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• Clinton wins Nevada Democratic caucuses

  20-02-2016 23:20 via wivb.com
  
  (APmodified) — Hillary Clinton has won the Nevada Democratic caucuses, rebounding after a second-place finish to Bernie Sanders in New Hampshire.The victory for the former secretary of state over the Vermont senator gives her two wins to one in the race for the Democratic nomination.
  Clinton eked out a win in the Iowa caucuses before Sanders posted an overwhelming victory in New Hampshire’s primary.
  Surveys of caucus-goers taken as they entered caucus sites showed that older women tu
  
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• Saturday afternoon shooting in Buffalo leaves one man dead

  20-02-2016 22:25 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)- Buffalo police are investigating a fatal shooting that happened on Cambridge Ave. 
  Police say two men were shot Saturday afternoon. 21 year-old Gerald Aiken of Buffalo was taken from the scene to ECMC in a personal vehicle. He has been treated and released.
  20 year-old Harrison Davis of Buffalo was found dead at the scene.
  Anyone with information is asked to call or text the Confidential TIPCALL Line at 847-2255.
  
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• Afternoon shooting in Buffalo leaves one man dead

  20-02-2016 22:25 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)- Buffalo police are investigating a fatal shooting that happened Saturday afternoon.
  Police say two men were shot around noon. One victim was taken to ECMC in a personal vehicle and the second victim was found dead at the scene.
  Anyone with information is asked to call or text the Confidential TIPCALL Line at 847-2255.
  
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• PHOTOS: Love Your Pet Day 2016

  20-02-2016 19:42 via interactives.wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)- February 20th is national Love Your Pet Day. Western New Yorkers sent News 4 photos of the pets they love.
  Spartphone and tablet users, click here to see the photo gallery.
  
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• Local developers launch Emoji game

  20-02-2016 17:30 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)- Emojis have quickly become a second language for smart phone users.
  From the thumbs-up, to the classic smiley face, and a handful of food pictures, it’s a fun and easy way to get a message across.
  “It seemed like something that wasn’t going to go away, they kept releasing more, people started social media campaigns to add emojis, so it just seemed like something that was a good fit,” said Brent Garner.
  The Canisius College graduate reached out to his
  
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• Chinese-owned brand Volvo is recalling 59,000 cars

  20-02-2016 16:54 via wivb.com
  
  COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Sweden’s Volvo Cars says it is recalling 59,000 cars in 40 markets because of faulty software that can briefly shut down the engine and electric system while driving.Group spokesman Stefan Elfstrom says the recall affects only five-cylinder diesel models from its 60 and 70 series built from mid-2015.
  Elfstrom told The Associated Press Saturday that the glitch can be “unpleasant” but the company has no information about any accidents caused as a
  
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• 1 officer dead, 3 wounded in Mississippi shooting

  20-02-2016 15:40 via wivb.com
  
   IUKA, Mississippi (AP) — Law enforcement authorities say one officer is dead and three are hospitalized with gunshot wounds after a standoff in northeastern Mississippi.
  Department of Public Safety spokesman Warren Strain says the standoff ended in gunfire early Saturday at a home near the town of Iuka, Mississippi.
  Strain says the man who shot at officers is also dead. The wounds of two of the officers are not life-threatening.
  A woman and a girl inside the house are alive.
  The stat
  
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• Single car crash kills driver, seriously injures 4 passengers

  20-02-2016 15:21 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)- A 27 year-old man is dead following a single-car accident that occurred Saturday morning.
  Buffalo police say the vehicle was traveling northbound on Nevada when it struck a tree around 4:30 a.m.
  The male driver was taken to ECMC where he later died. The four passengers in the vehicle suffered serious injuries.
  The crash remains under investigation.
  
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• Two NYPD officers expected to recover after shooting

  20-02-2016 14:12 via wivb.com
  
  Brooklyn, N.Y. (WIVB/AP) — Two New York City Police officers are expected to make full recoveries after they were shot trying to make an arrest Saturday.
  The officers heard gunfire around 3:20 a.m. Saturday; they were shot in the Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn while trying to apprehend the suspect, according to William Bratton, NYPD Commissioner, and Bill De Blasio, mayor, New York City.
  As the officers approached the man, they say he pointed a revolver at them and got into a
  
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• Buffalo State students band together, remembering Bradley Doyley

  20-02-2016 05:01 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Student filed into Buffalo State College’s on-campus arena Friday night with heavy hearts, mourning the loss of Bradley Doyley.
  “Everybody knows Brad,” said Chris Cartwright, a Buffalo State senior who was one of Brad’s friends. “He wasn’t ever spiteful, never mean; genuine, energetic.”
  Bradley Doyley, 21, died Thursday night at Buffalo General. He was a Brooklyn native, living in the Queen City while attending the colle
  
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• Driver hospitalized after crashing into a tractor

  20-02-2016 03:56 via wivb.com
  
  BETHANY, N.Y. (WIVB) — A driver was taken to ECMC Friday night after crashing their vehicle into a tractor along Route 20 in Genesee County.
  Police on scene say the driver was heading westbound on Route 20 when they lost control of their vehicle and collided with a tractor in the opposite lane.
  The operator of the tractor tried to avoid the vehicle but was unable to do so.
  The driver was airlifted to ECMC by Mercy Flight. There is no word on their name or condition at t
  
