Lackawanna News

In an acknowledgment that rapid transit probably never will be extended to the Southtowns, the railroad right of way acquired 21 years ago to expand Metro Rail is going up for sale.

Forty pockets of contamination on the site of the former Bethlehem Steel Corp. in Lackawanna are being targeted by the state Department of Environmental Conservation.

A Lackawanna man with 18 previous license suspensions and revocations was arrested Saturday night on felony charges of driving while intoxicated and aggravated unlicensed operation of a vehicle, Erie County sheriff's deputies said.

Orchard Park distributor RM Headlee is moving to a larger facility further up California Road, buying a foreclosed property previously occupied by a direct- mail producer while turning its own former building over to a medical services neighbor.

Inauguration day revelers got to have their cake and eat it, too thanks to "Cake Boss" Buddy Valastro.

OLAF FUB SEZ: According to comedian Richard Lewis, born on this date in 1947, "My grand-mother was a Jewish juggler: She used to worry about six things at once." Poetic License I wrote a verse That would not rhyme.

He gave peace a chance The anonymous Memorial Auditorium peace activist has been identified.

An Orchard Park man who is awaiting sentencing in a federal money laundering case was arrested Friday for allegedly leading troopers on a chase from Buffalo to Hamburg three days earlier, state police announced.

Some people leave stray cats saucers of milk and Friskies on the porch. Others try to get rid of them - as a nuisance and neighborhood infestation.

Two men accused of stealing 30 cartons of cigarettes from a smoke shop on the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation have been arrested, the Erie County Sheriff's Office reported Monday.

A 20-year-old Lackawanna man arrested with three friends when police found heroin and hypodermic needles in his vehicle Monday evening was arrested again less than two hours later ... accused of threatening a neighbor and throwing a wrench at him.

A 25-year-old Lackawanna woman has been charged with aggravated driving while intoxicated after being accused of recording a 0.27 percent blood-alcohol level following her arrest over the weekend, Lackawanna police reported Monday.

Friends of Renee Greco gathered tonight to remember the youth counselor on the front lawn of the former group home where she was beaten to death June 8. They were joined by some people who never knew her, but who came to share their grief, and to join in calls for state legislation to prevent the situation that may have contributed to Greco's ...

Thirty-three new police officers graduated Friday from the Erie County Law Enforcement Training Academy.

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Lackawanna lawmakers Monday debated the most efficient means for property near Smokes Creek to be removed from the revised Federal Emergency Management Agency flood map.

Lackawanna police chased and caught three burglary suspects from Lackawanna accused of breaking into a Lehigh Avenue home early this morning.

A tearful Kathleen Manning was taken into custody today to begin a six-month jail term for the alcohol- and cocaine-fueled traffic accident that killed an acquaintance who also was drunk while riding his motorcycle in front of her home last year.

BINGHAMTON - Fourth- graders from the Binghamton City School District have been walking through history to get a first-hand look of what life was like in the city more than a century ago.

A Ridge Road building leased by the nonprofit Lackawanna Community Development Corp.