Buffalo News

Mayor Byron W. Brown has ousted the embattled president of Buffalo's main development agency, saying the move is about "change and reform." Brown confirmed today that he asked for Brian Reilly's resignation as president of the Buffalo Economic Renaissance Corp.

Ignoring the legal advice of the state's top lawyer, Gov. David A. Paterson tapped a downstate attorney as lieutenant governor Wednesday to help break the month-old stalemate in the State Senate.

Spurred by the fatal Colgan Air crash near Buffalo, New York, in February, the Federal Aviation Administration plans to tighten its regulations, coming up with new flight and rest rules for airlines and requiring that airlines obtain all available FAA pilot records, among other actions.

Since coming taking office in 2006, Mayor Brown's City Hall has been the target of numerous allegations of incompetent, unscrupulous, illegal and questionable behavior.

Folks have been grousing about Mickey Kearns' lackluster, at best, mayoral campaign, but on Monday the South Buffalo councilman took off the gloves about the Brown administration leaning on City Hall employees to work on Byron Brown's re-election campaign.

I've got a story running today that provides a glimpse into how Byron Brown and Steve Casey are leaning on the City Hall work force to work on the mayor's re-election campaign.

SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher recently picked up an addition $90,000 a year by declining a Manhattan apartment and Chancellor's apartment in Albany called for in her contract.

A photo exhibit at Grant Street Gallery compares Buffalo's devestated blocks to post-Katrina New Orleans In March 2006, Clark Dever, a Buffalo-based photojournalist and activist, recruited 65 of his fellow UB undergraduates to travel to New Orleans during their spring break to take part in the ongoing relief effort.

The drama that unfolded at Fort Niagara that sultry summer night in 1759 would end with the French officers running up the flag of surrender to the British at the garrison known as the House of Peace.

A 4-year-old boy was struck by a car Friday afternoon on River Road but miraculously survived without severe injuries.

Following weeks of speculation, Governor Paterson and Senator Charles Schumer announced Tuesday that yes, indeed, Yahoo! will build a new data center in Western New York.

The New York State Insurance Department said it has distributed more than $48.5 million to fire departments and districts statewide - including $277,430 to Buffalo - from a program that taxes foreign insurers that write fire insurance in the state.

Fire officials say a carelessly discarded cigarette ignited a blaze that destroyed a building at a Buffalo marina and damaged several boats.

Buffalo detectives have arrested a suspect in the beating death of 15-year-old Sudanese refugee Kowat Rual, whose body was found at the edge of a canoe launch June 9. Julian L. Christopher, 21, of Zelmer Street, was arrested Thursday morning and confessed to Kowat's killing, police said in a news conference this afternoon.

Two young men were wounded, one critically, when they were shot late Friday afternoon as they sat on a porch in the city's Masten District, Buffalo police said.

A group of budding scientists got a chance Friday to use top-of-the- line computer technology to develop plans for treating cancer.

A Buffalo man, who was detained and questioned for hours about e-mails demanding the resignation of Mayor Byron W. Brown and his top deputy, has filed a lawsuit for false arrest and unlawful imprisonment, his attorney said Tuesday.

Attorneys for suspended Falls Police Officer Ryan Warme will renew their calls for two trials for their client when they appear later today in front of U.S. Magistrate Judge Hugh Scott at U.S. District Court in Buffalo.

A retired sergeant with the state Department of Corrections was injured at the National Guard's Balmer Road firing range Wednesday when he accidentally shot himself with a pistol.

Buffalo Police Homicide Detectives have arrested a suspect in connection with the death of 15 year old Kowat Rual of Garner Street.