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• Buffalo Police looking for 19-year-old in double shooting

  09-12-2015 23:55
  
  BUFFALO, NY - Buffalo Police are asking for the public's assistance locating a 19-year-old in connection to the double shooting on Purdy Street in November.        
  
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• UB expert examines voting in the digital age

  09-12-2015 23:50 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)- Where did you go for your latest scoop of political news?
  Chances are, it was Facebook. According to the Pew Research Center, 6 in 10 Millennials rely on it to stay on top of political issues.
  However, a UB expert has found relying solely on the Internet for your political facts could leave you less informed.
  Dr. Ivan Dylko says while Facebook, Twitter, and news websites allow for direct and instance access to current political affairs, they’re missing something
  
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• Cuomo touts completion of affordable housing project on Buffalo’s west side

  09-12-2015 23:46 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Touted as a way to combat blight and vacant lots — Governor Andrew Cuomo announced the completion of 46 affordable homes for low-income residents on Buffalo’s west side.
  Cuomo called the project one of the largest investments in affordable housing in Buffalo’s recent history. An investment of $13.4 million allowed the creation of a the 46 unit  Massachusetts Avenue Community Homes.
  A feature of the new homes is their energy efficiency, the
  
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• Wegmans enters American history at Smithsonian

  09-12-2015 23:15 via wivb.com
  
  WASHINGTON (MEDIA GENERAL) – Popular grocery store chain Wegmans celebrated its upcoming 100th birthday in grand style at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
  The food market magnates cut the ribbon for the Wegmans Wonderplace on Wednesday at the National Museum of American History.
  Young historian explore a replica of Julia Child’s kitchen in Wegmans Wonderplace. (Credit: Chance Seales)Healthy eating and American history are on the menu at the $1.5 million exhibit, a
  
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• Local 9-year-old with Autism publishes artwork

  09-12-2015 23:09 via wivb.com
  
  AKRON, N.Y. (WIVB)- 9-year-old Kristin Maggio is your average fourth grader, only she’s got a pretty special gift. She’s already a published artist.
  “There was a very long period of time where she didn’t have any words at all, and she used to draw to communicate with us. So that’s kind of how it started,” said Kristin’s mom, Susan.
  Kristin has Autism. Talking can be hard for her, so she draws instead.
  She completed a stunning replica of Starry Night
  
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• Planned Parenthood suspect: ‘I am warrior for the babies’

  09-12-2015 23:01 via wivb.com
  
  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The man accused of killing three people and wounding nine others at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado stunned a courtroom Wednesday by declaring he is a “warrior for the babies” and won’t go to trial.
  Robert Lewis Dear, 57, made the outburst before he was formally charged with first-degree murder and other counts in a Colorado Springs courtroom.
  Colorado Springs police have declined to discuss a potential motive in the Nov. 27 att
  
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• Man asleep inside trash bin survives garbage-truck compactor

  09-12-2015 22:35 via wivb.com
  
  FREMONT, Calif. (AP) — Police say a homeless man sleeping inside a garbage bin survived two compaction cycles after the bin was emptied into a trash truck.
  Fremont police spokeswoman Geneva Bosques said Tuesday the 44-year-old man was sleeping inside a large trash bin behind a restaurant when a trash truck collected it and used the compactor.
  Bosques tells the Oakland Tribune the truck then traveled to a fast food restaurant, collected trash from another bin there and again used the compac
  
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• Sewer plant helps create snow for small slice of town

  09-12-2015 21:57 via wivb.com
  
  STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — A sewer plant helped create a winter wonderland for a 3-square-mile area in central Pennsylvania.
  The National Weather Service in State College says a layer of dense fog mixed with condensation from a local sewer plant overnight Monday, creating a dusting of light snow in a small section east of State College.
  The snow fell over roughly 3 square miles near the Nittany Mall.
  The weather service calls the process a “microscale event” — too isolated
  
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• Woman, 52, charged with striking teen, endangering child’s welfare

  09-12-2015 21:37 via wivb.com
  
  ATTICA, N.Y. (WIVB) — A dispute that turned physical left a child seeking medical treatment and a woman behind bars.
  Officers say they had to arrest Helen Jennings, 52, after they investigated the altercation, in which Jennings allegedly struck a 14-year-old. The dispute forced the child to receive medical treatment, leading police to charge Jennings with endangering the welfare of a child and second degree harassment.
  Police processed Jennings and say she was jailed in lieu of $1,000
  
