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• ATV driver arrested for DWI

  29-08-2015 23:03 via wivb.com
  
  SHERMAN, N.Y. (WIVB) – ATV driver arrested and charged with third DWI.
  Deputies witnessed Edwin Hannold Jr. driving an ATV on Park St. in the Village of Sherman without a helmet.
  After questioning, it was determined that he had been operating the ATV while intoxicated.
  Further investigation revealed two prior DWI convictions making this arrest a class D Felony.
  Hannold was charged with felony DWI, aggravated unlicensed operation in the 1st and several other traffic violations.
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• Hundreds bid at bank box auction

  29-08-2015 22:15 via wivb.com
  
  TONAWANDA, N.Y. (WIVB) – Hundreds of bidders made cash offers on more than 800 unclaimed safe deposit boxes on Saturday.
  Cash Cunningham, Auctioneer and proprietor of Cash Realty and Auctions told News 4, the boxes “came from several banks… banks across the state.” Some of the safe deposit boxes haven’t been touched since the 1970s and their contents date back even further. “After a period of time banks are required to drill the boxes, sell the items and send
  
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• Sheriff: 30-year-old man charged with capital murder in killing of suburban Houston deputy

  29-08-2015 19:57 via wivb.com
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — Authorities said Saturday they are questioning a person of interest in the death of a uniformed sheriff’s deputy who was shot several times while filling up his patrol car at a suburban Houston gas station.Deputy Darren Goforth, 47, was pumping gas about 8:30 p.m. Friday when a man approached him from behind and fired multiple shots, authorities said.
  Harris County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Deputy Thomas Gilliland said officials are speaking with a person of int
  
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• Man charged with murder in shooting of Houston area deputy

  29-08-2015 19:57 via wivb.com
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — Prosecutors on Saturday charged a 30-year-old man with capital murder in the killing of a sheriff’s deputy who was gunned down from behind while filling up his patrol car at a suburban Houston gas station.
  Harris County Sheriff Ron Hickman identified the man as Shannon J. Miles, who had a previous record including charges of resisting arrest and trespassing. He is charged with killing Darren Goforth, 47, a 10-year veteran of the force.
   
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• Deputy ambushed, fatally shot at gas station near Houston

  29-08-2015 19:57 via wivb.com
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — Authorities said Saturday they are questioning a person of interest in the death of a uniformed sheriff’s deputy who was shot several times while filling up his patrol car at a suburban Houston gas station.Deputy Darren Goforth, 47, was pumping gas about 8:30 p.m. Friday when a man approached him from behind and fired multiple shots, authorities said.
  Harris County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Deputy Thomas Gilliland said officials are speaking with a person of int
  
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• Kids gym opens to help kids with autism, sensory processing disorders

  29-08-2015 19:22 via wivb.com
  
  DERBY, N.Y. (WIVB) –  A new gym is opening in the southtowns to help kids with sensory processing disorders like autism grow and learn. For two and a half year-old Odin Green, finding places for him to play can be a struggle. So his mom, Elida, drove two hours to bring him and his sister to the “We Rock The Spectrum” kids gym in Derby.
  She said, “He is amazing and he needs a place where he can just be himself.” At the gym, Odin can play and Elida doesn&rsq
  
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• Kids gym opens in WNY to help kids with autism, sensory processing disorders

  29-08-2015 19:22 via wivb.com
  
  DERBY, N.Y. (WIVB) –  A new gym is opening in the Southtowns to help kids with sensory processing disorders like autism grow and learn. For two and a half year old Odin Green, finding places for him to play can be a struggle. So his mom, Elida, drove two hours to bring him and his sister to the “We Rock The Spectrum” kids gym in Derby.
  She said, “He is amazing and he needs a place where he can just be himself.” At the gym, Odin can play and Elida doesn&rsq
  
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• Gym opens to help kids with autism, sensory processing disorders

  29-08-2015 19:22 via wivb.com
  
  DERBY, N.Y. (WIVB) –  A new gym is opening in the southtowns to help kids with sensory processing disorders like autism grow and learn. For two and a half year-old Odin Green, finding places for him to play can be a struggle. So his mom, Elida, drove two hours to bring him and his sister to the “We Rock The Spectrum” kids gym in Derby.
  She said, “He is amazing and he needs a place where he can just be himself.” At the gym, Odin can play and Elida doesn&rsq
  
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• PHOTOS: A look back at Hurricane Katrina

  29-08-2015 19:04 via interactives.wivb.com
  
  Hurricane Katrina was one of the most devastating hurricanes in U.S. history. The storm made landfall on the morning of Aug. 29, 2005.
  Smartphone and tablet users, tap here to see the photo gallery.
  
