BUFFALO (AP) — A settlement has been reached in the only case to go to trial following a 2009 plane crash into a home outside Buffalo that killed 50 people. The deal was announced Thursday in state Supreme Court in ...

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LANCASTER (AP) — Grief counseling is being offered for suburban Buffalo students mourning the death of a teenager who was killed when two small planes collided. Officials in the Lancaster Central School District have issued a statement saying professionals and ...

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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Opening statements are underway in a wrongful death claim filed after the 2009 crash of a commuter flight into a home near Buffalo. The attorney for the family of Doug Wielinski spent about 90 minutes Thursday ...

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[UPDATE 11 a.m. Monday] KINGSTON, Jamaica — A developer presumed dead with his wife in a private plane crash near Jamaica had an “uncanny instinct” for revitalizing properties and an “incalculable” impact on his western New York hometown’s resurgence from ...

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New York State Senior Investigator Timothy J. Cowper died Sunday after the single-engine plane he was flying crashed into a wooded lot in Edinburg, Saratoga County. Cowper was off duty. State Police Superintendent Joseph A. D’Amico said Cowper was an ...

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BUFFALO — Lawyers for families suing over the deadly 2009 crash of a plane into a house near Buffalo have won access to an internal safety report that the flight’s operators had fought to keep private. They can also interview ...

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The executors of the estates of two Buffalo attorneys killed in a 2009 plane crash in Ohio can proceed in their suit against a training foundation. Erie County Supreme Court Justice Timothy J. Walker has denied a motion by the ...

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BUFFALO — A lawyer for families suing over the 2009 crash of Continental Connection Flight 3407 near Buffalo says newly released emails show the flight's operator, Colgan Air, doubted its pilot's ability to fly the plane six months before it crashed.

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BUFFALO — Families suing over the 2009 crash of Flight 3407 near Buffalo are awaiting an important ruling. Federal Judge William Skretny has told lawyers he'll let them know Monday about the key issue of punitive damages. Those are damages meant to punish companies and deter future wrongdoing.

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BUFFALO — Days before the second anniversary of the deadly crash of a plane into a New York home, lawyers for victims’ families have been in court discussing the lawsuits pending against the flight’s operators

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BARRINGTON — A small plane crash has killed an emergency room doctor from New Jersey who was flying to work at a hospital in the Finger Lakes region. Yates County Sheriff Ronald Spike tells local media ...

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BUFFALO — Lawyers say a half dozen families of passengers killed in the crash of Continental Connection Flight 3407 near Buffalo have now settled their lawsuits against the airlines.

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