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GRAPEVINE, Texas (AP) -- The Boy Scouts of America's National Council has voted to ease a long-standing ban and allow ope...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) By a 6-5 vote, the Erie County Legislature has approved a law requiring future employees of the county to ...
(WBEN) Voters in six Western New York school districts rejected tax hikes in district budget proposals Tuesday. Of the top fi...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) The chairman of Erie County's Republican Party says he's heard the sound of silence from the area&...
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - The head of the Seneca Indians has accused Gov. Andrew Cuomo of engaging in "playground bully tacti...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A Philadelphia doctor accused of performing illegal, late-term abortions in a filthy clinic has been foun...
CLEVELAND (AP) - An Ohio prosecutor says he may seek the death penalty against the man accused of imprisoning three women at ...
North Tonawanda, NY (WBEN) State Police say a North Tonawanda man left voice mail messages for fellow chatroom customers want...
Olean, NY (WBEN) An Olean nurse has been charged with possession of child pornography.46 year old Willie Reid was arrested af...
(WBEN/AP) President Barack Obama argues that his signature health care law is already benefiting most Americans even if they ...
The BAND Against Bullying Program was is a collaboration between M&T Bank, The National Center for Missing and Exploited Chil...
BUFFALO, NY (WBEN)- New Yorkers who want to properly get rid of unused or expired medications can drop them off at sites as p...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama says the capture of a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing closes what he calls &...
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) - Police say three people have been taken into custody for questioning at a housing complex where the...
Batavia, NY (WBEN) State Senator Michael Ranzenhofer has added his name to those sponsoring legislation calling for the repea...
Garbage piled high, unsafe parks, failing schools, strikes and choking taxes were all part of the backdrop of early 1970s New...
(CBS News) As the Senate gears up for the first fight over new gun legislation in two decades, Republicans do not appear to h...
Cypress, TX (CBS) A sheriff's official says one person has been arrested after 14 people were wounded in a stabbing attac...
(AP) The Senate gun control debate on the near horizon, a National Rifle Association-sponsored report on Tuesday proposed a p...
(WBEN) Governor Cuomo says that recent changes to the state's gun control law constitute all the "modifications we a...
Hamburg, NY (WBEN) Hamburg Police say two men have been hospitalized for injuries suffered when their disabled car hit them a...
Newly released search warrants in the Newtown school shooting have revealed that gunman Adam Lanza's home was packed with...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP/WBEN) - New York's Assembly has given final legislative approval to a$135 billion state budget.The A...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN/AP) A former state trooper has been spared jail time after pleading guilty to running parties off-duty feat...
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court is indicating it could strike down the federal law that prevents legally married gay coup...
In the second of back-to-back gay marriage cases, the Supreme Court is turning to a constitutional challenge to the law that ...
(WBEN) After a late night marathon session that ended after 5 Wednesday morning, the state senate has approved the bills comp...
ALBANY — New York’s budget that lawmakers will begin voting into law this weekend is based on their power to stop...
Albany, NY (AP/WBEN) The tentative deal for a New York state budget will include expansion of pre-kindergarten in low-income ...
(AP) A government survey of parents says 1 in 50 U.S. schoolchildren has autism, surpassing another federal estimate for the ...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Legislators are starting to sign off on some aspects of the state budget as a final agreement draws near ...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York legislative leaders have emerged from a brief closed-door meeting without ...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) About 100 people gathered at MLK Park Monday afternoon to rally in support of the NYSAFE Act.Rev. Greg Nel...
(AP) Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York legislative leaders met Sunday in preparation of what they hope will be a Monday announce...
According to the AAA, local gas prices have eased by one whole penny over the course of this week. On average, a gallon of un...
(AP) As the Republican Party struggles to broaden its appeal, the GOP's most prominent voices - past and potential presid...
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - Authorities say federal agents and Buffalo police have conducted a dozen raids in a crackdown targeting ...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York's Legislature is calling for more spending, tax cuts and a higher minimum wage, even a roll-...
(AP) The next US Labor Secretary will apparently be a man with strong ties to the Buffalo area.President Obama will soon nomi...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- New York's Legislature and Gov. Andrew Cuomo are on track to pass the earliest state budget in decad...
"You could call this about as close to a cure, if not a cure, that we've seen"- Dr. Anthony Fauci of the Nation...
