Four local residents have been inducted into “The Flags of Fame,” Buffalo’s Italian-American Hall of Fame, as part of the Sorrento Cheese Italian Heritage Festival Thursday through Sunday on Hertel Avenue.

The New York State Bar Association will sponsor an all-day environmental law workshop at 8:45 a. m. on July 20 in Adam’s Mark Hotel.

For his second brutal lesson in death, Alton Steward has been taking the curving roads through stone-speckled hills of Forest Lawn to Serenity.

Buffalonians aren’t exactly known for making the healthy choice when it comes to our food,
but the 2010 Taste of Buffalo proved to many that healthy doesn’t mean tasteless.

In the Jasper Parrish Homes, children share their playground with drug dealers.

The last time Linda Cook-Cole saw her youngest brothers, they were just 4 and 5 years old.

From her porch chair, Shirley Tillmon Phillips looked over her new lawn. Green plants poked up from black mulch beds. A gray-blue stone walkway led up to the front steps.

Certain musical styles speak to the part of the brain that regulates behavior. Whether your passion is Gregory Hines or Duncan Hines, when this stuff plays, the urge to dance is likely to overtake you. And over the past week, Western New Yorkers have had a pair of opportunities to put themselves at the mercy of incredible grooves. First, there was the L. A. funk/salsa band Ozomatli’s thrilling set at Thursday at the Square. Then on Sunday afternoon, there was La Krema, an 11-man Latin music juggernaut that kicked off the 2010 season of The Buffalo News Jazz at the Albright-Knox series.

DARIEN–A Syracuse man who tried to use a stolen ticket to enter Darien Lake Theme Park Resort on Saturday afternoon was arraigned on a charge of third-degree criminal possession of stolen property.

Assemblyman Sam Hoyt, D-Buffalo, urged the State Senate on Sunday to pass a bill that would eliminate bonuses to public authority employees and board members. The bill passed the Assembly twice in the last 13 months but has not been passed by the Senate, Hoyt noted.

While some runners crossed the finish line on two feet, others pranced their four paws over it in the fourth annual "Run for Rover" at LaSalle Park this morning.

Tonight is your last chance to catch this year’s Grease Pole Festival, which is the area’s oldest Puerto Rican heritage festival, featuring Latino bands and Hispanic cuisine.

Russ Perkins flew up from Myrtle Beach, S.C., this weekend with one purpose in mind
– to eat to his heart’s content at the Taste of Buffalo.

What Daniel Derenda, Mayor Byron W. Brown’s choice as police commissioner, lacks in
credentials he more than makes up for in connections.

The Erie County Medical Center Corporation, Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority and other local authorities gave just over $5 million in bonuses to their staffs in 2009, a state office is reporting.