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• Eden’s corn, Alden’s wells dealing with drought in different ways

  02-08-2016 23:48 via wivb.com
  
  EDEN, N.Y. (WIVB) — At the height of one of the worst droughts this region is seen in nearly 30 years is the Eden Corn Festival, featuring a crop that’s had a difficult summer. But festival officials said they don’t expect that to have that much of an impact this year.Set up was well underway Tuesday afternoon at the American Legion, the site of the annual corn celebration, now in its 53rd year.“We’re facing a little bit of adverse conditions with the drought this y
  
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• Bus crash kills 5 on California highway

  02-08-2016 23:31 via wivb.com
  
  MERCED COUNTY, Calif. (KRON) — At least five people have died and multiple people have been injured in a tour bus crash on Highway 99 in California Tuesday morning, according to the California Highway Patrol.
  The crash happened shortly before 3:30 a.m. on Hwy 99 between the cities of Atwater and Livingston, according to CHP officials.
  The driver has been identified as Mario David Vasquez, 57, of Los Angeles, who is licensed to operate a bus.
  The bus was on its way to Pasco, Washington from
  
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• Dentists advocate flossing despite new report that says there’s little proof that shows it’s effective

  02-08-2016 23:26 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A new AP report says there’s little proof that flossing is effective. It says the federal government has never researched how well it works.
  It’s a question that you can’t avoid when you visit the dentist. How often do you floss?
  “Not as often as I should but I try to do it daily,” said Carol Sabuda of Orchard Park.
  Flossing has long been touted by dentists as a practice that helps prevent gum disease.
  “Teeth have a contact they bu
  
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• Buffalo firefighters, Sabres players, alumni to collect donations for Fill the Boot

  02-08-2016 23:20 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Buffalo firefighters will once again be holding their annual Fill the Boot program in the city.
  Each year, firefighters stand at various spots in Buffalo and collect donations for charity. This year, they are raising money for the Spinal Muscular Atrophy Research Team (SMART).
  Spinal Muscular Atrophy is a disease that affects the voluntary muscles used in movements like walking, as well as head and neck control. It affects almost 1 in 6000 new births and is the
  
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• Several inmate incidents at Gowanda Correctional Facility now under investigation

  02-08-2016 22:57 via wivb.com
  
  GOWANDA, N.Y. (WIVB) – The union representing correctional officers at Gowanda Correctional Facility is weighing-in on inmate disturbances that News 4 first reported Monday on WIVB.com.
  Joe Miano, Western Region Vice President for the New York State Correctional Officers & Police Benevolent Association, says there was an initial incident in the recreation yard Friday evening, and that it involved nine inmates “fighting with weapons.”
  “After that, throughout a three ho
  
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• Historians warn about a Trump Presidency

  02-08-2016 22:56 via wivb.com
  
  WASHINGTON, D.C. (Media General) – Americans expect to hear from historians when talking about past presidential campaigns, but some now want to comment on the current election.
  PBS Filmmaker Ken Burns, along with award-winning historian David McCullough, did what anyone wanting to share their opinion does today – started posting toFacebook. They created, ‘Historians on Donald Trump,” which allows top historians from across the United States to offer their perspective on
  
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• VIDEO: Fishermen catch 13-foot hammerhead shark

  02-08-2016 22:52 via wivb.com
  
  FLORIDA (KRON) — Three fishermen in Florida were shocked when they realized a what was on the other side of their line: a 13-foot hammerhead shark.
  “Once we got it close to the beach and saw it was a hammerhead then all pandemonium broke loose,” said one of the fisherman.
  The men caught the shark off the shore of Sanibel last week.
  The fisherman caught the shark about 200 yards off shore and used stingray as bait.
  It took the three men about 30 minutes to reel in the shar
  
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• Turkey’s Erdogan blasts foreign countries over coup reaction

  02-08-2016 22:36 via wivb.com
  
  ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan once more blasted unnamed Western countries Tuesday for what he said was support for the attempted coup on July 15 that left more than 270 people dead.
  “The West is supporting terrorism and taking sides with coups,” Erdogan said, adding that forces unhappy with Turkey’s rise as a regional power were behind the coup.
  “They have actors inside (Turkey) but the scenario of this coup was written abroad,”
  
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• VIDEO: San Francisco man engineers his way to 150 dates in four months

  02-08-2016 22:33 via wivb.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — The man you are about to meet took searching for love to a whole new level.
  He created an app that would automatically say yes or “swipe right” to Tinder matches. He soon went on 150 dates in just four months.
  The 32-year-old said that normal dating was a nightmare, so he hacked it.
  “A very well crafted message doesn’t really get you any more responses than if you kind of just copy and pasted an answer,” software engineer Sebas
  
