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(Reuters) - The NFL playoff game between the Buffalo Bills and visiting Pittsburgh Steelers has been postponed until Monday due to a winter storm, New York Governor Kathy Hochul said on Saturday. The game, originally scheduled to kick off at 1:00 p.m. ET (1800 GMT) on Sunday, will now begin on Monday at 4:30 p.m, Hochul wrote on social media. Hochul said she was in communication with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell regarding what are expected to be dangerous conditions in Buffalo this weekend. "In consultation with our emergency response teams, @BuffaloBills leadership, and the NFL, the Bills g......

Survivors of the racially motivated mass shooting at a Buffalo supermarket continue to feel the effects of the tragedy a year later. Rose Wysocki, who was a produce manager at the Tops Friendly Market where the shooting occurred, experienced symptoms including anxiety attacks and nightmares after returning to work there, she told the Buffalo News in an article published Sunday. During therapy, she learned she was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety and was told she would “never be able to heal” if she kept working at the store. She still goes to that supermarket to visit ......

New York (AFP) - A heavily armed 18-year-old man shot 10 people dead on Saturday at a Buffalo, New York grocery store in a "racially motivated" attack that he live-streamed on camera, authorities said. The gunman, who was wearing body armor and a helmet, was arrested after the massacre, Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia told a news conference. Gramaglia put the toll at 10 dead and three wounded. Eleven of the victims were African Americans. The gunman shot four people in the parking lot of the Tops supermarket, three of them fatally, then went inside and continued firing, Gramaglia ......

Ailing Gambino mob boss Peter Gotti lost a second bid Tuesday to be released early from prison so he can spend his final days with family. Judge Colleen McMahon rejected Gotti’s argument that he was extremely vulnerable to COVID-19 at FMC Butner in North Carolina, which has faced outbreaks like many other federal lockups around the country. Currently, there are three inmates and six staff at the prison specializing in medical treatment. In January, the judge denied a similar request from Gotti, citing an array of ailments including heart problems, dementia, blindness and cancer. “What I said a......

A report from WKBW out of Buffalo, New York, says doctors are expecting a baby boom in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Doctors in the area told the local station they are seeing more pregnant patients and expect hospitals will be busy in the coming months. "Starting the first of the year, all the way through June, I think we're going to have a really big increase in deliveries," Dr. Maria Corigliano of Audubon Women's Medical Associates in Buffalo told the station. "Because what do you have to do but eat and procreate!" Corigliano said her practice delivers about 50 babies each month, bu......