Friday night, a community came together for a benefit to help the family of two of the boys killed in Sunday's fire. Our Giselle Phelps is outside the benefit in Pulaski with the details.

Hundreds of Central New Yorkers are now discovering their pensions could be seriously affected by the Bernard Madoff investment scandal. Madoff is accused of using a Ponzi scheme to scam investors. Our Katie Morse tells us how Ponzi schemes work and the impact this could have on the area.

The county coroner's office has new information on the eight people who died in Sunday's tragic fire in Richland. Our Andy Mattison has more on how they died, and the investigation into what started the fire.

A 26-year-old Rochester man is being held without bail after his arraignment on murder and attempted murder charges. Our Bill Carey says the man is a suspect in a shooting early Sunday that left one Syracuse teen dead and another critically wounded.

A Marcy man's freedom is official. Steven Barnes was wrongly convicted in 1989 for the rape and murder of then 16-year-old Kimberly Simon. Friday, he was fully exonerated of all the charges. Our Iris St. Meran has more on Barnes' path to freedom and what he has planned for his future.

Give a pint, get a pound. That's the message from the American Red Cross and Dunkin' Donuts as they team up during National Blood Donor month.

Police in Pennsylvania have issued an arrest warrant for a Liverpool man already in custody in Onondaga County. The warrant stems from alleged sex crimes involving children.

Liverpool police are investigating a robbery and stabbing. They say it happened early Friday morning around 12:45 at the Valero along the 400 block of Oswego Street.

Several accidents on I-481 closed the highway for a couple hours Friday morning.

As the attacks continue in Gaza, members of the Islamic Society of Central New York and the Muslim American Society of Syracuse are calling on lawmakers to push for an immediate cease fire between Israel and Hamas.

Canton Police are investigating a robbery at a Federal Credit Union. It happened just before 6 p.m. Friday at the SeaComm Federal Credit Union on East Main Street.

Weather trouble threatened to delay the arrival of the VH-71 presidential helicopter, but after a few tense hours, the aircraft arrived at Lockheed Martin in Owego from a Maryland Naval base. But as our Neil St. Clair tells us, this is only the beginning of a long journey for the chopper-in-chief.

Binghamton University received another notch in its cap after the Princeton Review named it the fourth best value for public schools in the nation.

The Fayetteville-Manlius girls Cross Country team is celebrating its third straight national championship.