Election 2009
- After tough race, Howard wins re-election
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NEWS STAFF REPORTER
Updated: 11/12/09 6:19 PM Sheriff Timothy B. Howard survived the self-described albatross around his neck — the escapes, deaths and wrongful releases at Erie County's jails — to win his first re-election Tuesday.
(Updated: 11/12/09 6:19 PM )
- Poloncarz secures second term
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NEWS STAFF REPORTER
Updated: 11/04/09 10:49 AM Erie County Comptroller Mark C. Poloncarz secured a second four-year term Tuesday in a rebuke to the county executive who longed for his defeat.
(Updated: 11/04/09 10:49 AM )
- Amherst: Weinstein leads GOP sweep
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NEWS STAFF REPORTER
Updated: 11/04/09 10:48 AM Republican Amherst Council Member and physician Barry A. Weinstein won the Amherst supervisor's seat Tuesday, leading a Republican sweep in the town.
(Updated: 11/04/09 10:48 AM )
The Crash of Flight 3407
- Air safety legislation is competing for time with health care
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News Washington Bureau Chief
Updated: 08/31/09 7:56 AM WASHINGTON — Airline safety remains a priority in Congress, following the crash of Continental Connection Flight 3407 in Clarence Center, but an obstacle stands in its way: health care reform.
(Updated: 08/31/09 7:56 AM )
- Soccer star perseveres without her dad, a Flight 3407 victim
- NEWS SPORTS REPORTER
Updated: 03/31/09 1:06 PM PENDLETON—Nicole Borner should be having the time of her life. The 17-year-old Starpoint High School senior will be valedictorian of her class this spring. She’s the first Spartans girls soccer player to earn a Division I scholarship. Throw in the fact that the prom is on the horizon, and there’s a lot to celebrate.
(Updated: 03/31/09 1:06 PM )
- Pilot error is possibility discussed by experts
- NEWS STAFF REPORTERS
Updated: 03/26/09 1:06 PM Aviation experts say federal investigators seem to be focusing on possible pilot error to explain why Continental Connection Flight 3407 plunged to the ground in Clarence Center on Feb. 12 and took 50 lives.
(Updated: 03/26/09 1:06 PM )
The Child Porn Pipeline
- Part One: Russia and U.S. are bound in the illegal cyber-trafficking of child pornography
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Updated: 02/05/09 10:43 AM MOSCOW — A sickness is sweeping the world since the Internet made it easy for child pornography to be viewed and shared. The thousandfold increase in the number of photos of naked and sexually abused children available on the Internet is staggering. But it doesn’t stop there. The images are getting worse.
(Updated: 02/05/09 10:43 AM )
- The United States is a major distributor of free child pornography, too
Updated: 02/05/09 10:42 AMMuch of the child pornography produced in former Soviet bloc countries is made for profit, but at least half — some say as much as 70 percent — of child pornography available worldwide is traded for free, according to authorities.
(Updated: 02/05/09 10:42 AM )
- U.S. Web servers oppose plan to get child porn off the Internet
Updated: 02/05/09 10:42 AMJust over a decade ago, 18 percent of commercial child pornography produced in the world was hosted on computer servers and Web sites in the United Kingdom.
(Updated: 02/05/09 10:42 AM )
Abandoned Homes
- Neglected homes and vacant lots leave Buffalo residents angry
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Updated: 07/07/08 12:25 PM If there’s a forgotten Buffalo neighborhood, a street abandoned and left for dead, it’s Ruhland Avenue. Walk down the quiet, tree-lined avenue, and you might think you’re in rural North Collins instead of the East Side. Walk a little farther and you’ll discover seven out of every 10 properties on Ruhland are vacant and abandoned.
(Updated: 07/07/08 12:25 PM )
- Buffalo wants to tear down its abandoned homes
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Updated: 07/08/08 2:33 PM Peter Roetzer stumbled across the building at 454 Rhode Island St. during a tour of West Side homes last year. What some saw as a run-down, vacant house — a blight on the neighborhood — Roetzer saw as an intriguing brick structure full of character.
(Updated: 07/08/08 2:33 PM )
- Youngstown, facing problems similar to Buffalo's, shrinks by design
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Updated: 07/09/08 11:48 AM YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio –Smaller, not bigger, is the mantra in this former steel town. Or as Hunter Morrison, one of the brains behind the city’s downsizing plan, is fond of saying:
(Updated: 07/09/08 11:48 AM )
The Lottery: Losing by the Numbers
- For the poor, lottery losses are not just bad luck
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NEWS STAFF REPORTERS
Updated: 09/09/09 12:32 PM This story was originally published on June 22, 2008.
