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BUFFALO, N.Y. — The JFK pool on Hickory Street has been drained after it was announced Monday that it’s closed for the summer. According to city officials, recent violence has left the pool without supervision after lifeguards refuse to return to their post. “I feel like it should’ve been a better decision than to just close the pool,” said Buffalo resident Pharez Lackerson. “That should’ve been the last resort.” What was once a community resource that reopened after years of closure on Buffalo’s East Side now sits quiet and empty after an alleged assault on a young city lifeguard who...

A New York mother jumped off Niagara Falls with her two children – with all three dead, including a five-month-old baby. Chaianti Means, 33, stepped over the guardrail at Luna Island Monday night, where a popular overlook looms over the falls’ nearly 200-foot drop. Police responded to the scene around 9 p.m., according to WIVB, with investigators determining the jump was “intentional in nature.” “The circumstances remain under investigation,” New York Park Police added