Haven't you always heard that somehow, almost every story has a Buffalo connection, or that to be famous all you have to do is leave your hometown?  Proof comes from pudding-- the news stories each day, that mention WNY, but don't always make it onto local news menus. 

Each night, WBEN's Tom Connolly compiles a collection of some of the day's other stories -- including stories about Buffalo and Western New York scattered across the World Wide Web.  Always tasty and interesting, he serves them up here smorgasboard style in this daily, online-only feature.

Whatever happened to the "Shot Heard 'Round the World" -- the actual baseball Bobby Thompson hit out of the Polo Grounds in 1951. A new book offers the theory that a Felician nun based in Buffalo -- Helen Hojnacki -- caught the ball

From the National Post:
 Sabres co-founder Seymour Knox III told Tim Horton's magnate Ron Joyce in 1990 not to bother trying for a Hamilton franchise “Ron,” Knox told Joyce in an exchange the former doughnut baron recounts in his memoir, Always Fresh. “There will never be a team in Hamilton as long as I am alive. That’s all there is to it.”

The State Attorney General announces
A criminal indictment and civil lawsuit against a Tonawanda woman for a Medicaid scam

From the Los Angeles Times:
The CW show "One Tree Hill" is renewed for a 7th season, but Clarence native Chad Michael Murray will not be on it

From ESPN.com:
 Former Rams LB Pisa Tinoisamoa will visit with the Buffalo Bills

From the New York Post:
Bisons 1B Nick Evans -- currently hitting .093 -- is sent down to AA Binghamton 

From (NY) Newsday: