Month: October 2020

After weeks of allowing the bill to sit on his desk following the Common Council’s ratification of the City of Buffalo’s new Duty to Intervene law — known widely as Cariol’s Law — Mayor Byron Brown signed it into law,

Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn announces that 24-year-old Cameron N. Williams of Town of Tonawanda has been sentenced by Erie County Court Judge Susan Eagan to a determinate sentence of 6 years in prison followed by 10 years

Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn announces that yesterday 20-year-old Michael Monti of Buffalo pleaded guilty as charged to Assault in the First Degree, a Class “B” violent felony, before Erie County Court Judge Kenneth F. Case. The defendant

Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn announces that 45-year-old Keith Sparks of Niagara Falls has been sentenced by Erie County Court Judge Susan Eagan to 20 years to life in prison. On September 25, 2019, at approximately 2:00 p.m.,

The Chronicle has learned that Hunter Biden met more than two dozen times with Ye Jianming, the globe-trotting billionaire and senior Chinese Communist Party (CCP) figure who is entrenched in wide-ranging public corruption scandals around the world. They met so

A Kentucky-based political operative with longtime ties to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell tells The Chronicle that McConnell is “very open to the idea” of California Senator Diane Feinstein joining the Republican caucus “particularly in an evenly divided chamber”. Feinstein

A digital publication, The National File, published a series of photos late last week from the 1986 yearbook of Mark Kelly, the Democrat nominee for United States Senate from Arizona, which appear to show him dressed as Nazi dictator Adolf

An email from the now scandalous laptop once owned by Hunter Biden outlines a corruption scheme that gave the Biden family a $5 million no-interest, unsecured, and fully forgivable loan from a Chinese state-owned enterprise. That email was sent to

At a campaign rally on Wednesday night in Gaston, NC, President Donald Trump announced his support of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina‘s 100-year battle for federal recognition — and pledged to lobby Congress after the election to ensure that

It could all just be a matter of dirty politics — rumor and innuendo run amuck — but the race for US Senate in North Carolina has been drawing national headlines. The Democrat nominee running for United States Senate from

A retired FBI agent formerly assigned to the Newark field office tells The Chronicle that nude photos of underaged women were found on the laptop once owned by Hunter Biden, in addition to an archive of Facetime video chats, text

A source familiar with the FBI’s investigation into Hunter Biden‘s business dealings tells The Chronicle that Bevan Cooney, his former business partner, is cooperating with investigators and has already provided two separate field offices with access to more than 26,000

The Chronicle has confirmed that Joshua Wilson, one of the FBI’s top child porn investigators, has subpoenaed Hunter Biden‘s now scandalous laptop — known to contain a trove of emails that implicate Joe Biden in wide ranging bribery and pay-for-access

Stuck deep in a fiscal crisis that could force a 20% budget cut to restructure the City of Niagara Falls, Mayor Robert Restaino is unwilling to fund the construction of new canals and public spaces near Niagara Falls State Park.

BY BILL HAMMOND New York’s coronavirus infection rates have surged to their highest levels since May, pushing 10 counties – including Brooklyn, Rockland and Orange – above a threshold that the Cuomo administration uses to justify travel restrictions on other

BY E.J. McMAHON Well, that didn’t take long. Late Thursday, as hailed in this space, Mayor de Blasio finally made a decisive move—or at least seemed to make a move—in the direction of actually saving some money on labor costs by getting tough with a

BY MICHEAL ROSEN Last week, the long-simmering software dispute between Google and Oracle boiled over, as the Supreme Court heard arguments in the tech giants’ copyright fight. The story began in federal court in San Francisco in 2010, when Oracle sued Google for infringing

BY JAMES PETHOKOUKIS I’m always up for a good story about the now-defunct Soviet Union, and I sure like this one from the new book More: A History of the World Economy from the Iron Age to the Information Age by Philip