A Cheektowaga woman looking forward to enjoying her retirement was killed in a house fire early Wednesday morning. The fire on Yeager Drive took the life of 64-year-old Connie Gwinner.
Repairs and projects in the Buffalo Public Schools, Main Street, the Buffalo Museum of Science and more are delayed due to inaction by the city comptroller, acting Mayor Chris Scanlon and other local officials said Wednesday.
A Perrysburg shooting that left two dead on Monday was a murder-suicide. Police say 18 year old Tylin Thomas Jr., of Perrysburg, was intoxicated when he used an AK-47 style weapon to shoot at a car occupied by two 23-year-old men, and then turned the gun on himself.
The Diocese of Buffalo cut “roughly” 18 out of 75 positions to fulfill an agreement to pay $150 million to settle over 800 claims of sexual abuse, a spokesperson said Wednesday.
An Air Quality Alert remains in effect for Western New York, as smoke from Canadian wildfires continues to drift into our region.