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Magaddino was born on October 10, 1891, in Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily. [1] Magaddino was the brother of Joseph Bonanno's maternal grandmother. [2] Magaddino's uncle of the same name led a Castellammarese clan allied with Giuseppe "Peppe" Bonanno and his older brother and advisor, Stefano, uncles to Joseph Bonanno.
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Altemio C. Sanchez (January 19, 1958 – September 22, 2023), also known as the Bike Path Rapist (and later Killer), [2] was a serial killer, of Puerto Rican descent , who is known to have raped and murdered at least three women, [3] and raped at least 9 to 15 girls and women in and around Buffalo, New York, during a 31-year span from 1975, though perhaps earlier, to 2006.
Also attending the funeral were Gov. Hochul, a Buffalo native, and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand. Whitfield, 86, was one of 10 Black people killed May 14 at a Tops supermarket in Buffalo.
Forest Lawn Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery in Buffalo, New York, founded in 1849 by Charles E. Clarke.It covers over 269 acres (1.1 km 2) and over 152,000 are buried there, including U.S. President Millard Fillmore, First Lady Abigail Fillmore, singer Rick James, Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, and inventors Lawrence Dale Bell and Willis Carrier.
James D. Griffin, Mayor of Buffalo 1978–93; Mark Grisanti, state senator; Isaac R. Harrington, Mayor of Buffalo [7] Kathy Hochul, 57th Governor of New York; Edwin Jaeckle, New York State Republican Party chairman; Jack Kemp, Secretary of U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, football player, Congressman, vice-presidential candidate
WBBZ-TV (channel 67) is a television station licensed to Springville, New York, United States, serving the Buffalo area. It has a primary affiliation with MeTV, but is otherwise programmed as an independent station. WBBZ-TV is owned by ITV of Buffalo, a company controlled by former news photographer Philip A. Arno.
Melvin Horace Purvis II (October 24, 1903 – February 29, 1960) was an FBI agent instrumental in capturing bank robbers John Dillinger and Pretty Boy Floyd in 1934. All of this would later overshadow his military career which saw him directly involved with General George Patton, Hermann Göring, and the Nuremberg Trials.