Buffalo/Erie County
- Aid for New York sought in federal stimulus package
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By Jerry Zremski
NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF
Updated: 11/20/08 8:19 AM
- WASHINGTON — New York’s congressional delegation will push for major aid to the state in a new federal economic-stimulus package early next year, including a big boost in Medicaid funding that could cut billions of dollars from the state’s giant deficit.
- Blue-collar workers ratify 9-year pact with 20% raises
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By Brian Meyer
NEWS STAFF REPORTER
Updated: 11/20/08 6:22 AM
- One of Buffalo’s largest unions has ratified a contract that would give raises averaging 20 percent to blue-collar workers who haven’t received pay increase in more than eight years.
- Pioneering Buffalo nurse honored
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By Deidre Williams
NEWS STAFF REPORTER
Updated: 11/20/08 6:12 AM
- A pioneer in the African- American community, Eva M. Noles, was honored Wednesday by family, friends, the mayor, lawmakers, Roswell Park Cancer Institute officials — even someone from the governor’s office.
- End to busing outside city aired
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By Peter Simon
NEWS STAFF REPORTER
Updated: 11/20/08 6:12 AM
- About 1,500 students who live in Buffalo but attend nonpublic schools outside the city would lose bus service next year under a proposal considered Wednesday evening by the Buffalo Board of Education.
- Four arrested as agents shut down drug lab
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By Dan Herbeck
NEWS STAFF REPORTER
Updated: 11/20/08 8:52 AM
- Four young men were arrested Wednesday when federal drug agents shut down a South Buffalo home laboratory where a potent psychedelic drug — dimethyltryptamine, or DMT — was being manufactured illegally.
- Roosevelt Inaugural Site plans parties off site
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Updated: 11/20/08 6:12 AM
- Just because its home campus is under construction doesn’t mean that the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site can’t celebrate the holiday season.
- Thanksgiving dinner offered Sunday to needy veterans
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Updated: 11/20/08 6:12 AM
- A Thanksgiving dinner for homeless and other needy veterans and their families is scheduled from 11 a. m. to 1 p. m. Sunday in Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 3495 Bailey Avenue.
- $2 million sought for new fire trucks
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By Brian Meyer
NEWS STAFF REPORTER
Updated: 11/20/08 6:12 AM
- A Buffalo fire official went before the Common Council on Wednesday to stress the importance of spending $2 million to upgrade equipment.
- City shows off Sycamore Village, homes on former brownfield site
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By Brian Meyer
NEWS STAFF REPORTER
Updated: 11/20/08 6:12 AM
- Buffalo’s newest residential corridor was showcased Monday as city and state officials visited Sycamore Village.
- UB airs ambitious redesign
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By Jay Rey
NEWS STAFF REPORTER
Updated: 11/20/08 9:23 AM
- An ambitious and dramatic redesign for the University at Buffalo was unveiled Wednesday.
- Massage parlor owner’s prostitution role nets prison
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By Dan Herbeck
NEWS STAFF REPORTER
Updated: 11/20/08 7:02 AM
- A businesswoman who recruited women to travel to Western New York and work as prostitutes at her four local massage parlors was sentenced Wednesday to six years in federal prison.
- Four from UB suspended in hazing of student
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By Lou Michel
NEWS STAFF REPORTER
Updated: 11/20/08 8:52 AM
- A University at Buffalo student required hospital treatment after he was covered with hot sauce and spray paint in a fraternity hazing incident Wednesday.
- Progress cited in razing structures
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By Brian Meyer
NEWS STAFF REPORTER
Updated: 11/19/08 6:53 AM
- Buffalo is making slow but steady progress in tearing down blighted buildings, city officials said Monday as the Common Council reviewed plans to earmark more money for demolitions.
- Two agencies given grants to fight housing bias
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Updated: 11/19/08 6:53 AM
- Two Buffalo agencies have been awarded grants from the Department of Housing and Urban Development to fight housing discrimination.
- Stadium arrests fewer than feared
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By Gene Warner
NEWS STAFF REPORTER
Updated: 11/19/08 6:49 AM
- It figured that law enforcement officials would have their hands full with unruly behavior in and around Ralph Wilson Stadium on Monday night.
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