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• Eastern Niagara Hospital in Newfane does away with ER in lieu of urgent care

  05-02-2016 23:45 via wivb.com
  
  NEWFANE, N.Y. (WIVB) — Patients in Newfane in need of emergency care will no longer find the traditional emergency department at the hospital.
  Hospital officials announced the department will be converted into an urgent care facility, pairing up with the Eastern Niagara Hospital Express Care in Lockport.
  “Many patients arriving by ambulance have transitioned to the emergency department at the Lockport site during the past year. This conversion to urgent care is in response
  
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• Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, 6th man on moon, dies in Florida

  05-02-2016 23:21 via wivb.com
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell, who became the sixth man on the moon when he and Alan Shepard helped NASA recover from Apollo 13’s “successful failure” and later devoted his life to exploring the mind, physics and unexplained phenomena such as psychics and aliens, has died in Florida. He was 85.
  Mitchell died Thursday night at a West Palm Beach hospice after a short illness, his daughter, Kimberly Mitchell, said.Mitchell’s passing coincides wit
  
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• New firm takes on classic Buffalo design, with a twist

  05-02-2016 23:19 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)- Michael Anderson never thought he’d call Buffalo home.
  “When I came here in ’97 I would have got on the next plane out of here,” he told News 4.
  The native New Zealander went to UB, and said after four years here, something started to grow on him; the architecture.
  At 6’8, Anderson didn’t always have plans to be in the design business. He played football and rugby, but fell in love with Buffalo’s classic buildings.
  He looked at
  
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• Man arrested for daytime burglary after lengthy investigation

  05-02-2016 22:21 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The burglary of a home in Springville in broad daylight put Erie County Sheriff’s Deputies on alert and sparked an investigation.
  Officers say they investigated for three weeks after the Jan. 8 burglary, which saw a safe and roughly $1,200 in cash stolen from the  home. Their investigation led them to 25-year-old  Keith Brown, a 25-year-old Ashford native.
  Police say they turned up enough evidence to charge brown with felony second-degree bu
  
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• Twitter moves to actively seek out terrorist supporters, suspends 125,000 ISIL accounts

  05-02-2016 22:03 via wivb.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Twitter says it’s now using spam-fighting technology to seek out and automatically flag accounts that might be promoting terrorist activity.
  The company announced Friday in a tweet that it has suspended more than 125,000 accounts on its social media site for threatening or promoting terrorist acts mainly related to the Islamic State group in the last eight months.
  Since mid-2015, we have suspended over 125,000 accounts for threatening or promoting terrorist acts. Re
  
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• Bills positional breakdown: Offensive Line

  05-02-2016 21:43 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The fellas up front will be at the front of the line when Buffalo Bills management sits down to pen new contracts for free agents, and it could get costly.
  Behind new Head Coach Rex Ryan, Buffalo rolled the dice on guard Richie Incognito after he took a year off of playing the game. He had previously been embroiled in a bullying scandal with the Miami Dolphins, but his second chance put things in prospective and he shined in 2015. His play with the Bills would e
  
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• Tops coming to downtown Buffalo

  05-02-2016 18:43 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — During Mayor Byron Brown’s State of the City address Friday afternoon, he announced that a new grocery store would be coming to downtown Buffalo.
  Brown stated that a Tops store would be coming to Ellicott St.
  It is not yet clear when the store will open.
  News 4 will have more information as it becomes available.
  
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• Officials announce development of downtown Buffalo grocery store

  05-02-2016 18:43 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — During Mayor Byron Brown’s State of the City address Friday afternoon, he announced that Ciminelli Real Estate Corp. will be the developer of the mixed use space at 201 Ellicott Street.
  Brown said a Tops grocery store would be coming to downtown Buffalo. Tops had expressed interest in building a supermarket downtown and said they were waiting for “the right time and the right location.”
  David Atkinson parks in the Ellicott Street lot and s
  
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• Local leaders speak out against planned Key Bank-First Niagara acquisition

  05-02-2016 18:36 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Ever since Key Bank announced plans to buy First Niagara last fall, there has been push back. Now, more local leaders are coming together to voice their concerns.
  Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz joined Congressman Brian Higgins and members of PUSH Buffalo, as well as leaders from the Western New York Law Center, on Friday morning to speak out against the planned deal.
  Those in opposition have cited large concerns over projected job cuts as well as a reduction in
  
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• DraftKings launches in the UK

