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It was an otherwise ordinary October day when Ryne Dougherty, a 16-year-old linebacker at Montclair High School in northern New Jersey, tackled the opposing team's ball carrier.

October 04, 2009, 7:13 AM / Denise E. O'Donnell, a Buffalo native who is the state's deputy secretary for public safety, received a lifetime achievement award last week from the National Center for Women and Policing.

When the Rev. Lora Allen was told by YWCA of Niagara CEO Kathleen Granchelli that she was an award nominee, Allen responded with some reasons why she shouldn't be a nominee.

Local paramedics have started giving heart-attack patients the big chill to thwart brain damage and save lives.

Jets special teams coach Mike Westhoff is shown diagramming the play for his kickoff return team following a third-quarter Eagles field goal during a game in 2007.

The news came like a punch in the gut. A Permian football player, during a routine drill in practice, was injured to the extent that he still has yet to regain feeling from his waist down.

Elad Levy sits in the control room of the neuroendovascular suite in Millard Fillmore Gates Circle Hospital, dressed in blue scrubs.

Ravens special teams coordinator Jerry Rosburg has to make some tough decisions this offseason.

Researchers at the University of Rochester have found that a common blue dye called Brilliant Blue G can slow the body's reaction to traumatic spine injury and allow patients to recover.

Brendon Ayanbadejo has crashed into football's dreaded wedge formation on more kickoffs than he can count during six NFL seasons.

Channel 2 News has won a national Edward R. Murrow award from the Radio-Television News Directors Association .

Leading up to the start of training camp, WGR's Joe Buscaglia will be providing you with a countdown of the Top 10 story lines heading in to July 25th.

Catching up on the headlines: The TV Summer of Terrell Owens continues: On Thursday night, the new Buffalo Bills receiver visits ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live." Presumably, he'll primarily be there to promote his VH1 reality series, "The T.O Show." But I suspect he might also talk about his participation in ABC's "The Superstars" with the foul-mouth ...

NIAGARA RISING: Megan Roffle, left, and Wallace Snyder, both culinary arts students at Niagara County Community College, showed off some of their pastry desserts in the lobby of the Statler Towers during the Chefs of Buffalo Culinary fundraiser in April.

Nurses from around Western New York are invited to attend the "Positive Changes in Nursing, A Nurse Recognition Event" conference being held Monday at Conference Center Niagara in Niagara Falls.

The Buffalo Bills have to make a big strategic change to their kickoff returns this season, even though they had the best return unit in the NFL last year.