(WBEN/AP) Citing the sequester cuts, the Obama administration has started releasing several hundred illegal immigrants being ...
Exclusive WBEN AudioOn The WBEN LivelineDave Levinthal, Center for Public Integrity"President Obama has taken the middle...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Cadence Case knows all about the discrimination at jobs and in landing an apartment, the fear of bu...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that the Empire State Development (ESD) Board of Directors has ap...
(WBEN/AP) New York's largest teachers union says it's suing to overturn the state's property tax cap.New York Sta...
The ECIDA was busy handing out abatements and tax breaks to more than just the HarborCenter project yesterday. Two Rocco Term...
Falconer (WBEN/AP) -- A New York lawmaker says he'd have no problem raising the federal minimum wage.U.S. Senator Charles...
(WBEN) The Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority has begun tearing down the first of it's Metro Rail platforms on Mai...
Albany, NY (WBEN) Following the State of the Union address, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has amended the proposed hike in ...
President Barack Obama wants an increase in the minimum hourly wage from the current $7.25 to $9 by the end of 2015. ...
government moneyto create jobs and strengthen the nation's middle class. He declared Republican ideas for reducing the de...
THE STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESSfollowed by the GOP response from Sen. Marco RubioTONIGHT AT 9 PM | 107.7 FM | 930 AM | WBEN.co...
Firefighters from five states are opposing New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposal to limit binding arbitration in union di...
Buffalo (WBEN) -- A local organization is responding to the concern following the death of a young child from the flu on Mond...
The Boy Scouts of America has backed off a proposal to ease its policy of excluding gays and delayed a vote until May. "...
Lockport (WBEN) -- The Niagara County SPCA has picked up more than 60 small dogs from a home in the town of Lockport.The SPCA...
ATLANTA (AP) - Authorities say a 14-year-old has been wounded in a shooting at an Atlanta middle school and a suspect has bee...
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who's leading the push to restore an assault weapon ban, acknowledged on Sunday that the effort fa...
A bipartisan group of leading senators has reached agreement on the principles for a sweeping overhaul of the nation's im...
ALBANY — Buried in New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposed budget is a cost-cutting measure that would empower the ...
WASHINGTON (AP) - Senior defense officials say Pentagon chief Leon Panetta is removing the military's ban on women servin...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - The push to increase New York's minimum wage affecting millions of workers got a boost and hit a snag...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House overwhelmingly passed a bill Wednesday to permit the government to borrow enough money to avoid ...
(AP) Opponents of the city's limit on the size of sugary drinks are raising questions of racial fairness alongside other ...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is proposing a $137 billion state budget that would increase spending abou...
Almost 50 years ago, WBEN Newsman John Zach was sent to Georgia by WKBW Radio to cover Martin Luther King and the Civil Right...
Buffalo (WBEN) -- Buffalo police on Wednesdayannounced the results of "Operation Restoration."The so-called operati...
(WBEN) A Western New York Attorney expects to have a class action lawsuit filed within the next three weeks, challenging New ...
Cheektowaga (WBEN/AP) -- As the debate continued in Albany on Tuesday, concerned gun owners turned to places like the Buffalo...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - People familiar with the internal negotiations say Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders have a tenta...
While the tax package that Congress passed New Year's Day will protect 99 percent of Americans from an income tax increas...
Seeking to spur fresh action on gun legislation, Vice President Joe Biden is meeting at the White House with victims groups a...
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo will take his sky-high popularity into his third year with an agenda to ban assault weapons, raise...
A deal on the government's budget priorities has been reached, raising taxes on the wealthy, extendinglong-term unemploym...
Highlights of a bill approved Tuesday by the Senate aimed at averting wide tax increases and budget cuts scheduled to take ef...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Democratic aide says the White House and congressional Republicans have reached an agreement to avert th...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama says "the hour for immediate action is here" on a deal to avert the fisca...
BUFFALO, NY (WBEN) - Erie County Sheriffs announcing the arrest of 49 year old Clarence resident Craig E. Walek. Walek was ar...
ALBANY, N.Y. (WBEN/AP) - As Governor Andrew Cuomo invites New Yorkers to observe a moment of silence at 9:30 a.m. Friday for ...
Washington DC (WBEN/CBS) - President Obama is launching an administration-wide effort to curb gun violence, underscoring the ...