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• NY students must have completed vaccines

  29-08-2015 05:18
  
  Children entering K-12 will now be required to receive a complete series of vaccines to attend classes this fall        
  
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• Decision looms on future of Chautauqua Ampitheater

  29-08-2015 05:16 via wivb.com
  
  CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION, N.Y. (WIVB)-  A panel of twenty four people have a big decision on their hands Saturday. They need to decide whether to demolish most of a 122 year old structure and rebuild a replica, or try to work with the bones of the aging Chautauqua Institution’s Ampitheater.
  “The Chautauquans have told us, “Whatever you do here, we love this feel, we love the atmosphere,it brings back memories’ and that’s the new design.” said George Murphy,
  
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• Jamestown man charged with trafficking cocaine

  29-08-2015 03:38 via wivb.com
  
  JAMESTOWN, N.Y. (WIVB) — A Jamestown man is facing lengthy jail time if convicted of charges of trafficking cocaine in the City of Jamestown.
  Police say while investigating the trafficking of cocaine, they searched a home on Columbia Avenue. Armed with a search warrant, they entered the home of Gerald W. Rivera Jr., 34, and searched inside.
  Jamestown Police Officers say they found powder cocaine and drug paraphernalia. The discovery led police to charge Rivera with third degree crimin
  
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• Niagara County man charged with striking child

  29-08-2015 03:32 via wivb.com
  
  NEWFANE, N.Y. (WIVB) — A local man is facing charges of striking his child after police say they completed an investigation.
  Niagara County Sheriff’s Deputies arrested 20-year-old Skylar Crisco after investigating his interaction with a child. The investigation led to charges of second degree assault, reckless endangerment and endangering the welfare of a child.
  When he appeared in front of a judge, he was remanded to jail on $20,000 bail or $40,000 bond. He’ll return to c
  
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• Caitlyn Jenner costume set to hit store shelves

  29-08-2015 02:37 via wivb.com
  
  INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – A national Halloween chain is defending its decision to sell a costume of someone who’s become a transgender role model.
  Next month, Spirit Halloween will sell a Cailtyn Jenner costume based on her Vanity Fair cover. The stores recently opened in the Indianapolis area.
  In a statement to WISH-TV, Spirit Halloween said:
  At Spirit Halloween, we create a wide range of costumes that are often based on celebrities, public figures, heroes and superheroes. Caitlyn Jenne
  
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• Ashley Madison CEO steps down in wake of hacking

  29-08-2015 02:32 via wivb.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The CEO of adultery website Ashley Madison is stepping down in the wake of the massive breach of the company’s computer systems and outing of millions of its members.
  Avid Life Media Inc., Ashley Madison’s parent company, says Noel Biderman’s departure was a mutual decision and in the best interest of the company.
  Hackers originally breached Avid Life’s systems in July and then posted the information online a month later after the company didn’
  
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• N. Korea leader dismisses top officials after standoff eases

  29-08-2015 02:29 via wivb.com
  
  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has dismissed top officials in the wake of a recent standoff with South Korea, state media reported Friday, a move that suggests the young leader holds them responsible for allowing the confrontation to nearly spin out of control.
  The rival Koreas earlier this week threatened strikes against each other before agreeing on measures to reduce animosity. The standoff began after land mines that Seoul says the North planted maimed two So
  
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• “Shame the Bank” campaign goes to West Seneca

  29-08-2015 01:54 via wivb.com
  
  WEST SENECA, N.Y. (WIVB) – Local leaders expanded their “bank shaming” initiative, Friday, taking aim at a “zombie property” in West Seneca.
  State Assemblyman Michael Kearns (D-Buffalo, West Seneca) is waging war on those abandoned homes resulting from mortgage foreclosures, by posting signs in the front yards naming the bank responsible for the foreclosure.
  Kearns vowed to make bank shaming a regular event, “Every single Friday—‘Foreclosure Frida
  
