Common Council members say a new letter from the FBI suggests the agency’s investigation of City Hall is continuing and possibly expanding to include Mayor Byron W. Brown and his relationship with Leonard Stokes.

The condition of the Amherst mother of an infant child who lost a leg late last week when she was struck by a speeding car and pinned up against another on South Park Avenue is improving, according to a spokeswoman at Erie County Medical Center.

For the second time in two decades, Robert C. Crutcher III, pleaded guilty Monday to stabbing a live-in girlfriend. The first one died.

Advocates for the region’s poor shared their ideas for combating poverty with local social workers Monday during a forum at the Greater Buffalo Chapter of the American Red Cross.

The good news keeps rolling along.

Western New York AmeriCorps will be moving out of its West Seneca headquarters two years early, under an agreement approved Monday night by the Town Board.

The Erie County Fiscal Stability Authority may soon seal its second loan on the county’s behalf–a $65 million cash infusion that will be repaid in nine months.

Former Buffalo Bills running back Thurman Thomas accepted a $75,000 contribution Monday from the Walmart Foundation to assist with his scholarship fund for underprivileged youth.

The weather was gorgeous. The game was entertaining. The Bills led all the way. And, of course, they won.

Randy Michaels, Marie Rice, Don Polec, Pat Feldballe and the late Fred Klestine will be inducted into the Buffalo Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame tonight in the WNED-TV studios, 159 Lower Terrace.

Summer 2009, which ends this afternoon, was in the eye of the beach chair holder.

The terms of a proposed contract between Erie County and the union that represents jail personnel at the Holding Center call for the workers to contribute to their health insurance, especially in retirement, and surrender some paid time off.

Local political leaders are applying for $90 million in federal economic-stimulus funds to build a lift bridge connecting downtown to the waterfront.

With a decidedly international flare, the Hamburg School Board opened its first meeting of the school year with presentations from the district’s French and Russian teachers and concluded the meeting by officially adopting a pair of schools in Africa.

For anyone who forgot what rain feels like, a reminder should come later today.