Mike McAndrew

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Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz on Thursday called Sumitomo Rubber USA's decision to close its Town of Tonawanda plant where 1,500 workers

Buffalo News Editor-in-Chief Margaret Kenny Giancola introduces the high school chorus from the Charter School for Applied Technologies to kick off the 2024 News Neediest Fund toy drive.

Niagara County Sheriff's Office investigators charged a Town of Lockport man with raping a child on Friday.

The sister of an Erie County inmate who died from drinking too much water during a mental health crisis sued the county and its sheriff this week, alleging negligence and medical malpractice caused the death.

William B. Henley died in 2022 in the Erie County Holding Center. His daughter sued Erie County, Sheriff John Garcia and the city of Buffalo on Monday accusing them of causing his death by failing to provide adequate medical services to him.

The brother of inmate James A. Ellis, who died in the county Holding Center in 2021 due to complications from an undiagnosed cancer, sued the county on Tuesday, the third such inmate death lawsuit filed against the county in eight days.

Richard Bentler, 68, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to possession of obscene visual depictions of minors engaged in sexual conduct, according to court records.

The state Commission of Correction criticized the Erie County Holding Center's staff this month over the deaths of two inmates, saying one “may have

Danielle N. Frank-Sasiadek had persevered for almost two decades with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, a hereditary neuromuscular disorder that left her in constant pain.