Police are searching for an 18-year-old who fell into the Niagara River while fishing Wednesday morning. Witnesses told police that around 10:15 am. the teen had been standing on a rock near the bottom of the whirlpool stairs, between Whirlpool State Park and Devil’s Hole State Park, and fell in.A Tonawanda man, 48 year old Adalberto Bermudez, received the maximum sentence of 25 years to life in prison for killing a man with a machete in Buffalo’s Riverside neighborhood in 2023.State Assemblyman Pat Burke called for state police to create a task force to investigate the Buffalo Diocese following the recent arrest of a former Cheektowaga priest on child pornography charges.An inmate at the Collins Correctional Facility is dead following an altercation at the prison Tuesday evening.The New York State Comptroller's Office recently released two audits in regards to the Town of Amherst's IT department and employee benefits. One audit found the Town did not properly manage network user account access, increasing the risk of unauthorized access, service disruptions or data breaches.