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• Father, son charged in Tonawanda bank robbery, chase that ended in Buffalo

  09-12-2015 21:08 via wivb.com
  
  TOWN OF TONAWANDA, N.Y. (WIVB) — A bank robbery that ended with a police chase and car crash in the City of Buffalo is now in the hands of federal prosecutors.
  Officials with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in western New York say Duane Loyd, 44, and his son Brandon Loyd, 19, have been charged by criminal complaint with bank robbery and possession of a firearm.
  Those who investigated the case say the two men worked together on Dec. 7 to rob the Key Bank branch on Delaware Avenue in t
  
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• FBI: California shooters radicalized at least 2 years ago

  09-12-2015 19:39 via wivb.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The two San Bernardino shooters were radicalized at least two years ago — a year before one of them came to the U.S. on a fiancée visa — and discussed jihad and martyrdom as early as 2013, FBI Director James Comey said Wednesday.
  Comey told the Senate Judiciary Committee investigators believe that Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, were radicalized even before they began their online relationship and that Malik held extremist vie
  
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• Attorney General warns of speculative tickets for Springsteen concert

  09-12-2015 19:32 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is concerned that ticket resellers like StubHub and TicketNetwork are selling speculative tickets to upcoming Bruce Springsteen concerts in New York.
  Springsteen, along with his band the E Street Band, will be performing at First Niagara Center on February 25, 2016.
  Ticket resale site VividSeats.com is already listing tickets up for sale, but here’s the catch — tickets for the show do not go on s
  
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• Police offer reward for person of interest in Purdy Street shooting

  09-12-2015 19:07 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Buffalo Police are looking for Leonard N. Robinson, Jr., a.k.a. “Pooter”, in relation to a November shooting on Purdy Street.
  Police call him a person of interest in the shooting of two people. Robinson, 19, might be injured from a Route 33 car accident that occurred during the time frame of the shooting, according to police. He may seek treatment at a hospital. Robinson is described as 5’9″ and 190 lbs.
  Officers are teaming up to of
  
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• Senate clears major new education bill, sends it to Obama

  09-12-2015 17:40 via wivb.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The way the nation’s public schools are evaluated — teachers, students and the schools themselves — is headed for a major makeover, with a sweeping shift from federal to state control over school accountability and student testing.
  The Senate on Wednesday voted 85-12 to approve legislation rewriting the landmark No Child Left Behind education law of 2002, now widely unpopular and criticized as unworkable and unrealistic. The measure now goes to the
  
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• Police: Teen brought guns, knife, beer and marijuana onto school grounds

  09-12-2015 17:34 via wivb.com
  
  KENDALL, N.Y. (WIVB) — A 17-year-old faces a felony and other charges after New York State Police say he brought a number of contraband items onto school grounds.
  Officials at Kendall High School contacted authorities after they say they could smell a strong odor of marijuana on Dustin Keiffer.
  State Troopers who responded to the school searched Keiffer’s vehicle and say they found two unloaded shotguns, a hunting knife, two beer cans and some marijuana.
  Authorities say Keiffer
  
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• Amherst PD looking for clothing theft suspects

  09-12-2015 16:59 via wivb.com
  
  AMHERST, N.Y. (WIVB) — Amherst Police are looking for two suspects related to a clothing theft from a business on Transit Road.
  Police say thieves made off with nearly $1,000 worth of clothing. They say the pictured suspects may have left the area in a gray or silver SUV.
  Anyone with information is asked to call the Police Detective Bureau at 689-1336, email [email protected] or text 562-TIPS. Anyone giving information is asked to reference CNO 15-569814.
  
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• ‘Trumbo’ leads SAG noms in murky awards season

  09-12-2015 16:34 via wivb.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Hollywood blacklist drama “Trumbo” has a leading three Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations for best ensemble, best actor for Bryan Cranston, and best supporting female for Helen Mirren.
  Nominations for the awards were announced on Wednesday, bringing a murky awards season into a bit more focus.
  “Beasts of No Nation” and “Straight Outta Compton” also solidified their place in the awards conversation with nominations for best ense
  
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• Original AM&A’s displays return to Main Street

  09-12-2015 16:29 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – If you grew up in Western New York between the 1940’s and the 1990’s, your parents might have brought you downtown to see the displays in the windows of AM&A’s on Main Street. The department store closed in 1995, but the displays have been brought back to life on Main Street this holiday season.
  The original Victorian dolls acting out Christmas scenes are now on display at the Hyatt Regency. They are on loan from Buffalo Place, who cares for the
  