WASHINGTON (AP) - The National Rifle Association is breaking its silence four days after a school shooting in Newtown, Conn.,...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Narrowing a "fiscal cliff" negotiating gap, President Barack Obama is backing off what had once ...
Cheektowaga (WBEN) -- Congressman Brian Higgins says the nation should have a mature, thoughtful response to any policy decis...
Buffalo (WBEN) -- The Buffalo Schools Crisis Team was on call the entire weekend -- and is prepared to help students or facul...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) Buffalo Public Schools Superintendent Pamela Brown has issued a statement on the shooting in Newtown, Conn...
NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) -- Connecticut State Police say the shooterat a Connecticut elementary school Friday is dead. 26 people a...
Buffalo (WBEN) --An Erie County lawmaker wants a greater effort to stop violent activity in Buffalo.County legislator Betty J...
Undated (WBEN) -- As the nation waits for leaders in Washington to reach agreement to avoid the so-called "fiscal cliff,...
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court will take up California's ban on same-sex marriage, a case that could give the justic...
The tragic story of Gretchen Molannen's suicide shows how debilitating a sexual disorder can be for sufferers.Molannen, 3...
New York, NY (WBEN) A warning from New York's fiscal watchdog: if Congress doesn't resolve the fiscal cliff, state ta...
The Erie County Legislature approves the next county budget -- rejecting a 3.4 percent tax increase and cutting $8.5 mill...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) Time is ticking on an Erie County budget for 2013. The county executive says a budget amendment proposed b...
WASHINGTON (AP) - House Republicans negotiating with President Barack Obama on avoiding the so-called fiscal cliff are propos...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) Today marks the 30th World AIDS Day, and there is concern over complacency among the youth."Over the ...
WASHINGTON — Republicans' newfound willingness to consider tax increases to avert the "fiscal cliff" come...
Even in the temples of Asia, President Barack Obama cannot escape thoughts of that fiscal cliff back home.Touring the Wat Pho...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) A Customs and Border Protection employee is charged with possession of child pornography.40 year old Steve...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama said Wednesday he has seen no evidence that national security was threatened by the...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) This weekend, America pauses to honor all who have served. One veterans services director is working to le...
Sixty percent of voters who cast ballots on Election Day or earlier say the economy is the most important issue in their vote...
WASHINGTON (AP) - An Associated Press polls finds that racial attitudes have not improved in the four years since the United ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — What gender gap?Less than two weeks out from Election Day, Republican Mitt Romney has erased Presiden...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York's top court will not hear a challenge to the state's 2011 law legalizing same-sex marria...
He was a beloved Catholic priest, and we'll never understand why Father Joe Moreno took his own life last weekend.But as ...
Two alphas in the fight of their lives, President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney sparred with passion and grit in a ...
Buffalo (WBEN) -- The candidates in a high-profile congressional race shared the stage Tuesdaynight to debate the issues.They...
Bill Clinton will visit Western New York on Friday on behalf of area Congresswomen Kathy Hochul and Louise Slaughter, both De...
(WBEN) While fellow Democrats have yet to weigh in formally on Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz's proposed budget pla...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) - She's comforted by the outpouring of support after the death of her brother, but Father Joe Moreno&#...
The AAA reports the current average cost for a gallon of gas is still $4.10 in Western New York. However, that's now ...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) Siena College's annual poll on the state of New Yorkers' economic feelings are out. A plurality of...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN0 Siena College's annual poll on the state of New Yorkers' economic feelings are out. A plurality of...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN0 Siena College's annual poll on the state of New Yorkers' economic feelings are out. A plurality of...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) Buffalo State College's campus police are investigating a rape that occurred inside a student housing ...
NEW HARTFORD, N.Y. (AP) -- Hundreds of people filled an upstate New York church for the funeral of a New York college freshma...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney spun one-sided stories in their first presidential...
(WBEN) Health officials are urging Americans to start thinking about their flu vaccine for the upcoming 2012-2013 influenza s...
Niagara Falls, NY (WBEN) As the Senecas' battle with the state continues over casino exclusivity payments, Niagara Falls&...
Buffalo (WBEN) -- The organization Buffalo Promise Neighborhood is receiving a federal grant to improve safety and security i...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) If you have expired or unwanted prescription drugs, Saturday is the time to get rid of them. It's part...
