Crime

A second doctor now reports that Amanda Wienckowski was murdered, but the family still can't get a homicide investigation started. 

School districts and police departments across much of Western and Central New York are going to get opportunities to learn the latest in training about violence and active shooting incidents.

A local lawyer is moving ahead with plans to challenge the state's new gun control law in court.  The case will not revolve around the U.S. Constitution's "Right to Bear Arms."

An 87-year-old man faces a charge of manslaughter for allegedly beating his nursing home roommate repeatedly with a heavy magnet.

A former Niagara Falls city official has pleaded guilty to a federal corruption charge.

On the heels of New York State passing the toughest gun control legislation in the nation, a new report shows the number of firearm related offenses is up in the City of Buffalo. 

Federal agents conducted a major round-up of suspected drug dealers Friday on Buffalo's West Side.

A former South Buffalo Charter School teacher convicted of rape several years ago  is apparently on the run. 

A man from Niagara Falls has pleaded guilty to multiple charges related to the deaths of two pedestrians he stuck and killed while riding his motorcycle in Amherst last November.

On the fourth anniversary of the finding of the body of Amanda Wienckowski in Buffalo, the family's lawyer claims another doctor says the young woman's death was a murder, not an overdose.

U.S. Senator Charles Schumer is pushing for legislation that would make it a federal crime to intimidate a witness and set tough penalties for intimidation.

Buffalo police have made the first arrest in the November 24 home break-in and assault on 96-year-old Levi Clayton.

Authorities have charged a 24-year-old woman in connection with the guns used in the Christmas Eve ambush that killed two volunteer firefighters responding to a house fire in Webster. 

Authorities say an 86-year-old man beaten in a Town of Tonawanda assisted living facility by his elderly roommate has died.

Details continue to emerge from Monday's deadly shootings in a suburb of Rochester.  62-year-old William Spengler opened fire on firefighters after setting a fire at his Webster home Christmas Eve morning. 

Spangler shot four firefighters trying to battle the flames, killing two and critically wounding two others. Spengler then turned his gun on himself, dying from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Four firefighters were shot while responding to a blaze on Lake Avenue in the town of Webster, just east of Rochester, and two are dead. The assailant is also dead.