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• Jamestown double homicide victims were suspect’s wife, stepson

  09-12-2015 16:07 via wivb.com
  
  JAMESTOWN, N.Y. (WIVB) —  On the outside of the bright blue and red home at 235 Barrows Street are the colors of team pride. But on the inside was a family that had fallen on hard times, that was being evicted, and whose husband and step father police say committed a grisly double murder.
  What led authorities to Barrows Street was Justin Gorby, a member of the National Guard and owner of Ultimate Property Maintenance Services. He and his team were there to take back the home, as it wa
  
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• Jamestown double homicide victims were suspect’s wife and stepson

  09-12-2015 16:07 via wivb.com
  
  JAMESTOWN, N.Y. (WIVB) — Jamestown Police say the victims of a Tuesday double-homicide were the wife and stepson of suspect Allen Witruke.
  Police say Catherine Witruke, 52, and Eric Washburn, 34, were killed by Witruke in the family’s Barrows Street home. Witruke is charged with two counts of 2nd degree murder.
  Authorities say Witruke used blunt force on one of the victims and stabbed both victims multiple times, killing them. The Chautauqua County Coroner says both victims were
  
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• NY urged to allow supervised heroin sites

  09-12-2015 15:39 via wivb.com
  
  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A coalition of public health groups and supporters of less punitive approaches to illegal drug use says New York should consider allowing heroin users to inject themselves in supervised settings to prevent overdoses.
  The group includes advocates from the Drug Policy Alliance, the New York Academy of Medicine and VOCAL New York. In a statement Tuesday the coalition says supervised injection sites would place users under the watchful eyes of health workers who could inter
  
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• Groups pushing for supervised heroin sites

  09-12-2015 15:39 via wivb.com
  
  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A coalition of public health groups and supporters of less punitive approaches to illegal drug use says New York should consider allowing heroin users to inject themselves in supervised settings to prevent overdoses.
  The group includes advocates from the Drug Policy Alliance, the New York Academy of Medicine and VOCAL New York. In a statement Tuesday the coalition says supervised injection sites would place users under the watchful eyes of health workers who could inter
  
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• How to protect yourself and your kids from dangers of kid-friendly apps

  09-12-2015 15:25 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Although technology like phone applications can appear kid-friendly, they can still be a source of information for hackers.
  News 4’s Brittni Smallwood sat down with Peggy Penders, communications director for the Better Business Bureau of upstate New York, to discuss tips to protect children from these dangers.
  See the full interview in the video above.
  
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• Buffalo PD looking for missing 12-year-old

  09-12-2015 15:11 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Buffalo Police are looking for a missing 12-year-old.
  Jewell Butler is missing from an address on Hastings Ave. She is described as 5’4″ tall and 130 pounds.
  Police are asking anyone with information on her whereabouts to call 911.
  
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• Buffalo PD locate missing 12-year-old

  09-12-2015 15:11 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Buffalo Police say they found a 12-year-old.Jewell Butler was missing from an address on Hastings Ave. She is described as 5’4″ tall and 130 pounds.
  Police thanked the public for helping locate the 12-year-old.
  
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• Virginia woman arrested, charged with homicide in death of 4-month-old boy

  09-12-2015 14:45 via wivb.com
  
  HAMPTON, Va. (WAVY) — Hampton police have arrested a woman in connection with the death of a 4-month-old boy.Kyrie Devon CroomsGracielle Devikia Donise Garnett, 33, was arrested on Dec. 8 and charged with one count of homicide.
  Police said Garnett was caring for Kyrie Devon Crooms last month at a home on Winchester Drive when he stopped responding. Fire and rescue crews took him to the hospital and nearly a week later, the baby died. Police said Garnett assaulted the baby.
  Garnett’s
  
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• Birmingham Islamic Society reports possible extremist to FBI

  09-12-2015 14:41 via wivb.com
  
  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — The Birmingham Islamic Society says it has reported a possible Islamic extremist to the FBI, according to the organization’s president.
  Ashfaq Taufique says it happened about a week and a half ago.
  He said several members of the local Muslim community were “friended” on social media by someone Taufique describes as “not known to our community.”
  According to Taufique, that person sent a message to someone in the community. While he is
  
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• Dozens killed in ongoing Taliban attack on Afghan airport

