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• Three arrested after $2,500 stolen from Orchard Park stores

  13-01-2016 23:54 via wivb.com
  
  ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (WIVB) — Police in Orchard Park say they intercepted a thief on his way to a getaway van, only to find thousands in stolen goods.
  Officers say they responded to the Kohl’s in Orchard Park after learning of a serious theft in the area, then responded to a nearby Target after the alleged thieves moved to that location.
  Police say they witnessed a man fleeing from the Target to a van in the parking lot, and intercepted him, only to find two additional people and
  
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• Amherst man sentenced to prison for child porn photos, video

  13-01-2016 22:50 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — An Amherst man will spend three years behind bars after a court convicted him of possession of child pornography.
  Officers say in October of 2014, they located child porn on the computer of Timothy Murphy, 50, after searching his home. Police, who worked with Homeland Security officers, used forensic examination to locate 123 images and one video of child pornography.
  Police say the images were of pre-pubescent children and described some as containing images of
  
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• Frewsburg man sentenced to prison for child porn possession

  13-01-2016 22:41 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A local man will head to jail for nearly five years after he was convicted of child porn possession.
  Federal officials say 47-year-old Jeffrey Paden, a Frewsburg native, will head to prison for 57 months. Investigation into Paden found he had 600 images of child pornography on his computer, downloaded from the internet, in 2007.
  Police say they were tipped off due to the downloads, as the FBI was involved in the case. A court convicted him after officials w
  
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• Lockport police plead for public help after shooting

  13-01-2016 22:07 via wivb.com
  
  LOCKPORT, N.Y. (WIVB) — Officers in Lockport are asking for help from the public after officers say someone fired a round into a home.
  Police say they rushed to Washburn St. and Ashley Pl. to respond to shots fired just after 11 a.m., but found nobody injured. Residents of a home say their house was struck by a bullet, however.
  Now police are working to learn what prompted a gunman to fire on a house with people inside. Anybody who witnessed the shooting or may have information is ask
  
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• Police search for suspects after Save a Lot larcenies

  13-01-2016 21:35 via wivb.com
  
  CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. (WIVB) — Officers in Cheektowaga are working to find the people responsible for multiple larcenies in a local store on Rossler Ave.
  Police say two suspects lifted items from the Save a Lot store on Dec. 30 in the afternoon and evening. Now officers are turning to the public for help.
  Anybody who can identify either suspect is asked to contact police at (716) 686-3923.
  
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• Cable news network Al Jazeera America to shut down

  13-01-2016 21:25 via wivb.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Cable news network Al Jazeera America says it is shutting down just 2 1/2 years after its launch.
  Al Jazeera America says it will stop operating by April 30. It blames the “economic landscape of the media environment.”
  The network launched in August 2013 with a plan to offer serious-minded news coverage.
  While it won some awards, not many people watched the channel. And it’s been hit with allegations of anti-Semitic and sexist behavior. It replac
  
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• Second day of crashes lead to road closures as snow continues to pound WNY

  13-01-2016 21:16 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Unrelenting waves of snow crashed into western New York, hammering various parts of the region as clouds pick up moisture over Lake Erie.
  The lake snow forced officials across New York State to pay attention as for the third day, whiteout conditions blanketed various locations, prompting New York State to close down nearly 50 miles of the New York State Thruway.
  The closure marks a 48.8 mile stretch from Hamburg to Westfield, closed due to accidents that ha
  
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• Olcott, Springville get another dose of lake effect

  13-01-2016 19:42 via wivb.com
  
  OLCOTT, N.Y. (WIVB)- For the third morning in a row drivers had a slushy, snowy commute along the 219 and route 39 in Springville.
  Plows got an early start, and were on the roads around 2 a.m. Wednesday.
  Drivers say despite the flurries, it was a welcome relief from the conditions earlier in the week, when roads were even more slick and snow covered.
  Jackie Jackson told News 4 Route 39 was a little slick, but she remembers last year, and said she won’t complain.
  “We had a nice l
  
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• Better Business Bureau warns of lottery scams

  13-01-2016 18:59 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – In light of the record breaking Powerball jackpot, the Better Business Bureau is warning those who have purchased lottery tickets to be weary of scammers looking to trick people into thinking they are winners.
  According to the BBB’s Scam Tracker, lottery scams were one of the top ten scams of 2015.
  The BBB is stressing that the winners of the Powerball jackpot will be announced on television and online, because scammers typically reach out to people via email,
  
