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Last Updated September 22nd, 19:37 2025

Sunrise: 7:03 | Sunset: 7:12

Weather Forecast: A slow moving trough of low pressure will bring beneficial rain to the region through midweek, with several rounds of showers and scattered thunderstorms. Another low pressure system will move into the Great Lakes late in the week, with additional rain chances in an unsettled pattern.

Buffalo News:

  • Judge delays decision but hints at win for Scanlon in bond fight with comptroller
  • Jury deadlocks, mistrial declared in case of Amherst detective charged with lying to FBI
  • 'Mommy! What's the matter with you?': Retrial in 1993 Tonawanda homicide continues
  • Hochul tours technology upgrades at Town of Tonawanda police HQ: 'A step ahead of the criminals'
  • Sabres Notebook: For a relieved Bowen Byram, new deal was 'all part of the business'
  • Don Paul: Autumn begins with badly needed showers − in spots

    • Buffalo Business First:

    Buffalo Business First News Barfed! Something broke!

    Buffalo Rising:

  • 2025 Old First Ward Arts & Heritage Festival
  • Joss Stone Opens UBCFA’s Legendary Voices Series This Fall
  • fig™ Returns: 12 Bold Designers, One Unforgettable Night of Fashion, Music & Art
  • It’s Alive in Buffalo! Starring Buffalo Brings Young Frankenstein to Shea’s 710 Theatre
  • Five Cent Cine: Lurker
  • Big Reveal: Adams and Watson Street Townhomes

    • Art Voice:

  • The Oakland Bribery Case and the Case for Abolishing the DOJ’s Name
  • In the Interest of Justice, We Must Rename the Department of Justice
  • Most Cities Court Data Centers; Niagara Falls Is Blocking One
  • Did Assault Cause Cancer? The High-Stakes Question in a D.C. Federal Case
  • The Two Documents: How Letitia James’s Aides Recast a Sexual Assault Allegation as a ‘Lost Purse’ Complaint
  • Cho-Liang Lin’s Career Advice Every Music Student Needs for Today’s Industry

    • Jamestown Post-Journal:

  • Angelo’s Turn
  • Mayville United Methodist Church Recognizes Longtime Organist
  • County’s Fly Car Program Improving Financially
  • Falconer Residents Concerned With Central Avenue Traffic Issues
  • Picture Perfect
  • Spooky Season: Fenton History Center To Host 20th Annual Lakeview Cemetery, Mausoleum Tours

    • Batavia Daily News:

  • Medina Memorial celebrating 100th year in building
  • Pike man faces felony Leandra's Law DWI charges
  • Upstate gas prices slip down; national average unchanged
  • Runners, walkers gather in Elba to support Arc GLOW
  • Shifting sentiments: Has the sun set on solar in Genesee County?
  • Serious injury reported after pickup strikes mobility scooter in Batavia

    • NY Times - NY Region:

  • N.Y.C. Watchdog Agency Is Investigating Deaths in Police Custody
  • Four NY Prison Officers Plead Guilty to Manslaughter in Taped Beating
  • Some Rikers Detainees Are Illegally Isolated, Lawsuit Says
  • Manhattan Will Not Get a Casino as Final Proposal Is Voted Down
  • Mamdani Pushed to Cut 1,300 Officers From a ‘Racist’ N.Y.P.D. in 2022
  • 7 Ways the Candidates for New Jersey Governor Would Differ on Day 1

    • The Toronto Star:

    Toronto Star Failed! Something broke!

    Discovering Buffalo, One Street at a Time:

  • Butler Avenue: Start the Buffalo Evening News, Get a Street Named After You
  • Butler Place: the Fitch Institute and Fitch Creche – Buffalo Social Work Pioneers
  • The Great Buffalo Streets Contest of 1910-11
  • Mayor Chandler Wells and the Great Wells Street Fire: Lost History of Downtown Buffalo
  • Free Downtown History Walking Tours!
  • Rosetta Petruzzi Way and Sally Mae Cunningham Drive – Work to Improve Your Neighborhood, Get a Street Named After You

    • Investigative Post:

  • Buffalo Bills among NFL teams honoring Charlie Kirk
  • More cuts coming at The Buffalo News
  • Zellner, Rivera jockey for state Senate seat
  • Niagara County appoints Wojtaszek to OTB board
  • Inside the human smuggling racket along U.S.-Canadian border
  • Shaky math involving Buffalo’s budget balancer

    • WGRZ:

  • Gov. Hochul anticipates 'longer path' and 'more expensive' Kensington Expressway project
  • Storm Team 2 Weather Forecast
  • New $100K fee on H-1B visas raises questions
  • Tiger fatally mauls handler during big cat show in Oklahoma, sheriff says
  • Costco recalls Kirkland poke over possible listeria contamination
  • Mistrial declared in case against Amherst Police detective accused of lying to federal agents

    • WIVB:

  • Buffalo woman charged after pepper spray incident at Longhorn Steakhouse
  • Pharaoh's strip club to be leased to new management with new name
  • Buffalo man arrested in connection with burglaries of Casa Azul, Sato
  • Commemorating the Erie Canal: Planting a tree of peace in Buffalo
  • Buffalo State restores hot water to all campus buildings
  • Rounds of showers and thunderstorms into Tuesday

