UB law professor will talk to family support Group on Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

Dr. Charles P. Ewing, distinguished service professor at the University at Buffalo Law School, will speak at 6:45 p. m. Aug. 4 in Clearfield Public Library, 770 Hopkins Road, Amherst, to a family support group of Western New Yorkers with family members imprisoned for child pornography crimes.

Independence Party reverses endorsements, favors incumbents on Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

The state Independence Party has reversed three key endorsements of its local committee, essentially rendering the Erie County organization powerless and dealing a serious blow to the local authority once wielded by Democratic operative G. Steven Pigeon.

CAO invests $344,000 in summer youth jobs on Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

The Community Action Organization of Erie County is investing $344,000 of stimulus funding into Mayor Byron W. Brown’s 2010 Summer Youth Employment Program. The partnership will create 350 six-week jobs for local youths through the summer employment program.

Hearing on Bills shuttle draws one only person on Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

One person showed up to comment Monday evening at a Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority hearing to decide on the future of the Buffalo Bills shuttle bus program.

CAO invests $344,000 in summer youth jobs on Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

The Community Action Organization of Erie County Inc. is investing $344,000 of stimulus funding into Mayor Byron Brown’s 2010 Summer Youth Employment Program. The partnership will create 350 six-week jobs through the summer employment program.

Deputy executive donates $10,000 for Scout campers on Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

The deputy Erie County executive has donated $10,000 to allow about 50 Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts from low-income families to attend summer camp.

Man gets 22 years in beating death of infant son on Monday, July 19th, 2010

Darnell Miller, a learning-disabled Buffalo man, was ordered Monday by Erie County Judge
Michael F. Pietruszka to spend the next 22 years in prison for fatally beating his 8-month-old
son to stop him from crying.

Celebrating Polish heritage and a Revolutionary War hero on Monday, July 19th, 2010

A Nixon, 23 Pulaskis and Carl Paladino were walking down Harlem Road in Cheektowaga.

Starting to get back to normal after stroke on Monday, July 19th, 2010

When Molly Schmand crumpled to the floor, she wasn&#8217t thinking brain attack.

City holds first bond auction since 1986 on Monday, July 19th, 2010

The last time Buffalo borrowed money by enticing investors to competitively bid for bonds,
&#8220The Cosby Show&#8221 was winning the TV ratings game, and Ronald Reagan still occupied
the White House.

Housing chief will likely get an extension on Monday, July 19th, 2010

Dawn E. Sanders has been the point person since 2007 for the biggest landlord in Buffalo, managing 5,364 rental units with 10,000 residents in 32 housing developments whose upkeep affects neighborhood vitality and property values across the city.

Report shows local increase in electronic prescriptions on Monday, July 19th, 2010

A new report shows a significant increase in the last two years in the number of medications in upstate New York that are prescribed electronically instead of on paper.

A Sierra Club director to head climate panel on Monday, July 19th, 2010

The director of Sierra Club California will head a panel on “State and Local Responses to Climate Change” at 4 p.m. July 28 at 237 Main St., Suite 1200.

Public meeting planned on Richardson Olmsted site on Monday, July 19th, 2010

A public meeting on the Richardson Olmsted Complex will be held at 6 p.m. Aug. 12 in Buffalo State College’s Rockwell Hall, 1300 Elmwood Ave.

Learning about ancestors at Italian Festival on Sunday, July 18th, 2010

It takes just a few family details for Flo Lumina to reduce people to tears.