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• Michigan man cuts marriage proposal into wheat field

  02-08-2016 22:17 via wivb.com
  
  AU GRES, Mich. (AP/WOOD) — A Michigan farming family has a little less wheat but a lot more to celebrate.Devin Huber and his fiancee Lisa Marshall pose outside the plane following his sky-high proposal. (Devin Huber)Sources say Devin Huber and Lisa Marshall had been dating nearly three years when Huber decided to take to the skies to propose.
  “MARRY ME” was cut into the wheat field at Huber’s family farm in Au Gres. Huber told Media General contributors it
  
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• Obama says Trump ‘unfit, challenges GOP to drop support

  02-08-2016 22:07 via wivb.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — In a searing denouncement, President Barack Obama slammed Donald Trump as “unfit” and “woefully unprepared” to serve in the White House on Tuesday. He challenged Republican lawmakers to drop their support for their party’s nominee, declaring “There has to come a point at which you say enough.”
  The president’s blistering critique of his potential successor came on the heels of Trump’s criticism of an American Muslim fam
  
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• Starbucks recalls stainless-steel straws on reports of cuts

  02-08-2016 22:02 via wivb.com
  
  SEATTLE (AP) — Starbucks is recalling stainless-steel straws it sold in its stores and online after three reports of children suffering “mouth lacerations” while using them.
  The Seattle-based company says about 2.5 million of the straw sets were sold in the U.S., and 301,000 were sold in Canada. The straws have a ridge at the bottom that keeps them attached to beverage lids.
  Starbucks says people should not let children use the straws, which are rigid and can pose an injury ris
  
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• Email fallout: 3 Democratic National Committee resignations

  02-08-2016 21:50 via wivb.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The chief executive of the Democratic National Committee and two other top officials have resigned in the wake of an email hack that embarrassed the party on the eve of its presidential nominating convention.
  CEO Amy Dacey, chief finance officer Brad Marshall and communications director Luis Miranda left their jobs on Tuesday, the party said in a statement.
  The resignations are the latest fallout from the hacked emails, which exposed an apparent lack of neutrality in the
  
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• New York reports 537 Zika cases so far — all travel related

  02-08-2016 21:28 via wivb.com
  
  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York state has confirmed 537 cases of Zika so far — though officials say all appear to be connected to travel to affected areas and there’s no evidence the virus is spreading through local mosquitoes.
  Of those cases, 414 were in New York City and 123 were upstate. Nearly all of them involved people who had visited regions affected by the mosquito-borne virus; five cases were sexually transmitted.
  While the specific mosquito species known to spr
  
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• Tonawanda men accused of July robbery arrested again on same charges

  02-08-2016 21:26 via wivb.com
  
  WEST SENECA, N.Y. (WIVB) — Two City of Tonawanda residents have been arrested again on robbery charges after being accused of the same crime just two weeks ago.
  On July 19, Town of Tonawanda Police accused Ryan Collins, 22, and Eric Lockwood, 30, of robbing an Evans Bank branch on Niagara Falls Boulevard. They were subsequently charged with first and second-degree robbery.
  On Tuesday, police in West Seneca announced even more charges against the two, again accusing them of robber
  
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• Red Cross issues water conservation tips during drought

  02-08-2016 20:59 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A whole lot of western New Yorkers are looking for a rainy day.
  With the ongoing drought this Summer, the American Red Cross has issued a list of tips for locals on how to conserve water.
  Here are their tips for indoor water conservation:
  Repair dripping
  Make sure homes are leak-free.
  Take shorter showers.
  Don’t let the water run while brushing teeth, or shaving.
  Operate dishwashers only when they are full using “light wash” feature.
  Start a co
  
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• Jamestown men face drug charges following morning raids

  02-08-2016 20:45 via wivb.com
  
  JAMESTOWN, N.Y. (WIVB) — Simultaneous drug raids landed two Jamestown men in jail Tuesday morning.
  Jamestown Police and members of the New York State Police conducted raids at two homes on E. 2nd St. and W. 5th St. at 6 a.m.
  Inside the W. 5th St. home, police say they found cocaine and drug paraphernalia. They arrested Rashid Jabbar, 31, during the search and charged him with criminal possession of a controlled substance and criminal use of drug paraphernalia.
  At the same time, other
  
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• Buffalo man suffers life-threatening injuries in overnight incident

  02-08-2016 18:42 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Buffalo Police are investigating the circumstances behind why a man was severely injured on Fillmore Ave. Monday night.
  Around 11 p.m., a 61-year-old Buffalo man injured his head and was taken to ECMC. He has life-threatening injuries.
  It is not clear if foul play was involved, but investigators are trying to figure that out.
  
