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Sunday, May 11, 2008

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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
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
Dan Nelson got the chance Saturday to meet the robot that saved his life.
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Other City & Region News

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

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

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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Off Main Street: Hitting a nerve

The home page for www.iloveny.com , the state’s official tourism site, presented Buffalo front and center this week. Unfortunately, the opening lines of its come-on for the city rubbed one Off Main reader the wrong way.

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UB graduate keeps on giving back

When John P. Kapoor graduated from college in India, he wanted to pursue his graduate studies in America, but didn’t have the money.

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Drag race suspected in crash fatal to two

An apparent drag race late Thursday resulted in a crash that tore a 2002 blue Ford Mustang in half, killing a suburban couple in their early 20s on Transit Road in Lancaster.

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Williams will interview in Memphis on May 19

Buffalo School Superintendent James A. Williams, a finalist for the superintendent’s job in Memphis, Tenn., said Friday he will keep his appointment to interview with the Memphis School Board.

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Donn Esmonde

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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