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WBFO's Tom Dinki reports. Gugino’s attorneys filed the federal lawsuit Monday in U.S. District Court. The 55-page complaint alleges Gugino’s civil rights were violated when officers pushed him to the ground and injured him outside City Hall following a racial justice protest last June. “He's seeking compensation for severe injuries he suffered as a result of being a victim of police violence,” said Richard Weisbeck, one of Gugino’s attorneys from the Buffalo law firm Lipsitz Green Scime Cambria, “and he wants to continue to protect and reinforce his constitutional rights and the r...

The Buffalo News, the Niagara Gazette and the Lockport Union-Sun & Journal in the Buffalo area. Community partners include the MAGIC Center at the Rochester Institute of Technology and a journalism professor at St. John Fisher College.       This spring, the initiative will expand to include news and community organizations in Southeast Michigan, becoming the first interstate collaborative supported by the Solutions Journalism Network. The New York & Michigan Solutions Journalism Collaborative - as the interstate collaborative will be called - is made possible through a grant from the...

WBFO's Tom Dinki reports. Relieved. That’s how Sharon Talty described her emotions after receiving her first inoculation of the Pfizer-produced COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday morning at UB’s Harriman Hall.  A sign directs people toward the COVID-19 vaccination site at Harriman Hall on the University at Buffalo's South Campus. Credit Tom Dinki/WBFO News “It's so hard. I have grandkids, family. You want to be with them,” the retired West Seneca resident told WBFO. “So it'll give us some relief.”  Talty, who is over 65 and therefore part of New York state’s 1b vaccination group, said t...

   For three weeks this summer, Torn Space Theater was able to put on 14 outdoor performances at Silo City in downtown Buffalo.  “It was capped at 50 people. They had to be six feet apart. And so under those guidelines, we were able to do performances,” said Dan Shanahan, the nonprofit theater group’s artistic director. “But of course, there has been no opportunity to do indoor performances.”    So when Cuomo announced the New York Arts Revival on Tuesday, saying the state cannot wait until the summer to bring back the arts and provide a living wage for artists, Shanahan was im...

WBFO's Tom Dinki reports. At least 21 residents of the Elderwood nursing home in Williamsville have tested positive for COVID-19 during the last six months, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid.  Resident Eileen Folkerth is not one of them.     But, like all residents, she can’t participate in activities outside her room, due to safety protocols. “All you have is TV,” she said.    Folkerth may get back to a more engaging routine and what she called a “more pleasant life,” with the help of a COVID-19 vaccination. She could receive it as soon as this ...