03-12-26 PM Headlines

Despite assuring residents at last month’s parks forum that fundraising was underway for the proposed Aaron Mossell Park and that its cost would not fall on taxpayers, Lockport leaders involved with the project are unable to provide any cost estimate for the plan.

A Niagara Falls school teacher who was suspended with pay pending the outcome of an investigation into allegations that he told a racist joke to two Black students has been fired.

A Buffalo man. Alexander Kozak, was sentenced to an indeterminate sentence of 1 1/3 to four years in prison on Wednesday after his passenger died in a crash in 2024, the Erie County District Attorney’s office said.

The Seneca Babcock Community Association is shutting down its daycare and all other programs, according to CEO and president Brian Pilarski, who says he plans to resign from the organization after it lost its nonprofit status, and says the daycare will be shutting down next week and all of its other programs are ending Friday.