SUNY Buffalo News

The following is a press release from the U.S. Embassy, Riga, Public Affairs Section: Riga, November 23, 2009.

New York Gov. David Paterson's budget director has ordered state agencies to continue extending retirement buyouts to employees.

For the second time in a year, state environmental regulators came to Niagara Falls to hear from the public about a draft of its plan to guide the future development of hazardous waste facilities.

Longtime Cheektowaga Central Schools administrator Dennis M. Kane has been named superintendent for the district.

Against the backdrop of Israel's sometimes-fragile image, an organization seeking to promote dialogue about Israel and the Middle East has brought former MK Effie Eitam to US college campuses to advocate for Israel.

November 19, 2009, 7:07 AM / A Town of Tonawanda man who injected his girlfriend with an overdose of a prescription painkiller after they argued last Dec.

A Victor-based electrical contractor is facing $88,200 in proposed fines from the Occupational Health and Safety Administration stemming from a May 18 incident on the University at Buffalo's North Campus in which an employee was burned.

New York's state university system is among the largest in the country, but it has never been known for athletic prominence, unlike major public institutions in states like Florida, Pennsylvania and Michigan.

Hamburg voters will decide today whether to eliminate two town board members, cutting the membership to just 2 members and a supervisor, as part of a region-wide series of downsizing referendums advanced by activist Kevin Gaughan.

Magnetic resonance images of patients diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in childhood show that pediatric onset multiple sclerosis is more aggressive, and causes more brain lesions, than MS diagnosed in adulthood, researchers at the University at Buffalo have reported.

Buffalo/ Victor, N.Y. - " O'Connell Electric Co. of Victor has been cited by OSHA for 14 alleged serious violations of safety standards.

Clyde Herreid displays a clicker. View Larger A University at Buffalo science professor has received a $500,000 National Science Foundation grant to study the use of electronic audience-response devices in science classrooms.

Unfortunately for retailers, the Grinch will be pushing the shopping cart again this holiday season, says Arun Jain, Samuel P. Capen Professor of Marketing Research in the University at Buffalo School of Management.

Kedar Robinson and Ekeh Ibekweh, both former University at Buffalo undergraduates, were found not guilty Thursday of the gunpoint robbery of $3,100 from a fellow student and admitted marijuana trafficker on the North Campus on May 22, 2008.

"Across the nation we have seen a decrease in minority applicants to law school," said Moore, director of the Buffalo regional office for the New York State Division of Human Rights.

World travel is all well and good, if you have the time and the money. For the rest of us, movies can be a substitute exposure to distant parts of the world.

Many Kenyans have been outraged that two men of Kenyan descent would get married to each other and have contacted the men's relatives who still live in the rural sections of their African homeland.

When managers issue a forecast of their firm's earnings, they do not always take into account prior forecasting errors, according to research in the current issue of the Journal of Business Finance & Accounting.

A national accrediting body has put its stamp of approval on the University at Buffalo 's School of Public Health and Health Professions, just six years after the school was formed.

The mammoth economic stimulus bill that passed early this year created or saved just 231 jobs in the Buffalo metro area as of the end of September, a Buffalo News analysis of federal reports shows.