City of Buffalo
Expanding domestic partner benefits backed
Plans to expand domestic partner benefits to all city employees won a key endorsement from a Common Council committee Tuesday. (Updated: 02/10/10 6:53 AM )
Supermarket wine sales spark City Hall debate
The pros and cons of a new state proposal that would allow supermarkets to sell wine were aired during a lively hearing Tuesday in downtown Buffalo. (Updated: 02/10/10 6:53 AM )
Drug roundup includes gun, gangster activity charges
Officially, Javier Navarro and Jose “Vaca” DeLeon are unemployed. When DeLeon appeared in federal court Tuesday, he asked a judge to assign him an attorney under a program designed to provide legal help for the destitute. (Updated: 02/10/10 6:53 AM )
Residents disagree on proposed group home for youths
North Buffalo residents sparred Tuesday over whether a planned residence for homeless and abused youth would be an asset for their neighborhood or the ruin of it. (Updated: 02/10/10 6:53 AM )
Region getting only a hint of winter storm to the south
Western New York continued to escape the worst of the heavy snowfall that has hit the East over the last week, but rush-hour travel this morning could prove tricky, with a couple of inches of snow expected by this morning. (Updated: 02/10/10 6:53 AM )
Outer Circle Orchestra to open music series
A series of six weekly “keep the winter blues away” concerts featuring local bands will open with the Outer Circle Orchestra at 5:30 p. m. Thursday in Delaware Park’s Marcy Casino. (Updated: 02/10/10 6:53 AM )
Oliverio appointed control board chairman
Gov. David A. Paterson has moved Daniel C. Oliverio into the chairman’s post of the Erie County Fiscal Stability Authority. (Updated: 02/10/10 6:52 AM )
Auto Bureau mobile unit to park at Convention Center
The Erie County Auto Bureau’s mobile unit will be parked at the Buffalo Niagara Convention Center Friday and Saturday in conjunction with the Buffalo International Auto Show, County Clerk Kathy Hochul reports. (Updated: 02/10/10 6:52 AM )
Deputy commissioner airs her plan for parks
Buffalo’s new deputy parks commissioner said Tuesday that some creative strategies should be pursued to fund improvements to the city’s sprawling parks system. (Updated: 02/10/10 6:52 AM )
Is he a rapist or good Samaritan?
The task of sorting out whether Michael Abdallah is a rapist or a benevolent young man begins Thursday at a felony hearing in Buffalo City Court. (Updated: 02/10/10 8:49 AM )
Task of investigating fellow officers goes to a respected 25-year veteran
It’s one of the toughest jobs in all of police work — investigating fellow officers accused of wrongdoing. (Updated: 02/09/10 6:39 AM )
Woman held for grand jury in hate-crime stabbing
City Judge Joseph A. Fiorella on Monday gave prosecutors the legal green light to seek a hate-crime indictment against Suzanne-Deanna Grover in the Jan. 1 stabbing that could cost Lindsay C. Harmon her right eye. (Updated: 02/09/10 6:39 AM )
Working-poor families losing subsidies
It appears that time will run out on the working-poor families in Erie County who are trying to save their child care subsidies. (Updated: 02/09/10 6:39 AM )
Flawed policy should change
Perhaps, finally, it is a change whose time has come. With the nation’s top two military leaders calling for an end to the controversial “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gays in the service, it is clear that the country and the military have come a long way since then-President Bill Clinton failed in his first-term effort to allow gays to serve openly. (Updated: 02/09/10 6:38 AM )
Man charged with assaulting NFTA police officer
The driver of a stolen car was charged Saturday night with assaulting a Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority police officer who was trying to arrest him. (Updated: 02/08/10 10:07 AM )