(AP) A Republican state senator who voted to legalize gay marriage in New York and shot back at conservative critics that the...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) Kaleida Health is giving its thanks for a $10 million dollar gift by naming the new Children's Hos...
Buffalo (WBEN) -- The Erie County Comptroller's office says it's beginning an audit of the Erie County Water Authorit...
Buffalo (WBEN) -- Buffalo Police say at least 63 people have been arrested indrug raids called "Operation Power Sweep.&q...
(CBS News) LOS ANGELES - In campaign 2012, Mitt Romney is addressing the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in Los Angeles on Monda...
(CBS News) LOS ANGELES - In campaign 2012, Mitt Romney is addressing the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in Los Angeles on Monda...
TORONTO (AP) -- A Rochester-area bus monitor who was relentless bullied by four middle school students has received more than...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) A former Buffalo Common Councilmember has traded City Hall for a jail cell. Brian Davis was sentenced for ...
A kitten that hitched a six-hour ride from Connecticut to western New York curled up on top of a car's gas tank will be p...
The "graying" of Western New York continues. Using figures provided by the 2010 Census, the American City Business ...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) One political science professor thinks the comments made by Todd Akin on abortion and rape could not have ...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A new recession is likely if a stalemate over tax and spending cuts continues between Democrats and Republ...
GREECE, N.Y. (AP) - The former upstate New York school bus monitor whose videotaped bullying by students spurred more than &#...
The AAA reports the local average cost for a gallon of unleaded gas in the area has soared twenty-two cents in the past month...
One new poll suggests there is a very close race for Congress in Western New York.Democratic Congresswoman Kathy Hochul and R...
(CBS News) In his solo first interview since tapping Paul Ryan as his running mate, Mitt Romney on Wednesday attempted to cre...
Undated (WBEN/AP) -- Republican vice presidential candidatePaul Ryan spent Monday speaking with voters and campaigning in Iow...
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) - Police say at least one law enforcement officer,one civilian, and the gunmanhave been killed in...
Is Paul Ryan a Good Choice for VP? Leave A Comment: In Our Poll (above) , At Facebook.com/WBEN930 or At The Bottom of This Pa...
Buffalo (WBEN) -- At least one Buffalo-area political analyst sees Mitt Romney's choice of Paul Ryan as a bit a surprise....
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) -- Jared Lee Loughner pleaded guilty Tuesday to going on a shooting rampage that left six people dead and ...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) At UB's South Campus, Governor Cuomo announced a ban on sales and possession of bath salts. The ban wa...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) The Americans with Disabilities Act recently marked its 22nd anniversary. Friday, the Director of Federal ...
(CBS News) President Obama leads Mitt Romney among likely voters in Ohio and Florida - and has a double-digit lead in Pennsyl...
(CBS News) A controversial contraception coverage mandate goes into effect today, requiring health insurance companies to pro...
In the past several days, both candidates for the 27th Congressional District seat have specifically invoked the middle class...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) The Niagara County SPCA is preparing to bring in cats from this week's investigation in to a cat rescu...
A new report says the more you curse at work the worse it makes you look to your colleagues and boss.According to a new Caree...
(AP/WBEN) The NCAA has slammed Penn State with an unprecedented series of penalties, including a $60 million fine and the...
Nearly two out of three registered voters believes that President Obama's policies contributed to some degree to the econ...
Yes, if Mitt Romney wins the White House and Republicans retake the Senate, he could shred most of President Barack Obama'...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Republican-led House has voted to repeal President Barack Obama's health care law. But the electio...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz has announced the formation of an anti-fraud task force to deal with ...
The House of Representatives has voted more than 30 times to scrap, defund or undercut the law since Obama signed it in March...
Albany, NY (WBEN) Governor Cuomo has signed a law aimed at protecting kids from cyberbullying, as well as other forms of bull...
(CBS News/WBEN) President Obamaon Monday announcingpush to extend the so-called Bush-era tax cuts for low and middle-income A...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - A state appeals court has ruled against a challenge to New York's year-old same-sex marriage law.The ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — In promoting the health care law, President Barack Obama is repeating his persistent and unsubstantia...
Greece, NY (WBEN) The Greece Central School District has announced discipline for the four students involved in the videotape...
