Author: Buffalo News
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Five Star Bank accuses Rochester-area restaurant owner of $18.9M fraud
Five Star Bank in a federal lawsuit accused a Rochester-area restaurateur of engaging in a “check-kiting” scheme that defrauded the bank of $18.9 million. The bank accuses Katherine Mott of being the driving force behind the scheme. She is identified in the suit as the owner of several businesses, including restaurants and wedding venues. Five…
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Buffalo Niagara unemployment rate jumps to 4.7% in January
The unemployment rate across the Buffalo Niagara region jumped to 4.7% in January – its highest level since the summer of 2021 – as a wave of seasonal job losses left fewer workers holding jobs. The region’s jobless rate increased from 4.4% in December and was higher than the 4.3% rate in January of last…
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Niagara Falls man arrested by NFTA Police for Cheektowaga hit-and-run
A Niagara Falls man has been charged in connection with a hit and run at the Buffalo Niagara International Airport in Cheektowaga, the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority said in a news release. Travis Rosario, 51, is accused of fleeing the scene after hitting a 44-year-old Williamsville man at about 4:55 a.m. on Feb. 27, while…
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Stadium construction inclusion goals closer to being reached, but still short
More minority, women and military service-disabled firms have been involved in the Buffalo Bills stadium construction project since the state sent a letter in June to the team and its project managers, putting them on notice about the low numbers of underserved firms working on the project. But the overall goal for involving women-owned and…
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Visiting professor from Poland to speak on Russian policy at Daemen University
A visiting professor from the American Studies Center of the University of Warsaw in Poland will present a lecture called “Russkiy Mir and the Near Abroad: How History Determines Russian Foreign Policy in the 21st Century” at 6 p.m. March 21 at Daemen University, 4380 Main St., Amherst. Włodzimierz Batog, who is currently teaching at Canisius University…
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Highmark cuts 15 jobs in Western New York as part of larger companywide reduction
Highmark Health has cut 182 jobs across its geographic footprint, including 15 in Western New York. Highmark Western and Northeastern New York spokesperson Kyle Rogers said the 15 affected Western New York-based positions represent about 1% of the health plan’s local workforce of just under 1,400. “Highmark is committed to maintaining a strong local workforce…
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Buffalo science centers in their element for ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ total eclipse
The celestial Super Bowl can’t come soon enough for Kevin Williams. “We have a total solar eclipse coming up on April 8, and for some of us we have been waiting for this for a decade,” said Williams, director of the Whitworth Ferguson Planetarium at Buffalo State University. “We are right along the center of…
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As AI takes off, UB is poised to guide its future uses
On a summery day in March, the huge mesh drone cage at the University at Buffalo’s North Campus is humming as engineering professor Chase Murray and doctoral student Dowon Lee practice landing remote- and voice-controlled drones on a small autonomous land rover. It looks like fun, but it’s also part of serious research on how…
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‘Exceptional in their commitment to our great city’: Buffalo names new city historian, poet laureate
Two women have been appointed to fill the posts of Buffalo city historian and poet laureate. Lindsey Lauren Visser, 32, was named Monday as the first female city historian and Aitina Fareed-Cooke, 37, as the city’s second poet laureate. “Both women are exceptional in their commitment to our great city,” Mayor Byron Brown said in…
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Buffalo Diocese headquarters for sale for $9.8 million
The Buffalo Catholic Diocese’s headquarters in the former Courier-Express newspaper building on Main Street in the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus is being listed for sale at $9.8 million. The Buffalo Diocese has set the price at $5.3 million for a bucolic property in the Town of Aurora where it used to have men trained to…