It took four people to gently guide Victor Hale Schramm out of his motorized wheelchair so he could stretch and settle onto Stoney, a stocky, grayish-brown horse with long lashes who one volunteer imagines would smoke cigars if he could.

Jimmy O’Donnell had a gift for faces.

Disaster response workers from WNY AmeriCorps may be dispatched soon to the Gulf Coast to help with cleanup efforts in the biggest oil spill in U. S. history.

So many U. S. senators will convene in Buffalo the evening of June 18 that a quorum may be established at the Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society.

A new Welcome the Summer Celebration is planned from 5 to 9 p.m. June 18 on Mississippi Street in Buffalo’s Cobblestone District.

Local 815, Civil Services Employees Association, has changed the method by which about 4,200 members will vote on a proposed contract with Erie County government.

Wilson Greatbatch didn’t invent the first artificial pacemaker.

The number of people being slapped with summonses for quality-of-life offenses in Buffalo is down 50 percent from a year earlier, spurring a Common Council leader to accuse police of surrendering to "scumbags" who make life intolerable in some neighborhoods.

Injured Buffalo Police Officer Jim O’Donnell’s friends and family have organized a benefit from 2 to 8 p.m. today at Lucarelli’s Banquet Center, 1830 Abbott Road, Lackawanna. Entrance is a $20 donation. The event is open to the public.

It took nearly 30 years before the Berlin Wall came down in 1989.

Russell Lang Jr. loves to ride motorcycles, but he hasn&#8217t been on one since Oct. 7,
2007.

Here we go again.

Erie County Judge Thomas P. Franczyk will receive the bar Association of Erie County’s Outstanding Jurist Award and Buffalo attorney Terrence M. Connors has been named the group’s lawyer of the year.

A steady diet of rain, in the form of showers and thunderstorms, will dominate much of today, after the region was treated to a dramatic deluge, complete with light and sound show, overnight Friday.