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An early-morning fire in Amherst sent one person to the hospital and caused $225,000 in damages to a four-unit apartment building.The blaze broke out at 7 Hedge Court, off of Campus Drive between... Read More

Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul will talk about the state’s new sexual assault prevention law at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday at Daemen College.Hochul’s appearance in the Wick Campus Center Alumni... Read More

Property-damage mishaps rose from 44 in 2014 to 70 in 2015.... Read More

As Patricia Cole sat by the mounting cases of bottled water in the lobby of True Bethel Baptist Church on Sunday, she marveled at how the effort to get clean drinking water to Flint, Mich., has... Read More

Buffalo firefighters were called to a blaze in the city’s Kaisertown neighborhood shortly before 6 a.m. Monday.The fire at a home on Gorski Street, off of Clinton Street between Bailey... Read More

A Lockport man wanted by the FBI in connection with several bank robberies was arrested over the weekend when his rental car ran out of gas on the Thruway.Just before 12:30 a.m. Saturday, a state... Read More

Fire broke out at an Amherst apartment building early Monday morning.The blaze at 7 Hedge Court, off of Campus Drive between Main Street and Sheridan Drive, was reported at 4:08 a.m. The fire... Read More

A judge has appointed a special prosecutor to oversee the sentencing of a man convicted last year of robbing the mother of Erie County’s acting district attorney.The case of Antonio Mercado, ... Read More

Cash was stolen early Sunday during a burglary at a Knights of Columbus hall in South Buffalo, police said.A side window of the Knights of Columbus at 261 South Legion Drive was broken sometime... Read More

Kenmore, with state help in 2013, narrowed the traffic pattern on Delaware Avenue through the village from four lanes to two. The goal was to slow traffic.But that same stretch experienced a big... Read More