Updated: 03/13/10 6:44 AM
Steve Mesler’s whirlwind, whistle- stop victory tour of Buffalo ended Friday, and the closing ceremonies included a loud pep rally at the school where his athletic career took shape — City Honors School.
Deal made on hours of training for co-pilots
Updated: 03/13/10 6:44 AM
WASHINGTON — Senators have reached a compromise to dramatically increase the number of flight hours new commercial copilots need to get a license, though the figure falls short of what the group Families of Continental Flight 3407 was seeking.
State audit criticizes Broderick on handling of estates
Updated: 03/13/10 6:45 AM
Former Niagara County Treasurer David S. Broderick used his position as public administer of estates to give business to friends and family, according to an audit released Friday by State Comptroller Thomas P. Di- Napoli.
Elmira woman charged in poisoning death of stepson
Updated: 03/12/10 11:44 PM
An Elmira woman has been charged in the poisoning death of her 21-month-old stepson last
fall when the Batavia toddler was visiting his father's Elmira home.
Other City & Region News
Senate vote endangers Seneca mail-order cigarette business
Updated: 03/12/10 10:47 PM
WASHINGTON — The Seneca Nation's lucrative mail-order cigarette business appears doomed.
DiNapoli audit faults former Niagara County treasurer
Updated: 03/12/10 2:52 PM
Former Niagara County Treasurer David S. Broderick used his position as public
administer of estates to benefit friends and family, according to an audit released this
morning by State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli.
Gold medalist Mesler returns to high school
Updated: 03/12/10 2:20 PM
Olympic bobsledder and gold medalist Steve Mesler came back to his high school this morning. Watch Mesler speak at City Honors by going to BuffaloNews.com Live at http://blogs.buffalonews.com/live/2010/03/gold-medalist-comes-back-to-city-honors-1.html
Schools eye closings, layoffs, tax hikes
Updated: 03/12/10 9:05 AM
Albany is in fiscal crisis, and school districts are getting whacked.
Donn Esmonde: If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em
Updated: 03/12/10 8:13 AM
Talk about a happy coincidence. Albany’s plan to borrow—instead of cut—its way out of a $9 billion budget hole was Thursday’s front-page news.
High schoolers hear about drug abuse from survivors
Updated: 03/11/10 10:50 PM
No world-renowned experts or academics stood before the middle and high school students,
preaching about the danger of drugs.
Mother, 29, is sentenced for trying to kill baby
Updated: 03/12/10 6:40 AM
Marcia Mitchell, the mentally troubled mother of two who tried to smother her infant daughter in a Buffalo hospital, was sentenced Thursday to 3 1/2 years in prison.
Zoning Board tackles issues with airport
Updated: 03/12/10 6:41 AM
The Lancaster Zoning Board of Appeals Thursday grappled with whether the nearly 50-year-old Buffalo-Lancaster Airport at 4343 Walden Ave. constitutes a nonconforming use under zoning code.
Cuomo hands over probes of Paterson
Updated: 03/12/10 8:10 AM
ALBANY — State Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo, who has seen his poll numbers slide
with New Yorkers, removed a possible political thorn from his side Thursday by naming an
independent counsel to oversee his office's investigations of Gov. David A. Paterson.
GOP comptroller candidate attacks Ravitch deficit plan
Updated: 03/12/10 6:41 AM
Republican Harry J. Wilson hasn’t generated a whole lot of attention in his young campaign for state comptroller, but Lt.Gov. Richard Ravitch’s new deficit reduction plan, which hinges on $6 billion worth of borrowing, now grants him the bulliest of pulpits to criticize what he calls Albany’s overspending ways.
City of Buffalo
- Annual St. Pat’s luncheon draws a flock of politicians
- County Legislature staff reshuffling may not result in savings
- Confessed hit man gets 18-to-life in teen’s 1998 drug-related murder
- Police station found free of hazards
Northern Suburbs
- Telemarketer pleads guilty to larceny
- Historical Society event to showcase Black Rock
- Deal made on hours of training for co-pilots
- Akron schools act on privacy in new gym
Eastern Suburbs
- Zoning Board tackles issues with airport
- Outlook is positive on Depew school budget
- Liquor agency probing sex, drug claims at strip clubs
- Defense questions credibility of witness in biker case
Southern Suburbs
- Yates Barn owner won’t appeal ruling preserving landmark status
- Businesses to pay to dump tires
- Marilla OKs part-time assessor
- Reopened sugar shack expected to sweeten county’s bottom line
Niagara County
- Google Internet competition stirs interest
- Monday is deadline to apply for library director post
- State audit criticizes Broderick on handling of estates
- Falls gunfire tied to gangs
Southern Tier
- 3 GOP county chairmen plan to support Volker for re-election
- Meetings planned to detail NFTA restructuring study
- Three regions cooperate on plan to boost racing
- COMING UP
Focus on Niagara Falls Tourism
- Plan to close 41 state parks attacked from all quarters
- Turning a passion into a vineyard in Wilson
- NCCC wants county to own mall culinary institute
- War horse rides into One Niagara
Ontario/Niagara
- Union halts preparations at Shaw Festival sites
- Coalition intent on stopping high-rise Crystal Beach condo
- Crystal Beach condo project moves forward
- Report backs plan for Fort Erie condominium project
Schools
- State aid held up for Falls school
- A preview of school elections in Erie County
- School budgets, board seats on ballots
- Voters to weigh transferring students
Corrections, Clarifications
Columns
Donn Esmonde: If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em
Talk about a happy coincidence. Albany’s plan to borrow—instead of cut—its way out of a $9 billion budget hole was Thursday’s front-page news.
More Columns
Bruce Andriatch
- Bruce Andriatch: School expert warns of need to get real
- Bruce Andriatch: Information is villagers’ coin of realm
Donn Esmonde
Rod Watson
- Rod Watson: Keep Buffalo Neat: service + work ethic
- Rod Watson: Racial gains sullied by big slips up high
Charity Vogel
- Charity Vogel: How a stone can soften the shell of grief
- Charity Vogel: Library story provides own happy ending


