United States Senator Chuck Schumer says he and Buffalo-area Congressman Brian Higgins have reached agreement with the CEO of KeyBank to avoid job losses during the KeyBank – First Niagara merger. Key Bank has bought First Niagara, and Schumer says the deal means all KeyBank and First Niagara branch employees will be offered comparable full-time […]
Governor Cuomo went to Buffalo today to sign a bill to help heroin and opioid drug addicts get treatment. Cuomo is touring the state promoting the bill. It requires insurance companies to pay for greater access to treatment programs for people trying to fight addiction. It made it through the state legislatur e this year […]
Fourteen Rochester-area residents have been charged with running a cocaine distribution network that operated throughout the city and its suburbs. The charges were in a sealed indictment, opened today in Monroe County Court. They include first degree narcotics sale and possession, conspiracy to distribute and more. The suspects are from Rochester, Churchville and the Village […]