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• Police say suspect shot and killed in robbery attempt

  05-12-2015 23:40 via wivb.com
  
  MIAMI BEACH (AP) — Police in Miami Beach say they killed a razor-wielding man suspected in a bank robbery early Saturday.
  Kathleen Prieto of the Miami Beach Police Department said in an email that police responded to an emergency call from a Bank of America branch on Alton Road. The person who made the 911 call said a suspect was armed with a bomb and had passed a note to the teller.
  Prieto said police arrived at the scene and found the suspect inside a barber shop
  
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• House fire displaces six people in Buffalo

  05-12-2015 23:32 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)- A fire destroyed a Kent St. home in Buffalo’s Broadway-Fillmore neighborhood early Saturday morning.Officials say that flames spread from the first floor to the attic and caused a total of $60,000 in damage.
  The home was occupied at the time and the Red Cross is assisting 2 adults and 4 children.
   
  
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• Local volunteers give back on National MS Service Day

  05-12-2015 19:53 via wivb.com
  
  EGGERTSVILLE, N.Y. (WIVB) –  More than 13 thousand people in the Upstate New York area suffer from multiple sclerosis. As the holiday season kicks off, volunteers are giving the “gift of service” to Western New Yorkers suffering with the disease.
  “He’s a saint,” that’s how Deborah Heim describes her husband Gerald.  She’s been living with multiple sclerosis since 2010. Despite suffering from fatigue and pain–she worries about b
  
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• US can’t access NSA phone records in California terror case

  05-12-2015 19:40 via wivb.com
  
   WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government’s ability to review and analyze five years’ worth of telephone records for the married couple blamed in the deadly shootings in California lapsed just four days before the attack, when the National Security Agency’s controversial mass surveillance program was formally shut down.
  Under a court order, those calling records at the NSA are now off-limits to agents running the FBI terrorism investigation, even with a warrant.
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• Drivers saying stretch of thruway unsafe

  05-12-2015 05:35 via wivb.com
  
  CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. (WIVB) — After a fatal crash on the thruway Thursday, local drivers who travel that stretch of the 90 are saying they think it’s very dangerous.
  “It is really dangerous,” said Jillian Mruk, a waitress at Lunetta’s – a restaurant on Cleveland Drive who frequently uses the westbound on ramp right there. “Getting off at Cleveland Drive and getting onto the 90 it’s insanity. It’s hard to merge into the traffic.”
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• WNY Muslim group condemns California shooting

  05-12-2015 04:11 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)-  “You cannot hold an entire group accountable for one person or two people’s actions,” Julie Algubani, the executive director of Western New York Muslims, said.
  That’s Algubani’s message as new information reveals that the wife involved in Wednesday’s California shooting had pledges her allegiance to the leader of ISIS on Facebook in the moments after fourteen people were gunned down.
  It pains Julie to see the TV coverage inside
  
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• Kane scores twice in Sabres’ 5-2 win over Coyotes

  05-12-2015 04:01 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Evander Kane scored twice in the third period and Chad Johnson made 18 saves to help the Buffalo Sabres beat the Arizona Coyotes 5-2 on Friday night.
  Sam Reinhart, Jamie McGinn and Marcus Foligno also scored for Buffalo. The Sabres have had at least four goals in four straight games for the first time in nine seasons, and have won three of their last four games.
  Arizona has lost three in a row to begin a five-game trip. Max Domi scored both goals for the Coyotes, and M
  
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• Hoverboard fires and falls pose danger to users

  05-12-2015 03:33 via wivb.com
  
  RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – One of the hottest holiday toys is literally catching fire.
  Hoverboards are at the top of a lot of people’s must-have lists this year.
  But recent incidents are calling their safety into question.
  Just a few days before Thanksgiving, Jessica Horne lost everything after a hoverboard burst into flames.
  “And before I could yell the house is on fire, the middle part of the board that would go in between your feet just ‘poof’ and into flames,”
  
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• Seal rescued from NY lock before water freezes over

  05-12-2015 03:29 via wivb.com
  
  HALFMOON, N.Y. (NEWS10) – Biologists rescued a seal from Lock 1 on the Hudson River on Friday.
  The seal with a poor sense of direction had been spotted at times during the summer along the shores of Halfmoon. There were fears the seal would eventually be blocked in by ice dams, but the lucky seal was saved.
  Residents who had been tracking the seal since the summer named it Wrong Way Charlie. They don’t know if the seal is a boy or a girl, but the name worked either way.
  The effort to
  
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• Student charged with terrorist threats appears terrified in court

  05-12-2015 03:26 via wivb.com
  
  East Lansing, MI (MEDIA GENERAL) — A Michigan State University student charged with making a pair of terror threats on campus was in court Friday morning.
  Sydney Gort, 23, heard the prosecution lay out their case against her in front of a judge.
  Police say she scrawled a threatening message on a wall of the MSU Packaging building last week, and they say she made a similar one back in April.
  You could see the concern on the face of Gort in the courtroom. She watched silently as her def
  
