A candidate for Lackawanna City Council with a felony conviction has survived an effort to kick him off the ballot because of his crime. Opponents in Lackawanna's First Ward challenged Mohamed T. Albanna's petition to be on the ballot because of his 11-year-old conviction for illegally sending $5.5 million to Yemen, his native country. The Erie County Board of Election commissioners unanimously rejected two challenges to Albanna's petitions following a hearing. "That kind of blew it out of the sky," said Albanna, owner of AB&S Wholesale on Clinton Street. Albanna was prosecuted under the Patriot Act during an era in...