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• Buffalo man dies in overnight incident

  02-08-2016 18:42 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Buffalo Police are investigating the circumstances behind why a man died after being severely injured on Fillmore Ave. Monday night.
  Around 11 p.m., a 61-year-old Buffalo man injured his head and was taken to ECMC. He succumbed to his life-threatening injuries on Tuesday afternoon.
  It is not clear if foul play was involved, but investigators are trying to figure that out.
  
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• Erie County hosting free drug drop-off Tuesday

  02-08-2016 18:24 via wivb.com
  
  CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. (WIVB) — A free drug drop-off event in Erie County is happening until 6 p.m. Tuesday, August 2.
  Those interested in getting rid of their unwanted or unneeded drugs can go to the Erie County Emergency Services Training and Operations Center at 3359 Broadway in Cheektowaga.
  “This one-day event will provide a safe way for residents to dispose of unneeded prescription drugs and any over-the-county medications in a safe, efficient and responsible manner,” Erie Coun
  
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• NYC Police Commissioner William Bratton stepping down

  02-08-2016 18:14 via wivb.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton is resigning his post atop the nation’s largest police force.
  Mayor Bill de Blasio says Bratton will retire next month, and that James O’Neill, the department’s top chief, will succeed him.
  Bratton had said last month that he would not remain head of the NYPD past the end of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s first term in 2017.
  Bratton is in his second stint as commissioner in New York. He led the departmen
  
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• Buffalo business creating prosthetic hands for children in need

  02-08-2016 17:56 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A small business in Buffalo is donating prosthetic hands to children in need.
  It starts with a computer — a business called Forgeify uses it to design prototypes of prosthetic hands through 3D modeling. From there, they create and print 3D models.
  It’s part of the Prosthetic Kids Hands Challenge that involves interns. They construct prosthetic hands starting with the conception on a computer screen all the way to creating the finished product.
  They’
  
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• Passenger killed, 2 others injured in Route 5 crash

  02-08-2016 17:34 via wivb.com
  
  FARNHAM, N.Y. (WIVB) — The Erie County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that one person was killed in a vehicle crash in Farnham Tuesday morning.
  The head-on collision happened on Route 5 at 8:30 a.m. Three people were taken to ECMC via Mercy Flight, but one of them, a female passenger, was declared dead on arrival.
  It is not clear what led to the crash, but investigators are working to piece it together.
  Traffic was briefly shut down on Route 5 between US Route 20 and Comme
  
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• VIDEO: Albany sinkhole swallows truck

  02-08-2016 17:16 via wivb.com
  
  ALBANY, N.Y. (WIVB) — A water main break in Albany created a sinkhole that swallowed a truck Tuesday.
  CBS contributors in Albany posted a video of the truck sinking into the ground on Facebook. Watch the video here.
  Local residents were asked to conserve their water until the break was fixed.
  
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• Prankster messes with message on 198 sign again

  02-08-2016 16:52 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Someone has once again changed the message on a roadside sign along the 198. Earlier this week, a prankster got to the keyboard on the sign to change the message to “It’s all a dream”. Overnight, it happened again.
  This time, the message was changed to “I love you”. It stayed that way for several hours before NITTEC remotely shut the sign down.
  A lot of people who saw the message before that, though, said they loved what they saw. &ldquo
  
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• Niagara County requires meningitis vaccines for kids in Grades 7, 12

  02-08-2016 15:57 via wivb.com
  
  LOCKPORT, N.Y. (WIVB) — Niagara County kids going into either seventh or twelfth grade are now required to get a meningitis vaccination before starting school.
  The new requirement was announced by the Niagara County Department of Health on Monday.
  “All kids entering 7th or 12th grade must have received a shot of meningitis vaccine before September 1st this year,” Department Director Daniel Stapleton said. “Without proof of vaccination, they will not be allowed to sta
  
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• Medical benefits of dental floss unproven

  02-08-2016 15:16 via wivb.com
  
  HOLMDEL, N.J. (AP) — It’s one of the most universal recommendations in all of public health: Floss daily to prevent gum disease and cavities.
  Except there’s little proof that flossing works.
  The federal government has recommended flossing since 1979. Last year, the Associated Press asked the departments of Health and Human Services and Agriculture for their evidence.
  When the federal government issued its latest guidelines this year, the flossing recommendation had been removed
  
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• WNY communities preparing for National Night Out