    • WKBW:

  • New York State invests $743,000 in police technology in Town of Tonawanda
  • 'We saw a need': Volunteers build benches and place them at Buffalo bus stops
  • 'Our city needs this': Hyde Park Ice Pavilion expected to close
  • More than 400 entertainers sign a new letter defending free speech
  • New electronic pass system limits students to 7 bathroom breaks per week
  • Supreme Court allows Trump to fire Democratic member of FTC

    • Reddit Buffalo:

  • New Policy: Verified News Sources
  • Empire state trail
  • EPA Planning Rollback of NY Water Laws
  • Local food banks I can donate too?
  • Recount of Today's Planning Board Meeting
  • Galleria Holiday Hours

    • WBFO:

  • Judge hears arguments in Buffalo capital budget dispute
  • Hochul highlights need for police funding, community support programs
  • World Canals Conference showcases WNY's unique Erie Canal revitalization
  • Fox pleads guilty to 2 murders after 4-year case
  • Professor says AI fellowship could help with 'rethinking classroom'
  • Tonawanda Paramedic Unit celebrates 50 years with flag rededication

    • Spectrum Buffalo:

  • Unsettled pattern takes hold
  • Weekend Pass Buffalo: Music Is Art, Meatball Streetbrawl, Curtain Up! Buffalo
  • More girls participating in wrestling as varsity sport
  • 5 simple ways to run your A/C less this summer
  • Fireworks and weather: A perfect balance
  • List of Independence Day fireworks displays in Western N.Y. for 2025

    • Niagara Gazette:

  • In NY, some cops can drink, drive and avoid charges
  • Niagara Falls pulls away late for ‘ugly’ win ov…
  • Erie Canal's bicentennial celebration features …
  • In NY, some cops can drink, drive and avoid charges
  • Niagara Falls pulls away late for ‘ugly’ win over Niagara Wheatfield
  • Erie Canal's bicentennial celebration features a week of events

    • Olean Times Herald:

    Something broke!

    Rochester Spectrum 1:

  • Official start of fall marks fall foliage season at Bristol Mountain
  • Evening Briefing: Brooks family reacts to Marcy CO guilty pleas, 12-year-old, grandmother die from Penn Yan house fire and new multiple myeloma treatment offers hope
  • West Point is violating the First Amendment with a crackdown on professors, lawsuit says
  • Police: 12-year-old, grandmother die in Penn Yan house fire
  • Upstate New York-based researchers discover PFAS-eating bacteria
  • New York's first 'net-zero' energy firehouse opens in upstate

    • Visit Buffalo Niagara:

  • Welcome to Buffalo, Home of the Pod
  • A Curator Shares Her Ideal Buffalo Weekend
  • Kids Eat Free Deals in Buffalo, NY
  • Where to Find the African American Heritage Guide to Buffalo
  • Following in Their Footsteps: Exploring Where Black History Happened in Buffalo, NY
  • Michigan Street Baptist Church: A stop on the Underground Railroad resurrected

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    The Verge:

  • Trump escalates crackdown by designating ‘Antifa’ a domestic terror group
  • The AI-energy apocalypse might be a little overblown
  • The best iPhones
  • Steam game removed after cryptostealer takes over $150K
  • Jimmy Kimmel’s show will return after censorship outrage
  • The best deals on MacBooks right now

    • CNBC Economy:

  • The Fed cut its interest rate, but long-term rates — including those on mortgages — went higher
  • Steve Bannon floats idea of Bessent running both Treasury and the Fed
  • Germany was billed as Europe's growth driver. Now economists are saying: Not so fast
  • Hassett says Fed made 'prudent call,' signaling White House OK with quarter-point cut
  • Sales of heavy trucks are falling like the U.S. is headed for a recession
  • Sticky UK inflation unlikely to move the needle for Bank of England

    • Cyber Security Headlines:

  • Cybersecurity AI (CAI): Open-source framework for AI security - Help Net Security
  • Artificial intelligence ushers in a golden age of hacking, experts say - The Washington Post
  • LeMoyne-Owen Increases Community Understanding Of AI and Cybersecurity - Memphis Flyer
  • Commission Collects Feedback to Simplify Rules on Data, Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence in Upcoming Digital Omnibus - Inside Privacy
  • AI-powered vulnerability detection will make things worse, not better, former US cyber official warns - Cybersecurity Dive
  • TribalNet 2025: Cybersecurity Is Central to IT Modernization for Tribes - FedTech Magazine

    • Axios:

  • White House backs Trump's prosecutions, blasts "gaslighting" critics
  • Supreme Court lets Trump fire FTC official as it weighs president's power over agencies
  • France is the latest country to formally recognize State of Palestine
  • Trump urges pregnant women to limit taking Tylenol
  • Biden response to Gaza was "inadequate," Harris says in book
  • Most CEOs say Trump policy has harmed their businesses, new survey finds