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WEDNESDAY: Drug arrest yields cocaine, marijuana (3:20 p.m.)
CRIME: Woman charged after officers reportedly find large amount of drugs in car.
A Tonawanda woman is facing drug charges after an early-morning arrest Wednesday.
Carol A. McNeal, 52, 21 Hale Court, Tonawanda, was charged with fifth- and seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and unlawful possession of marijuana.
Officers were issuing a parking ticket on Washburn Street about 3:10 a.m. when a car, driven by McNeal, turned onto Washburn from Oliver Street.
The car stopped suddenly in the middle of Washburn Street when an unidentified woman ran out in front of the car, the report said.
The woman reportedly yelled an obscenity and took off running when she saw police.
McNeal reportedly pulled into a driveway and attempted to turn around, but officers pulled in behind her in a patrol car.
The passenger, a man later identified as McNeal’s boyfriend, reportedly got out of the car and ran behind a house and out of sight.
McNeal reportedly started to walk away from officers, but she was stopped in front of her car.
She reportedly told police she did not know why her boyfriend ran.
Officers searched McNeal and reportedly found a plastic bag in her front coat pocket containing hydrocodone pills. She reportedly told police she did not have a prescription for them.
McNeal gave officers permission to search her car, where they found 500 milligrams of cocaine between the driver’s seat and the center console, the report said.
Officers reportedly found a black bag in the trunk containing a pipe used to smoke cocaine, a bag of marijuana and two scales. They also found $457 in McNeal’s front pocket, the report said.
McNeal was held without bail.
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LAY OFFS: Seneca Gaming Corp. to cut 210 jobs
The struggling economy has evidently caught up with the local gaming industry.
The Seneca Gaming Corp. announced on Tuesday plans to lay off a total of 210 of the 4,800 employees who work at its casino operations in Niagara Falls, Buffalo and Salamanca.
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MONDAY: Mets, Bisons set to announce affiliation deal
New York Mets executives are in Buffalo to announce that the Triple A Bisons will be the major-league team’s top farm club.
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FRIDAY: Police, fire departments offer disaster training courses (3:13 p.m.)
The Lockport police and fire departments are offering a free community emergency preparedness course.
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FRIDAY: Four school districts holding meetings (1:25 p.m.)
Four school districts in eastern Niagara County will be holding school board meetings next week.
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FRIDAY: Staffing agency opens payroll center in upstate NY (12:40 p.m.)
Adecco, the world’s biggest staffing agency, is opening a new payroll operations center in suburban Rochester that will create 200 new jobs by 2010.
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FRIDAY: Ex-manager accused of theft from NY bowling group (9:58 p.m.)
State police say a 54-year-old man stole as much as $200,000 from a state bowling association while serving as its manager.
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THURSDAY: AT&T expands 3G to NT (4:57 p.m.)
AT&T Inc. is expanding its third-generation, or 3G, high speed wireless network many areas of Niarage and Erie counties.
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THURSDAY: Schumer to offer banks a deal (2:43 p.m.)
Sen. Charles Schumer plans to offer a broad economic proposal for the government to offer a financial lifeline to those banks that are willing to renegotiate mortgages for those on the brink of losing their homes.
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THURSDAY: US woman killed in Yemen embassy attack (11:35 a.m.)
The State Department has confirmed that a young American woman and her Yemeni husband were killed in a terrorist attack at the U.S. Embassy in Yemen.
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THURSDAY: Vegas detective tells of encountering O.J. Simpson (11:24 p.m.)
When police detective Andy Caldwell heard that O.J. Simpson was a suspect in a robbery, he said he couldn’t believe it.
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