The Buffalo Bills have made their roster moves official. Among them, DT Zane Durant heads to IR. The team released CBs Kano Walker and Toriano Pride Jr. They also released FB Ben VanSumeren among others
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The US President calls on the FCC to do something about polls he finds uncomfortable.
A view of Lake Ontario, from Olcott Beach, NY, on Aug. 29, 2026.
From my colleague Dan Herbeck: Under the microscope: New leaders make changes in Assigned Counsel Program buffalonews.com/news/local/a...
Under the microscope: New leaders make changes in Assigned Counsel Program
The past two years have been rough for the Erie County Assigned Counsel program. But the new leaders of the nonprofit program said they believe better days are ahead.
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Note on pieces like these, not only is there no suggestion that Republicans should distance themselves from him, there's no hint that there's a reason to. No recap of his CSAM machine. No inflammatory racist quotes. No mention of the DOGE death toll. No history of his fabulist quotes.
Exclusive: Musk plans massive push for GOP in midterms
Musk is resuscitating his America PAC, which spent more than $260 million in 2024.
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Some insight on the journalistic process Viewpoints: The media did right by Ed Oliver, but not for the reasons you may think buffalonews.com/news/local/a...
Viewpoints: The media did right by Ed Oliver, but not for the reasons you may think
Even in the digital age, where information seems to spread faster in reverse proportion to how accurate it is, much of the story about the story was wrong and/or misunderstood, Bruce Andriatch says.
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Exclusive: RFK Jr. said a Samoa trip had nothing to do with vaccines. New documents refute that
The Associated Press and The Guardian have obtained documents that contradict statements made by current Health Secretary Robert F.
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There is currently a Wikipedia edit war on the Great Lakes Wikipedia pages because everything is so stupid
"The Trump administration is, for the first time, threatening the demolition of the Kennedy Center if the arts institution isn’t allowed to follow its plans for the site, including adding President Donald Trump’s name to the front of the building."
Trump administration says it might demolish the Kennedy Center if court blocks renovations
The DOJ attorneys called the Kennedy Center “structurally unsound, fundamentally unsafe, and embarrassing to the Nation’s Capital.”
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Everyday I wonder how things can get stupider and everyday I am informed how, against my will.
Rochester man charged in April fatal stabbing in Amherst: ‘A drug deal gone bad’ buffalonews.com/news/local/a...
Rochester man charged in April fatal stabbing in Amherst
Tyshon White was indicted by an Erie County grand jury on a manslaughter charge in the fatal stabbing of Caden Nelipowitz in April in Amherst, the town’s only 2026 homicide.
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Rochester man charged in April fatal stabbing in Amherst buffalonews.com/news/local/a...
Rochester man charged in April fatal stabbing in Amherst
Tyshon White was indicted by an Erie County grand jury on a manslaughter charge in the fatal stabbing of Caden Nelipowitz in April in Amherst, the town’s only 2026 homicide.
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Erie County to take the lead on Buffalo police mental health unit program via @justinsondel.bsky.social buffalonews.com/news/local/g...
Erie County to take the lead on Buffalo police mental health unit program
The Buffalo Police Department is in search of a new mental health services provider for its Behavioral Health Team, and this time, Erie County is footing the bill.
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The largest conservation areas in the U.S. are in the Pacific Ocean, where tiny islands are epicenters of biodiversity. The Trump administration is now opening their waters to commercial fishing, sparking a battle over some of the country’s most pristine ecosystems.
These are some of the last pristine ocean ecosystems. Now, they're losing protections
The largest conservation areas in the U.S. are in the Pacific Ocean, where tiny islands are epicenters of biodiversity. The Trump administration is now opening their waters to commercial fishing, sparking a battle over some of the country’s most pristine ecosystems.
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New York teachers union skips endorsements in seven WNY races via @robertgavinbn.bsky.social buffalonews.com/news/local/a...
New York teachers union skips endorsements in seven WNY races
The union that represents New York's public school teachers has endorsed 190 candidates for the State Legislature this fall, but it took no position on seven races in Western New York.
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The Buffalo News@buffalonews.com · last wk.Llamas compete at the Erie County Fair in Hamburg, Aug. 22, 2026.
Third trial date set for Andee Wright, whose 2024 conviction for killing newborn was overturned in July buffalonews.com/news/local/c...
Third trial date set for mother whose conviction for killing newborn was overturned
The third trial for Andee R. Wright, accused of bashing her newborn’s head multiple times causing skull fractures, has been scheduled for early next year.
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UB student wins ruling that ends suspension over gun comments, could save naval commission buffalonews.com/news/local/a...
UB student wins ruling that ends suspension over gun comments, could save naval commission
University at Buffalo student Jacob Cassidy said his overheard conversation about guns was “misunderstood, misconstrued and misinterpreted” and won an order lifting his two-year campus suspension.
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Third trial date set for mother whose conviction for killing newborn was overturned buffalonews.com/news/local/c...
Third trial date set for mother whose conviction for killing newborn was overturned
The third trial for Andee R. Wright, accused of bashing her newborn’s head multiple times causing skull fractures, has been scheduled for early next year.
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Family seeks answers five months after deadly crash on Kensington Expressway believed to be linked to illegal racing buffalonews.com/news/local/a...
Family seeks answers five months after deadly crash believed to be linked to illegal racing
JohnLuc “Jack” Hubert was killed in a crash on the Kensington Expressway in March. After five months, his loved ones want someone held accountable.
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A woman who reportedly pledged allegiance to ISIS planned to unleash a terrorist bomb attack on the State Capitol and massacre senators before her suspected plot was thwarted, federal prosecutors said Thursday.
Women held in suspected plot to bomb Albany Capitol
A woman who reportedly pledged allegiance to ISIS planned to unleash a terrorist bomb attack on the State Capitol and massacre senators before her suspected plot was thwarted, federal prosecutors said Thursday.
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The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2w agoThe Bureau of Land Management is rounding up thousands of mustangs around the U.S. and quietly selling them on the cheap to buyers who are exporting them for slaughter abroad, an examination of government records by The New York Times found. nyti.ms/4grb8Co
ICYMI: Buffalo City Court Judge Rashied McDuffie reassigned shortly after unusual arraignment buffalonews.com/news/local/a...
Buffalo City Court judge reassigned shortly after unusual arraignment
Buffalo City Court judge Rashied McDuffie was reassigned following his handling of a criminal arraignment in July.
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17 charged, 10+ kilos of cocaine seized in multi-county drug ring investigation buffalonews.com/news/local/c...
17 charged, 10+ kilos of cocaine seized in multi-county drug ring investigation
An indictment unsealed in Erie County Court on Thursday charged 17 people in a suspected drug ring tying Puerto Rico and Western New York.
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City of Tonawanda man charged in Town of Tonawanda bank robbery buffalonews.com/news/local/c...
City of Tonawanda man charged in Town of Tonawanda bank robbery
The robbery happened Wednesday morning at a Bank of America branch on Delaware Avenue. The suspect was arrested in Buffalo.
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