After a tornado killed more than 100 people in Joplin, Missouri on Sunday, two Red Cross volunteers from Western New York traveled there Tuesday to assist the survivors. YNN’s Kaitlyn Lionti caught up with one of the volunteers before she left and tell…

Police said that around 4:30 a.m. Tuesday, a vehicle, driven by 28-year-old Daniel Burke, hit a police car that was parked on the 198 at the scene of a previous accident, almost hitting two officers.

Police say the 42-year-old victim was bleeding and running door to door yelling for help. Officers say he suffered multiple stab wounds. The injuries are consider to be not to be life threatening.

A Niagara County track coach has taken on an unusual and difficult challenge in order to honor several students whose lives were cut short – including his son. YNN’s Meg Rossman has more on Lewiston-Porter track and field coach Gary Raby and his plan t…

Police say they were called to the shooting just after 8 p.m. Monday on the 300 block of Woodlawn Avenue. Detectives say the victim, a black male in his early 30s, was found in a vacant lot between two houses.

Judge Michael D’Amico sentenced the North Collins man to 40 years to life. In April, a jury found Wright guilty of torturing, raping, and imprisoning Cummings, his mentally disabled half-sister. Wright was found guilty on all ten charges.

The van will be used to transport local veterans from their homes to medical appointments and back. The hospital currently has seven vans, but is looking for donations to replace one of them.

Polls are open for voters to decide who will fill the 26th Congressional District seat. Candidates spent the day Monday making final campaign stops before Tuesday’s election.

John Kane hosts another installment of  ”Let’s Talk Native.”  Today John talks about tobacco, oil, and taxes in New York State and the Seneca Nation.   Play: Download audio file (052411native.mp3) Download: 052411native

With the big election for the 26th congressional seat taking place today, Bill talks about the past and future events of this special election.   Hour One: Download audio file (052411billohr1.mp3) Hour Two: Download audio file (052411billohr2.mp3) Hour Three: Download audio file (052411billohr3.mp3)

In celebration of today’s release of Phish Live in Utica DOUBLE DVD + CD box set we’re giving a copy  away to one lucky phan. The box set presents three hours of crucial Phish in an intimate venue with an inspired audience that returned th…

WGRZ-TV Channel 2′s John Beard joins the show.
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Patrick Higgins joins the show to talk about Doin’ Time comedy.
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  As I’ve written before, I live in the 26th Congressional District, where Democrat Kathy Hochul, Republican Jane Corwin and Independent Jack Davis are running for the seat vacated by Christopher Lee. I don’t know any of them. Davis does play tennis on Saturday mornings on a court near me. He has played on weekends [...]

  Let’s take a step back today and give thanks to his Craigslistness, Chris Lee, for imploding his political career so dramatically, so unexpectedly, and so quickly.  Another in a long line of moralistic Republican pervs, he paved the way for a race that is being billed by national media as a referendum on the [...]

I thought it might be time to break up the constant NY-26 updates with something completely different. A couple of weeks ago, Visit Buffalo Niagara (formerly known as the Buffalo Niagara Convention and Visitors Bureau {CVB}) unveiled their new branding slogan, entitled “Buffalo. For Real.” It was released with an accompanying video that generated lots [...]