Buffalo's contribution to Black History in America runs long and deep. Here are a few events that happened in Buffalo's history that you should know about.
If you are traveling down the 190 this morning, there are a lot of emergency crews at the foot of the Niagara River at West Ferry Street in Buffalo. Police have been on the scene since about 5:30 this morning.
According to some accounts on twitter, there is an attempt at a body recovery...
A number of Police agencies including Air One from the Erie County Sheriff's Office are searching the Niagara River in the area of the South Grand Island Bridge for a missing swimmer
A Buffalo Sector U.S. Border Patrol agent and a marina owner acted quickly to rescue an elderly man who fell into the Niagara River on Grand Island Saturday morning according to WIVB-TV.
The Lake Erie Ice Boom prevents or reduces the amount of ice floating down the Niagara River to reduce ice blockages, flooding, damage to shoreline property and ice damage to the power plant intakes near Niagara Falls.
Reports have come back to examine the death of Buffalo Police Officer Craig Lehner who drowned in the Niagara River last October.
After a 5 day, hunt his body was discovered, but the reports show that maybe Lehner was ill-prepared to dive in the river, as his few previous dives were in calm water like the Caribbean where he got his scuba certification.
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