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• Students turn in classmate who threatened school shooting

  29-08-2015 01:39 via wivb.com
  
  SOUTH CAROLINA (MEDIA GENERAL) — A teenager is in custody after a South Carolina school district and police officials say he threatened to shoot up a school called the Dorman Freshman Campus.
  In a letter prepared for parents of students at the school, district officials said that several students reported to school administrators that the 13-year-old stated that he was going to bring a gun to school and target African-American students who he accused of bullying him.
  He’s also a
  
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• School’s athletic facility to be built in 9-year-old’s honor

  29-08-2015 00:57 via wivb.com
  
  TOWN OF WALES, N.Y. (WIVB) — Whether it was softball, soccer, the drums, hockey or just with her friends, 9-year-old Katie Durkin loved to play. And so it’s fitting that so much more than a playground will be built in her honor on a nearly two-acre spot next to her school.
  “We want to make this a reality not just for Katie, but for the community,” said Elizabeth Miller, Katie’s former soccer coach, family friend and president of the Wales Primary PTO.
  They’re
  
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• Remembering News 4 photographer Steve Beauchamp

  29-08-2015 00:53 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The News 4 Buffalo family is mourning the loss of one of its finest former photographers, Steve Beauchamp.
  Beauchamp worked at Channel 4 from 1984 through 2004.
  He was among the second generation of photographers who helped define a changing newsroom in the early days when video tape replaced film.
  When cancer invaded his body he showed great courage in fighting back.
  Beauchamp cut the ribbon for the Hospice Memorial Walk in Buffalo this past May.
  He had already
  
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• Friends, family remember Kenmore native killed in Florida

  29-08-2015 00:34
  
  Lindy Mosler Dobbins, who grew up in Kenmore, was one of the people killed in a shooting Thurs. morning near Jacksonville.        
  
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• Erie Co. SPCA reflects on Katrina, 10 years later

  29-08-2015 00:30 via wivb.com
  
  TONAWANDA, N.Y.(WIVB)- It’s been 10 years since several Erie County SPCA staff members got a plane to New Orleans.
  The crew went to help thousands of lost and abandoned animals, following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.
  The group asked for community support to help send them down south, and within just 24-hours, they had raised $30,000.
  They were able to reunite many of the animals with their owners in New Orleans. Others, found a new home right here in Western New York.
  Like El
  
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• Suspended BPD Officer arraigned in court on new charges

  29-08-2015 00:22
  
  Buffalo Police officer facing more charges for an incident that happened five years ago.        
  
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• USGS Expert: Human activity is triggering earthquakes

  29-08-2015 00:20 via wivb.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — There is mounting evidence that in many parts of the country human activity is triggering earthquakes — and the problem is getting worse.
  An expert from the U.S. Geological survey spoke about the extent of man-made quakes, and whether or not they are also an issue in the U.S.
  Geologists have known since the 1960s the injecting waste water into the ground can trigger earthquakes. But in just the past few years, they have seen a dramatic jump in the number o
  
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• Some question ‘auto play’ function on social media after graphic video of shooting surfaced

  29-08-2015 00:17 via wivb.com
  
  ROANOKE, Va. (MEDIA GENERAL) — The videos were difficult to watch and as some found out, probably just as difficult to avoid if you turned to social media yesterday following the murder of two journalists live on air.
  Not long after Alison Parker and Adam Ward were killed, the shooter posted videos online of himself firing his weapon at the two while they were live.
  The videos have since been taken down from several social media sites, but many have complained about the auto-play feat
  
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• Student killed in shooting at Savannah State University

  29-08-2015 00:11 via wivb.com
  
  SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Authorities are investigating after a shooting at Savannah State University killed a student and prompted a lockdown at the Georgia school Thursday night.
  A statement posted on the university’s website identified the deceased as Christopher Starks, a 22-year-old junior from the Atlanta area. The statement says he died at a hospital of gunshot wounds sustained during an altercation at the student union. Additional details on the nature of the fight weren’t i
  
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