Patrick Lakamp

Twelve days after a jury convicted him, Joseph Bongiovanni on Tuesday asked for new lawyers to represent him, citing an irreparable breakdown in his relationship with his current legal team.

The Erie County resident discovered in November he had been banned from buying firearms when he failed a federal background check when trying to make a purchase. He recently filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Buffalo.

In a federal lawsuit filed Thursday, the parent called her son's five-day suspension "an unconstitutional restriction on speech" that had a chilling effect on the ability of all students to engage in open discourse.

Lawyers for the man charged with killing 10 people and injuring three others in his racist attack at the Tops grocery store on Jefferson Avenue said he cannot get a fair trial in Buffalo and want him tried nearly 400 miles away in New York City.

A philosophy professor locked in a lawsuit for nearly two years with SUNY Fredonia over his controversial podcast remarks has been told he will lose his job when the university abolishes its Philosophy Department.

A fraudster who helped perpetrate a crime that netted more than a quarter of a million dollars from grandparents helps explain why Erie County leads most other upstate counties for losses suffered by fleeced senior citizens.

Protesters gathered outside the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Buffalo as the chief justice of the United States Supreme Court addressed 600 people who gathered to mark the 125th anniversary of the federal court in the Western District of New York.

John W. Burns remains in custody and a hearing is set for May 20 after he was accused of removing his ankle monitor.

A stag party promoter facing seven sex-trafficking charges learned Tuesday what is at stake if he chooses to stand trial: 30 years to life in prison. Federal prosecutors put forth a preliminary plea deal that would allow Darryl Lamont Paul to avoid that.

A California man who pleaded guilty Tuesday to a narcotics conspiracy charge in U.S. District Court seemed well on his way six years ago to supplying a million-dollar-a-month drug enterprise in Buffalo.