Amherst News

Get ready for a cool, wet week. Thanks to slow-moving upper level low pressure system, showers and thunderstorms pop up in the forecast all the way through Fourth of July weekend.

Eyewitness News has an update on a serious early morning crash in Amherst. 18 year old Mark Steinkirchner of Amherst is in serious condition at ECMC Thursday after the car he was driving struck a utility pole at 171 Meyer Road.

Christopher Tulumello looked every bit the clean-cut young man with a promising future as he stood Wednesday in Erie County Court dressed in a charcoal suit awaiting sentence.

An 18-year-old Amherst youth was seriously injured early this morning when his speeding vehicle went off Meyer Road, struck a telephone pole and split in half, Amherst police reported.

BY JOHN J. HOPKINS AND PAUL OLCZAK john.hopkins@lockportjournal.com TOWN OF TONAWANDA - Town police continue to investigate a Wednesday morning accident that killed a 97-year-old pedestrian who was crossing Parker Boulevard beneath the Interstate 290 overpass.

Saxophonist Bobby Militello has been in Dave Brubeck's band since 1983. "He heard me with Maynard Ferguson in '77 at the Vermont Jazz Festival where I got quite an ovation from the crowd of about 20,000," Militello says.

On the day Prince Debrah begins his freshman year at Babson College in Wellesley, Mass., he'll fulfill not only his own college dream, but also his father's. "He was forced to go into the family business.

The exhibition features 15 original drawings, two lithographs, a poster and a silver sculpture from the Edmund Klein Collection.

After one of the bleakest winters for business that Amherst Paving president David Roetzer can remember, he is grateful for the $2.2 million in stimulus money that will pay for his crew to do three road projects this summer - including part of Transit Road.

Red-light running is such a problem in the City of Buffalo that state lawmakers have cleared the way for cameras to be placed at dozens of dangerous intersections.

Scott Simon Ebben, age 44, of Amherst, NY, passed away suddenly the morning of June 14, 2009.

Amherst police are looking for a bank robber who displayed a handgun in a holdup at the Key Bank branch at 5200 Main St.

Candlewood Suites Buffalo- Amherst opens June 18, 2009. The hotel features 76 studios and one-bedroom suites with fully -equipped kitchens with refrigerator, microwave, stovetop and dishwasher, large workspace, and free high-speed Internet access, HD TV and DVD player.

Northeast District police arrested an Amherst woman early today on charges of drunken driving and leaving the scene of an accident.

Good morning Buffalo, and welcome to another beautiful day. We should see plenty of sunshine today and enjoy high temperatures in the mid-70s before clouds and humid conditions join us for the weekend.

In Amherst, N.Y, an 18,000-square-foot La-Z-Boy Furniture Galleries store has opened on Sheridan Drive.

Patricia Ware, who had been under court-ordered psychiatric care at her Cheektowaga home since a fatal Amherst car crash last August, was jailed today after pleading not guilty to second-degree manslaughter.

Police used a Taser to subdue a man stabbing a six-month-old infant in the neck early Thursday during a violent domestic dispute.

There are a lot of farms within 100 miles of Becker Farms and Vizcarra Vineyards on Quaker Road in Gasport.

An 82-year-old western New York businessman who targeted Catholics and retirees for a multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme pleaded guilty Monday to charges that will leave him penniless and likely in prison for the rest of his life.