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• Cuomo unveils $145.3 billion budget plan, initiatives in State of the State

  13-01-2016 18:15 via wivb.com
  
  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s $145.3 billion budget proposal unveiled Wednesday proposes spending the state’s $2.3 billion windfall from court settlements to house the poor and homeless, freeze Thruway tolls and make large investments in public infrastructure.
  In his annual State of the State address, the Democratic governor also called for raising the minimum wage to $15, cutting small-business taxes and boosting the environmental protection fund.
  Many of the pr
  
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• Victim of Evans ambulance crash identified

  13-01-2016 17:47 via wivb.com
  
  TOWN OF EVANS, N.Y. (WIVB) — The man killed in an accident at Route 20 and Versailles Plank Road in the Town of Evans Monday has been identified.
  Joseph Sangbush, 85, was killed after the Rural Metro ambulance he was being driven in collided with a northbound tractor trailer. Sangbush was being taken from Buffalo to his group home in Perrysburg.
  The truck driver, Canada resident Rubiann Kerkhof, was en route back to Canada. She was taken to ECMC for major head trauma. The EMT in
  
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• LeRoy man accused of striking legally blind man with vehicle facing charges

  13-01-2016 17:08 via wivb.com
  
  BATAVIA, N.Y. (WIVB) — The man who Batavia Police say struck and killed a legally blind man with a vehicle in Batavia, is facing charges.
  Police say that on Saturday, LeRoy resident Robert Christner, 78, was driving westbound when he hit Joseph Ogozaly, 58, with his vehicle.
  Ogozaly, a legally blind man, had been crossing Main Street at Bank Street in the city. He was using a white, reflective metal cane with a red tip. This was an indication of his visual impairment.
  Christner was ch
  
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• Snow crashes down on Niagara County, “carcicle” remains frozen Wednesday

  13-01-2016 16:37 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Wednesday morning started off with notice of a lake-effect snow advisory for Niagara County. The advisory will be in effect from 6 p.m. Wednesday until 7 a.m. Thursday.
  Although the advisory is set to start in the evening, Niagara County still felt Mother Nature’s wrath in the morning.Further south in Erie County, the cold weather is still making an impact as the infamous “carcicle” at Hoak’s Restaurant in Hamburg remains frozen.
  The car is ga
  
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• Frozen Hamburg “carcicle” freed Wednesday, snow crashes down in Niagara County

  13-01-2016 16:37 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — In Erie County Wednesday morning, the cold weather gained national attention as the infamous “carcicle” at Hoak’s Restaurant in Hamburg was freed.
  Crews are working to move the frozen car in Hamburg pic.twitter.com/q9HBRxhoct
  — Brittni Smallwood (@bsmallwood4) January 13, 2016Click to view slideshow.
   
  North of Hamburg, in Niagara County, the morning started off with notice of a lake-effect snow advisory for Niaga
  
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• Niagara Falls man accused of robberies faces 49 counts of petit larceny, 2 felonies

  13-01-2016 16:07 via wivb.com
  
  ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (WIVB) — Deputies with the Erie County Sheriff’s Office have made an arrest in relation to a string of vehicle break-ins at Chestnut Ridge Park in Orchard Park.
  Niagara Falls resident Coty Vaughn, 22, is accused of stealing wallets, purses and other items from vehicles at the park. In one incident, deputies say Vaughn broke the windows of a vehicle to get into it.
  Vaughn is charged with felony grand larceny, felony criminal mischief and 49 counts of petit larc
  
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• St. Bonaventure basketball off to best combined start ever

  13-01-2016 15:40 via wivb.com
  
  OLEAN, N.Y. (WIVB) — This year’s Atlantic 10 preseason polls didn’t think much of St. Bonaventure University. The guys picked 8th.
  “Eighth is the second highest we’ve been picked in my nine years here so we looked at it as a compliment,” said St. Bonaventure Head Men’s Basketball Coach Mark Schmidt.
  The ladies’ team picked 9th.
  Senior forward Katie Healy said, “Nobody saw what we put in this summer, all the work, all the hours we put in.
  
