The Year in Review
An interactive look back at 2008 Some of the year's winners -- and losers Workers were hit hard by the slumping economy Some of the notable deaths of 2008 The year in sports in Western New York | |
- Tennis program offers advantages to inner-city kids
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NEWS SPORTS REPORTER
Updated: 07/19/09 11:44 PM Barbara Hester returned to the courts where her eldest son received his first tennis lesson. This time someone else was by her side — 7-year-old grandson Elijah Lawrence.
- Year in review: In 2008, the word was 'change'
- ASSOCIATED PRESS
Updated: 01/01/09 10:28 AM All year long that word was everywhere. It was something we could believe in. It was something that mattered. But by the end of 2008 it was not, most definitely, richly jingling in our pockets.
- Locally, the resignation of a governor and the death of Buffalo’s best-known fan captured attention
- NEWS STAFF REPORTERS
Updated: 01/01/09 10:29 AM In some ways, we caught a break in 2008. No serial murder on a bike path. No cop-killer in the woods. And our control boards and weather almost seemed minor compared with the damage inflicted by crises — both financial and meteorological — across the nation.
- Winter Classic, UB's championship season bookend great '08
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News Sports Reporter
Updated: 01/01/09 9:18 PM The sports year in Western New York was simply stuffed in 2008.
- What local business stories came out on top in 2008?
- NEWS BUSINESS STAFF
Updated: 01/01/09 10:26 AM It’s no surprise that the top 10 local business stories of 2008, as selected by the reporters and editors of the Business Today section, were largely influenced by global and national economic forces. The economic meltdown has cast a long shadow:
- Big names, great games make 2008 a year to remember
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Associated Press
Updated: 12/24/08 1:53 PM The lesson of 2008: the bigger the stage, the better the show. All through the year, the top names and most-hyped events lived up to their billing.
- Final goodbye: A roll call of some who died in '08
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Associated Press
Updated: 12/26/08 4:02 PM From the summit of Everest, the top of the world, to the intricate workings of the human heart. From outer galaxies to the dungeons of Stalin's gulag.
- Some notable Western New Yorkers who died in 2008
Updated: 12/31/08 12:27 PMAnthony Bodami Jr., 76. Contractor who owned the Buffalo Blazers soccer team in the 1970s. Jan. 6.
- The Top 10 business stories of the year
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Associated Press
Updated: 12/24/08 1:32 PM With the speed of a supermarket thriller, Wall Street was upended and remade in 2008.
- After the market's unraveling, an arduous recovery is ahead
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Associated Press
Updated: 12/24/08 1:26 PM NEW YORK -- After a year of devastating losses, the stock market has the makings of a recovery in 2009: Nearly $9 trillion in cash on the sidelines, waiting to be invested.
- Some big winners of the past were big losers in 2008
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Associated Press
Updated: 12/24/08 1:22 PM As 2008 ends, you may feel like the year's biggest loser is you.
- Quite a year, as Obama wins the presidency
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Associated Press
Updated: 12/29/08 8:50 AM WASHINGTON -- In the first week of 2008, Barack Obama rocked the political world with a win in the Iowa caucuses. But the question remained: Could this black man with a rich personal history and sparse elective resume make it all the way to the presidency?
- 2008: The year politics saturated our pop culture
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Associated Press
Updated: 12/23/08 11:54 AM NEW YORK — In any normal year, it would be impossible to discern a coherent theme from a year of American pop culture, try as we journalists might. This year was different.
- More pop culture highlights and lowlights from 2008
- Associated Press
Updated: 12/24/08 9:21 AM Celebrities who got their day in court Stargazing at Los Angeles courthouses is common, but most of the A-list celebrity justice action took place away from Hollywood in 2008.
- 'Sleeper' hits brighten dire year in publishing
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Associated Press
Updated: 12/23/08 1:42 PM NEW YORK — Unless the subject was vampires, or the author our next president, it was a hard, discouraging year for the book business.
- A top 10 listing of the best theater productions in 2008
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AP Drama Ciritic
Updated: 12/23/08 1:30 PM NEW YORK — Nothing quite as satisfying and thoroughly American as "August: Osage County" arrived on Broadway in 2008, but then Tracy Letts' corrosive family drama, which opened in late 2007, remained a strong presence in New York throughout the year.