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Catherine McQueen/Getty Images (BUFFALO, N.Y.) — Over half of Buffalo, New York’s water service lines are estimated to contain lead, but city officials say the work to replace them could last over the next two decades and cost nearly half a billion dollars to complete. Nearly 40,000 water service lines in Buffalo, over half of […]
Courtesy of Amanda Drury (BUFFALO, N.Y.) — Ten people, all African American, were killed in a racially motivated mass shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, a year ago this week, an attack that shook the nation and underscored a rise in white supremacy across the country. The victims included mothers and grandmothers, a […]
John Normile/Getty Images (BUFFALO, N.Y.) — Anger boiled over Wednesday as Buffalo mass shooter Payton Gendron was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility parole, with a judge telling the 19-year-old he deserved “no mercy” and a victim’s family member lunging at him in the courtroom. After hearing emotional statements from the families of […]
John Normile/Getty Images (BUFFALO, N.Y.) — Garnell Whitfield Jr., whose 86-year-old mother died in the Tops supermarket massacre last May, said he’s not interested in hearing what the gunman has to say when he plans to apologize to victims’ families on Wednesday. “Nothing he’s going to say to me is going to bring my mother […]
Malik Rainey/ABC News (BUFFALO, N.Y.) — He frequently preaches forgiveness, yet Darius Pridgen, pastor of one of the largest Black churches in Buffalo, New York, said it’s taken him months to consider forgiving the teenager who killed 10 people in a racially motivated attack at his neighborhood grocery store. Pridgen, who is also president of […]
Jorge Lemus/NurPhoto via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The collapse of Buffalo safety Damar Hamlin during Monday night’s NFL game between the Bills and Cincinnati Bengals with millions watching at home is bringing cardiac arrest, even among young professional athletes, into a larger focus. Hamlin, 24, “suffered a cardiac arrest following a hit” in the […]
Daniela Simona Temneanu / EyeEm/Getty Images (BUFFALO, N.Y.) — The Buffalo storm hero who police have dubbed “Merry Christmas Jay” has been identified and is speaking out to ABC News. Police in the town of Cheektowaga, just outside of Buffalo, credit 27-year-old Jay Withey with saving the lives of two dozen people during the deadly […]
Alex McArthur/Seamus Gallivan (BUFFALO, N.Y.) — Buffalo residents helped free 16 birds stuck in ice along the waterfront of LaSalle Park after a deadly blizzard swept through the region over the weekend. Seamus Gallivan and Alex McArthur said the rescue mission was borne out of wanting to help somehow, while the city remained paralyzed by […]
Normand Blouin / EyeEm/ Getty Images (BUFFALO, N.Y.) — Residents of western New York are going from shoveling snow to filling sandbags as a historic blizzard that killed at least 39 people in metropolitan Buffalo gives way to a big meltdown with temperatures forecast to soar. A record 51 inches of snow over the Christmas […]
Courtesy of Ally Sharifu (BUFFALO, N.Y.) — Thirty-seven people have died in Erie County, New York, after a historic winter storm slammed Buffalo. Fatalities including people found in cars, people found outside and cardiac events from shoveling or blowing snow, according to Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz. Monique Alexander Among those killed was 52-year-old Monique […]
