A lake freighter ship is stuck in ice in the Lake Erie shoreline in the Buffalo River. The vessel Manitoulin was returning to Michigan after completing a routine delivery of wheat when it got stuck.
A Winter Weather Advisory has been issued for northern Erie County, including the City of Buffalo for this afternoon through midnight.
Western New York feeling the deep freeze as temperatures dipped into the negatives, leaving dozens of residents’ car batteries dead, reports AAA.
60 year old Rodney Jones of Buffalo was given two years of probation for fraudulently obtaining more than $80,000 in social welfare benefits over a period of nearly a decade.
The Yahoo data center in the Town of Lockport has been sold to Denver-based H5 Data Centers for a reported $49 million in a sale-leaseback agreement.
A second Trader Joe’s location is being planned for Western New York, this one in Clarence at an old Applebees site, 5017 Transit Road.