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LOCKPORT – Jeremy L. Dore, a Lockport crack cocaine addict, pleaded guilty Thursday to burglarizing two Lockport restaurants, and is hoping successful drug treatment will keep him out of... Read More

LOCKPORT – A Niagara County Jail inmate admitted in County Court Thursday that he broke a sprinkler head in his cell, leading to $7,500 in water damage there and on the floor below the cell.... Read More

A woman apparently killed her elderly mother in their North Buffalo home and then drove to Pennsylvania where she committed suicide at a motel Wednesday, Buffalo police reported.Police identified... Read More

Michael J. Conners, 33, of Franklinville, and Jacob G. Winship, 24, of Little Valley, both pleaded guilty Monday before Cattaraugus County Judge Ronald D. Ploetz in Little Valley to separately... Read More

The Buffalo biotech firm Athenex has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration permission to move forward with clinical trials for the oral form of Docetaxel, its highly potent cancer drug, the... Read More

NIAGARA FALLS – A blind gray seal named Della has a new home at the Aquarium of Niagara.The 25-year-old seal comes to Niagara Falls from the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago.All of the Niagara... Read More

Erie Community College trustees plan to hire outside legal counsel and a temporary administrator in developing a plan to overcome lax oversight and transparency problems identified earlier this... Read More

TOWN OF NIAGARA – New York’s two U.S. senators told the Secretary of the Air Force Thursday that KC-135 tanker planes, which flew out of the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station until... Read More

Erie County Majority Leader Joseph Lorigo said he gave up his recent appointments to serve as a West Seneca town prosecutor and Americans with Disabilities Act compliance officer last week after... Read More

The region’s opiate epidemic, its death toll rising by the year, took center stage in Buffalo federal court again Thursday.For the second time this week, a local doctor admitted writing... Read More