A Buffalo man, 45 year old Wendell Brooks, was sentenced to five to 15 years in prison for killing a pedestrian with a Cybertruck in a hit-and-run on William Street in July 2025, the Erie County District Attorney’s Office said Wednesday. The 5/14 Memorial Foundation is working with community organizations to develop programming for the future 5/14 Living Memorial and Healing Center. The Living Memorial and Healing Center will honor the 10 people killed in the 2022 Tops mass shooting and support survivors.A former Florida man, Scott Thompson, has pleaded guilty to killing his two brothers in Allegany County last November, the Allegany County District Attorney’s Office said Wednesday.Gooding Street north of the city remains closed for the foreseeable future due to unsafe conditions caused by hillside hazards. Congressman Tim Kennedy (NY-26) warns the local manufacturing sector in Western New York could be a casualty of a growing trade war between the U.S. and Canada.Niagara Falls City Council is being asked to consider a garbage fee hike