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CRIME & SAFETY
Army report: Lewiston gunman’s discharge from New York psychiatric hospital remains a mystery
An internal investigation by the U.S. Army found multiple communication and procedural failures allowed one of its reservists to evade psychiatric treatment after he was released from a private psychiatric hospital less than three months before he committed the worst mass shooting in Maine history last October. At the same...
Guilty plea in deadly Transit Road crash in February
A Cheektowaga woman, 24-year-old Alondra Ramirez-Santiago, admitted Wednesday morning to being intoxicated behind the wheel of a crash that killed a 51-year-old woman from Lockport in late February. Read more from WBEN:
WNY aviation community mourns loss of local pilot
NIAGARA COUNTY, N.Y. (WIVB) — The Western New York community continues to mourn a local pilot who was killed when her plane went down in Niagara County over the weekend. 26-year-old Melanie Georger died Saturday when she crashed shortly after dropping off skydivers. Former pilot and aviation expert Bob Miller said people in the aviation […]
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