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• Kennedy proposes ban on cleaning chemical

  20-10-2015 23:42 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)- First it was microbeads, now environmentalists have their sights set on another cleaning chemical that they want to keep out of the Great Lakes.
  The chemical is called triclosan and the makers of products like Crest toothpaste have already removed it because of the effects it might have on fish and humans.
  “We have a duty and a responsibility to keep our Great Lakes clean.” said NY State Senator Tim Kennedy, who  stood at the shore of Lake Erie to propose l
  
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• Local company provides food to NFL fans in London

  20-10-2015 23:17 via wivb.com
  
  LONDON (AP) – Delaware North, whose headquarters is located in downtown Buffalo, is the company in charge of all the food and drinks at Wembley Stadium, 20 minutes outside of London, where the Bills will face off against the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday.
  There is a lot of preparation that goes into serving 90,000 fans; Daniel Clark, Catering Services Director at Delaware North at Wembley explained to News 4’s Nalina Shapiro some of the challenges. “Literally, we are the sole
  
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• Bills legend Jim Kelly joins Bills players in London NFL Play 60 event

  20-10-2015 23:12 via wivb.com
  
  LONDON, ENGLAND (WIVB) — A select group of active Buffalo Bills players joined legendary quarterback Jim Kelly inside an arena in London that typically plays host to a soccer team there. On Tuesday, however, the home of the Trottenham Hotspurs morphed into the home of an NFL Play 60 event.
  The $20 million facility played host to the event with the goal of inspiring the youth of both America and the world to stay active and be fit by staying active for 60 minutes each day. Although Kel
  
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• Batavia Armory sold for more than $200,000

  20-10-2015 22:21 via wivb.com
  
  BATAVIA, N.Y. (WIVB) — A state-owned building that has been slated to be sold for years is finally departing state hands.
  At an auction in Batavia on Tuesday, officials sold the Batavia Armory, located at 235 State Street, to the highest bidder. The auction started at a paltry $60,000 for the 12,000 square-foot building, built in 1963, however it ended much higher.
  New York State said David Vasciannie, a Batavia native, made a final bid of $235,000 for the building and a nearby mainte
  
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• Shipwreck hunters find wreck of steamer lost in 1862 storm

  20-10-2015 22:10 via wivb.com
  
  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The wreck site of one of the earliest propeller-driven steamships to sail the Great Lakes has been found in Lake Ontario more than 150 years after it sank in a storm, killing everyone on board, a team of New York-based shipwreck hunters said Tuesday.
  Jim Kennard and Roger Pawlowski, both of the Rochester area, said the wreck of the Bay State is in water hundreds of feet deep, about seven miles off Fair Haven in central New York, 155 miles west of Albany.
  The Bay State d
  
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• Man who shot a Buffalo native in the head will spend 18 years behind bars

  20-10-2015 22:01 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Just under a year ago, Buffalo native Cesar Ramirez-Davila died after being shot in the head, and Tuesday his killer learned he would head to prison for 18 years.
  Officers in Florida arrested Jonathan Roman, the man who pulled the gun’s trigger, just weeks after Ramirez-Davila died. Police say he fled Buffalo only a short time after moving to the Queen City to be near his brother.
  Roman’s defense said in the altercation, he only fired off his handgun
  
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• Local malls to add new employees before holiday season

  20-10-2015 21:26 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Multiple local malls will be hiring hundreds of workers to pitch in before the holiday season, and anybody can apply.
  Officials from both the Walden Galleria and the Chautauqua Mall say they’re hiring new employees for their stores, including Old Navy, Victoria’s Secret, MasterCuts, GameStop, Sears, Claire’s, C.J. Banks, Hot Topic, Auntie Anne’s, JC Penney, Aeropostale, American Eagle, PINK, Lord & Taylor, Pandora, Coach and Star
  
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• Video: Calls and dash-cam of QB Johnny Manziel’s domestic incident released

  20-10-2015 20:03 via wivb.com
  
  911 tape 1:911 tape 2: Dash-cam: BEREA, Ohio (AP) – Johnny Manziel’s in-car argument with his girlfriend could lead to punishment from the NFL.
  Browns coach Mike Pettine said the league plans to investigate the high-profile backup quarterback’s domestic dispute last week, an altercation which raised new concerns about Manziel and his future with the club.
  Manziel was questioned by police in Avon, Ohio, after his girlfriend claimed he was physical with her when the two had a hea
  
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• Morning kickoff forces restaurants to decide whether to open early

