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Variety Club makes pharmacy commitment - 3/2/2007
The Variety Club of Buffalo announced Thursday a $1.7 million commitment to fund construction of a new pediatric pharmacy for patients at Women and Children's Hospital. |
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Woman, 18, pleads guilty to unintentional gun death - 3/2/2007
A York Street teenager tearfully pleaded guilty Thursday to unintentionally killing a 13-year-old boy with a .22-caliber rifle she was mishandling last fall. |
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Cabbie is lucky to be alive after he's stabbed three times - 3/1/2007
A Buffalo cabbie is reliving the most terrifying moment of his life - the night a customer stabbed him three times. The attack at 1:20 a.m. Wednesday by a knife-wielding fare seated in the back seat has left Liberty Cab driver Darin Richardson with gashes to the back of his head, shoulder and back. |
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Building of new courthouse to start by Labor Day - 3/1/2007
WASHINGTON Construction of Buffalo's new $130 million federal courthouse will begin by Labor Day and be completed in 2010, Rep. Brian Higgins said Wednesday. |
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Grand jury hears wife of bike path suspect - 3/1/2007
Kathleen Sanchez, whose husband has been charged with two homicides linked to the Bike Path killer, was questioned for more than 90 minutes Wednesday by prosecutors and the Erie County grand jury investigating the slaying of Joan Diver. |
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Accusation of political payoff follows hiring of Coppola by city - 3/1/2007
The candidate who helped Mayor Byron W. Brown keep his old State Senate seat in friendly hands has landed a job at the training agency controlled by Brown's City Hall. And he is not the only friend of the mayor to land there. |
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Buffalo Place board urges Skyway demolition - 3/1/2007
Buffalo Place has joined the chorus calling for demolition of the Skyway. The downtown business group Wednesday unanimously approved a call for the elevated highway to be torn down. In its anti-Skyway measure, the Buffalo Place board says the artery's demise will improve the downtown business climate and lead to significant new investment. |
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Bank robber throws money, saying it's not enough - 3/1/2007
A bank robber returned to a teller's window Wednesday afternoon and threw the money at her after he claimed that it wasn't enough, Buffalo police reported. |
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Man accused of holding woman at gunpoint - 3/1/2007
A man was arrested Wednesday after he allegedly held a Linwood Avenue woman inside a Carl Street house at gunpoint, Buffalo police said. Troy Miles, 46, of Carl Street, was charged with felony unlawful imprisonment, menacing, criminal possession of a weapon and criminal possession of marijuana. |
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Guard allegedly hit ex-girlfriend with crutch - 3/1/2007
A Stevens Avenue man was arrested late Wednesday afternoon after he allegedly beat his former girlfriend with her aluminum crutch on a Metro Rail train, according to Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority police officers. Police said he was upset because she had obtained an order of protection against him. |
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Retired officer's case delayed until Tuesday - 3/1/2007
The ex-girlfriend of retired Buffalo Police Officer Antonio Roman walked away in a huff Wednesday after the latest adjournment in Roman's menacing case. |
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Men pick up two girls, give them liquor, rape one - 3/1/2007
Two girls who fled Baker Victory Services early Sunday morning were walking on Perry Street late Monday night when they got picked up by two men, taken to a liquor store and their house before one of the girls was raped, Buffalo police said. |
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City on course for surplus, but overtime costs loom - 3/1/2007
Buffalo appears on track to end its fiscal year with another surplus, but dramatic increases in police overtime and legal fees are raising concerns. |
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Slaughterhouse idea has residents upset - 3/1/2007
A Buffalo man wants to turn an old warehouse in a Broadway-Bailey neighborhood into a slaughterhouse where livestock would be killed, including some for religious rituals. |
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Variety Kids Telethon donations to benefit new hospital pharmacy - 3/1/2007
Donations to the 45th annual Variety Kids Telethon on WKBW-TV, Channel 7, Sunday will benefit the new fifth-floor Variety Pharmacy in Women and Children's Hospital of Buffalo, the Children's Charity of Buffalo & Western New York announced. |
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'Rainy Night' building begets a rainbow of redevelopment - 2/28/2007
It has been decades since the Buehl Block Building resembled the brightly lit structure in the 1930 Charles E. Burchfield painting "Rainy Night." But the triangular four-story structure at 36 Broadway is again its old iconic self, after a three-year, $1 million renovation that turned it into an upscale residential and commercial address. |
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Outcry arises on fees for sports teams using parks - 2/28/2007
The group that runs Buffalo's Olmsted parks promised Tuesday to try to minimize - possibly even wipe out - controversial fees it planned to charge Little League teams and other sports programs this season. |
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Deal made to reform workers' comp - 2/28/2007
ALBANY - The state's 93-year-old workers' compensation system will be overhauled to cut costs for employers while raising benefits for workers injured on the job, a reform package that supporters say will make struggling upstate businesses more competitive. |
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Derelict properties in limbo - 2/28/2007
Minnie Malone fears the dilapidated Leroy Avenue house two doors down is a drug haven. Delores Powell, a single mother of four, has watched teenagers elude police by hiding in a run-down house across from her Massachusetts Avenue home. |
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2 retirees are newest local millionaires - 2/28/2007
The region's newest millionaires have a few things in common. Both men are retired. Both plan to head straight for sunnier, warmer climates with some of their winnings. |
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