  09-12-2015 14:36 via wivb.com
  
  KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) — A Taliban assault on an airport in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar that has been underway for nearly 24 hours has killed 37 people, the Defense Ministry said Wednesday.
  A ministry statement said another 35 people have been wounded in the assault, which began Tuesday. It said nine attackers have been killed and one wounded. It said one attacker was still battling security forces.
  Taliban spokesman Qari Yousaf Ahmadi said the insurgents were still attac
  
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• E-cigarettes found to contain more harmful chemicals

  09-12-2015 14:28 via wivb.com
  
  CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – There’s new information about e-cigarettes and the chemicals that go into them.
  Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health found that more than 75% of liquid nicotine put into e-cigarettes contain a flavoring chemical called diacetyl, which has been linked to a disease known as “popcorn lung”.
  The chemical has been linked to severe respiratory disease. Massachusetts resident Brittany Gilman said she’s worried about the effects
  
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• Warm winter could mean unwanted insects in Christmas trees

  09-12-2015 14:12 via wivb.com
  
  ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) – An unseasonably warm winter could see ticks and mites in Christmas tree branches.
  Every year, hundreds of thousands of trees are cut, sold, and stood up in houses all over the world. But this season has been abnormally warm, and experts say that can bring some unwanted insects hidden in the branches.
  Christmas season is an industry all on its own. Troy’s Landscaping sells over 1,500 trees each year. This winter is off to a mild start, and without snow to brush
  
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• Angela Merkel named Time’s Person of the Year

  09-12-2015 13:58 via wivb.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been named Time’s Person of the Year, praised by the magazine for her leadership on everything from Syrian refugees to the Greek debt crisis.
  “Leaders are tested only when people don’t want to follow,” Time editor Nancy Gibbs said in a statement issued Wednesday. “For asking more of her country than most politicians would dare, for standing firm against tyranny as well as expedience and for providin
  
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• Paladino considering run for Governor

  09-12-2015 13:04 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Buffalo businessman Carl Paladino says he would consider another run for Governor of New York.
  Paladino faced off against Governor Andrew Cuomo for the position in 2010.
  Cuomo won that election with 63 percent of the vote.
  
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• Early morning house fire in South Buffalo

  09-12-2015 12:32
  
  BUFFALO, NY - The cause of an overnight fire in South Buffalo is under investigation this morning.        
  
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• Firefighter hurt during S. Park Avenue blaze

  09-12-2015 11:33 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Firefighters responded to a fire at an apartment complex on S. Park Avenue Wednesday morning.
  One firefighter was injured and taken to ECMC. He suffered shoulder and neck injuries.
  A woman who lives in the building says five people live in the three-apartment structure. She says the fire seems to have started in the upper apartment.
  Buffalo Fire officials say one resident was taken to the hospital after getting hurt before the fire started.
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• Wind turbine debate in Somerset

  09-12-2015 05:48
  
  A proposal to set up wind turbines in two communities along the shore of Lake Ontario has many residents concerned        
  
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• Police investigate armed robbery at Buffalo State College

  09-12-2015 05:25 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)- University Police at Buffalo State College are looking for the man who robbed a student at knife point early Tuesday morning. It’s the third robbery on campus this year.
  The crime happened around midnight as a commuter student walked in the parking lot at Coyer Field, on Grant Street. University Police told News 4 someone walked into the parking lot and demanded property at knife point.
  The student ran away and the robber followed until the student dropped h
  
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• Take 2: Bills Breakdown Adam and Vic on McCoy's return to Philly

  09-12-2015 05:21
  
  All season long 2 On Your Side Sports Director Adam Benigni will be joined by veteran Buffalo Bills beat reporter Vic Carucci of the Buffalo News.        
  
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• Paladino thinking about running for governor again

  09-12-2015 05:16
  
  Controversial Buffalo School Board member Carl Paladino is considering a run for the state's top job.        
  
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• Brant Residents To Vote On Lakefront Purchase

  09-12-2015 05:16
  
  The Town Board in Brant has pushed a potential lakefront purchase to a public vote.        
  
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• Holiday Pop Up Stores on 500 Block of Main

  09-12-2015 05:15
  
  BUFFALO, NY — Just in time for the holiday season, Queen City Pop Up has transformed empty storefronts along the 500 block of Main Street into pop up shops that feature local retailers.        
  