  05-02-2016 18:03 via wivb.com
  
  LONDON, ENGLAND (WIVB) — Controversial fantasy sports company DraftKings has launched operations overseas in the U.K.
  The company began operating in the U.K. Friday, February 5. More than 200,000 people already play fantasy sports games through DraftKings in the U.S. and Canada.
  Jason Robins, Co-Founder and CEO of DraftKings said, “DraftKings will bring a totally new experience for sports fans, offering players the opportunity to test their skill at fantasy contests with th
  
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• Julian Assange claims total vindication with UN panel ruling

  05-02-2016 17:08 via wivb.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — A United Nations human rights panel has sided with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in his long-running battle with Swedish and British authorities, saying he should be allowed to walk free immediately and compensated for the years he has lost.
  The U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, which falls under the offices of the U.N. human rights chief, said Assange has been “arbitrarily detained” by Britain and Sweden since December 2010, when he was first sou
  
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• Man taken from Lewiston apartment after standoff with police, deputies

  05-02-2016 17:00 via wivb.com
  
  LEWISTON, N.Y. (WIVB) — An afternoon standoff with Police in Lewiston led to one man being removed from a home Thursday afternoon.
  Shortly after 4 p.m., police went to a S. 7th Street apartment to check on a resident.
  When authorities arrived, the 31-year-old was “despondent, uncooperative” and had knives, according to police.
  While interviewing the man, police say he he made his way upstairs and barricaded himself in a bedroom.
  After the man spoke with members o
  
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• Cheektowaga PD looking for Harlem Road robbery suspect

  05-02-2016 16:22 via wivb.com
  
  CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. (WIVB) — A store on Harlem Road in Cheektowaga was robbed and police are looking for the suspect.
  Cheektowaga Police say the Cash for Cans Depot was robbed on January 29 around 10:20 a.m.
  The suspect is described by authorities as a black male standing at 5’11” and weighing 200 lbs.
  Police say he displayed a small handgun during the incident and took approximately $1,500.
  Anyone with information on the suspect is asked to call Detective Chris Chojnacki at 686-
  
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• Local company makes pylon cameras used in Super Bowl

  05-02-2016 16:01 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Super Bowl Sunday, for a lot of us, is all about the experience. Many people enjoy being around their friends and watching the game on big screens like the ones in Dave and Busters.
  Everybody wants to feel as close to the action as they can, and during this year’s Super Bowl, people can thank a local company for getting you even closer.
  Admiral Video, which is based in Lancaster, is responsible for the pylon cameras. The camer
  
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• Pizza Logs shipped all over for Super Bowl weekend

  05-02-2016 15:34 via wivb.com
  
  NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (WIVB) — It’s go time at Finger Foods Products, Incorporated in Niagara Falls, the factory where Original Pizza Logs are made.  They’ll ship out almost 200 thousand of the snacks this weekend, in time for football fans everywhere to enjoy on Sunday.
  “It’s just slammed. Our inventory is minimal right now,” Owner Jason Cordova told News 4. “We’re going to make the orders. Maybe by the skin of our teeth, but we will make them.
  
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• 1 dead, 3 injured after crane collapse in New York

  05-02-2016 15:12 via wivb.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — One person died and two others were seriously injured when a crane collapsed in Lower Manhattan during a snow squall Thursday, smashing the roofs of parked cars as it crashed onto the street, authorities said.
  The collapsed red boom of the mobile crane landed across an intersection and stretched much of a block after the accident, which occurred around 8:25 a.m. in the Tribeca neighborhood, about 10 blocks north of the World Trade Center.\
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• Accidents, delays reported across WNY Friday

  05-02-2016 14:46 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Snow is back in Buffalo and many drivers are seeing its effects on the roads.
  A number of delays and accidents were reported in western New York this morning on the 90, 190 and Route 5.
  An accident on I-190 South at Exit 6 briefly closed the left lane of the highway shortly after 7 a.m.In the same hour, NITTEC reported traffic congestion on the aforementioned roads.
  Specifically, nearly six miles of congestion was reported on I-90 from Exit 50 to Exit 53. Two mi
  
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• Manziel not charged despite claims he hit ex-girlfriend

  05-02-2016 14:02 via wivb.com
  
  CLEVELAND (AP) — Despite disturbing allegations that he struck his ex-girlfriend, troubled Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel has not been charged with a crime and two Texas police departments have closed their cases on a possible assault.
  Manziel, who will be released by Cleveland next month, ending two turbulent NFL seasons, was being investigated for allegedly striking Colleen Crowley last weekend. She told police in Fort Worth that Manziel struck her “several times” and that
  
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• Research says text alerts help patients remember to take medication

