Dan Herbeck

Chester Culler, 48, who lived in New York City and North Carolina but traveled all over the United States to steal, was sentenced Thursday to nine months imprisonment, followed by three years on supervised release.

The Variety Club Telethon, which already has raised more than $43 million for the Oishei Children’s Hospital and other charities that help kids in Western New York, will continue a successful run that began in 1962.

Arkan Fadhel is the latest of several transportation company owners throughout the state who have been prosecuted in recent years for cheating the system that provides health services for the poor.

Retired journalist Maura Casey's memoir, "Saving Ellen," recalls a tumultuous childhood in Buffalo.

Read the offbeat tales our reporters have gathered for this week's Off Main Street column.

Pharaoh's strip club owner Peter Gerace Jr. told The Buffalo News that he hopes the Trump administration officials who recently took control of the Justice Department will re-examine his case and take action to overturn his convictions.

The leadership change resulted from accusations that some people working in the Public Defenders Office were conducting themselves in an unprofessional manner, county officials told The Buffalo News.

Accusations of the wrongdoing by Buffalo Police in the arrest and imprisonment of John H. Walker Jr. and Darryl A. Boyd have already cost Buffalo taxpayers $8.7 million. It could cost Erie County taxpayers millions more.

Patrick Raycraft, 63, is a photojournalist and journalism teacher from Connecticut whose life was saved by doctors, nurses and other emergency medical personnel last October in Western New York.

Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz wants to make dramatic cuts to the millions of dollars the county currently spends on providing legal representation to indigent defendants.