Lieutenant governor candidate Robert Duffy told a crowd of about 300 supporters Sunday he will put upstate New York’s interests “on the radar screen” if elected with running mate Andrew M. Cuomo in November.

Carl P. Paladino has yet to qualify for any ballot in his quest to become governor of New York.

The Geek Squad Summer Academy, a summer camp-style program designed to teach different uses of technology to children ages 10 to 18, will be held at Erie Community College’s North Campus from July 12 to 16.

The Industrial Heritage Committee begins its 25th season of Historic Buffalo River Tours with a July 4 cruise past the grain elevators and other riverside industries that played prominent roles in Buffalo history. Other cruises will be held July 18, Aug. 7 and Aug. 22.

Tom Healey took the green mountain bike out just for a short ride Saturday. An eight-mile loop through the bike path and down to Niagara Falls Boulevard.

The Arts Council in Buffalo and Erie County has finally reached the end of its road, but the beleaguered arts agency won’t breathe its final breath before stirring up one final scandal.

Thousands of basketball players descended on downtown Saturday for the annual Gus Macker
three-on-three tournament, including one hometown celebrity who created a buzz by showing up
to play: Stanley Cup champion Patrick Kane.

Cheektowaga is on board with the idea.

Friends of Henry “Hank” Pirowski, who was instrumental in shaping the Buffalo City Court’s COURTS program into a national model for helping nonviolent troubled individuals, are banding together to help him, now that he is recuperating from a massive stroke.

Native American Community Services of Erie and Niagara Counties will receive $147,302 in grants from the U. S. Department of Labor to support job training and placement services under the Workforce Investment Act Indian and Native American Program.

The Erie County Legislature had budgeted $400,000 this year for summer youth programs serving thousands of children — an uncommonly large amount to cover an expected shortage from the state.

A national group critical of how the Catholic Church deals with clergy sex abuse cases on Friday criticized Buffalo Bishop Edward U. Kmiec for failing to alert area families about a priest accused of molesting three minors more than 30 years ago.

A Marine Drive Apartments resident who alleged she received preferential treatment from the property manager with whom she was having an affair now tells a different story.

Long before President Obama popularized talking about college access for all, Keith Frome was making it happen one student at a time.

The pregnant South Buffalo woman struck last month by a hit-and-run driver while crossing the street outside Mercy Hospital is no longer in a drug-induced coma, according to her husband, Mark Venezia.