Aaron Besecker

A Buffalo man on Tuesday admitted in court to concealing his wife's income to obtain more than $9,000 in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, the state Inspector General's Office announced.

On the morning of Oct. 5, 2022, a woman living near the corner of Richlawn and Shawnee avenues heard a child screaming for help.

Patrick J. Washington III, of Buffalo, was taken into custody at about 7 p.m. Wednesday on a warrant charging him in the death of a 26-year-old Falls man struck Oct. 15 on Hyde Park Boulevard, officials said in a news release.

Acting Erie County District Attorney Michael J. Keane wants a county judge to recuse himself from all criminal cases because of campaign statements made by the judge's law clerk, who was Keane's Republican opponent in the race for DA.

Ke'Aira Hudson's eldest daughter took the stand Monday at the trial of Adam R. Bennefield Sr., the man accused of killing her mother as she drove her and her sisters to school on Oct. 5, 2022.

The Erie County Sheriff's Office charged Ahmed A. Yaqoob, 24, of Greece in Monroe County, with predatory sexual assault against a child younger than 13, two counts of first-degree rape and one count of second-degree rape.

A man from a Rochester suburb has been accused of sexually assaulting 12- and 14-year-old girls in Concord last month, the Erie County Sheriff's Office said.

Bennefield faces up to 25 years to life in prison when he's sentenced.

The 17-year-old driver who struck and killed a 13-year-old pedestrian on Grand Island in September was issued a ticket by the Erie County Sheriff's Office for driving out of class and will face no other charges, according to documents filed in State Supreme Court.

Acting Erie County District Attorney Michael J. Keane has dropped his push to get a county judge to recuse himself from all criminal cases because of statements made by the judge's confidential law clerk, who was Keane's opponent in the recent race for district attorney.