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• Federal Gov. confiscates armored military style vehicles from local law enforcement

  05-12-2015 03:22 via wivb.com
  
  LANSING, MI (WLNS) – The mass shooting in San Bernardino, California on Wednesday afternoon, led police there to use armored military surplus vehicles.
  They’re the same type of vehicles many local law enforcement agencies are equipped with, in order to respond to situations like that.
  But now, the federal government is forcing some of the military style equipment be returned.
  The Obama Administration says those vehicles could send the wrong message in communities, and following
  
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• Inside the San Bernardino shooters’ home

  05-12-2015 03:15 via interactives.wivb.com
  
  SAN BERNARDINO (WIVB) — Members of the media crowded into the apartment in Redlands, Calif. shared by San Bernardino shooting suspects Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik Friday, Dec. 4. 2015.
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• Hearing postponed for man accused of killing neighbor in LeRoy

  05-12-2015 02:41 via wivb.com
  
  LEROY, N.Y. (WIVB) — A man accused of killing his neighbor, then setting a fire and firing at first responders in Genesee County did not return to court on Friday.
  The hearing for Kyle Johnson has been moved to January, but originally was scheduled for Friday after police arrested him on Monday following a lengthy standoff.
  Johnson faces charges of second degree murder, burglary, arson and reckless endangerment. Police say they convinced him to drop his weapon after he allegedly shot
  
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• Beach prepped for the daring to take Polar Plunge

  05-12-2015 02:11 via wivb.com
  
  HAMBURG, N.Y. (WIVB) — More than 1,000 will soon take the plunge into Lake Erie’s cold waters this weekend after officials prepped the beach for their Polar Plunge.
  The daring group will jump into the water at Woodlawn Beach in Hamburg, and they’ll have a clean beach to launch from thanks to local police. Law enforcement say they want to make sure everybody stays safe.
  “Today we’re going to be sending out divers to prepare the site, and our committee will be en
  
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• Police looking for witnesses to Thruway accident

  05-12-2015 01:35
  
  New York State Troopers are still investigating a fatal accident on the I-90 in Cheektowaga near the Cleveland Drive exit.        
  
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• Cheektowaga Police charge East Aurora man in ATM Robbery

  05-12-2015 01:21
  
  Cheektowaga Police have arrested an East Aurora man in connection with an armed robbery at an ATM.        
  
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• Bars may soon serve booze before noon on Sunday after lawmaker submits “Mimosa Resolution”

  05-12-2015 00:57 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Bar-goers in Buffalo may soon have the opportunity to get a drink before 12 p.m. on Sunday.
  Erie County Legislator Patrick B. Burke submitted the “Mimosa Resolution” that would enable bars to serve alcohol on Sunday like any other day.
  “We need to stop treating adults like children. One of the key components of our government is maintaining public safety, not determining the private choices of our citizens or businesses,” Burke said.
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• Robert Loggia, movie and TV tough guy, dies at 85

  05-12-2015 00:38 via wivb.com
  
  (AP) — Oscar-nominated actor Robert Loggia, who was known for gravelly voiced gangsters from “Scarface” to “The Sopranos” but who was most endearing as Tom Hanks’ kid-at-heart toy-company boss in “Big,” has died. He was 85.
  Loggia’s wife Aubrey Loggia said he died Friday at his home in Los Angeles after a five year battle with Alzheimer’s. “His poor body gave up,” she said. “He loved being an actor and he loved hi
  
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• Sports Illustrated calls Buffalo 'USA's New Hockeytown'

  05-12-2015 00:30
  
  Allan Muir, writer for Sports Illustrated, has boldly declared Buffalo to be "USA's new Hockeytown."        
  
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• Williamsville water mill plaza unveiled

  05-12-2015 00:26
  
  Williamsville water mill plaza unveiled        
  
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• Local expert says ISIS can claim victory in California shooting

  05-12-2015 00:21 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)- There is no evidence ISIS leaders had any role in Wednesday’s shooting in San Bernardino, California.
  But it was exactly the kind of result the terror group hopes for. That’s according to Medaille College Professor, Steve MacMartin who spent twenty years working with US Homeland Security. He points out how the wife involved in the shooting had pledged her allegiance to the leader of ISIS just minutes into the attack on her husband’s workplace holiday party
  
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• Initiative gives homeless “A home for the holidays”

  05-12-2015 00:20 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)- Advocates for Buffalo’s homeless community had their hands full last winter.
  “Unfortunately there’s been a ton of people that had frostbite, amputations, even deaths. So this year we want avoid that,” said Supervisor of Homeless Outreach at the Matt Urban HOPE Center, Jason Flores.
  The Homeless Alliance of Western New York and the Western New York Coalition For The Homeless are teaming up to get ahead of the storm; they’re asking landlords to l
  
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• Ralph Wilson Stadium to host outdoor World Juniors game

  05-12-2015 00:18
  
  From the 18 yard line, Terry Pegula, Russ Brandon, Rex Ryan & USA Hockey announced their excitement to do things differently.        
  
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