WASHINGTON — The Seneca Nation's lucrative mail-order cigarette business appears doomed.
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.
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
Albany is in fiscal crisis, and school districts are getting whacked.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