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• Buffalo Bills Movie premiere: The Four Falls of Buffalo

  09-12-2015 04:43 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — It may be the City’s most notable accomplishment and failure, and it’s all in the same sentence. Buffalo went to four consecutive Super Bowl games, but didn’t come away with a single victory.
  That’s the topic behind a recent movie that will air on national television on Saturday on ESPN. The subjects of the movie, the Buffalo Bills of the early 1990’s, will gather together again for a premiere event on Wednesday night.
  News 4 will h
  
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• Girl who lost family in fire wants lots of Christmas cards

  09-12-2015 04:34
  
  A little girl whose father and three siblings died in an arson fire has a simple holiday wish: She wants cards to fill a thrift store Christmas tree.        
  
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• Girl who lost family in fire has one Christmas wish

  09-12-2015 04:27 via wivb.com
  
  SCHENECTADY, N.Y. (AP) — A little girl whose father and three siblings died in an arson fire has a simple holiday wish: She wants enough holiday cards to fill up her Christmas tree.
  Safyre Terry is the sole survivor of the blaze that killed her family two years ago. Safyre, now 8, has endured many surgeries for burns over 75 percent of her body.
  Her custodial aunt, Liz Dolder, said Tuesday that Safyre was “over the moon” when the first card arrived. But Dolder said the family w
  
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• Budget approved that cuts taxes by over 3% in Niagara County

  09-12-2015 04:13 via wivb.com
  
  LOCKPORT, N.Y. (WIVB) — Niagara County residents will pay less property tax in the coming year after lawmakers approved a spending plan on Tuesday night.
  The approved plan OK’s a $339 million budget which decreases the property tax rake by 3.7 percent. That represents a drop in taxes from $7.66 per $1,000 of assessed value to $7.38 per $1,000 of assessed value.
  Lawmakers called the budget fiscally conservative while still easing the burden on taxpayers, however the plan had its
  
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• Suspect robs Mass. Subway shop with a needle

  09-12-2015 03:47 via wivb.com
  
  SOUTHAMPTON, Mass. (WWLP) – Police in Southampton are investigating an armed robbery at a Subway Sandwich Shop on College Highway, late Tuesday afternoon.
  According to a news release from the Southampton Police Department, an employee at the Subway, at 161 College Highway, reported the robbery around 4:17 p.m. Tuesday.
  The employee told police that a white man, dressed in a black hoodie sweatshirt and wearing dark sunglasses, walked into the shop and demanded money out of the register.
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• Syrian refugee family settles in Indianapolis: Uniting faiths or putting nation at risk?

  09-12-2015 03:44 via wivb.com
  
  INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The Archdiocese placement of a Syrian family of four in Indianapolis didn’t come without noise. Some praise the church for bringing together Islamic and Christian faiths. Others see it as an irresponsible threat.
  A spokesperson for Governor Mike Pence says the governor holds the Catholic church in the highest regard, but disagrees with the church’s decision. On the flip side, leaders in the local Muslim community feel this is an example of how Muslims and
  
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• St. Petersburg mayor ‘bans’ Donald Trump from city

  09-12-2015 03:39 via wivb.com
  
  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla (WFLA) – There is a lot of backlash over Donald Trump’s proposal to ban all Muslims from entering the United States. The Republican presidential candidate said he would ban Muslim immigrants and visitors. A short time after, St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman took to Twitter to voice his disagreement essentially with a “ban” of his own saying Trump wouldn’t be allowed in his city.
  “I am hereby barring Donald Trump from entering St. Pet
  
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• No action in Battaglia Demolition dust up

  09-12-2015 03:30
  
  State and city officials have failed to follow through on promises made over a year ago to clean up operations of a construction and demolition debris facility that’s the subject of a decade-long dustup with neighbors.        
  
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• Woman charged with felonies after unemployment benefit investigation

  09-12-2015 03:22 via wivb.com
  
  LOCKPORT, N.Y. (WIVB) — A local woman is facing serious charges after officers say she received unemployment benefits while gainfully employed.
  Officers with the New York State Police say they learned Laura J. Usselman, 31, took advantage of the system and they worked with the State Department of Labor to investigate. Police say they learned Usselman accepted $4,100 in benefits between April 23, 2012 through July 17, 2012, while she was employed at a local business.
  Usselman stands ch
  
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• Identity theft suspect arrested, convicted after lengthy investigation

  09-12-2015 03:00 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A Williamsville man convicted of past felonies has been convicted of another four felonies after police investigated him for identity theft.
  Officers investigated David Miller, 51, after JC Penney loss prevention staff reported suspicious transactions at the Eastern Hills Mall location. Officers utilized surveillance cameras and store documents and eventually linked Miller with the crimes.
  Miller worked at an area collection agency, which police say allowed him
  
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