Buffalo (WBEN) -- BlueCross BlueShield on Friday hosted a forum on the Supreme Court's ruling on the health-care reform l...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) It didn't take long after the Supreme Court ruled on the individual mandate and other parts of the hea...
Buffalo (WBEN) -- Some members of the local health-care community are also reacting to Thursday'sSupreme Court decision o...
WBEN Online AudioHear President ObamaPresident Barack Obama says the Supreme Court's decision to uphold his health care o...
(AP) The Supreme Court has upheld the individual insurance requirement at the heart of President Barack Obama's health ca...
The US Supreme Court is releasing it's long awaited decision on President Obama's Health Care Overhaul, upholidng the...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court ruling on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, now just hours away, marks ...
(WBEN/AP) The bullied New York bus monitor has thanked the Canadian man who helped raise nearly $700,000 online for her.K...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) America expects to hear Thursday from the Supreme Court on the health care reform law. Two presidents of t...
The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the individual insurance requirement at the heart of President Barack Obama's health...
Today, Republican voters in the newly drawn 27th Congressional Dist. go to the polls to select a candidate to challenge Democ...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) State Police say they've fired Trooper Titus Taggart after an administrative hearing.Taggart had been ...
Greece, NY (MSNBC/WBEN) Apologies are now coming out from the middle school bullies shown on video tormenting bus monitor Kar...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York's legislative leaders say they have final approval for a cyber-bullyin...
Buffalo (WBEN) -- U-S Senator Charles Schumer is pushing a plan meant to reduce the number of babies that are born addicted t...
(CBS/AP) WASHINGTON - A Homeland Security spending bill approved by the GOP-led House on Thursday includes a provision to bar...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP/WBEN) - New York officials say they've reached a deal on legislation to establish tighter online oversig...
Clarence (WBEN) --A Clarence business, which was closed down following a prostitution arrest in October 2011, is closed again...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) A former West Seneca teacher will spend the next 30 years in prison on child pornography charges.Federal a...
(CBS News) In an apparent effort to woo women voters, House Republicans are launching the "Women's Policy Committee,...
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) - The former Rutgers University student convicted of bias intimidation for using a webcam to see his...
(AP) For the first time, racial and ethnic minorities make up more than half the children born in the U.S., capping decades o...
(CBS News) Presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has a slight edge over President Obama in the race for t...
ALBANY, N.Y. — The business group created to support Gov. Andrew Cuomo's policies on Friday filed its overdue incom...
On The Campaign Trail.....Fresh from declaring his support of same-sex marriage, President Barack Obama is diving into the em...
Niagara, NY (WBEN) The Niagara County SPCA held its adoptathon yesterday, and organizers say it was a success.Interim directo...
Washington, DC (AP) President Barack Obama says he now supports same-sex marriage, ending months of equivocation on a subject...
At what point is someone considered to be old? Are you young? What defines middle aged?SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS: At Facebook.com/W...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) A state Trooper from Buffalo has been suspended pending an internal investigation into allegation he promo...
WBEN CLOSINGS CENTRAL: Pioneer Central Schools Open 2 Hours Late Tuesday Due To Power Outage(WBEN) Parts of Chautauqua County...
Buffalo (WBEN) -- A local family is working to get a state law that will strengthen penalties for repeat child abusers.Kevin ...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Stealing the family dog or cat in New York could soon send a pet thief to prison. A bill under cons...
(WBEN) A collection of deadlines, tax credit expirations, and other changes that all fall on the calendar at the same time to...
(AP) - New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's 2011 tax returns show he's making a tidy bundle in a trust that deals in bonds as...
Throughout history, It used to be, today was the day when the TV cameras-- and maybe a radio reporter or two -- would camp ou...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) A new Siena Research Institute Poll says 43 percent of those surveyed say they pay too much in taxes, whil...
As Ontario's courts prepare for the latest arguments that could bring legalized brothels to a border crossing near Buffal...
(AP/WBEN) Canada's anti-prostitution laws entered a "new era" last month as Ontario's top court struck down...
Here are the maps with the City of Buffalodistrict numbers needed to find your family on the 1940 census. You can search the ...
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - A Liberian man accused of leading a faction responsible for human rights abuses during the West African ...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - They did it again.New York's Senate and Assembly passed the state's second straight on-time budge...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) State Health Commissioner Dr. Nirav R. Shah has issued an order of summary action banning the sale of synt...
