Erie County News

An 18-year-old man was shot while driving in the 200 block of Potomac Avenue just after 8 p.m. Thursday.

FBI agents are executing search warrants today at the two most expensive homes ever purchased in Erie County.

The Erie County Legislature approved by a 14-0 vote a plan to have the voters decide on whether to reduce the size of the legislature to 13 members and to increase the length of the term to four years.

FBI agents raided a pair of multimillion-dollar homes owned by a young Cleveland businessman's financial company, hauling away computers, documents, furniture, cars and other belongings.

Doug Kohler, a history teacher at Clarence Middle School, has been appointed Erie County historian.

Two of Erie County\'s most expensive homes were searched by FBI agents Wednesday.

A shooting on Ontario Street in Riverside Tuesday afternoon left an a Buffalo teen in critical condition in Erie County Medical Center.

The town of Persia was awarded a $300,000 grant to repave a county road, it was announced Tuesday.

A Buffalo congressman has called for a bigger chunk of the New York Power Authority's profits to be funneled into Western New York.

Swine flu complications claim the life of a second child in Buffalo, this time a 9-year-old girl.

City of Tonawanda police have announced that the 15-year-old boy who was struck by a train last week was pulled off of life support Friday.

A Buffalo man stabbed in the back early Saturday remained in critical condition Sunday in Erie County Medical Center.

The family of the Buffalo girl that died of swine flu speaks to Eyewitness News about her final days.

A spokesman for the Erie County Health Department has confirmed that a second person has died from the H1N1 virus -- also known as the swine flu.

It didn't take long for the state attorney general's investigators to realize they weren't dealing with your average businessman when they entered his Harvard Place residence early Tuesday.

A Marigold Avenue man was convicted Thursday of assault, attempted robbery and weapons charges for the shooting of a suspected Buffalo cocaine trafficker during a home invasion on June 12, 2008.

Come for the music, stay for the food. If Starry Night in the Garden, Star 102.5's annual fundraiser for the Buffalo & Erie County Botanical Gardens, doesn't have a slogan already, that should be it.

A city snowplow operator was indicted on manslaughter charges in connection with an accident in January when a man walking on Kensington Avenue was fatally injured by a snowplow.

All but three of Erie County's school districts improved the graduation rates for 2004 freshmen who received or would have received diplomas four years later, according to the latest numbers released by the New York State Education Dept.

A tearful Kathleen Manning was taken into custody today to begin a six-month jail term for the alcohol- and cocaine-fueled traffic accident that killed an acquaintance.