  02-08-2016 11:01 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Across our area, residents are encouraged to leave their porch lights on and come out to meet their neighbors Tuesday evening.
  This will be the 33rd annual National Night Out, a push to try to make communities safer by encouraging positive communication between the public and police and by encouraging neighbors to look out for one another.
  The push started in 1984 and has spread across the country since then, including to many communities in Western New York.
  In Sout
  
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• Fruit Belt residents worried about hazardous sidewalks

  02-08-2016 05:28 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)- Driving down Grape St. in Buffalo, it’s hard to miss the orange cones and sheets of plywood covering parts of the sidewalk.
  “If you pull up certain planks you can see it doesn’t even have gravel under it,” said Joseph Tucker, who lives on the street. “We do have children and sometimes we have to tell the kids don’t walk on the wood because it’s still unstable.”
  News 4 talked to Tucker on Wednesday. Our crew saw the plywoo
  
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• After devastating injury, Aaron Williams returns to full pads

  02-08-2016 05:11 via wivb.com
  
  PITTSFORD, N.Y. (WIVB) — Nobody was more vocal about facing the New England Patriots at Ralph Wilson Stadium last season than safety Aaron Williams.
  Unfortunately, that game would be the last Williams would play in 2015. A neck injury suffered while tackling receiver Julian Edelman ended his campaign.
  Fast forward to training camp this August: Williams is back in full pads, participating for the first time Monday at St. John Fisher College.
  “I’m still getting used to
  
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• State Police investigating fatal accident in Genesee County

  02-08-2016 03:43 via wivb.com
  
  BETHANY, N.Y. (WIVB) — State Police are investigating a fatal accident that happened on Route 63 in the Town of Bethany Monday afternoon.
  Police say the accident occurred around 5 p.m. when a car collided with a farm tractor-trailer.
  The accident remains under investigation. News 4 will update as more information is available.
  
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• Police investigating east side shooting

  02-08-2016 02:12 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — An individual was shot in broad daylight near Genesee Street Monday evening.
  Police responded to the shooting at a location on Burgard Place around 5:20 p.m. Buffalo Police announced they had a suspect in custody shortly after 6 p.m.
  There is no word on how serious the victim’s injuries are. News 4 will update as soon as more information is available.
  
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• Tesla makes $2.6 billion bid for SolarCity

  02-08-2016 01:15 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Tesla Motors has made an offer to buy SolarCity, in an all-stock deal for $2.6 billion. Elon Musk who heads both companies says he wants to create a one stop shop for cleaner energy.
  How might this deal affect the success of the SolarCity project at RiverBend in Buffalo? Market watchers say, it is going to depend largely on the merger, and as of Monday Wall Street did not seem to be buying it.
  Tesla makes high performance electric cars, and will soon be the world&rsq
  
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• WNY Muslims react to Trump’s criticism of Gold Star family

  02-08-2016 00:32 via wivb.com
  
  CLARENCE, N.Y. (WIVB) — Abdul and Naseem Syed sat watching last week when a Muslim American family of a fallen soldier criticized Donald Trump over his comments toward Muslims.
  And they watched this weekend, when Trump responded.
  In their 32 years in this country, they said they’ve never felt discriminated against over their religion — until then.
  Trump’s words were painful to the Syeds, whose son Umar, was a member of the Army National Guard, and spent a year deployed in
  
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• Passion for painting: how an East Aurora woman overcame tragedy

  02-08-2016 00:31 via wivb.com
  
  EAST AURORA, N.Y. (WIVB) — A picture is worth a thousand words. Every single one that Nancy Hall paints, represent words of hope and strength.
  “Painting is an outlet, it’s an outlet of my emotions and even in my darkest time I can paint the most beautiful picture and I’m like i have no idea where it came from other than it was a gift from God,” said Nancy Hall.
  It’s a gift that Nancy Hall of East Aurora discovered about a year after the most devastating experi
  
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• LED roadwork sign tampered with on 198

  02-08-2016 00:18 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — If you drove the 198 on Monday morning, you probably saw a strange and unusual message. That’s because someone reprogrammed one of the LED roadwork signs. It may be all fun and games – but doing so could land you in some hot water.
  New York State Police Trooper James O’Callaghan, Troop A Public Information Officer, said, “Whenever anyone takes it upon themselves to either mess with, remove, vandalize or replace a sign that’s no
  
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• Who sent anti-Trump message on official county Twitter?

  02-08-2016 00:04 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The confetti still being cleaned from the convention floor in Philadelphia, western New York politicians wasted little time kicking off the campaign at home.
  WNY Republicans and Democrats said during their respective conventions last month to expect a political dog fight when campaigning resumed locally.
  It started Monday morning with GOP leaders making an example of Democrat County Executive Mark Poloncarz.
  Late Sunday night, someone Tweeted from the county’s
  
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