New York is poised to embark on a large economic development program, provide more assistance to the poor, and increase spend...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) The annual Catholic Charities appeal delivered its first update of Appeal Week 2012.Bishop Edward Kmiec an...
Albany, NY (AP/WBEN) Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the Assembly Democratic and Senate Republican majorities say they've agreed on th...
Protesters in favor of health care reform demonstrate outside of the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., March 26, 2012, as a ...
New York's state Legislature and Gov. Andrew Cuomo are scheduled to adopt a $132 billion budget within days for the 2...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) State Senator Tim Kennedy is joining the call to ban the use and sale of synthetic drugs in New York State...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) As we take a look at motorcycle safety, some are asking what the cost of motorcycle insurance is. One insu...
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- A strong, long 7.6 earthquake with an epicenter in Guerrero state shook central southern Mexico on Tuesda...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - A federal court has approved the congressional election districts lines for New York that were drawn by a...
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) - A former Rutgers University student accused of using a webcam to spy on his gay roommate's lov...
(WBEN/AP) New York would see up to seven Las Vegas-style casinos, a doubled DNA database to fight crime and a less cushy pens...
Tonawanda (WBEN) -- Some animal shelters will refer to themselves as being a "No Kill" shelter. Butthe term can mea...
Detroit, MI (WBEN) A rapper and a TV producer were inspired by a documentary they were working on stray dogs in Detroit. When...
Another advertiser is dropping Rush Limbaugh, the ninth company to do so since the conservative talk show host's derogato...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In an election year battle mixing birth control, religion and politics, Democrats narrowly blocked an effo...
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate has defeated a Republican effort to roll back President Barack Obama's policy on contracepti...
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WBEN/AP) -- An upstate New York mother who gambled away thousands of dollars raised to help her son fight canc...
CHARDON, Ohio (WBEN/AP) - An official says the teenage suspect in the deadly Ohio school shooting told authorities he stole t...
CHARDON, Ohio (AP) -- THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is belo...
CHARDON, Ohio (WBEN/AP) -- A gunman opened fire inside a high school cafeteria at the start of the school day Monday, killing...
Niagara Falls Police Detectives Patricia McCune and Daniel Dobrasz arrested 21 year old Zachary Lowman of 87th Street in Niag...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN)- With over 500 cats discovered in deplorable coniditions at the Wyoming County SPCA, the SPCA serving Erie...
Buffalo (WBEN) -- Buffalo will host the 20-13 National Veterans Golden Age Games between May 30 and June 4 of next year.Event...
Buffalo (WBEN) -- Dozens of grassroots leaders from local community groups, congregations, and unions gathered Saturday morni...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congress has passed legislation renewing a payroll tax cut for 160 million workers and jobless benefits fo...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) As we hear about the investigation of the Wyoming County SPCA and the recent woes of the SPCA of Niagara, ...
Undated (WBEN) -- The Wyoming County SPCA is located in the district of State Senator Patrick Gallivan, whoreleased a short s...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) Chris Wiehe quit volunteering at the Wyoming County SPCA Cat Adoption Center a couple of months ago after ...
DETROIT (AP) -- General Motors Co. plans to freeze its U.S. pension plan for longtime white-collar workers and give all salar...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) The New York State Police along with the Wyoming County DA's office and the Erie County SPCA are condu...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) A local physician says when celebrities like Whitney Houston deal with issues like drug addiction, most of...
Williamsville (WBEN) -- Congresswoman Kathy Hochul on Monday announced she'll introduce the Veterans’ Telehealth & ...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz announces eligibility for subsidized day care has been expanded. He s...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama declared Friday he's found a solution that will protect religious liberty but a...
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WBEN/AP) - A state judge has ruled that 12 white Buffalo firefighters will split more than $2.7 million fo...
Amherst (WBEN) -- People who are considered low-income usually take care of their taxes on their own. Buta local tax preparer...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A federal appeals court on Tuesday declared California's same-sex marriage ban to be unconstitution...
(AP/WBEN)- A new poll finds more than two-thirds of New Yorkers oppose a pay hike for state lawmakers and the governor.A Sien...
Albany, NY (AP/WBEN) The top Democrat in the state Legislature is pushing legislation to boost the state's minimum wage f...
