- 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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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
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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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- 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
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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
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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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Buffalo/Erie County
- Free UB lectures to begin June 4
- Honor Roll
- Events for people with disabilities
- Grads urged to reject ‘shoulds’
Northern Suburbs
- Class act /An outstanding young Western New Yorker
- Michigan parolee tied to Clarence home break-in
- Tonawanda family is special fit to adopt albino Haitian girl
- Stolen gun, Ecstasy pills found after vehicle stop
Eastern Suburbs
- 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
- Driver hurt in crash is charged with DWI
Southern Suburbs
- West Seneca woman faces drunken driving charges
- Lackawanna budget draft lowers taxes more than 3%
- HEAP officials will interview applicants
- Massive farm bill contains aid for New York State growers
Other WNY
- 3 board seats available; only 1 candidate running
- Boater safety courses set by Sheriff’s Office
- Allen Park receives new playground equipment
- Salamanca man accused of raiding trust account
Niagara County
- Program shortens learning curve
- Lockport housing plan to offer choices for seniors
- Tesla expert looks to keep inventor’s legacy current
- Air quality improves slightly in region
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
- 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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