Hearings in School Bus Violence Case

School district officials say they will hold hearings this week for 5 girls and one boy who were suspended after a fight on a school bus Friday that lead to shots being fired. The students from the North Park Academy, School 66, on Parkside Avenue were fighting on the bus in the Walden-Bailey area of the city. One man was stabbed with box cutters, a 33-year-old woman was punched in the face and someone fired four shots at the bus.

More Amherst Trees May Be Cut

Last week residents of Snyder went to court to try and stop the town from taking down trees damaged in the 2006 storm. They got a temporary halt, but the town fought it and got to resume the cutting. Town officials say that 8-thousand more trees still need to come down, but they add that they only have until this coming Thursday when federal funds run out.

Concern for Cote Family

The family of missing private security contractor Jonathon Cote has been visited by government officials who told them a sixth body has been recovered in Iraq. Cote was among a group of contractors kidnapped in 2006. The unidentified body is being flown back to Dover, Delaware for identification.

School Bus Crash Shakes Students

Five children and three adults injured in a school bus accident this morning. According to police, the bus was headed for a drop off at Lydia Wright school when it collided with a minivan at Michigan and Clinton.

Buffalo Woman Accused of Conspiracy to Kill 2nd Man

A Buffalo woman accused of murdering her husband is facing new charges. Robin Kalinowski now charged with conspiracy for allegedly trying to pay an undercover officer three-thousand-dollars to kill the man she was having an affair, with when her husband was killed. She's already facing 25 years to life and could face another 50 years to life.

Case to Challenge Clark

Kenneth Case has officially announced that he'll be running for Erie County D-A. Case, who has worked in the District Attorney's Office for the last 14 years, will get his shot against incumbent Frank Clark in the September primary. Case is currently working for a private firm and was a part of the group that connected Altemio Sanchez to a number of rapes in the area.

Kurtz Charges Dropped

UB professor Steve Kurtz has had mail and wire fraud and charges against him thrown out. In May 2004, FBI agents in Haz-Mat suits went into Kurtz's home and found biological samples. After a long investigation, Kurtz was charged with fraudulently obtaining two of the samples. Thise charges were dismissed today by Federal Judge Richard Arcara.