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Check the database for the top baby names for 2008. You can also research the top baby names from each year from 1880.

The Buffalo School District, which has struggled in the past, showed marked improvement from last year. Search our database of school ELA scores.

New York State has put together a database of recent layoff notices in Western New York.

A new "benchmarking'' database allows the public to see what the tax and spending rates are where they live, and compare them with other counties, cities, towns and villages.

2 On Your Side has a database of how many state workers are employed in New York.

2 On Your Side has a database of pork spending in the 2009-10 budget. Use our database and search box below to find specific organizations receiving money.

Find out if bridges you drive on are on a list that says they're structually deficient or functionally obsolete.

We have a searchable database of the listed victims of Bernard Madoff's alleged $50 billion ponzi scheme.

A newly released analysis of so-called earmarks or federal spending requests for specific Congressional Districts in New York finds a total of $ 726 Million in the 2009 Omnibus Spending Bill.

See how much money New York school districts will receive from the economic stimulus package.

Under the No Child Left Behind law, every core public school class must be taught by a "highly qualified" instructor, but nearly half a million public school classes in 2006-07 were taught by a teacher who didn't meet that standard.

Check this database for the unemployment status in each region of New York State

IRS database for taxpayers who are missing more than 279,000 economic stimulus checks totaling about $163 million.

Business First continues their annual school rankings and today they have ranked all 211 middle schools in Western New York.

Business First continues their annual school rankings and today they have ranked all 128 high schools in Western New York.

Business First again has released its annual school rankings and today they have ranked all of the elementary schools in the 98 districts of Western New York.

More than 200 officials at Western New York's 98 public school districts earn six-figure salaries, according to a Business First analysis of 2007-08 budget data.

Search this database for the casualties of the Military from New York State and Northwest Pennsylvania who were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

No local schools on state list of "Persistently Dangerous", but we have put together a database of crime in WNY schools.

Data includes all Western New York public high schools and the mean SAT scores for students who graduated in 2007.