  20-10-2015 18:58 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Your favorite place to watch Bills road games might not be open in time for kickoff for Sunday’s game in London. The game against the Jacksonville Jaguars starts at 9:30, meaning bars and restaurants have to decide whether to open early or not.
  One place you can go to watch the game is (716) Food and Sport in HarborCenter. The restaurant plans to host a British-themed brunch starting at 9am Sunday. “It’s tea time,” the tweet announcing the par
  
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• NFL Network apologizes to Bengals shown naked

  20-10-2015 18:51 via wivb.com
  
  CINCINNATI (AP) — The NFL Network has apologized to Cincinnati Bengals players who were shown naked in the locker room during a postgame interview Sunday in Buffalo.
  Alex Riethmiller said a “regrettable mistake by a production team” was behind the video. An NFL Network reporter was interviewing cornerback Adam “Pacman” Jones after a 34-21 win in Buffalo on Sunday, and the videographer’s angle included several players coming out of the shower in the background.
  
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• ATV crash pins woman under barn door

  20-10-2015 18:25 via wivb.com
  
  GRAND ISLAND, N.Y. (WIVB) — Erie County Sheriff Timothy Howard says a woman was found pinned under a barn door following an ATV accident in Grand Island.
  Deputies responded to the Monday night incident after receiving a call from a Ransom Road resident.
  When the deputies found the unnamed 46-year-old woman trapped between the door and the ATV, they proceeded to lift the door off of her before moving her to a waiting ambulance.
  Her condition is unknown but she 
  
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• Local organization that’s helped hundreds needs new location

  20-10-2015 18:20 via wivb.com
  
  APPLETON, N.Y. (WIVB) – A local organization dedicated to helping those in need, may have to temporarily shut down its operations.
  Denise Noble runs the Pay It Forward Charitable Organization of Western New York.
  For nearly 30 years, she has provided clothes, food, bedding, school supplies, hygiene products, and Christmas Toys to hundreds of people in need. However, she has until the end of October to find a new facility.
  The owner of the building, who donates the space, is shutting down f
  
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• Candidates for Erie County Executive square off in second debate

  20-10-2015 18:16 via wivb.com
  
  KENMORE, N.Y. (WIVB) – With Election Day now just two weeks away, the two men running for the Erie County Executive job faced off for a debate on stage at Saint Joseph’s Collegiate Institute Tuesday morning. It’s the second debate between incumbent Democrat Mark Poloncarz and his Republican challenger, Assemblyman Ray Walter, during this campaign season.
  St. Joe’s has hosted political debates every year for more than three decades now, and they always provide an important
  
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• Hamburg PD looking for help identifying man possibly involved in larceny

  20-10-2015 17:49 via wivb.com
  
  HAMBURG, N.Y. (WIVB) — Hamburg Police are looking for help in identifying the man in the picture above.
  He is being sought for questioning in the theft of a television from Walmart.
  The man was seen exiting a white Ford Mustang convertible made between 1999 and 2004. The car is shown in the video link below.
  Anyone with information is asked to call Detective Thomas Boyer at 648-5118 ext. 2608 or the department’s confidential tip line at 648-5111 ext. 2847.
  A link to the Fac
  
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• Former charter school CFO sentenced after stealing over $27,000 from school

  20-10-2015 17:29 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Krista Schultz, 44, of Snyder, is sentenced to five years of probation and must pay back over $27,000 she stole from Oracle Charter School on Delaware Ave while employed there.
  The former Chief Financial Officer of the school admitted in May to overpaying herself by more than $27,000 during her seven months of employment there in 2013.
  She was charged with 3rd degree grand larceny.
  After an accounting firm was hired to help the school prepare for its annual audit, th
  
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• Watch Sunday’s Bills game from London LIVE on WIVB-TV

  20-10-2015 16:26 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — There has been a lot of speculation over whether or not western New Yorkers will be able to watch Sunday’s Buffalo Bills game on television because of its rare location in London.
  Here is the answer — if you can turn on your TV right now and receive WIVB-TV channel 4, then you will be able to watch the game on Sunday LIVE on television, just like normal. The game is available to anyone able to receive WIVB-TV whether you watch channel 4 via ante
  
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• No drinks before Noon on Sunday, despite requests

  20-10-2015 15:30 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — If you’ve been wondering whether or not you’ll be able to order a beer before Noon during Sunday’s London Buffalo Bills game, the answer is “no”.
  The New York State Liquor Authority has received a number of requests for exceptions to be made to a law prohibiting pre-Noon Sunday alcohol sales in bars, taverns and restaurants.
  The requests asked for an extension of hours allowed for bars to sell alcohol this Sunday because of the game
  
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• Burglar gets stuck in pizza shop oven vent