(Updated: 09/09/09 12:32 PM )
- Lottery sales lag as casinos open
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NEWS STAFF REPORTERS
Updated: 09/09/09 12:31 PM This story was orginally published on June 23, 2008.
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- Searchable database: What do people win where you buy lottery tickets?
Updated: 09/09/09 12:37 PM- (Updated: 09/09/09 12:37 PM )
Power Failure
- Part 1: Region home to cheap power, high bills and huge corporate subsides
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Updated: 06/12/09 4:39 PM For a long time, having Niagara Falls in our backyard was a source of not only tourists, but abundant, cheap power that helped make the region an industrial powerhouse.
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- Part 2: Niagara plant a huge moneymaker, but region sees little of the payoff
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Updated: 06/12/09 4:39 PM Employees at the Niagara Power Project perform maintenance and upgrade equipment. The plant employs about 290 workers, making an average of about $77,600 a year. The janitors and clerks earn an average of $52,000 a year, laborers and security guards $57,000, trade apprentices $65,000.
(Updated: 06/12/09 4:39 PM )
- Part 3: Politics as usual stymies a unique opportunity to maximize benefits from the power project
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Updated: 06/12/09 4:40 PM The recent history of Western New York is haunted by "what ifs."
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Economic Rebound in Albany
- $4.5 billion worth of ‘Excellence’
Updated: 06/25/08 3:55 PMThere was a good deal of skepticism when former Gov. George E. Pataki and legislative leaders announced in 2001 that the University at Albany would become the state’s new Center of Excellence in nanotechnology, which involves the ability to manipulate matter at the atomic scale.
(Updated: 06/25/08 3:55 PM )
- Welcome to Bruno country, built by generosity
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Updated: 06/25/08 3:39 PM Thank-yous to Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno are not hard to find. He is honored for his largess (with taxpayers’ money) in ways normally reserved for philanthropists or war heroes.
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- Upstate Boomtown, with a Capital A
- NEWS ALBANY BUREAU
Updated: 06/25/08 3:56 PM ALBANY — Yes, there is an economic success story in upstate New York. Certainly not in Buffalo. Nor Rochester. Nor Syracuse. Welcome to the closest thing upstate has to a boom area: the Albany-Troy-Saratoga region known as the Capital District.
(Updated: 06/25/08 3:56 PM )
Hard Time for the Innocent
- They didn't do it: Convicting the innocent
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Updated: 05/28/08 12:17 PM You don't have to be involved in anything wrong to have this happen to you. I had never been arrested for so much as a violation. If it happened to me, it can happen to any of you.
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- Spare the innocent
Updated: 05/28/08 12:17 PMWrongful conviction is a serpent that strikes at all who come near. In the case of the Delaware Park rapes, its most obvious victim is Anthony Capozzi, who served more than 21 years in prison for offenses he did not commit, terrible crimes in which his only role was accidental patsy.
(Updated: 05/28/08 12:17 PM )
- Tape police interrogations
Updated: 05/28/08 12:16 PMWhen a suspect confesses to a crime he did not commit, he usually leaves his fingerprints all over it. Someone who is truly innocent, for example, cannot possibly reveal to police secret details of the crime unless police first have provided them to him.
(Updated: 05/28/08 12:16 PM )
Best and Brightest
- An interactive look at the Class of 1987
Updated: 07/25/07 9:58 AMMembers of the Class of 1987 were among the first generation of high school graduates who knew their futures could be brighter somewhere else. Buffalo News reporters tracked down more than 100 of the most promising graduates from 25 high schools in Erie and Niagara counties -- valedictorians, salutatorians, class presidents and vice presidents, and those voted most likely to succeed -- to see where they ended up.
(Updated: 07/25/07 9:58 AM )
- Part One: Should I stay or should I go?
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Updated: 07/25/07 10:01 AM The priesthood called, and Stephen Mease answered — but then he thought better of it, leaving the preseminary program and dropping out of college with one semester left. He became a car salesman, instead.
(Updated: 07/25/07 10:01 AM )
- Part Two: Five who stayed in Western New York
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Updated: 08/11/07 4:27 PM Consider the budding entrepreneur from Nichols, the class president from Cleveland Hill, the small-town boy from Barker, the aspiring physical therapist from Lancaster, and the valedictorian from Frontier.
(Updated: 08/11/07 4:27 PM )