Elba News

Amherst's former assistant town engineer has filed his second lawsuit to try to get his job back after being fired, rehired, then fired again by the town on the grounds that he failed to meet the town's residency requirements.

Genesee County sheriff's deputies today locked down some schools in Genesee County as they search for a suspected bank robber.

Schools in Batavia and Elba are on lockdown as police search for a suspect in an early morning bank robbery.

A manhunt in Genesee County ended in arrest today. An Orleans County deputy has been arrested for allegedly sending a threatening text message.

Three bank robbery suspects who triggered a major manhunt Thursday in Genesee County faced a judge Thursday night in Elba Town Court.

Eyewitness News cameras are in the Batavia area as New York State Police take a third man into custody after a manhunt following an armed bank robbery in nearby Elba, N.Y. Some schools in the rural Western New York county were in lockdown as sheriff's deputies and state police searched for the alleged bank robbers.

From waterboarding to water sports! The Obama administration got a thumbs-up yesterday from Palau -- a "Fantasy Island"-like archipelago in the Pacific with some of the world's most magnificent scuba diving -- to resettle 17 Chinese Muslims who have been imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Republican control of Genesee County government appears to be safe for at least another two years with only two challenges to 10 incumbents seeking re-election. Hollis D. Upson, vice chairman of the County Legislature and longtime representative of city Wards 2 and 3, is being opposed by a newcomer, Christopher Charvella.

Salmon Brown was John Brown's son and shared his father's abolitionist convictions and the belief that African - "Americans were the equals of whites in the eyes of God.

Emergency responders in Genesee County today are investigating an ammonia leak at a large farm in Elba.

Taxpayers in Genesee County's eight school districts will get a breather in Tuesday's elections with spending and tax rates about the same as this year and only one school board contest.

Sony Screen Gems' suspense film "Obsessed" captivated the domestic box office over its first weekend as the Beyonce Knowles-Idris Elba starrer proved more dominant than expected with an estimated $28.5 million.

A mute elderly woman known only as "Jane Doe" since she was found wandering in a New Jersey mall 15 years ago has finally been identified.

Perhaps the greatest joke this season: As Dunder Mifflin inevitably bows to this wintry economic climate and brings in an efficiency expert to oversee Michael and his branch, that expert turns out to be Stringer Bell.

Idris Elba, the British actor who memorably portrayed The Wire 's Stringer Bell, has had a hit-or-miss post-HBO career; he's been in stuff you've probably seen , as well as stuff you probably wish you hadn't . Tonight, Elba breaks his post- Wire television sabbatical when he appears on The Office , in the first part of a six-episode arc.

Amherst's assistant town engineer, who was fired and then rehired, has once again been fired - this time by the entire Town Board.

Two tragedies. One family. You will not believe the sad coincidence. When Flight 3407 crashed late Thursday night outside Buffalo, it killed 50 people including Dawn Monachino.

An accident occured shortly after 7 p.m. Friday, sending one woman to the hospital.

In the milking parlor of the Norton farm in Elba, Genesee County, a pedometer strapped to a cow's leg tells a computer about cow No.

A Hamlin woman faces drunken driving and other charges after she lost control of her car Monday morning on Oak Orchard Road in Elba and became stuck in a snowbank, Genesee County sheriff's officials reported.