  20-10-2015 14:49 via wivb.com
  
  BRANDON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A 32-year-old man faces charges after police found him stuck in the oven vent of a southeast Michigan pizza shop.
  The Oakland County sheriff’s office says Monday that the man dangled from the Brandon Township shop’s ceiling for about 11 hours.
  The man climbed into the vent pipe from the building’s roof. He was freed by firefighters. He was taken to an area hospital and treated from minor injuries and dehydration.
  Authorities say the man is o
  
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• Play 60 event comes to London with the Bills

  20-10-2015 14:07 via wivb.com
  
  LONDON, ENGLAND (WIVB) — Tuesday morning, the next generation of Buffalo Bills fans learned the importance of exercise from the Bills players themselves.
  Bills players, including former quarterback and Hall of Famer, Jim Kelly went to a school in London and taught English children about American football.
  HOF QB Jim Kelly relying the troops at a London Play 60 event. @HJKforever pic.twitter.com/IO9JXIR2Ff
  — Scott Swenson (@ScottSwenson4) October 20, 2015I'm convinced #
  
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• Santa Fe world explorer receives honor six decades later

  20-10-2015 13:34 via wivb.com
  
   SANTA FE (KRQE) – Helen Schreider, 89, has seen the world like few ever have, and she has waited to receive an honor for six decades. Helen was inducted into the prestigious Explorers Club.
  “I never, ever, thought it would happen,” she said.
  She was not only named a member, but a national fellow.
  She and her husband, Frank, navigated the globe together. “We’ve traveled the world many times,” Helen said. “Wonderful guy, constantly amazed m
  
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• Middle school refuses to release election winners, students blame lack of diversity

  20-10-2015 13:08 via wivb.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — An election controversy has students and parents up in arms.
  A middle school in San Francisco is refusing to tell kids the winners of the student body government election. It is because, as one student told KRON’s Justine Waldman, the principal does not like who won.
  “I wanted to get more involved and change some things,” student Sebastian Kaplan said.
  Kaplan is now involved in a slight controversy when all he wanted was to be his seventh grade
  
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• ATCEMS commander jumps into action during a swift water class, rescues child

  20-10-2015 12:58 via wivb.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — An Austin-Travis County EMS Commander who was teaching a swift water training at Prince Solms Park in New Braunfels, Texas, ended up having to rescue a child who was in distress in the Comal River.
  ATCEMS says the incident happened on Oct. 5. Special Operations Commander Craig Smith was teaching the class when he saw a young boy fall off his inner tube and kept going under water. “Commander Smith immediately identified the cardinal signs of a swimmer in distress and p
  
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• News 4 explores historic sites in London before Sunday Bills game

  20-10-2015 12:18 via wivb.com
  
  LONDON, ENGLAND (WIVB) — As News 4’s Nalina Shapiro and Josh Reed make their way around London before Sunday’s Buffalo Bills game at Wembley Stadium, they’ve noticed many famous scenes and places one normally may only see in pictures.
  After traveling in the “Tube”, England’s version of the subway, the two got out to find the famous clock tower, Big Ben, towering over them.
  Along with viewing the grand sight of Big Ben, Shapiro and Reed also made note of
  
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• Checkers opens on Elmwood Avenue

  20-10-2015 04:31 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — After months of planning and several weeks of construction, a new fast food restaurant will open up in north Buffalo.
  Checkers, a drive-in style restaurant, is set to open on Elmwood Avenue at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, featuring burgers and chicken sandwiches. They’re in direct competition with a McDonald’s and a Popeyes across the street.
  The facility will be very different from its competition, however. Checkers will only feature drive-in and walk-up win
  
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• Reports: Canada’s next Prime Minister is Justin Trudeau

  20-10-2015 04:13 via wivb.com
  
  TORONTO, CANADA (AP) — The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. projects that Justin Trudeau will be Canada’s next prime minister.
  The election pitted the son of one of Canada’s most famous politicians against Stephen Harper, the Conservative prime minister who has led the country for almost a decade.
  Harper faced a tough re-election battle against front-runner Justin Trudeau, the son of one of Canada’s most famous politicians .
  Trudeau, a 43-year-old former school teach
  
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• Leaders in Buffalo have mixed reaction to Circuit Court’s SAFE Act ruling

  20-10-2015 04:08 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) —The New York SAFE Act looks like it’s here to stay, unless the nation’s highest court is willing to reverse it.
  On Monday, the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld most of New York’s controversial gun control law. The Court did not, however, accept the part that stops people from putting more than seven bullets in a ten round clip, but it did allow the State to outlaw any clip over ten rounds, and any semi automatic with a military featur
  
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• Police look to scholarships to make Buffalo’s force more diverse

