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Forbes magazine is out with its yearly list of the 400 richest Americans. Their combined net worth increased 13 percent since last year. The top of the list contains the usual suspects: Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Larry Ellison, the Koch brothers and the children of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton.

Tragedy strikes in Saint-Fiacre, shocking Maigret to the core.

A look at the need for more funding of home care for the disabled in the NYS budget and a Women's Wednesday conversation with Capt. Lara Morrison, the first female commander at the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station. Also, looking for COVID in the region’s sewers, a new contract for nursing home workers who went on strike last month in Lewiston, and the community and police connection in mental health incidents.

President Trump has upended global markets by imposing tariffs on imports from several of America's top trading partners. Here's what to know.

As WBFO’s Tom Dinki looks back on the Capitol attacks last year, we learn the six people from Erie County charged by the Dept. of Justice for storming the Capitol, rank us fourth in the nation in having participants charged. Also Karen DeWitt on Gov. Hochul’s infrastructure, tax cut and health care plans. And hear Dr. Nancy Nielsen MD say “It’s really hard to justify why people aren’t getting vaccinated” against COVID.

On today’s WBFO Brief, hear Assembly judiciary committee member Phil Steck say “at this point I think it is hard to imagine that impeachment is not one of (the charges warranted).” Albany correspondent Karen DeWitt reports on the speedy investigation timetable that is pressing in on Gov. Cuomo, with many urging him to resign. And if it’s Friday, it’s Theater Talk and today local auditions abound, including news that Shea’s Buffalo is producing a show of their own. Also the Buffalo Urban League pressing for revitalization of Jefferson Avenue, PUSH Buffalo and other activist groups are speaking out on the need for more grassroots input into the city’s plans for spending COVID relief and clergy in Niagara Falls are organizing against street violence.

Celebrate the 2019 ACL Hall of Fame inductees Shawn Colvin, Buddy Guy and Lyle Lovett.

In today’s WBFO Brief, Mercy Hospital RN Tammy Kowalik shares what her concerns are as a striking nurse at Buffalo’s Mercy Hospital. Also, hear the latest on talks between the CWA union and Catholic Health.Also Nanette Massey, author of “Moving Beyond White Fragility”, talks with WBFO’s Thomas O’Neil-White about the need to have whites move out of their comfort zone and talk about the hard issues of race. And from Albany, correspondent Karen DeWitt report on the state’s ethics commission’s review of whether they need to re-examine former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s book deal and the alleged use of NYS staff to help produce it.And in brief, Buffalo City Council honors for the two exonerated members of “The Buffalo 5”, changes at the Cascades paper plant in Niagara Falls to cut back on smells in the neighborhood, and some progress toward the retail sale of cannabis in NYS.

The shooting in Buffalo has stirred up emotions in El Paso. The attack at the Tops supermarket is eerily similar to one three years ago that targeted Latinos at a Walmart in the Texas border city.

Police are still not saying what motivated the gunman who walked into a crowded Aurora, Colo., movie theater and opened fired. Suspect James Holmes, 24, was apprehended immediately after the attack. Until recently, he was a grad student studying neuroscience.