BUFFALO — After three defendants fatally overdosed in a single week last year, it became clear that Buffalo’s ordinary drug treatment court was no match for the heroin and painkiller crisis. Now the city is experimenting with the nation’s first ...

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TOKYO (AP) — Japanese electronics company Panasonic and U.S. electric car maker Tesla said Tuesday they plan to begin production of photovoltaic cells and modules at a factory in Buffalo. The two companies said they finalized an agreement calling for ...

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ALBANY — The Buffalo teachers union is challenging the superintendent’s right to make changes at five persistently struggling schools under the state’s receivership law. The New York State United Teachers filed a lawsuit in Albany Tuesday on behalf of the ...

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BUFFALO — Bars in the Buffalo area can continue to have last call at 4 a.m. after the Erie County Legislature rejected a measure that would have pushed closing time back to 2 a.m. County lawmakers on Thursday voted 7-3 ...

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BUFFALO — Buffalo has been chosen the site of the 2016 New York State Republican Convention. State Chairman Ed Cox and Erie County Chairman Nick Langworthy announced the site during a press conference Tuesday in Buffalo. On the agenda is ...

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BUFFALO — Federal prosecutors say a 56-year-old postal carrier has pleaded guilty to bribery for taking money from Buffalo drug dealers in exchange for handling drug deliveries. U.S. Attorney William Hochul Jr. announced Thursday that Dennis Bernhard, of Derby, faces ...

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SolarCity says the rooftop panels it will make at a plant being built in Buffalo have been rated the most efficient in the world. The San Mateo, California-based solar installer says Friday the new module produces 30 to 40 percent ...

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ALBANY — New York’s attorney general has asked banks and utilities to waive late payment fees for residents who were affected by the recent storm that dumped as much as 7 feet of snow near Buffalo. Residents have been through ...

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BUFFALO (AP) — A settlement has been reached in the only case to go to trial following a 2009 plane crash into a home outside Buffalo that killed 50 people. The deal was announced Thursday in state Supreme Court in ...

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  Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s bumpy win in the Democratic primary is energizing his general election opponents, who said Wednesday that a little-known liberal challenger’s better-than-expected showing exposed big problems for the governor within his own party. The governor traveled to ...

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BUFFALO — A bank purposely avoided giving mortgages to African-Americans by locating all of its branches outside black neighborhoods and directing advertising and loan products toward largely white communities, New York’s attorney general said in a lawsuit filed Tuesday as ...

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A growing Syracuse law firm is expanding to Buffalo, which will increase client access across the state.

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