BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A serial car dealer thief has pleaded guilty to 15 felony counts as well as three more misdemeanor counts in connection to stealing cars at several different dealerships across Erie County in 2023, the Erie County District Attorney's Office announced Monday. 21-year-old Richard E. Lucas, III, of Cheektowaga, admitted to stealing [...]
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A man is in critical condition following a shooting on William Street Sunday night, according to Buffalo police. Police responded to the 1200 block of William, near Depot Street and Lewis Street, just after 5 p.m. Sunday. Police found the man in a yard near the railroad tracks. The man, 55, [...]
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- On April 8 at 3:18 p.m., Western New York will experience its first total solar eclipse in nearly 100 years. With the 2024 Great American Eclipse less than a month away, News 4 is compiling a list of locations around the area that will be hosting events to witness the eclipse. [...]
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- Mayor Byron Brown appointed Lindsey Lauren Visser as City of Buffalo historian and Aitina Fareed-Cooke as the city's new poet laureate Monday. Visser is a graduate of the University of Oxford and a historian specializing in the Western New York region. She serves as the executive director of the Niagara Aerospace [...]
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- A new bus rapid transit line is coming to Bailey Avenue on Buffalo's East Side, thanks to over $100 million in federal funding, announced Monday by U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. The funding -- $102,692,562, to be exact -- will be received through the U.S. Department [...]
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Daemen University is sending both its men's and women's basketball teams to the NCAA Division II championship tournament. The Wildcat women are dancing for the fifth consecutive March, having cut down the nets in their home gym Sunday after winning the East Coast Conference for the fourth time in that span [...]
