Erie County News

Child's play turns tragic on the southern tier. A Franklinville family is coping with a heartbreaking loss after a five year old boy is killed while playing with a toy bow and arrow.

A former Erie County sheriff's deputy who admits to possessing heroin will face sentencing Wednesday.

We have new information on a wild crash involving a police car that shattered a quiet neighborhood in Buffalo overnight.

Niagara County lawmakers are attempting to throw some roadblocks in front of 75,000 tons of contaminated waste bound for the Town of Porter.

The fact that charter schools have posted some of the highest state test scores among Buffalo schools this year speaks to the validity of what was once considered an educational experiment.

US District Court Judge William Skretny has ordered a hearing for August 21 on whether Senecas can continue to run gaming operations at the Buffalo Creek casino site.

Niagara Falls * ARREST: A Falls man was arrested after a shoplifting incident at a supermarket in the 1000 block of Portage Avenue.

NORTH COLLINS One man was killed when his car ran off Jennings Road in the Town of North Collins and flipped over several times.

A crow found in Lancaster tested positive for West Nile virus, prompting a warning today from the Erie County Health Department for local residents to take precautions to avoid being sickened by the virus.

The head of 1 of upstate New York's largest medical centers has been named to lead Atlanta's only public hospital.

A domestic dispute on the New York State Thruway turned dangerous, and then took a bizarre turn Saturday.

The Erie County Sheriff's Office is investigating a one-car crash in the Town of North Collins that resulted in fatal injuries to the driver.

As patrol cars go, one of the better ones at the Erie County Sheriff's Office will soon click past 100,000 miles.

Erie County sheriff's deputies said a motorist pulled over in a routine traffic stop, who faced only petty traffic violations, ripped off his clothes and ran away.

State officials suspect Type E botulism poisoning is behind recent dieoffs of fish on Lake Erie beaches.

Hamburg Police say a car chase Thursday night led to a driver crashing into a moving train in Lakeview.

Police are now reporting that vandals have bombed four mailboxes in two days in the Town of Clarence.

A Springville woman with a previous conviction for driving while intoxicated now faces a felony DWI charge after being arrested early Thursday in the village of Springville, Erie County sheriff's deputies said.

A Rochester man was killed yesterday in an accident on the New York state Thruway in Evans, Erie County, according to New York State Police.

Evan McKenzie on the rise of private urban governance and the law of homeowner and condominium associations Thursday, July 17, 2008 Nearly 1 in 5 poor people surveyed in Erie County reported living in a home ...