Buffalo Mayor Sean Ryan was in Albany on Wednesday asking lawmakers for help stabilizing the city’s budget. Ryan says that the city has a revenue problem after a generation of “fiscal mismanagement.”
Niagara Falls Mayor Robert Restaino also made his case for up to $200 million in state development funding.
Gun accessory manufacturer Mean Arms has agreed to pay $1.75 million to the families of the victims, survivors and those who were injured in the racist mass shooting at Tops on Jefferson Avenue on May 14, 2022.
A Lancaster man, Justin Goodrich, faces up to a year in jail after pleading guilty to a road rage incident in which he repeatedly used racial slurs and grabbed a person.
A fast-moving fire has destroyed a generational family home on East Avenue in Newfane, leaving the Taylor family to begin the difficult process of rebuilding from scratch. One of the businesses stepping up is Cafora’s Pizza on Main Street. The restaurant is collecting cash donations to help the family as they recover.