Aaron Besecker

Tyler J. Vogel, 26, admitted sending threatening text messages on March 24 to Attorney General Letitia James and Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron.

Clarence E. Thomas, faces charges including first- and second-degree murder for the July 30 shooting on Isabelle Street that killed DeMarkus D. Manners and Treyvon D. Flood, both 20. A 19-year-old was injured in the shooting.

The body of Jaylen, who went missing as a 12-year-old in August 2020, was found April 12 in a home on Sheffield Avenue in South Buffalo. Monday would have been Jaylen's 16th birthday.

A woman has been accused of leaving the scene of a January crash that killed a pedestrian on Transit Road in Elma, the Erie County Sheriff's Office said.

The child was taken by ambulance to UPMC Chautauqua Hospital and later taken to an "out-of-town" facility for the treatment of life-threatening injuries, police said in a Facebook post.

Since the April 15 verdict, attorneys from each side have submitted court filings about what topics should be off-limits at the hearing and who will be responsible for paying the punitive damage award.

The jury ruled that damages of $1 million each should be paid by Robert Dee, Matthew Cross, Edward Kawalek, Robert States and Scott Emerling.

Daniel Blamowski, 52, submitted 16 inaccurate timesheets between December 2020 and July 2021, the Inspector General's Office said.

No one was injured following an explosion and fire at a house on 20th Street on Wednesday afternoon, the Niagara Falls firefighters' union posted on Facebook.

State Supreme Court Justice M. William Boller on Friday sentenced the men for the violent attacks in which the victims were targeted because they recently came into sizable financial settlements.