- Neighbors welcome closing of Buffalo pawnshop that sold guns
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- AK-47s, M-16 military rifles and semiautomatic assault weapons are no longer sold in the big store at the intersection of Kensington and Bailey avenues.
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- Proposed state aid cuts threaten to halt growth at SUNY schools
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- Eroded student services. Canceled courses. Swelled class sizes. Those are just a few of the potential campus problems predicted should the state freeze $109 million in revenues that New York’s public colleges and universities collect for tuition, housing and other student services.
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- Charity Vogel: Seismic shift repositions milestones
- In they drift like a pink-and-white tide, these warm May days: invitations to bridal showers, weddings, mom-to-be brunches.
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- Gates Circle repairs under way, will take time
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- The good news is it’s going to be fixed. The bad news is it’s going to take a while.
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Other City & Region News
- Donn Esmonde: Abuse is not team ‘tradition’
It is your kid in the back of the bus. Think of it that way. Imagine that your son is riding on the Wilson High School baseball team bus. View the situation through that lens. That, to me, is when this picture comes into focus.
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- City to celebrate Great Race
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International tensions may have stalled a planned re-enactment of the 1908 Great Race from New York to Paris, but the centennial celebration will go on as planned in Buffalo this week — with a special guest in attendance.
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- City bars business group from brownfield site
Mayor Byron W. Brown’s administration barred a business group stumping for statewide reforms from holding a news conference on a city-owned brownfield last week because the administration disagrees with its advocacy approach and claims the plan wasn’t cleared with City Hall.
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- Cancer survivors meet lifesaving surgical robot
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Dan Nelson got the chance Saturday to meet the robot that saved his life.
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- Banks help homeowners struggling with payments
Robin and Raymond Jasper have been finding it increasingly difficult to make the $543 monthly payment on their two-bedroom ranch house in the Town of Wheatfield.
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- 914th heads back to Iraq
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NIAGARA FALLS — It has been more than a year since the 914th Airlift Wing deployed reservists to Iraq, but on Friday, some of the airmen were back on the flight line, boarding a C-130 bound for danger.
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- Fired officer's use of force against fellow cop criticized in report
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Buffalo Police Officer Cariol J. Horne exhibited an “extreme lack of professionalism,” and her use of physical force against another officer could have had “fatal consequences,” a hearing officer said in his 45-page report to the Buffalo Police Department.
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Buffalo/Erie County
- A preview of Erie County school elections
- Breach of airport security evacuates concourses
- Middle Early College High receives $10,000 from AARP
- Lions Club’s donations aid new Habitat home
Northern Suburbs
- UB, St. Bonaventure distribute honors at commencements
- Town seeking legal advice on best way to pay schools
- Dogs will be boarders at day care in former U. S. Border Patrol site
- Class act /An outstanding young Western New Yorker
Eastern Suburbs
- Police plan more interviews in probe of fatal crash
- American Axle seeks to close both its remaining Buffalo-area plants
- Drag race suspected in crash fatal to two
- Mentoring program for freshmen starts in fall
Southern Suburbs
- Proposed Walgreens location raises issues, being both in village and town
- Churches in inner-ring suburbs face likely closings
- West Seneca woman faces drunken driving charges
- Lackawanna budget draft lowers taxes more than 3%
Other WNY
- Hoping that inmates turn informants, decks of cards cite cold cases
- Parishioners surprise intruder at church
- Pupils plant trees after raising $556
- After 16 years, Keller to run again as treasurer
Niagara County
- Harvard offers hope to an A-plus student who overcame tragedy
- Harmony in Lewiston
- Adviser would up share of tourist tax
- City looking into hosting theater project
Ontario/Niagara
- Would-be robber foiled in Ontario drugstore
- Trucker convicted of drug smuggling
- Welland man, 74, killed in collision in Ontario
- Fallen bridge chunk closes QEW for 3 hours
Schools
- 3 board seats available; only 1 candidate running
- 2 school districts to hold candidates’ night
- New principal aims at ‘moving ahead’
- Orchard Park supporters raise $528,000 for synthetic athletic turf
Columns
- Charity Vogel
In they drift like a pink-and-white tide, these warm May days: invitations to bridal showers, weddings, mom-to-be brunches.
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More Columns
Bruce Andriatch
- Bruce Andriatch: Splendid hue for the ages: ‘forever green’
- Bruce Andriatch: Hamburg embraces town golf course
Donn Esmonde
Charity Vogel
- Charity Vogel: Understand poverty by living in it
- Charity Vogel: A memorable trip for vets who earned it
