Erie County News

Local leaders and executives from the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens broke ground Wednesday on a new administration building next to the organization's main buildings on South Park Avenue in Buffalo.

Erie County Executive Chris Collins' proposed 2010 budget includes cuts in funding for two the city's busiest health centers.

Authorities in New York say cocaine was being mailed from Puerto Rico to Buffalo to feed a drug ring that also sold prescription pills.

Erie County's sales tax revenue is running behind last year's pace but the summer's "Cash for Clunkers" program provided a welcome boost, the comptroller's office said.

ALBANY - While state leaders say they will work to repeal a new fee on license-plate purchases, there are no immediate plans to drop the production of new plates scheduled to be issued in April, a spokesman for Gov.

Collins man arrested on several charges Joseph A. Mills arrested on multiple charges Observations made by Erie County Sheriff's detectives led to a search warrant being executed at a town of Collins residence late Friday evening, November 6, at 11 o'clock, and the recovery of a stolen vehicle.

The Buffalo Common Council member at the center of a state police investigation said he has not been offered a plea deal by the district attorney's office.

A young Buffalo police officer with less than two years on the job was struck by a vehicle as he was chasing a suspicious person on foot near Broadway on Friday night, and police officials believe the officer was struck intentionally.

November 14, 2009, 9:00 AM / Three men were arrested following a fight in a parking lot in Springville early this morning, Erie County Sheriff's deputies reported.

Rasheed Milton has been found guilty of raping a woman, after he was mistakenly let out of the Erie County Correctional Facility in Alden.

BUFFALO, N.Y. a " A Buffalo Common Council member has pleaded guilty to misusing campaign contributions, but his lawyer says he has no intention of stepping down from office.Brian Davis, who represents the Ellicott district, pleaded guilty in Buffalo City Court Friday to two misdemeanor counts that each carry a maximum prison term of one year.Erie ...

Kedar Robinson and Ekeh Ibekweh, both former University at Buffalo undergraduates, were found not guilty Thursday of the gunpoint robbery of $3,100 from a fellow student and admitted marijuana trafficker on the North Campus on May 22, 2008.

A rare Catahoula leopard dog named Buddy that was rescued from Hurricane Katrina is missing after fleeing from the scene of a one-car crash Wednesday morning in Hartland.

State Police based responded to an Erie County 911 call and investigated a fatal accident, involving a large truck and a pickup, in the Town of Concord, Erie County.

"No one has enough vaccine anywhere," says Dr. Anthony Billittier, Erie County's Health Commissioner.

Animal welfare officials want to know who abandoned more than two dozen sick and filthy puppies in a western New York field.

The republicans pick up three seats in the elections for Erie County Legislature.

A private service was held Sunday morning in Buffalo for the families of the people who died when Flight 3407 crashed in February in nearby Clarence.

An accident involving a school bus and a small car destroyed both vehicles but resulted in only minor injuries for the 22 students and two adults involved.

November 08, 2009, 8:23 AM / Buffalo police are again crediting the installation of a city surveillance camera for helping them crack a homicide case in the University Heights neighborhood.