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A Continental Airlines turboprop crashed into a neighborhood outside Buffalo, N.Y., Thursday, killing 50 people. The wreckage burned throughout the night, making it difficult for investigators to begin looking into the cause of the crash.

With rock-bottom poll numbers and a massive budget deficit, New York Gov. David Paterson already faced a tough election fight. Now a New York Times article alleging that the governor pressured a woman to drop assault charges against his aide could be the final straw for voters.

Three New York City police officers charged in the fatal shooting of Sean Bell are acquitted of all charges Friday. The undercover police officers fired 50 shots at Bell and two of his friends as they left a club on the morning of what was to be Bell's wedding day. The victims were all unarmed.

New York Gov. David Paterson said Friday at least 12 people were killed in an attack on an immigration-services center in Binghamton, N.Y. News reports say a gunman entered the building while firing, and took hostages.

Many schools are adding computer tablets and cutting back on books. Archbishop Stepinac High School is doing without them almost entirely. The only exception: books on religion.

For electro-pop artist Toro y Moi, change is hard — but not necessarily uncomfortable.

The town board in Riverhead, New York, made news by banning people from booing at their meetings. Apparently this met with criticism, since Newsday reports they have revised the rule.You may boo at meetings, but there's still a prohibition against disruptive behavior.

It's left over from Snowvember, the name for a massive snowstorm last fall. Trucks that plowed the streets dumped two mountains of snow in an abandoned lot near the train station.

The candidates in a New York congressional election say they know the race isn't over. With all precincts in the 20th Congressional District reporting, Democrat Scott Murphy leads Republican Jim Tedisco by just 65 votes out of more than 154,000 cast. The two are vying to replace Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand, who was appointed to the U.S. Senate to succeed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Western New York has been particularly hard hit by the decline of the U.S. manufacturing sector and in recent years has lost thousands of jobs. But one local entrepreneur is finding success in resuscitating factories in the depressed region that others had written off. NPR's Jack Speer reports.