Buffalo’s Planning Board has given the green light to a developer who wants to turn a 114-year-old former warehouse on the West Side into an indoor farmers market, food production center and apartments.

Protesters demonstrated Tuesday outside the state Department of Environmental Conservation’s Michigan Avenue office to call for the State Legislature to pass a bill to delay permits for hydraulic fracturing–or “hydro-fracking”– until the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency issues a report on the subject.

William M. Fickel and Kevin M. Smith, both in their mid-40s, lived less than two miles apart as the crow flies, on opposite sides of the Genesee County-Orleans County border.

The U. S. attorney’s office in Manhattan was investigating Democratic political operative G. Steven Pigeon’s Buffalo activities weeks before Gov. David A. Paterson’s office Friday provided evidence of his “pattern” of election-law violations, according to a knowledgeable source.

The U. S. Justice Department potentially could file its own charges in connection with the January 2008 murder of diplomat John M. Granville, a Buffalo native who was assassinated in Sudan, and the case could be tried in Buffalo.

Five people have been killed in the last 10 days in Buffalo and three more remained hospitalized late Monday with serious injuries as the result of citywide gun violence.

A campaign to rid older homes of lead paint made more than 100 homes in the city safer from the potential hazard in its first year and tested more than 650 children, officials announced Monday.

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The Aurora Morgan horse owner and breeder under investigation for alleged animal cruelty is adamant that her 73 horses be returned to her from the SPCA, which seized them along with 57 other animals in a March raid on her farm.

The Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority’s board of commissioners will have a new member following recent tenant elections. Two seats on the seven-member board are voted on by residents who live in the Housing Authority’s 27 properties.

The Buffalo Niagara Convention Center donated 30,000 square feet of used carpeting to Buffalo ReUse on Monday.

City Honors was ranked No. 10 this year on Newsweek’s annual list of the best high schools in the United States, which was released Monday.

Jawaan Daniels was wandering the halls at Lafayette High School on Friday when the announcement went out: Any student caught in the halls would be suspended and sent home.

The sun wasn’t to be found in the sky Sunday.

Luis Clay didn’t visit the Buffalo General Hospital room of the Rev. George L. Reger last
summer simply to deliver well wishes.