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November 25, 2009, 7:03 AM / The U. S. Justice Department, in court papers filed Tuesday, says Erie County's Holding Center and Correctional Facility have seen numerous beatings against inmates by guards and two deaths related to inadequate medical treatment since 2007.

As a force on the Erie County Industrial Development Agency, County Executive Chris Collins has approved tax breaks for corporate projects.

While progress has been made on a number of road projects in Erie County, several readers have raised concerns about the status of the Pavement Road bridge in the Town of Lancaster.

The Peoples Law School will present a seminar on Intellectual Property Law Basics from 6 to 9 p.m. Tuesday addressing a number of patent, trademark and copyright law issues critical to established businesses, start-ups and entrepreneurs.

November 18, 2009, 12:01 AM / This is going to be the good one, the best day of the week.

Erie County did a favor for all of its residents last week when it approved a $360,000 matching grant to the Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy for the upkeep of one of the jewels of Western New York.

A New York City reporter recently showed sympathy toward Niagara County for the disparity in stimulus spending statewide.

November 12, 2009, 7:08 AM / When Chris Collins ran for county executive on a strong pro-business platform back in 2007, more than a few eyebrows were raised when the Buffalo Niagara Partnership failed to endorse his candidacy.

Poor Chris Collins. The current Erie County Executive is about to become Joel Giambra, the previous County Executive, and Ned Regan, the one who proposed raising county property taxes over 70%. That's because the same fiscal circumstances that faced Erie County under Regan and Giambra are returning for 2011 under Collins - a huge growth in the cost ...

Erie County Sheriff Timothy B. Howard reports that observations made by Sheriff's Detectives led to a search warrant being executed at a Town of Collins residence late Friday evening, and the recovery of a stolen vehicle.

You've said that you support him. He'll make his announcement sometime he says after Election Day elections"... [ 18:07 ] ..." gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey.

Arkwright voters decided to extend the term of their supervisor to four years. In Pomfret, the incumbent clerk held on to her seat following a hotly contested race; and Sheridan will see a new face as its town supervisor.

Actor Keanu Reeves was back in Buffalo today. The big screen actor continues to scout locations for the filming of his upcoming movie "Henry's Crime." Reeves was spotted in downtown Buffalo late this morning.

I've always found it curious that one of the most segregated areas in the country would dub its hub the City of Good Neighbors.

October 28, 2009, 7:12 AM / Hires/Promotions/ Honors Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center named Dr.

When Erie County Executive Chris Collins called NYS Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver "The Anti-Christ" last weekend, it apparently was not the first time he told that highly-criticized joke to an audience.

Eyewitness News Cameras caught up with Erie County Executive Chris Collins outside a fundraiser for Erie County GOP Comptroller candidate Philip Kadet at the Embassy Suites Hotel in downtown Buffaloa s Avant Building.

Outspoken developer Carl Paladino isn't one to mince words. And on Tuesday, during a public forum sponsored by a local group of concerned residents, the owner of the former United Office Building in downtown Niagara Falls didn't disappoint.

Erie County Executive Chris Collins recently apologized for joking that Sheldon Silver is an "anti-Christ." The Jewish Federation Executive Director Daniel G. Kantor has released a statement on the remark.

Erie County Executive Chris Collins has apologized for remarks made in Buffalo Saturday in which he compared state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver to Hitler and the Anti-Christ. At a Republican fundraiser in Buffalo this weekend, Collins spoke of Nostradamus's predictions that there would be three anti-christs, adding that it is generally assumed ...