championships. The first weekend of…

— from Prep Talk

This Day in Buffalo Sports History: All the way

November 7, 1965 -- The Buffalo Bills continued to roll toward the AFL championship on this date. They easily beat…

— from Sports, Ink

Life & Arts

Zeppelin Fighters of the Stone Age

Not sure I could've dreamed up a cooler band then Them Crooked Vultures. Foo Fighter Dave Grohl back behind the kit…

— from Miers on Music

Zagajewski's poetry of the cosmic world and the human face

"Poetry summons us to life, to courage/ in the face of growing shadow./ Can you gaze at the Earth/ like the perfect…

— from ArtsBeat

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City & Region

Developers checking in with more hotel rooms

Updated: 9:53 AM /
The Embassy Suites hotel in the Avant building added 150 suites to the city's portfolio of downtown hotel rooms when it debuted in July. That opening could turn out to be just the start of a wave of new hotels entering the market. But is there sufficient guest demand for the supply of rooms?

Sports

Sabres fall flat, Flyers take advantage

Updated: 12:19 AM /
It's something that hasn't been said often this season, but there was no debate this time. From the crease on out, the Buffalo Sabres were the inferior team.

Business

Obama signs law benefiting unemployed and home buyers

Updated: 12:00 AM /
President Obama signed a $24 billion economic stimulus bill into law Friday, giving tax incentives to prospective home buyers and additional jobless benefits to those idled by the business slump.

World & Nation

House opens debate on health care overhaul bill

Updated: 11:50 AM /
President Barack Obama's landmark health care overhaul moved toward a vote in the House Saturday after anti-abortion lawmakers won a chance to knock out language that would let people who get federal subsidies buy insurance plans that include abortion coverage.

Opinion

Looking at these elections

Updated: 9:57 PM /
Today's editorial page looks back at Tuesday's elections? Would it have been too much for Sheriff Tim Howard to pledge to fix the real problems at the jail, rather than thanking his followers for not believing in them? And the low voter turnout was dismaying but Niagara Legislature downsizing was a plus.

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