The Western New York Land Conservancy recently purchased the 38-acre Jim and Edna Braddell Preserve on Grand Island. The preserve is on old farmland and not open to the public.

Explore Hempstead House on Long Island's Gold Coast, once home to the Guggenheims and now a public museum at Sands Point Preserve.

Shikeia Randolph was 11 weeks pregnant when Lake County officers forcibly arrested her, a lawsuit alleges. At 23 weeks pregnant, she lost the child.