Dozens of family members of the victims of the City Grill shooting packed the courtroom Thursday waiting for Judge Sheila DiTullio to hand down her sentence to Riccardo McCray.YNN’s Meg Rossman has more on the family’s reactions.

The family of a missing Cheektowaga woman is handing out flyers to bring attention to a case police have asked for the public’s help in solving. 53-year-old Jeanne Piacente was last seen Tuesday morning.

The boats for the 5th annual Buffalo Sabres alumni charity fishing event were set to launch on Thursday, but were postponed due to rough waters.

The convicted gunman found responsible for the City Grill shootings was sentenced Thursday to spend the rest of his life behind bars. 24-year-old Riccardo McCray was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole by an Erie County Court judge.

The sentence includes a provision that 24-year-old Riccardo McCray will serve at least 45 years without the possibility of parole. In August of 2010, eight people were injured during a shooting spree outside of the club in downtown Buffalo. Four of the…

Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick along with other state leaders toured one of the hardest hit areas in the Bay State today after a tornado touched down Wednesday. Folks are now looking to begin the clean up process but just don’t know where to begi…

Child & Adolescent Treatment Services announced today that they have launched a series of free one-hour events designed to provide the community with a better understanding of the many programs and services that they provide. Child & Adolescent Treatment Services is a non-profit children’s mental health agency that provides innovative, research based preventative and treatment [...]

Dave DiPietro and Nick Mendola talk politics and are joined by John Gaetani on today’s edition of “Buffalo Uncensored.”   Play: Download audio file (060211BU.mp3) Download: 060211BU

The man convicted of killing four people in a shooting spree in Buffalo last August appeared in court Thursday morning for sentencing.

The Buffalo News reported this morning that Chris Collins Chief of Staff Chris Grant does not swipe an ID card when he enters or leaves the Rath Building. Now why does that suddenly become news?For almost three years Grant’s official position with…

Picture from 2010 @ Central Terminal
This afternoon at the Central Terminal the second set of Peregrine Falcon chicks will be banded by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC).
A nest was built in 2009 at the Terminal and the first set of chicks appeared in 2010.
From the Central Terminal website:
Banding young Peregrine Falcons provides [...]

This is what I’m thinking: * NBC has a dozen or so new shows lined up for the 2011-2012 season and the best thing it can do after the Super Bowl is carry the second season premiere of the midseason reality series “The Voice”? If I had been making the decision, I might have waited until October [...]

I was listening to the radio last week and WNYMedia’s Chris Smith was on with Brad Riter discussing the NY-26 election, the Hochul win, the Mallia incident and politics in general. They stopped for a moment to take a call and the caller was…well he was angry he was confused and he was fairly ignorant [...]

I want to thank you for taking time out from your busy land speculation schedule here in western New York to take the reins of the byzantine and anachronistic New York State Thruway Authority. I don’t say it’s out-of-date because toll roads are yesterday’s news. Instead, I’m referring to the fact that EZ-Pass holders still [...]

If you believed Joe Illuzzi you would think his political web site had thousands of readers, not so. Recent numbers show PoliticsNY.net has several hundred readers a day. Those numbers mean Joe Illuzzi substantially over charges for ads placed on …