Dan Herbeck

Where Your Story Lives After he was fired in late 2016 from his engineering job on Grand Island, Edward F. Melber, 52, began a “David vs.

Federal immigration agents in Buffalo have arrested a man whom they identify as a criminal illegal alien from El Salvador and suspected member of the violent crime gang known as MS-13.

The 3-year-old bulldog, named Goon, died of heat stroke after being left in a Cheektowaga parking lot for “more than an hour” last Sept. 16, the Erie County District Attorney’s Office said.

If the walls inside the old Armory Restaurant could talk, they would probably reveal some wild and intriguing tales.

A former prosecutor who helped put John H. Walker and the late Darryl A. Boyd in prison after a 1976 homicide is now urging Erie County not to pay settlements of more than $21 million to Walker and to Boyd's estate.

A June 14 fundraiser will benefit an organization that helps people with blood cancers and other health problems.

Dan Herbeck is a news reporter with The Buffalo News.

“Criminals hate streetlights” is one of the many adages that the Rev. Earl E. Perrin remembers from his 24 years as a Buffalo police officer.

Here are five things to know about Buffalo's streetlights Al Coppola stands by a streetlight stump in front of his home on Monday, May 11, 2026.

If the Trump administration's controversial proposal to establish a $1.776 billion "Anti-Weaponization Fund" moves forward, a former East Aurora politician hopes to become the first American to benefit.