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• Judge orders cable company founder released from prison

  20-02-2016 03:08 via wivb.com
  
    NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge in New York has agreed to release from prison the dying 91-year-old founder of one of the nation’s largest cable television companies.
  Judge Kimba Wood signed an order Friday saying Adelphia Communications Corp. founder John Rigas can be released early.
  She was responding to a written request for early release by prosecutors. Rigas is serving a 12-year sentence in a $1.9 billion looting and debt-hiding scandal that led to the collapse of Ad
  
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• Neighbors say owner “never did work” on the house on Humber

  20-02-2016 02:22 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Charred rubble is now piled up where the house at 90 Humber Avenue once stood—the scene of a fatal fire that took two lives, seriously injured two small children, and left a third child fighting for her life with burns over 90 percent of her body.
  Neighbors and family members of the victim have told reporters the house was maintained so poorly, it was a tragedy waiting to happen.
  Lorez Collier, mother of Demetrius Johnson a casualty of the early morning fire,
  
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• UB Women’s Basketball gets help from foreign flare

  20-02-2016 01:39 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Not just one, but four, UB Women’s Basketball players were recruited from Australia.
  That’s right, the basketball team represents an invasion from the land down under. The group of women say they’ve had to make a host of adjustments to fit in not just to Buffalo, but to American basketball.
  They say Australian basketball is more physical and instinctive, but American basketball revolves more around set plays and strategy.
  The weather may be a b
  
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• Utah woman says she found a snake head in canned green beans

  20-02-2016 01:03 via wivb.com
  
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — An Oregon food distribution company has halted some shipments of canned green beans after a Utah woman said she found a snake head in a can.
  Troy Walker of Farmington, Utah, said she made the unsettling discovery while she and fellow church members were preparing meals Wednesday night for neighbors. Walker said she was taking beans out of a slow cooker when she spotted something odd, KSL-TV in Salt Lake City reports.
  “It looked pretty much like a burnt bean, and
  
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• Star Wars inspired fireworks, new attractions coming to Disney World

  20-02-2016 01:00 via wivb.com
  
  ORLANDO, Fla. (WFLA) – Disney and Star Wars fans will be happy to know that an extravagant Star Wars-inspired fireworks show will be lighting the sky over Walt Disney World this summer.
  “Star Wars: A Galactic Spectacular” is scheduled to debut this summer. The nightly show will feature Star Wars-themed fireworks, lasers, light projections and other special effects combined with Star Wars-themed music and characters.
  The special effects will be projected onto the Chinese Theatre
  
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• It’s official: Government deems hoverboards unsafe

  20-02-2016 00:50 via wivb.com
  
  WASHINGTON (WCMH) – The Consumer Product Safety Commission has officially labeled the hot holiday toy as being unsafe.
  After a months-long investigation of hoverboards, the CPSC sent official notice to retailers, manufacturers, and importers of new safety standards.
  The CSPC has also called on all makers and sellers to voluntarily take non-UL-compliant hoverboards off the market until they can be certified as safe.
  MORE | Click here to read the full CPSC report.
  The notice a
  
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• Following gun scare on UMass campus, suspect turns himself in

  20-02-2016 00:47 via wivb.com
  
  AMHERST, Mass. (WWLP) – A man allegedly responsible for an incident that caused a lockdown on UMass campus Thursday night turned himself in to police in the Boston area Friday. Framingham Police Lt. Stephen Cronin said William McKeown surrendered at their police station at around 12:45 Friday afternoon. He will be arraigned later Friday in Framingham District Court, and will be arraigned again on Monday at Eastern Hampshire District Court in Belchertown.
  Thursday night, a report
  
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• Nashville Fraternal Order of Police: Officers shouldn’t volunteer to work Beyonce concert

  20-02-2016 00:44 via wivb.com
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – The president of Nashville’s Fraternal Order of Police is telling Metro officers not to volunteer to work Beyonce’s May concert.
  Friday is the first day officers can sign up to aid with extra security and traffic control before, during and after the show at Nissan Stadium.
  “A routine Special Events staffing notice for Beyonce’s May 5 concert was sent out to officers today,” Metro police Chief Steve Anderson said in a statement. &
  
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• Selfies taken with stolen Kindle show up in cloud

  20-02-2016 00:40 via wivb.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police say a photo they circulated of two people taken with a stolen Kindle has led to its return.
  Police released the photo Thursday that had uploaded automatically to the owner’s cloud account. It showed a photo of a man and a woman who apparently visited church on Ash Wednesday because she had a smudge of ash on her forehead.
  Police say a few hours later the 26-year-old man in the picture returned the Kindle, and it has been returned to the owner. Th
  
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• Local father’s bravery cost him his life

  20-02-2016 00:11 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Demetrius Thomas Sr. committed the ultimate sacrifice when ventured back into the inferno that was his home, not once, but twice, to save his children.
  And while he saved his 8-year-old daughter and 3-year-old son, his bravery cost him his life.
  “I keep hearing his voice in my head telling me, ‘Mom, I’m OK. I’m free. I’m with my dad,'” said Lorez Collier of her 24-year-old son. 
  Collier never thought she’d be calling her
  
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