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| 1 | New Era Cap Co. going from 3 plants to 1 | Business |
| New Era Cap Co., which supplies Major League baseball players and celebrities, said Thursday that low consumer demand is forcing the consolidation of its U.S. manufacturing operations from three plants into one. The Buffalo-based headgear maker plans to close its Jackson, Ala. | ||
| 11/19/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 2 | Widow of NY abortion provider praises tougher law | Business |
| The widow of a doctor who was shot to death in his New York home in 1998 by an abortion protester said Thursday the new state law setting tougher penalties for people who attack abortion providers or their employees and volunteers will reduce such incidents. | ||
| 10/30/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 3 | Widow of NY abortion provider praises tougher law | Nation and World |
| The widow of a doctor who was shot to death in his New York home in 1998 by an abortion protester said Thursday the new state law setting tougher penalties for people who attack abortion providers or their employees and volunteers will reduce such incidents. | ||
| 10/29/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 4 | HUD official tours upstate NY's vacant homes | Business |
| New York lawmakers brought the nation's top housing official through some of Buffalo's most forlorn neighborhoods Friday, seeking support for a $300 million program to help cities with vast stocks of vacant housing that predate the nation's foreclosure crisis. | ||
| 10/23/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 5 | Women take a seat in Transportation Hall of Fame | Nation and World |
| Bad roads, bad weather, flat tires, breakdowns. A lot of Alice Ramsey's challenges during her New York City-to-San Francisco drive could be any traveler's. In 1909, though, and before any other woman had made such a trip, others were uniquely hers. | ||
| 10/23/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 6 | Women take a seat in Transportation Hall of Fame | Local News |
| Bad roads, bad weather, flat tires, breakdowns. A lot of Alice Ramsey's challenges during her New York City-to-San Francisco drive could be any traveler's. In 1909, though, and before any other woman had made such a trip, others were uniquely hers. | ||
| 10/23/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 7 | Buffalo Pierce Arrow museum creates Hall of Fame | Local News |
| Bad roads, bad weather, flat tires, breakdowns. A lot of Alice Ramsey's challenges during her New York City-to-San Francisco drive could be any traveler's. In 1909, though, and before any other woman had made such a trip, others were uniquely hers. | ||
| 10/23/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 8 | NY businessman gets 20 years for Ponzi scheme | Nation and World |
| Victims of a multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme who wanted the man who robbed them severely punished got their wish Wednesday when a judge sentenced the 83-year-old businessman to a 20-year prison term. | ||
| 10/21/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 9 | Western NY friends wear out all-you-can-fly passes | Business |
| Two adventure-seeking college buddies are back on the ground in Buffalo after squeezing 50,000 miles - and a marriage proposal and new careers - out of a pair of all-you-can-fly plane tickets that took them to 30 cities in 31 days. | ||
| 10/9/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 10 | State labor officials: Extend benefits for jobless | Local News |
| Labor commissioners from 18 states urged the U.S. Senate on Thursday to act immediately to extend unemployment benefits for 300,000 people who will exhaust theirs in another week. "We're here because we are facing an unemployment crisis of epic proportions," said New York Labor Commissioner M. | ||
| 9/24/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 11 | State labor officials: Extend benefits for jobless | Business |
| Labor commissioners from 18 states urged the U.S. Senate on Thursday to act immediately to extend unemployment benefits for 300,000 people who will exhaust theirs in another week. "We're here because we are facing an unemployment crisis of epic proportions," said New York Labor Commissioner M. | ||
| 9/24/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 12 | Psychiatric defense likely in NY wife beheading | Nation and World |
| A man accused of beheading his wife at the television station they founded to counter stereotypes of Muslims is likely to claim emotional distress was behind the killing in hopes of avoiding a murder conviction. | ||
| 9/18/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 13 | Brother of slain pregnant teenager accused of rape | Nation and World |
| A man accused of raping his adopted teenage sister has turned himself in and is a person of interest in her shooting death at a school bus stop, police said Tuesday. | ||
| 9/15/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 14 | NY dad told soldier-son killed in war _ he wasn't | Nation and World |
| An Army unit is reviewing how it delivers information to families after a call to a western New York couple led them to believe their son had been killed in combat. Ray Jasper of Niagara Falls said he, his wife, Robin, and their extended family spent four hours Sunday mourning their son, Sgt. | ||
| 9/15/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 15 | GM rolls past 1 million miles in fuel cell demo | Business |
| General Motors Co. is now 1 million miles into its fuel cell experiment and company officials say having everyday people drive a test fleet of pollution-free cars has convinced them they are on the right track. | ||
| 9/10/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 16 | FAA chief questions professionalism in NY crash | Nation and World |
| The head of the Federal Aviation Administration said Thursday that a deadly plane crash near Buffalo demonstrated a "complete inattention to basic details" compared with the "textbook greatness" of the safe landing of a jetliner on the Hudson River just weeks earlier. | ||
| 9/10/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 17 | Sisters of 9/11 activist widow walk similar path | Nation and World |
| Yet it's the path all would take, that of reluctant but determined advocate: First Beverly as one of the most visible faces pushing to fix problems exposed by the terror attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people. Now her sisters, taking on aviation safety following the Feb. | ||
| 9/4/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 18 | Hero funerals for 2 Buffalo firefighters | Nation and World |
| More than 5,000 firefighters lined several city blocks in Buffalo and saluted with white-gloved hands as the flag-draped casket of a fellow firefighter arrived at a downtown cathedral. The sad scene played out twice Friday on a day of mourning. | ||
| 8/28/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 19 | Blackhawks' Kane guilty of disorderly conduct | Sports |
| Chicago Blackhawks forward Patrick Kane and his cousin pleaded guilty Thursday to a noncriminal charge of disorderly conduct and were ordered to send an apology to the cab driver they were accused of roughing up over 20 cents. | ||
| 8/27/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 20 | 2 Buffalo firefighters killed in floor collapse | Nation and World |
| Two firefighters - one searching for a person reported to be trapped and the other responding to a mayday call - plunged through the collapsed first floor of a burning building and died early Monday. | ||
| 8/24/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||