WASHINGTON President Obama on Wednesday announced $5 billion in federal economic-stimulus funding for medical research, including more than $19 million targeted to the Buffalo area.

Graduate students in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture are seeking to create a plan that encourages more students in the Williamsville School District to walk or ride bicycles to school.

Evening and nighttime Kensington Expressway travelers, this one’s for you.

The Preservation League of New York State on Wednesday awarded two Preserve New York grants for cultural resources surveys in Buffalo and Chautauqua County.

Advocates for Buffalo schools, ranging from Burgard High School welding students to Gov. David A. Paterson, rallied around the school system’s most visible sign of progress Wednesday — a $1.4 billion school reconstruction project that is producing modern and eye-catching schools throughout the city.

Mayor Byron W. Brown’s plan to have Buffalo retake control of its parks by the end of the year could be a step backward, some leaders of the city’s control board warned Wednesday.

Erie County Executive Chris Collins has installed an electronic swipe-card system for employees in the Rath County Office Building to prevent them from cheating on their hours.

Buffalo Police Commissioner H. Mc-Carthy Gipson told the Common Council on Tuesday that he has no firsthand knowledge of what happened the day restaurateur Leonard Stokes was detained by officers in 2007 for possessing a stolen handicapped parking tag.

You’d need a book to tell the full story of Buffalo’s newest centenarian but only three
words to capture the essence of her life: Dio. Famiglia. Comunita.

Career prosecutor Mark A. Sacha, who accused his current and past bosses of giving
Democratic strategist G. Steven Pigeon a pass on election law violations, said senior
prosecutors grilled him Tuesday and asked if he knew that Pigeon was given immunity from
prosecution.

State University of New York schools should be charging out-of-state students
substantially more so that state taxpayers aren’t subsidizing them, State Comptroller Thomas
P. DiNapoli said here Tuesday.

Two Buffalo doctors who have devoted their careers to caring for the uninsured voiced their strong support for health reform Tuesday in an event organized by a national network of President Obama supporters.

A Buffalo woman accused of stabbing her infant daughter in a hospital room was convicted Tuesday of felony assault and child endangerment.

Most Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy employees and trustees live in the city, and the nonprofit organization trains hundreds of welfare recipients, including minorities, for parks maintenance and management work.

The downtown Electric Tower will be lit in purple tonight to mark the upcoming “A New stART” art show and auction sponsored by the Family Justice Center of Erie County, which helps victims of domestic violence, center officials announced Tuesday.