$200k in damages estimated from Benzinger Street fire

11/20/25 5:06 PM

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Around $200,000 in damages were estimated from a fire on Benzinger Street in Buffalo on Thursday morning, according to officials. Crews responded to 18 Benzinger, in Buffalo's Lovejoy neighborhood, around 7:20 a.m. Thursday. The house was one-and-a-half stories with a wooden frame. Crews were able to put the fire out. There [...]

'Shameful. It's a disgrace.' O.C. Vietnam vets memorial overshadowed by corruption, shoddy work

11/17/25 1:51 PM

Orange County is suing, alleging that most of the money that was supposed to be allocated to a Vietnam War memorial was instead used for personal gain.

4 dead after panga boat capsizes off Southern California coast

11/16/25 2:05 AM

The boat was first spotted south of the Imperial Beach Pier around 12 a.m. by agents with the U.S. Border Patrol's San Diego Sector.

5-year-old girl missing, father dead after large wave sweeps them into ocean near Big Sur

11/15/25 11:12 PM

A 5-year old girl is missing and her father is dead after they were swept into the ocean by a wave at Garrapata State Park along the Big Sur coast, according to authorities.

75-year-old woman dead following collision in Erie County

11/20/25 5:52 PM

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- A 75-year-old woman is dead after a collision occurred in Boston in Erie County on Wednesday afternoon, according to New York State Police. Police said a car traveling northbound on Brown Hill Road hit a car pulling into traffic around 3:30 p.m. Mary Meyer, of Springville, was pronounced dead at the [...]

A California man vanished from his mountain town. Did a bear get him?

11/19/25 6:05 PM

Officials believe a man who has been missing for three months likely had a medical emergency or died near his home before a bear or mountain lion dragged him away.

After three decades, O.J. Simpson's estate agrees to pay millions to Goldman family

11/18/25 11:00 AM

Simpson's estate for the first time has accepted a multimillion-dollar claim from murder victim Ron Goldman's father, Fred Goldman, stemming from a wrongful death suit the family won against Simpson in 1997.

Arellano: Car wash workers already had it tough. Then immigration raids slammed them to the ground

11/18/25 11:00 AM

Activists say immigration agents have raided at least 100 car washes across Southern California since June, detaining at least 340 mostly Latino workers in Trump's deportation push.

Arellano: Catholic Church puts foot down on Trump's mass deportation policy. That's a start

11/15/25 11:00 AM

When millions of European immigrants came to the United States in the 19th century only to be scorned by mainstream society, it was the Catholic Church that embraced them, taught that keeping the customs of one's native lands was not bad and created systems of mutual aid and education for the newcomers that didn't rely on the government.

Autistic kids are at higher risk of suicide. Why don't their parents and doctors know?

11/20/25 11:00 AM

Autistic kids are far more likely to think about and die from suicide than their neurotypical peers. Autism researchers and advocates are working towards developing better screening tools, safety plans, therapies and prevention strategies that take neurodiversity into account.