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• Middle schooler named hero after saving 50 students during school bus crash

  13-01-2016 13:56 via wivb.com
  
  LUMBERTON, N.C. (WBTW) – The Robeson County School Board in North Carolina held its first meeting of the year Tuesday night, but this meeting was special.
  One student from Fairgrove Middle School was honored and named a hero because he saved the lives of 50 students on his bus after the school bus driver fell out of her chair unconscious back in December.
  His name is Cory Lewis, and he was riding the bus home from school when a car ran into the back of the school bus.
  “We were going
  
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• In GOP response to Obama, SC governor defends immigrants

  13-01-2016 13:36 via wivb.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans should resist “the siren call of the angriest voices” in how the nation treats immigrants, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said Tuesday as the GOP used its response to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address to try softening the tough stance embraced by some of its leading presidential candidates.
  The U.S.-born daughter of Indian immigrants, Haley said the country is facing its most dangerous security threat since the terrorist atta
  
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• Niagara County middle school students collect hats, gloves for local children

  13-01-2016 12:58 via wivb.com
  
  MIDDLEPORT, N.Y. (WIVB) — A group of students at Royalton-Hartland Middle School in Middleport are helping to make sure other kids stay warm this winter.
  Sixth graders Ryan Mettler, Jacob Hagen, Jay Heideman and Trent Choat set up a drop box at the school’s main office as a Keep Kids Warm Campaign to collect new and used gloves, hats, scarves and other items for local children.
  170 items have been collected so far.
  When the students are done collecting the items, they&rsquo
  
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• Clinton gets nod from former Attorney General Eric Holder

  13-01-2016 12:10 via wivb.com
  
  CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — As she works to maintain an advantage among African-American voters in her quest for the Democratic presidential nomination, Hillary Clinton has secured an endorsement from the nation’s first black attorney general.
  The Clinton campaign announced Eric Holder’s support in a statement to the Associated Press.
  Holder, who served as President Barack Obama’s top law enforcement appointee for more than five years, said Clinton “is the candidate tha
  
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• Ohio man charged with three counts of murder after stabbing ex-girlfriend, her two children

  13-01-2016 12:04 via wivb.com
  
  COLUMBUS (WCMH) — Police have charged Wendell Louis Callahan with three counts of murder after a mother and her two children were stabbed to death in north Columbus, Ohio.
  According to the Columbus Division of Police, at about 1:19 a.m. Tuesday morning, neighbors reported a fight in one of the nearby apartments.
  When officers arrived on scene, they were directed to 995 Atlantic Avenue, apartment 752, where they found 32-year-old Erveena Hammonds, 10-year-old Anaesia Green, and 7-year-
  
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• Republicans bash Obama’s address for overlooking 10 sailors held by Iran

  13-01-2016 11:53 via wivb.com
  
  WASHINGTON (MEDIA GENERAL) – Just hours before his final State of the Union speech, President Barack Obama faced an unexpected, and certainly unwelcome, co-star: Iran.
  On Tuesday afternoon, Iranian ships detained two U.S. Navy vessels, along with the 10 crew members onboard, after mechanical failures sent them drifting into foreign waters.
  The high-profile incursion presented yet another challenge for Mr.Obama, who struck a controversial deal this summer to forestall the country&
  
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• Iran says all 10 detained US Navy sailors have been released

  13-01-2016 11:45 via wivb.com
  
  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian state television is reporting that all 10 U.S. sailors detained by Iran after entering its territorial waters have been released.
  Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said the sailors were released Wednesday after it was determined that their entry was not intentional.
  The nine men and one woman were being held at an Iranian base on Farsi Island in the Persian Gulf after being detained nearby on Tuesday.
  The U.S. Navy’s Bahrain-based 5th Fleet had no
  
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• Winter weather tests dedication for local athletes

  13-01-2016 05:55 via wivb.com
  
  EAST AURORA, N.Y. (WIVB) — By the time night fell across greater Buffalo Tuesday, most of the snow had slowed to a flurry.
  And though conditions were much worse earlier Tuesday south and east of the city, it still didn’t stop a local runner and a group of dedicated parents.
  Although the snow came in a torrent Tuesday afternoon, it still wasn’t enough for a diehard runner training for the Buffalo marathon in May.
  “Running in the snow, if that’s what you call it,
  
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• HS Hoops: Sweet Home at Williamsville South

  13-01-2016 05:55 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y.(WIVB)- Williamsville South continued their good start to the season with a win on Tuesday.
  
