Two men are accused of defrauding investors of millions through a series of audacious lies, from a purported deal to buy livestock from companies in Kenya and Somalia to sell to companies in Oman, to fraudulent gold deals with companies in Hong Kong and Australia.

The incident occurred next door to the home of Eden Supervisor Melissa Hartman, who in late March had what looked like a pipe bomb thrown into her home.

Andrew Wylie, Salman Rushdie's literary agent, confirmed Saturday evening that the author is no longer on a ventilator and was talking and joking.

A Buffalo man who admitting getting unemployment benefits fraudulently before and during the pandemic has been sentenced to five years probation, Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn announced.

Orchard Park police and the SPCA on Sunday seized a cow, a horse, a chicken, two sheep and four dogs from a Southwestern Boulevard property.

The man accused of spraying a Cheektowaga store with bullets from an AR-15 almost five years ago told a judge Friday he wants a jury to decide his fate.

As part of the sentencing by Judge Shannon M. Heneghan in City Court, MD J. Abedin, 54, was ordered to perform 100 hours of community service.

According to the police report, the man was struck by gunfire just after 10 p.m. Sunday while he was sitting on his porch in the first block of Academy Road.

Donnie V. Currie, whose story of alleged abduction led to incarceration of a Black Rock barbershop owner and criminal charges that were later dropped, faces six misdemeanor charges.

The incident began at 1:37 p.m. as deputies responded to a report of "a despondent male with a gun who threatened to harm himself and a family member."