Still time to enter the Burger, Buns & Bed parade at Hamburg’s Burger...
Hamburg is looking for a few good beds.This year’s annual Burger Fest “Bed Parade” is looking for more contestants, and even though the event is Saturday, there’s still time to enter.The Burger, Buns...
View ArticleWest Seneca man gets max sentence for killing mom
Primitivo Cruz, convicted of the grisly 2013 murder of his mother inside her West Seneca home, read a combative and rambling handwritten letter at his sentencing Wednesday, denying that he had...
View ArticleSuspicious Bailey Avenue death ruled a homicide
The death of a man whose body was found in a Bailey Avenue apartment late Sunday morning has been ruled a homicide, Buffalo homicide detectives said Wednesday.An autopsy revealed that James McDaniel,...
View ArticleAngola man faces up to four years in prison after pleading guilty to felony...
An Angola man pleaded guilty to a felony charge of driving while intoxicated before State Supreme Court Judge Russell P. Buscaglia, the Erie County District Attorney’s office announced Wednesday.David...
View ArticleHamburg woman hit by car was distraught over job
Jennifer Spillman Martello rushed out of her Hamburg home in the early morning hours of Tuesday, despite her husband’s objections.Minutes later, she was lying in the roadway, fatally injured.She was...
View ArticleMan wearing Bills cap robs Elmwood Avenue branch of Citizens Bank
A man wearing a Buffalo Bills cap robbed the Citizens Bank, 1893 Elmwood Ave., about 2 p.m. Wednesday, Buffalo police said.the robber handed a note to a teller that read: “I have a gun, give me 50s...
View ArticleOrchard Park to borrow $700,000 to pay for community center architectural...
The Orchard Park Town Board pleased a senior citizens committee by voting unanimously Wednesday to borrow $700,000 to commission architectural drawings for a new community center that would combine a...
View ArticleElma town employees get new health care plan
The Elma Town Board has approved a new health care plan for union and non-union employees that will result in an annual savings, officials said.Because of new regulations affecting health care costs...
View ArticleOrchard Heights gets tax breaks despite job concerns
A $28.6 million expansion that will increase the size of the Orchard Heights assisted-living facility by almost 75 percent is getting nearly $3.8 million in tax breaks from the Erie County... Read More
View ArticleGet a preview of next month's Erie County Fair
If you just can’t wait for the early August opening of the Erie County Fair, you can get a sneak preview, actually taste, today.Food is considered the No. 1 reason people attend the annual... Read More
View ArticleTractor-trailor rolls over just off Thruway
A tractor-trailer rolled over just before noon today at on a Thruway ramp, State Police dispatchers reported. The one-vehicle accident occurred on the ramp connecting the eastbound Thruway to the......
View ArticleErie County Health Commissioner warns against cultivating mosquito breeding...
Erie County residents are being reminded to remove standing water from their properties to prevent breeding grounds for mosquitoes, which can be carriers of the potentially deadly West Nile Virus.......
View ArticlePolo returns to East Aurora's Knox Farm
After a hiatus of about six years, polo is coming back to East Aurora this weekend.It has been a few decades since the heyday of the Knoxes and polo competition at their estate in East Aurora when......
View ArticleGas station operators charged with evading sales tax
Two Texas brothers have been charged with evading more than $1.2 million in sales tax while operating seven gas stations in Erie County for more than four years.Ilias Maredia, 51, and Latif...
View ArticleHamburg woman found in road was hit-and-run victim, police say
Jennifer Spillman Martello, the Hamburg woman who was found unconscious on Big Tree Road in the early hours of Tuesday morning and died later that day, almost certainly was the victim of a hit-and-......
View ArticleGarden Notes: News of area clubs and events
Evans Garden Club will meet at noon Saturday at the Angola Public Library to carpool to Lasting Dreams Daylilies farm in Orchard Park. For more information, call 549-4572....The Ken-Ton Garden Tour...
View ArticleSean Keenan indicted on murder charge in death of father
Sean P. Keenan, arraigned Friday on a murder charge in the fatal beating and stabbing of his father last week in their Orchard Park home, also has been charged with second-degree assault and first-......
View ArticleOrchard Park girl whose family sought medical marijuana to treat seizures dies
ALBANY – When an amended version of the new medical marijuana law was passed on the floor of the State Senate in June, Wendy Conte was the first to jump to her feet in the visitors gallery... Read More
View ArticleEvans police seek author of note about ’86 hit-and-run fatality
Evans police are trying to locate the author of a recently penned anonymous letter to help in their investigation of hit-and-run fatality from 28 years ago.The letter was addressed to the Rev.... Read...
View ArticleAggravated DWI charge lodged in Concord arrest
A Springville woman was arrested on a charge of aggravated DWI about 10 p.m. Friday on Route 219 in Concord, according to the Erie County Sheriff’s Office. Margaret E. Derrick, 65, posted a... Read More
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