Erie County

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Key measures of New York's tough new gun law kicked in Monday, with owners of firearms now reclassified as assault weapons required to start registering the firearms and new limits on the number of bullets allowed in magazines....

Maple producers, like people in all vocations, can recount events in their lines of work that can be complained of as trouble or viewed as interesting happenstances, or be turned into a good chuckle. Pesky raccoons can account for many of these stories,...

ANGOLA, N.Y. (AP) — Thousands of dead fish are washing up on the Lake Erie shoreline in the Buffalo area, but state Department of Environmental Conservation officials say it's nothing to be alarmed about. Residents living along a stretch of...

Outgoing U.S. Rep. Sandy Adams, R-Orlando, the former Orange County sheriff's deputy defeated in a bitter primary last month by U.S. Rep. John Mica, R-Winter Park, has been named an honorary co-chair of “Public Safety Professionals” for Mitt...

NEWSTEAD, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities in western New York say a 20-year-old man thought he was sleeping on his friend's couch when state troopers woke him up over the weekend. It turns out he was off by about 20 miles. State police say a homeowner...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Police have cordoned off a Buffalo, N.Y., hospital where they say a woman has been fatally shot. A police official confirms that a woman was killed Wednesday morning on the grounds of the Erie County Medical Center, which he...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Police canine units are searching a cliff near the lakeside house of a Buffalo, N.Y., trauma surgeon sought in connection with the hospital shooting death of ex-girlfriend. The search began shortly before 11 a.m. near the...

It's a beautiful thing to walk through life in love with words. (Not so beautiful when Words With Friends is the object of your affection, as Alec Baldwin will attest.) Ejection from American Airlines flights and ensuing Twitter battles notwithstanding,...

???NewHondaGuy??? from Erie County, N.Y., has a somewhat deceptive username. As a member of a household that's had four CR-Vs over the past few years, all owned by his wife, this reader is no stranger to the Honda brand. When......

COLLINS, N.Y. (AP) — A western New York man is being credited for saving his 76-year-old neighbor after she fell into a 20-foot-deep well on her rural property. YNN-TV in Buffalo (http://bit.ly/p9cXfk ) reports that May Elliott was doing yard...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A 28-year-old New York man has been sentenced to up to six years in prison after admitting he had sex with underage girls and promoted prostitution. Michael Abdallah of Buffalo apologized at his sentencing Thursday in Erie...