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• Online auction offers ‘Star Wars’ collectibles

  12-12-2015 20:28 via wivb.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP modified) — Just in time for the latest installment of the “Star Wars” movie, fans bid thousands of dollars on hundreds of rare and original collectibles associated with the space odyssey series at a New York City auction.Sotheby’s held an online-only sale Friday that brought in more than $500,000.
  The 175 lots included over 600 action figures from the collection of Japanese fashion designer and entrepreneur NIGO (NEE’-goh).
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• “Boxes of Love” kicks off holiday distribution

  12-12-2015 18:28 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)- Hundreds of turkeys and toys were loaded up early Saturday morning, headed for Buffalo’s West Side, to go to families in need.
  “We’re going to end up serving a lot of refugee families. It’s a very diverse, the neighborhood has 70 languages that are spoken in it, there’s people from all over the world, and there’s a lot of folks that have just arrived in Buffalo and are really in need,” said Pastor Eric Johns of the Buffalo Dream Cen
  
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• Nearly 200 nations pledge to slow global warming

  12-12-2015 18:18 via wivb.com
  
  LE BOURGET, France (AP) — Nearly 200 nations adopted the first global pact to fight climate change on Saturday, calling on the world to collectively cut and then eliminate greenhouse gas pollution but imposing no sanctions on countries that don’t.
  The “Paris agreement” aims to keep global temperatures from rising another degree Celsius (1.8 Fahrenheit) between now and 2100, a key demand of poor countries ravaged by rising sea levels and other effects of climate change.
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• Nearly 200 nations near historic deal to slow global warming

  12-12-2015 18:18 via wivb.com
  
   LE BOURGET, France (AP) — France crafted an unprecedented deal to slow global warming by cutting and then eliminating greenhouse gas pollution, urging climate negotiators from nearly 200 nations to adopt it Saturday.
  In the “Paris agreement,” countries would commit to keeping average global temperatures from rising another degree Celsius (1.8 Fahrenheit) between now and 2100, a key demand of poor countries ravaged by rising sea levels and other effects of climate change.
  
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• Boxes of Love still seeking donations

  12-12-2015 11:49 via wivb.com
  
  Buffalo, N.Y. (WIVB) — A Buffalo organization still needs help making the holidays better for refugee families in western New York.
  Boxes of Love holds a distribution on Saturday, December 12, at 1:00 p.m. at the Buffalo Dream Center on Lafayette Avenue.
  The group is seeking turkeys, chickens and hams to help feed 3,000 families; and toys for 5,000 children this season.
  To learn more click this link for the Buffalo Dream Center.
  
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• Mail carrier delivers ‘gift of life’ to a stranger

  12-12-2015 04:18 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO,N.Y. (WIVB)–Kim Zielkiewicz called it one of the easiest decisions she had ever made.
  The East Aurora mail carrier donated one of her kidneys to a man she had never met, and she has no regrets. “I would do it all over again to see the hope and happiness in peoples eyes after I woke up from surgery the look of just being proud of me, my family.”
  The surgery took place on November 30, at ECMC, where the recipient, Bob Parczewski works as a nurse in the psychiatric unit. &
  
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• Jamestown Police raid meth lab

  12-12-2015 03:56
  
  A Jamestown Police task force raided an address on 8th Street Friday leading to the arrest of Harry J. Radke.        
  
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• Massive Greek yogurt plant in Batavia closes, putting 170 out of work

  12-12-2015 02:17 via wivb.com
  
  BATAVIA, N.Y. (WIVB) – The massive $200 million yogurt production facility in Batavia that brought together two titans of consumer food products has called it quits.
  Production at the Muller Quaker Dairy LLC plant ceased Thursday, leaving 170 workers wondering, what’s next? The 360,000 sq. ft. production facility is a joint venture of Pepsico’s Quaker Oats unit and the German based Theo Muller Group opened two years ago–amid much fanfare–and yogurt sales were boomi
  
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• On camera: Resident catches man dumping trash on his lawn

  12-12-2015 00:25 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) –– Normally, trash along the roads is worst when the snow has melted, leaving behind soggy mattresses and old tires. In instances like that, it’s seldom that residents see how the garbage ended up where it did.
  But in Roy Rypinski’s case, he caught the culprit on video, making his trash the problem of someone else.
  “He had no idea I had several cameras on him,” said Rypinski, who lives on Stevenson Street.
  Rypinski, a retired Marine and lo
  
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