Alden News

From the trusted cobblers at Clarks comes a new and somewhat unnecessary version of their Desert Boots.

November 05, 2009, 12:52 PM / Former lawyer Kevin J. Love said he's an alcoholic and has been one "for years" before being ordered today to spend at least another three months behind bars and to undergo more rigorous in-patient treatment after he's released.

November 04, 2009, 7:15 AM / Sheriff Timothy B. Howard appeared to have survived the self-described albatross around his neck - the escapes, deaths and wrongful releases at Erie County's jails - to win re-election Tuesday.

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.

It was a gorgeous Thursday afternoon when I moseyed through the main entrance of the Hilltop Inn.

Sheriff Timothy B. Howard weeks ago asked the county executive to budget 75 more jobs for the sheriff's office in 2010.

She took a series of blows. The next night, hospital doctors recorded her injuries: A bruise to her temple.

The Collins administration wants a federal judge to dismiss the U. S. Justice Department lawsuit against Erie County's jails.

October 24, 2009, 8:25 AM / Hires/Promotions/ Honors Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute named David F. Schneeweiss to its board of directors.

Halloween is just over a week away, and we have the list of times for Trick-or-Treating times in each Erie and Niagara County town.

October 22, 2009, 2:34 PM / A judge today ordered Ngoubdo Babagana to spend weekends in jail until early next year and to talk to school children about the dangers of drinking and driving in between those weekends as punishment for her fatal DWI crash last March.

John and Mary's in Alden is sending out an alert to customers who used credit cards at their establishment during business hours Monday after their safe was stolen.

A mother and her three young children were shaken up this afternoon when an 85-year-old driver ran a stop sign and struck and flipped their Jeep, Lancaster police reported.

A Kaleida Health affiliate has bought a property close to Buffalo General Hospital for $2 million, expanding the hospital system's holdings in the medical corridor.

To hear some of these town board members tell it, they are as essential to our existence as bathroom towels and a winter coat.

October 10, 2009, 7:09 AM / Tracy Staerr, a former bookkeeper for SL Installations in Elma, was sentenced Thursday to five months in jail after pleading guilty to grand larceny in the embezzlement of $30,000 from the company through January 2008.

Voters such as Susan Henry of Alden are why the political downsizing movement is sweeping Erie County - why downsizing is unlikely to fail anywhere if it didn't fail in a tightknit rural town of fewer than 6,000 registered voters.

The man running against Erie County Sheriff Timothy Howard in next month's election is Cheektowaga Police Captain John Glascott.

BUFFALO, N.Y. - Erie County's sheriff attributed an inmate's near escape from a downtown lockup to a single deputy's slip-up and said it did not reflect on the management of the facility, which has been the subject of recent federal and state lawsuits.

A male nurse's aide is accused of molesting a female coworker at the Erie County Home and Infirmary in Alden.