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Published September 04Albion/Medina OC Rivals romp in debut game
Making a sparkling debut, Albion/Medina romped to a 32-0 lightning shortened victory over host Akron this evening kicking off the OC Rivals inaugural football season. Lightning stopped the game with 7 minutes to go in the third quarter after Albion/Medina had built up a…
Niagara Action
Published 1 hour agoMan Shot in the Back During Armed Carjacking
POLICE AUDIO CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF THIS ARTICLE: Law enforcement received a call around 8:42pm on September 4th after reports of an armed carjacking in the area of Grider Street and Northland Avenue in Buffalo. 911 callers advised police of shots fired. Dispatch was then…
Niagara Action
Published September 04Buffalo Police Officer Marc Hurst Files Lawsuit Against Gunman Who Shot Him Six Times During Ambush
A Buffalo police officer who survived being struck by half a dozen bullets during a violent domestic disturbance call in May has filed a civil lawsuit against the man who pulled the trigger. Officer Marc Hurst, a nine-year member of the force assigned to C District, filed a…
Investigative Post
Published September 04Judges can take months to rule if migrants wrongly detained
Downtown Buffalo’s federal immigration court. Photo: J. Dale Shoemaker. This story was originally published by ProPublica. When President Donald Trump returned to the White House, he pushed for a seismic shift in immigration enforcement resulting in mass detention. Immigrants…
Niagara Action
Published September 03Two Teens Dead After 9-mile Police Chase of Stolen Car Ends in Buffalo Crash
A high-speed multi-jurisdictional police pursuit spanning more than nine miles ended with fatalities early Thursday morning, leaving two teenagers dead and three others seriously injured after a stolen vehicle slammed into a city intersection on Buffalo’s East Side. The crash…
Investigative Post
Published September 03Buffalo is ground zero for ICE enforcement
Vicki Ross, right, a board member of the Western New York Peace Center, protests a Homeland Security job fair Tuesday at Buffalo’s Outer Harbor. Photo by J. Dale Shoemaker. The City of Buffalo has been an epicenter of a surge in arrests by ICE agents this year. Apprehensions are…
Niagara Action
Published September 02Woman Sexually Assaulted and Abandoned without Her Car or Keys
POLICE AUDIO CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF THIS ARTICLE: Law enforcement received a call around 11:21pm on August 31st after reports of a woman sexually assaulted in Tonawanda, Erie County. The 911 caller and victim told dispatch that she had been sexually assaulted. She was…
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Published September 02Severe thunderstorm warning in effect until 8:15 a.m.
Storm could bring golf ball-size hail, 70 mph wind gusts The National Weather Service has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Warning until 8:15 a.m. for Orleans, Genesee, Wyoming, Niagara, Monroe and Erie counties. “Severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 12 miles…
Investigative Post
Published September 02State stymies Buffalo’s efforts to combat lead poisoning
A Buffalo house cited for lead hazards. Photo: Adam Smith-Perez. New guidelines from state health officials could derail Buffalo’s latest efforts to ramp up the fight against lead poisoning. The guidance, a 77-page document issued in June, forbids any “formal enforcement action”…
Investigative Post
Published September 01Counties weigh property tax hikes amid SNAP cuts
This story originally appeared in New York Focus, a nonprofit news publication investigating power in New York. Sign up for their newsletter here. Illustration: Leor Stylar. The cost of helping hungry New Yorkers is about to go up by over $1 billion annually and local taxpayers…
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Published August 31No consequences for no-show Buffalo cops
Officers Kereem Johnson and William Jones said they were seriously injured in a car accident two years ago and wanted time off. Buffalo police brass questioned the severity of their injuries and instead assigned them to light duty monitoring surveillance cameras posted around the…
Investigative Post
Published August 28ICE expanding detention center in Batavia
The ICE detention facility in Batavia. Photo by J. Dale Shoemaker. The Trump administration is moving to award a no-bid contract to expand the ICE detention center in Batavia to accommodate a surge in arrests of migrants. At the insistence of Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz,…