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• 3 injured when 7 aisles of shelving collapses at Florida Party City store

  13-01-2016 04:19 via wivb.com
  
  BOCA RATON, Fla. — Investigators are trying to figure out what made seven aisles of shelves collapse at a Boca Raton Party City store on Tuesday morning.
  Palm Beach County firefighters responded to the scene.
  PBFR firefighters tweeted dramatic photos from inside the store.
  The photos showed the firefighters searching through the rubble for possible victims.
  A sheriff’s office K9 assisted in the search.
  No victims were found underneath the debris, but three people suffered m
  
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• Obama warns against giving into election year cynicism

  13-01-2016 04:15 via wivb.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Eyeing the end of his presidency, Barack Obama urged Americans Tuesday night to rekindle their belief in the promise of change that first carried him to the White House, declaring that the country must not allow election-year fear and division to take hold.
  “The future we want,” he insisted, “is within our reach.” But opportunity and security for American families “will only happen if we work together … if we fix our politics,” h
  
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• NFL approves Rams to LA, Chargers option to join

  13-01-2016 04:07 via wivb.com
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — The St. Louis Rams are moving back to Los Angeles and the San Diego Chargers will have the option to join them in a compromise approved by NFL owners Tuesday night.
  The Oakland Raiders, who also wanted to move to the area, could take the Chargers’ spot if they stay in San Diego, Commissioner Roger Goodell said.
  The Chargers and Raiders wanted to share a new stadium in Carson, California, and the Rams wanted to move to nearby Inglewood, but neither option got the 24 vot
  
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• Buffalo Zoo welcomes baby western lowland gorilla

  13-01-2016 03:37 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — An 18-year-old gorilla became a mother on Saturday, welcoming a baby western lowland gorilla into the world at the Buffalo Zoo.
  Zoo officials say the baby is doing well, and mother Sydney has shown strong maternal instincts in taking care of the tot, which joins big sister Amari, half sister Nyah, Nyah’s mother Lily and his father Koga.
  Keepers haven’t yet been able to get close enough to the gorilla to determine its gender, so it has not been given
  
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• Eichel’s rookie jersey raises $39k for charity

  13-01-2016 02:43 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The highest bidder in an auction for the first jersey of a new Buffalo Sabres star took home the prize, but also helped out charity.
  A one-week auction for Jack Eichel’s first game-worn jersey, worn from Oct. 8 through Nov. 25, skyrocketed from its original price of $250 all the way to $39,112.
  The price skyrocketed in the final day, jumping $24,000 alone in the final hours of bidding. The jersey will be shipped with a patch sewn-on to prove its authe
  
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• Crash between ambulance, tractor trailer injures 3, kills 1

  13-01-2016 02:01 via wivb.com
  
  EVANS, N.Y. (WIVB) — Dangerous roads led to multiple serious crashes on Tuesday evening, including a fatal collision between an ambulance and tractor trailer in the Town of Evans.
  Officers responded to the crash scene just before 4:30 p.m. to find a Rural/Metro ambulance collided with a semi truck just off Route 20. Between both vehicles involved in the crash, officers say three people were transported to the hospital and a fourth was declared dead soon after the crash.
  Fire offi
  
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• Can office pools boost chances of winning Powerball?

  13-01-2016 01:27 via wivb.com
  
  AMHERST, N.Y. (WIVB) – The record-setting Powerball jackpot is bringing workers together across America–they are forming office pools in the hopes of winning the $1.5 billion prize.
  Statisticians will tell you, joining an office pool doesn’t increase your chances by much, but you don’t have to win the jackpot to be a winner.Lottery officials point out 25 players won a million dollars for matching 5 numbers, and three of those people won $3 million by playing the “P
  
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• GALLERY | 2 U.S. Navy boats held by Iran

  13-01-2016 00:44 via interactives.wivb.com
  
  (WIVB) — Iran was holding 10 U.S. Navy sailors and their two small Navy boats after the boats had mechanical problems and drifted into Iranian waters.
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