The Buffalo News

Schools repeatedly tightened their security and training after massacres at Columbine, Virginia Tech and Sandy Hook, while people who oversee workplaces have remained in denial about violence,... Read More

Two people were injured in an early-morning crash in Amherst involving a state snow plow truck.The crash happened just before 3 a.m. on Sheridan Drive between North Forest Road and Mill Street,... Read More

Four people were injured in a two-car collision late Friday morning at a busy intersection on Delaware Avenue, Buffalo fire dispatchers reported.The accident occurred shortly after 11:15 a.m. at... Read More

A Buffalo school principal has been placed on paid administrative leave after pleading guilty this week to a misdemeanor charge of insurance fraud.Parette Walker, principal at Olmsted School 64 on... Read More

Amherst police are alerting the community that a 14-year-old girl reportedly was approached by a man Thursday afternoon in the Burroughs Drive area of Snyder.The man attempted to coax the girl into ... Read More

NIAGARA FALLS – Niagara Falls police closed a Main Street bar early Friday morning following a loud music complaint and finding an intoxicated female younger than 21 sitting on a nearby... Read More

A Buffalo woman pleaded not guilty Friday when she was arraigned in State Supreme Court on a murder charge in connection with the death of a Cheektowaga businessman in November.Debra Haynes-Thomas, ... Read More

A lawsuit filed by the family of a University at Buffalo medical resident who fell to his death at a downtown nightclub is being withdrawn.Rajan Verma, 28, died after he lost his balance and fell... Read More

Al-Shariyfa Robinson’s felony hearing for the double murder-arson of two men during a Curtiss Street fire was delayed Friday until Feb. 22. Robinson remains jailed without bail on two counts ... Read More

NIAGARA FALLS – The man found dead under “suspicious” circumstances at 1011 Michigan Avenue late Thursday morning was a homicide victim and was identified as Duane Price, the... Read More

BATAVIA – Sara A. Howard, 21, of Bergen, and Alexander E. Fostano, 28, of Batavia, were arrested by State Police on felony charges Wednesday for two alleged burglaries in the Leroy home of a ... Read More

A 10-month, two-country investigation led to the arrests Thursday of a Canadian man living on Nottingham Terrace and a Hertel Avenue barber and the seizure of quantities of alleged molly and... Read More

LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls woman, who robbed a 7-Eleven store in the Falls and escaped from police on a hospital visit after becoming ill in jail, will try to become drug-free – or... Read More

LOCKPORT – Second-time felon Jacob A. Harbaugh, 25, of Niagara Avenue, Niagara Falls, was sentenced Friday to 1½ to three years in state prison for his part in a Dec. 9, 2014, burglary... Read More

LOCKPORT – A Town of Niagara man pleaded not guilty in Niagara County Court Friday to an indictment accusing him of bludgeoning a Niagara Falls man in the head with a blunt object last year.... Read More

LOCKPORT – A Lockport woman admitted in Niagara County Court Friday that she held a 16-year-old girl’s hand and encouraged her as the defendant’s live-in boyfriend had sex with ... Read More

LOCKPORT – Randy P. Maedl of Hartland denied in Niagara County Court Friday that he sexually abused a 23-year-old woman on Aug. 1.Maedl, 62, of Bradley Road, pleaded not guilty to an... Read More

A 20-year-old City of Tonawanda man who crashed into an empty warehouse about 5 p.m. Friday told police he had just been “going way too fast” while taking driving lessons. Micah D.... Read More

A 40-year-old Riverside Avenue man was arrested about 4 a.m. Friday for allegedly threatening a female neighbor with a steak knife during an argument in the 200 block of that street. Jolanda... Read More

An unidentified man was fatally shot at about 8:30 p.m. Friday on Curry Walk off Jefferson Avenue on Buffalo’s East Side.The victim was declared dead at the scene.Additional information was... Read More

A 65-year-old Williamsville man was killed Friday night when a car hit him as he was crossing Evans Street in an electric-powered wheelchair, Amherst Police reported.Michael J. Santillo was... Read More

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