(WBEN) Reporters who have followed both Ron Paul and Rick Santorum early in their career seem united in one view: Each is out...
Mitt Romney-- in part because of his Mormon faith -- is a family man,enormously generous to neighbors, but enormously strict ...
North Collins, NY(WBEN)Troopers charged threeNorth Collins High School students with 7th degree Criminal Possession of a Cont...
Gov. Andrew Cuomo is calling for millions of dollars in state funding to help keep the Buffalo Bills in western New York.Cuom...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - As Gov. Andrew Cuomo plans to present his budget proposal for the coming fiscal year, a state financial r...
Buffalo (WBEN) -- Buffalo Police have arrested a city manand charged him with stabbing his wife at the Wegmans location on Am...
ALBANY—As Gov. Andrew Cuomo prepares to release his proposed 2012-13 budget next week, some details of the $130 bil...
ALBANY—As Gov. Andrew Cuomo prepares to release his proposed 2012-13 budget next week, some details of the $130 bil...
Buffalo, NY(WBEN)The 2012 Catholic Charities appeal goal this year is set at $10,6 million. That's $100,000 higher th...
Tonawanda, NY(WBEN)City of Tonawanda Police say the woman pulled from a car submerged in the Niagara River has died. Police b...
Orchard Park, N.Y. (WBEN) - The Buffalo Bills have compiled the 2011 season statistics. You can read the complete document he...
ALBANY, N.Y. (WBEN/AP) - Saying it's unacceptable that Buffalo is the nation's third poorest city, Governor Andrew Cuomo is p...
An Erie County Holding Center inmate has died at Buffalo General Hospital, five days after he was found hanging from his jail...
Unions representing state workers in New York have filed a federal lawsuit against the Cuomo administration challenging an in...
Buffalo (WBEN) -- The tidings of comfort, joy, and protest will be on display in Niagara Square throughout the holidays. The ...
Roswell Park Cancer Institute plans to break ground next year on a new $43 million clinical sciences facility. Business F...
Stuck in a stalemate, President Barack Obama and his Republican rivals are slugging it out in Washington rather than reaching...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House Tuesday rejected a plan backed by President Barack Obama to extend a 2 percentage point payroll ...
Buffalo, NY(WBEN)The USDepartment of Education has awarded a $6 million grant to the BuffaloPromise Neighborhood, an effo...
Niagara Falls, NY(WBEN)A murder investigation continues in Niagara falls.Police say overnight they received a call of shots f...
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate is in session, aiming to wrap up business before the holidays. After a year of partisan battles,...
Buffalo, NY(WBEN)State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has released his annual report on how much telemarketers who raise ...
Albany (WBEN/AP) -- State Senator Pat Gallivan was among the lawmakers who voted in favor of the recently enacted tax-cut bil...
Buffalo, NY(WBEN)Earlier this week, the State Legislature approved a sweeping tax reform and job growth plan. Now, a state se...
Tonawanda,NY(WBEN)The SPCA Radiothon enters its second day Friday, and there is a happy ending to a story that could have had...
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Thursday, December 8: 6 am - 6 pmFriday, December 9: 6 am - 6 pmSaturday, December 10: 8 am - 3 pmNewsradio 930 am/107.7 fmWB...
Buffalo (WBEN) --The man who faced Gov.Andrew Cuomo in last year's election is shaking his head at the tax deal state leaders...
(AP) SEATTLE - A Seattle chiropractor and his wife live in a $1.2 million waterfront home and have spent the past eight y...
(WBEN/CBS) Going back on his campaign pledge of No New Taxes, Governor Cuomo has reached an agreement with the state legislat...
Kenmore, NY(WBEN)The Ken-TonSchool District is inviting parents, residents, and other community leaders to take part in an an...
(WBEN/AP) Several Williamsville North High School students have been suspended in the wake of the investigation into the suic...
Buffalo, NY(WBEN)Erie County Sheriff's deputies say the girlfriend of the man accused of beating her 11 month old baby twice ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The first sex-abuse lawsuit filed against ex-Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky comes from a man wh...
(AP) Police investigating the discoveries of 10 sets of human remains on New York's Long Island say they believe it's the wor...
Buffalo, NY(WBEN)The former owners of two dogs found starved have pleaded guilty to animal cruelty charges. One of the dogs w...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Syracuse University Chancellor Nancy Cantor is supporting men's basketball coach Jim Boeheim amid an inve...
