Buffalo NY

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The New York Attorney General’s Office of Special Investigation announced Monday that it has opened an investigation following an officer-involved shooting in Buffalo. Buffalo Police have identified the man as 58-year-old Charles Butler. They say Butler recently moved to the Western New York area...

Authorities say 160 missing children and teenagers have been located across New York through a series of coordinated, multi-agency recovery operations. The effort, led by the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services Missing Persons Clearinghouse and the National Child Protection Task , spans three...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — From Western New York to the national stage, a Western New York native is turning heads in the hit television show “The Voice.”. “I was sitting in my car,” SUNY Fredonia senior Lucas West said. “I got, in my opinion, the best phone call of my life.”

New proposed legislation aims to create a state tax credit to convert vacant office buildings into residential space. “We must continue to strengthen the core,” said New York state Sen. Pat Fahy, D-Albany. “The core of our urban areas whether that’s Buffalo, Albany, Syracuse and more.”. Fahy...

The following is a clip from Buffalo Pro Soccer, which is posting a series called Supporter Spotlight, pointing out the people who are helping to build the club from the ground up. Gabriel Shalamba grew up under the warm sun and rolling green hills of South Kivu in the Democratic...

BUFFALO, NY — Three people were arrested after law enforcement executed a search warrant at a residence in Buffalo’s Lovejoy neighborhood on March 4. Larry Hurley, 49, of Buffalo, Elias Freese, 48, of Buffalo, and Shaquelle Coleman, 32, of Buffalo, were taken into custody without incident. Erie County...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Eight adults and one child were displaced by a fire at an apartment complex in Amherst Sunday morning, according to the Amherst Central Fire Alarm Office. Multiple fire departments responded to the fire around 9 a.m. at 679 Skinnersville Rd. The fire caused $200,000 in damage to the apartment...

The SPCA Serving Erie County shared the story of two kittens, Juniper and Cairo, who were rescued in January after being abandoned in an apartment. Both were sick and in need of care, with Juniper suffering from cerebellar hypoplasia and Cairo recovering from a swollen paw.

YOUNGSTOWN, N.Y. — A man has died after tree fell on him in the Town of Porter. The Niagara County Sheriff's Deputies were dispatched to an address on Lake Road in Porter at around 2:30 p.m. Monday, for reports that a man had been severely injured while felling a tree.

How much of the bread you eat is the same stuff, week after week, the convenient, not-so-bad loaf of adequacy?. It’s right there at the supermarket, after all. What sort of bread could even convince you a second stop was worthwhile?. How far off the beaten path would you...