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A study released Tuesday by the University at Buffalo's new shale gas institute concludes that state oversight of gas drilling has been effective at reducing environmental problems in Pennsylvania and will prevent major problems in New York if the state allows drilling to begin.

City Comptroller Mark Schroeder has asked the Buffalo Fiscal Stability Authority to shift its standing from a hard control board to a soft advisory panel Schroeder, in a detailed package delivered to Nils Olsen Jr., BFSA chairman, said the city's financial picture has turned around and reached certain benchmarks that allow the for the transition.

The New York State Education Commissioner has rejected the latest proposal on teacher evaluations submitted and agreed upon by the Buffalo School District and Buffalo Teachers Federation Teachers union delegates were set to vote on the plan Tuesday night, but found out just hours before that the state rejected the plan all together.

Victor Keith Rauch, 26, of Turpin, died Monday after the tractor-trailer he was driving crashed in Harper County, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported.

That's the amount of funding that the state might remove over this and next year after the Buffalo Teacher's Federation , the teachers union in Buffalo, overwhelmingly supported a measure to maintain an attendance clause in this year's teacher-evaluation agreement.