  05-02-2016 13:49 via wivb.com
  
  AUSTRALIA (WIVB) — Doctors think they’ve come up with a way to make sure you don’t forget your pills. They’re sending text alerts!
  It’s a reminder they’re calling “A Text a Day to Keep the Doctor Away.”
  It’s especially important for people who have chronic diseases. The missed medications can be tough on the body.
  There’s some science behind the texts. Researchers in Australia found the texts can double the odds that a patient will
  
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• Cattaraugus County woman accused of driving drunk with baby in vehicle

  05-02-2016 13:18 via wivb.com
  
  LITTLE VALLEY, N.Y. (WIVB) — A Cattaraugus County woman is accused of driving drunk with a 9-month old baby in her vehicle.
  Jennifer DeChane, 44, was stopped by Cattaraugus County Sheriff’s deputies on Erie St. in the Village of Little Valley.
  After performing field sobriety tests, deputies accused DeChane of aggravated DWI, endangering the welfare of a child and other charges.
  DeChane is due back in Town of Little Valley Court at a later date.
  
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• Emergency vehicles called to Sayre Road factory after fire reported

  05-02-2016 12:51 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A call for a fire at a factory on Sayre Road brought authorities to the scene early Friday morning.
  An ambulance was seen at Aurubis Buffalo, Inc., but it left with no one inside of it. The site is the former American Brass facility.
  Someone from the company called about a machine and some copper that had caught fire.
  It is not clear if any damage was done or if anyone was hurt.
  
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• Buffalo PD looking for woman missing since January

  05-02-2016 12:26 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Buffalo Police are looking for a missing woman.
  Denise Jackson, 60, is described as 5’4″ and 185 lbs. Police say she wears glasses and was last seen January 7 at an address on St. Mary’s Road.
  Anyone with information on her whereabouts is asked to call 911.
  
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• Salt mining still idle at NY site where workers were rescued

  05-02-2016 11:50 via wivb.com
  
  LANSING, N.Y. (AP) — Mining operations remain suspended at a central New York salt mine nearly a month after 17 workers were rescued when an elevator became stuck 900 feet underground.
  Minneapolis-based Cargill Inc. says work continues on the elevator system at the mine in the Finger Lakes town of Lansing, 40 miles southwest of Syracuse. There’s no estimate on when mining will resume.
  The elevator malfunctioned late on the night of Jan. 6 as the workers where descending to the mine&r
  
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• News 4 Throwback: Super Bowl XXV

  05-02-2016 11:00 via wivb.com
  
  TAMPA, Fla. (WIVB) — Here’s a look back at some of the News 4 coverage of the Buffalo Bills and Bills fans in Super Bowl XXV in Tampa, January 20 – 27, 1991.
  The videotape has faded, but the memories are still vivid!  Our coverage was provided by News 4’s Jacquie Walker, Kevin O’Connell, Bob Koop, Carol Jasen, Kathy Polanko, and Rich Newberg.
  
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• During development, Elmwood Village works to hold onto history

  05-02-2016 05:41 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Walking down Elmwood Avenue in the village, you pick up on the vibes; that area of the city is up and coming; people living there, love it and development groups recognize that. That’s why it has become one of the most popular places in the city, receiving big bids to build it up.
  “It’s a very dynamic area,” said Carly Battin, the executive director for the Elmwood Village Association “It’s very vibrant. You’re always se
  
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• Air re-fueling jets to return to Niagara Air base

  05-02-2016 04:37 via wivb.com
  
  TOWN OF NIAGARA, N.Y. (WIVB)- US Senator Charles Schumer announced Thursday that the President’s proposed defense budget will include a plan to bring back eight KC-130 air re-fueling jets to the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station.
  “It’s a huge economic impact to the economy of Buffalo and Western New York.” said Congressman Brian Higgins (D-Buffalo) who added that a $200 million dollar a year economic impact is what the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Base currently generates, a
  
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• Ryan Spooner leads Bruins past Sabres 3-2 in shootout

  05-02-2016 04:13 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Ryan Spooner scored in regulation and the shootout to lead the Boston Bruins to a 3-2 victory over the Buffalo Sabres on Thursday night.
  Brad Marchand helped Boston erase a two-goal deficit, and Tuukka Rask made 31 saves in the win.
  Evander Kane and Sam Reinhart scored for the Sabres.
  Spooner had the lone goal in the shootout. Rask denied Brian Gionta, Kane and Ryan O’Reilly.
  Buffalo had a two-goal lead for 58 seconds early in the second period before Spooner bac
  
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• Legendary BMX athlete Dave Mirra dead at 41

