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Two photographs by Wilson resident featured in Erie Canal calendar
Wilson resident Gerri Jones picked up her first camera eight years ago when her husband bought her a small point-and-shoot. (Updated: 10/13/09 8:33 AM )
Quintuplets born to Lockport family
At one pound, 11 ounces, Ramona Wednesday, also known as baby D, is the big one. Her older brother by two minutes, Tyler Jackson, or baby C, is the tiniest, barely registering a pound on the scale. (Updated: 10/05/09 7:15 AM )
Bras benefit cancer fight
BARKER — Carol Ander wants to get something off her chest — and she hopes others will, too. (Updated: 10/05/09 7:13 AM )
More jobless aid sought
NIAGARA FALLS — The state labor commissioner warned Thursday that the cost of supporting unemployed workers could fall to state and local governments if federal lawmakers do not extend unemployment benefits. (Updated: 09/25/09 7:07 AM )
State blasted on First Niagara move
LOCKPORT—The Niagara County Legislature criticized Empire State Development Corp. on Tuesday night for assisting in the move of First Niagara Bank’s corporate headquarters from Pendleton to Buffalo. (Updated: 09/23/09 11:57 AM )
Maziarz OK after being struck by hit-and-run driver
NIAGARA FALLS - State Sen. George Maziarz was unhurt Monday night when his vehicle was
struck from behind by a hit-and-run driver at a stoplight at Pine Avenue and Hyde Park
Boulevard. (Updated: 09/22/09 3:21 PM )
State police warn of 'Grandma scam' after Wilson woman loses nearly $6,000
When a recent caller asked an 83-year-old Wilson woman to guess who was on the other end of the phone, she said it was her grandson. (Updated: 09/21/09 4:21 PM )
Teachers lament cuts in art, music instruction
LEWISTON — When Linda Shilk took the microphone before the Lewiston-Porter School Board, the tone in her voice was serious. (Updated: 09/20/09 10:03 AM )
Falls fights return of worker on race matter
NIAGARA FALLS—The city has asked a state judge to overturn an arbitrator’s decision to allow a 27- year employee back on the job after he was placed on leave for putting a handmade “whites only” sign on a public works drinking fountain. (Updated: 09/18/09 8:02 AM )
Meeting held on former weapons sites
LEWISTON — About 60 people gathered in the Lewiston Senior Center on Wednesday night for a public meeting about the ongoing investigation of environmental contamination on former federal weapons sites in Lewiston and Porter. (Updated: 10/08/09 12:14 PM )
Deputy ‘at right spot’ averts disaster
LOCKPORT—It was a fiery crash Aug. 29 that could have taken a life. (Updated: 09/07/09 10:22 AM )
No more Mondays at Niagara Catholic
Monday morning blues? Not for students at Niagara Catholic High School. (Updated: 09/07/09 7:13 AM )
Colgan pilots say many felt pressure to work while ill
WASHINGTON -- Colleagues of Rebecca L. Shaw, the co-pilot of the Continental Connection
flight that crashed into a home in Clarence on Feb. 12, aren't surprised that she went to work
that night even though she had a cold after a red-eye flight the previous night. (Updated: 09/06/09 8:00 AM )
University Heights: A neighborhood at risk
It's Thursday night, and the party houses, restaurants and bars along Main Street in
Buffalo's University Heights come alive with college students who have returned for a new
school year. (Updated: 09/06/09 2:56 PM )
Police allowed to stop drivers for sending text messages
LOCKPORT — Niagara County will have a tougher law against sending text messages while driving than the state will, at least for a month. (Updated: 09/06/09 7:13 AM )
'The Black Widow' does it again
If there's one thing that gets folks in Buffalo to turn their heads away from their
chicken wings, it is the marvel that is Sonya "The Black Widow" Thomas. (Updated: 09/06/09 9:24 AM )
Teaching assignment half a world away
LEWISTON—Getting ready to return to the classroom can be a busy time for teachers. (Updated: 09/06/09 7:15 AM )
New terminal is unveiled at Falls airport
WHEATFIELD — Hopes were high Wednesday for the new terminal at Niagara Falls International Airport. (Updated: 09/03/09 1:57 PM )
Falls airport terminal will soon take wing
WHEATFIELD — Hopes were high today for the new terminal at Niagara Falls International
Airport. (Updated: 09/02/09 5:31 PM )
Buffalo man charged in Tonawanda killing
Town of Tonawanda police have charged a Buffalo man with the Aug. 14 homicide on Henderson
Avenue. (Updated: 09/02/09 3:14 PM )
'Voice' from burning deli traced to nearby argument
Fire and police investigators now believe that the voices witnesses reported hearing at the burning deli where two firefighters lost their lives actually came from an unrelated argument on the street, The Buffalo News has learned; likewise, a motion detector was set off by merchandise exploding in the flames. (Updated: 08/30/09 11:53 AM )
Flight 3407 families welcome mementos
Wrapped in tissue paper like fragile presents, items recovered from the burned-out remains of a Colgan Dash-8 turbo prop are coming back to those who lost loved ones on Continental Connection Flight 3407 last February. (Updated: 08/30/09 1:43 PM )
With fewer resources, groups opt to give less
Battered by more than $80 million in stock market losses last year, the John R. Oishei Foundation suspended new funding for medical research.
The James H. Cummings Foundation, whose assets dropped by about 30 percent, probably will give away $500,000 less in 2009 than in previous years. (Updated: 08/30/09 1:20 PM )
The Summit hits new depths
A hair salon, call center and credit union stood as the last three businesses, aside from anchor stores, still operating in The Summit mall last week. (Updated: 08/30/09 7:08 AM )
Pursuing a dream in a bottle
Lockport native Cynthia West-Chamberlain has spent the past 15 years in a high-tech, fast-paced work environment. Her job was to market some of the most cutting-edge products in the computer world. (Updated: 08/30/09 5:15 PM )
Two firefighters die as floor collapses at East Side deli fire
Two Buffalo firefighters were killed in an early-morning fire at a deli on Genesee Street
on the city's East Side, the department's worst loss of life in the last 26 years. (Updated: 08/24/09 5:50 PM )
Lacking bureaucratic blessing, couple kept half a world apart
Michael L. Just went to China and married a woman he met on a dating Web site. (Updated: 08/22/09 11:08 PM )
Yahoo! job search looms
TOWN OF LOCKPORT — Yahoo! won’t begin hiring workers for its new $150 million data center until next year, but what sort of jobs will be available? (Updated: 08/23/09 6:54 AM )
Family of local victim decries release of Lockerbie bomber
Colleen Brunner's family in Hamburg has added its voice to the howl of American protests over Scotland's freeing today of a terminally ill Lockerbie bomber on compassionate grounds. (Updated: 08/21/09 10:02 AM )
Kane, cousin plead not guilty
NHL star and South Buffalo native Patrick Kane and his cousin pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor and violation charges tied to the alleged assault of a cab driver at their arraignment in Buffalo City Court this afternoon. (Updated: 09/02/09 8:29 PM )