  20-10-2015 04:03 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The Buffalo Police Department could soon be more racially diverse if a new plan to offer scholarships to the police academy works as planned.
  Mayor Byron Brown stood with Police Commissioner Dan Derenda on Monday to roll out their new plan that will offer up 50 “pre-employment scholarships” to Erie County’s Police Training Academy.
  The goal of the program is to allow those in need an opportunity to be better prepared for the Buffalo Police Offi
  
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• Popular hotel on Delaware Avenue inducted in TripAdvisor Hall of Fame

  20-10-2015 03:35 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The ability to live like royalty, if only for a moment, is extremely popular in Buffalo’s Mansion on Delaware Avenue, and the business is being recognized for it.
  Buffalo’s only AAA four diamond hotel in Buffalo is being inducted into TripAdvisor’s Hall of Fame after five consecutive years of being recognized for excellence in the hotel craft. What stands out to many of the Mansion’s customers are pristine facilities and customer ser
  
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• Man and his dog killed in separate accidents

  20-10-2015 03:27 via wivb.com
  
  TOWN OF ROYALTON (WIVB) – A man and his dog were killed very early Monday morning in two separate car accidents only twenty minutes apart.
  Bob Strassel, a 55-year-old Royalton man, was hit by a twenty-three year old driver after Strassel had removed the remains of his pet yellow lab. The dog had been struck and killed by another driver in front of the Strassel home. His owner was going to scrub the street when he was hit.
  Frank Wagner and his wife, who are neighbors across the street, happ
  
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• The Buffalo Bills have played, and won, in London before

  20-10-2015 02:20 via wivb.com
  
  LONDON, ENGLAND (WIVB) — As the Buffalo Bills prepare for their Sunday game against the Jacksonville Jaguars in London’s historic Wembley Stadium, many may look back on the Buffalo Bills of old, who also played in London in 1991.
  Many watched enthralled as Jim Kelly, Marv Levy and other storied Buffalo Bills made their way from the Buffalo Niagara International Airport to London where they took on the Philadelphia Eagles. The 1991 Buffalo Bills went on to beat the eagles 17 to 1
  
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• NY’s senior Senator speaks out to change Scajaquada into parkway

  20-10-2015 02:12 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The Scajaquada Expressway, also known as Route 198, is currently an expressway in name only after a fatal accident caused lawmakers to drop the speed limit from 50 miles per hour (MPH) to only 30 MPH.
  Calls for change have thus far dropped the speed limit, seen the installation of guard rails and stop signs in lieu of yield signs. Currently also in the works are pedestrian crosswalks, according to leaders. However, New York’s senior Senator Chuck Schumer i
  
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• Lackawanna Police Chief sues city over compensation, says he wasn’t overpaid

  20-10-2015 01:23 via wivb.com
  
  LACKAWANNA, N.Y. (WIVB) — Answering charges saying he’s overpaid, the Chief of Police in Lackawanna announced he is suing the city for disciplinary action.
  After calls by City of Lackawanna officials that accused Chief James Michel Jr., the City of Lackawanna reduced his base pay and eliminated past and future benefits without a hearing on the matter.
  Michel is calling out the Lackawanna Council President for falsely accusing him of being overpaid from 2009, when he elevated to
  
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• Buffalo Bills look forward to making corrections on Sunday in London

  20-10-2015 00:55 via wivb.com
  
  LONDON, ENGLAND (WIVB) — The Buffalo Bills are in London to face off against another opponent in week seven ahead of their bye week, but thankfully they’re not playing another undefeated team.
  The Bills have played against and fallen to two undefeated giants in the NFL in 2015, but Head Coach Rex Ryan said his team has learned from each loss, including Sunday’s loss against the undefeated Cincinnati Bengals. He said on Sunday he’s going to make some coaching changes
  
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• Joe Biden gauging politics, staffing for 2016 run

  20-10-2015 00:09 via wivb.com
  
  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Vice President Joe Biden’s associates are setting up interviews for potential staff positions on a Biden presidential campaign, a source familiar with the process tells CNN.The interviews come as the political world waits for a decision from Biden on whether he will enter the Democratic 2016 presidential primary.
  Biden is set to meet with his top political advisers Monday night — the same group he met with at least twice last week.
  Also last week,
  
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• Nation waits on an apparently imminent decision on Biden’s election bid

  20-10-2015 00:05 via wivb.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — He’s running! He’s about to decide! He’ll announce within two days! He’s maybe, possibly, surely, definitely going to figure it out really, really soon!
  No shortage of people made assertive declarations Monday about whether Joe Biden is going to run for president.
  The flood of purported revelations reverberated throughout the political world, but there was just one problem: None of it came from Biden’s lips.
  Months in to his painfully drawn-o
  
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