  05-02-2016 04:09 via wivb.com
  
  GREENVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) – BMX legendary athlete Dave Mirra died Thursday afternoon in Greenville.
  At approximately 4:00 p.m., Greenville Police responded to the 200 block of Pinewood Road for an apparent suicide.
  Upon arrival, officers discovered 41-year-old Dave Mirra, of Greenville, sitting in a truck with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. He had been visiting friends in the area a short time before the incident.
  Considered an icon in the pro-BMX world, Mirra, was instrumental in
  
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• 2016 Iowa caucus under scrutiny

  05-02-2016 04:04 via wivb.com
  
  IOWA (KWQC) – The Iowa caucus may be over, but criticism and controversy surrounding it remain.
  Thursday a Des Moins Register editorial scrutinized the Democratic Party’s lack of transparency. And (D) Sen. Bernie Sanders campaign is delving deeper into the caucus results.
  “I think Iowa should take very seriously challenges to their caucus process,” KWQC political analyst Christopher Whitt.
  He says the Democratic Party needs to respond to a call by many for raw numbers.
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• Small town, huge Super Bowl 50 responsibility

  05-02-2016 04:03 via wivb.com
  
  ADA, Ohio (WANE) – The Super Bowl is one of the biggest sporting events of the year and a small town in northwest Ohio plays a role in it that many people may not be aware of. Workers at the Wilson Sporting Goods factory in Ada, Ohio have been producing handmade Super Bowl 50 balls around the clock.A worker laces up a football at the Wilson factory in Ada, Ohio.“All of our employees know this is prime time,” said Dan Riegle, the plant manager. “This is a big event &n
  
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• HEART hosts Valentine’s gala to raise funds for the animal rescue

  05-02-2016 03:38 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A well-respected no-kill animal rescue operation is asking the community to come together to show its love for animals and one another in the month of love.
  HEART Animal Rescue and Adoption Team, an operation based in Williamsville and Hamburg, is hosting its fourth annual Sweetheart Soiree to help fund the organization’s mission. Beloved by all who adopt from HEART, the organization takes in sick, stray and abused animals and cares for them until they are
  
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• Opiate-dependent babies born every 19 minutes in U.S., study says

  05-02-2016 03:20 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — As the heroin epidemic worsens in the U.S., frightening statistics follow. A new study suggests a baby dependent on opiates is born every 19 minutes in the U.S.
  State Senator Tim Kennedy cited the report as he toured the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Sisters of Charity Hospital in Buffalo on Thursday. Kennedy took the tour to speak with medical professionals on the needs of opiate-dependent babies, and help understand what needs to be done to reverse the trend
  
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• Lengthy investigation turns up meth lab, four arrests

  05-02-2016 02:51 via wivb.com
  
  HOLLEY, N.Y. (WIVB) — Western New York investigators spent at least a month gathering investigation on the sale and distribution of meth in the small Village of Holley in Orleans County before executing a raid that would net four arrests.
  Four locals faced arrest when police came knocking at Thomas Street in Holley. Officers searched the contents of the home, locating an active meth lab and tools for distributing and selling the drug.
  Police arrested 28-year-old Christopher Price
  
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• Suspected murderer on the loose; police offer reward

  05-02-2016 02:28 via wivb.com
  
  NORTH TONAWANDA, N.Y. (WIVB) — Police in western New York are on the hunt for a murder suspect believed to be on the loose in the area.
  Officers nearly arrested Dominick Cruz while he was on the job at Speed Global Services in the city in early January, just a day after the murder of two local men. Police had found two locals with gunshot wounds on Jan. 10. Although one man has since recovered, 27-year-old Mark Sternin is dead.
  As Cruz fled, police locked down nearby schools and asked
  
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• Study says women unknowingly exposing babies to fetal alcohol syndrome

  05-02-2016 00:49 via wivb.com
  
  CLARENCE, N.Y. (WIVB) — Too many women are exposing their unborn babies to the dangers of fetal alcohol syndrome, according to a study released this week by the Centers for Disease Control.
  The CDC’s study has sparked a firestorm online, where commenters believe the new guidelines are too stringent and lack merit.
  Doctors and parents know those first few weeks of pregnancy are critical.
  Major organs begin to grow within the first month, and alcohol consumption could have longterm eff
  
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• WNY Farm Show underway at the Hamburg Fairgrounds

  05-02-2016 00:05 via wivb.com
  
  HAMBURG, N.Y. (WIVB) – The Western New York Farm Show is the place to be this weekend for anyone interested or involved in agriculture. If you’re a large farmer, a small farmer, or someone who just has a garden in your back yard, there’s all different things to see and learn at the farm show. From shopping for a big piece of equippment, to something as simple as a leaf-blower. You can also learn more about how New York State agencies can help you build your farm.
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