While Thanksgiving Day typically kicks off the holiday shopping season — a joyous time of year for many families — Thanksgiving Eve has become known in recent years for something much more worrisome. For a variety of reasons, the evening before Thanksgiving has transformed into the the biggest party night of the year, leading to a significant increase in impaired driving crashes and arrests.

Urges New York State to provide funds to cover costs to local government for implementing law

Erie County, NY – Although his term as Chair of the eight County Western Region of the New York State County Clerks Association (NYSACC) does not begin until January, Erie County Clerk Chris Jacobs is already working on behalf of the  Western Region County Clerks who have been financially impacted through the NY SAFE Act.

“Albany repeatedly said this new gun law would not be an unfunded mandate on local governments, unfortunately that is not the case,” said Jacobs.  Jacobs is delivering a resolution approved by the Western Region Clerk’s to the Statewide County Clerk’s Association meeting next week in Lake Placid stating that the Western New York Counties alone have incurred over $100,000 in additional costs because of the Safe Act.

Buffalo, NY - Many neighbors in the University Heights area are concerned about party houses. They say some UB students host parties with more than two-hundred people in attendance.

"This is a partnership. It's a big campus, it's an important campus. We need to start working on some of the problems," said a Buffalo Police Officer Tuesday night.

The University Heights Collaborative met Tuesday night and announced that neighbors have formed a quality of life task force with UB to deal with the party house problem near campus.

UHC President Mickey Vertino is hopeful that means that, in the future, fewer students will use university shuttle buses to get to parties.

"In the past, there's been no consequence. It's a party bus. Jump on it. Get toasted. Come out to the Heights. Have a good time and nobody's going to do anything. That's changing," says Vertino.