Amherst, N.Y. (wben.com) - Police in the Town of Amherst Tuesday told reporters there will be no charges filed in the suicide...
(AP) Gov. Andrew Cuomo planned an emergency budget meeting of his top advisers as the special deficit-reduction supercommitte...
Buffalo, NY(WBEN)On October 7, 2003, 13 year old Ryan Halligan committed suicide after years of torment in school and online....
State College, PA(AP/WBEN)The NCAA has told Penn State it will investigate the school in the wake of a child sex abuse scanda...
Buffalo, NY(WBEN)State Senator George Maziarz is proposing a bill to increase the list of people who need to report a reasona...
Buffalo (WBEN) -- Unlike the protesters in other locations nationwide, those involved with the Occupy Buffalo demonstration i...
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) - Mike McQueary told a friend from Penn State that he stopped an alleged assault by Jerry Sandusky on...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - A new poll shows that while most New York voters don't believe the Occupy Wall Street movement has a clea...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York budget officials are projecting a $350 million deficit in this year's general fund, followed...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) A new Sienna College poll released Sunday show the Erie County Executive Race between Chris Collins and Ma...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) A new Sienna College poll released Sunday show the Erie County Executive Race between Chris Collins and Ma...
Orchard Park (WBEN) -- The Orchard Park Police and supporters held an informational picket on Wednesday night before the town...
Every morning through Election Day, WBEN's Steve Cichon will ask the candidates for County Executive their thoughts on a brie...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) As teen drug abuse continues to rise, three Western New York southtowns are fighting back. After a number ...
(AP)In upstate New York towns a short drive from the U.S.-Canadian border, federal agents, their numbers swelled by a post-Se...
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A history teacher amends his lessons on the civil rights movement to include the push for gay equality. A...
(CBS/AP)Unconfirmed reports of fugitive dictator Muammar Qaddafi's death surfaced Thursday shortly after his hometown of Sirt...
Buffalo, NY(WBEN)Anew Siena Research Institute poll finds two thirds of New Yorkers are paying some attention or a great deal...
ALBANY, N.Y. — The push for a higher tax on New Yorkers making more than $1 million a year is getting fresh life wi...
(WBEN)Buffalo- Two Erie County lawmakers are introducing a proposal to define cyber bullying as a misdemeanor crime.WHATDOYOU...
Buffalo (WBEN) -- The Erie County Sheriff's Office is conducting an investigation into a suicide that occurred Wednesday insi...
Nurses at Eastern Niagara Hospital-Lockport Site overwhelmingly ratified a new labor agreement by a margin of 71 to 8. The ne...
The first confirmed death linked to the listeria outbreak in New York State has now been recorded in the greater Rochester ar...
Clarence, N.Y. (WBEN) -- An employeeof a Clarence business is facing a misdemeanor count of prostitution and a felony count o...
Buffalo, NY(WBEN)As many of Jamey Rodemeyer's friends and classmates await the results of an investigation ot decide if charg...
Amherst, NY(WBEN)Amherst Police will update reporters on the Jamey Rodemeyer case at 3pm this afternoon.Rodemeyer committed s...
West Seneca, N.Y. (WBEN) -West Seneca School District officials have taken the unusual step of talking openly about a student...
Williamsville Superintendent Pledges Changes at PTAMeeting In aPTA meeting with 150 parents Monday nig...
As you look at making a move to a retirement community, assisted living facility or a nursing home, there is great concern ov...
(WBEN) The Williamsville School District has apparently suspended a student involved in the harassment of JameyRodemeyer's si...
(WBEN) The Williamsville School District has apparently suspended a student involved in the harassment of JameyRodemeyer's si...
(AP) Taunted since grade school for hanging out with girls, 14-year-old Jamey Rodemeyer told his parents things were finally ...
Robert Bennett, the Chancellor Emeritus of the NYState Board of Regents, and Western New York's representative on the state e...
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The case of a local teenager who killed himself after anti--gay taunting and bullying has risen to get national attention, an...
The case of a local teenager who killed himself after anti--gay taunting and bullying has risen to get national attention, an...
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(AP) President Barack Obama makes it sound like there are millionaires all over America paying taxes at lower rates than thei...
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