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• New York leaders weigh-in on SolarCity’s future

  07-03-2016 23:52 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)- SolarCity’s Riverbend development has become a symbol of resurgence in the Queen City.
  In fact, the State of New York has dubbed SolarCity the star of Buffalo in a new tourism commercial.
  But after a series of hiccups, including lay offs and late payments, are leaders worried the state has bit off more than it can chew?
  Congressman Brian Higgins told News 4 solar is still relatively new, and demands public investment in order to grow.
  “The industry is
  
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• Jury awards Erin Andrews $55M in case against stalker, hotel

  07-03-2016 23:41 via wivb.com
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – A jury of seven women and five men awarded Erin Andrews $55 million after two weeks of trial in the high-profile Peeping Tom case involving a Nashville Marriott hotel.
  Both her stalker, Michael Barrett, and the hotel’s management group and owner, The Windsor Group, were found liable Monday. The $55 million will be split between the two with Barrett 51 percent liable and the Windsor Group 49 percent.
  The man responsible for taking the video, Michael Barr
  
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• Lack of kidney donors means some die waiting

  07-03-2016 23:30 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Mike Weishaupt needs a kidney.
  He has a rare B positive blood type which makes him a tough match.
  “I just want to live,” said Weishaupt. “I would like to be around for my grandchildren. They are real young. I want to see them grow up. I want to see them go to college. There's other people out there who need a kidney too.
  His life line is going to dialysis three times a week.
  Weishaupt is one of the 800 patients in western New York waiting for t
  
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• Depew woman pleads guilty to fatal high-speed crash

  07-03-2016 23:00 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The driver who survived a high speed crash between a pickup truck and a car pleaded guilty on Monday to a felony.
  Erie County officials say Sarah Skotnicki, 26, crossed a double yellow line on Sept. 9, 2015, just before 11:30 a.m. on French Road in the Village of Depew, colliding with a car. The collision killed 72-year-old Carol Dion, who drove the car, and injured her granddaughter, 23-year-old Katrina Dion.
  Skotnicki drove erratically before the crash, s
  
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• Sharapova says she failed drug test; penalty unknown

  07-03-2016 21:51 via wivb.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tennis star Maria Sharapova says she failed a drug test at the Australian Open.
  The five-time major champion took full responsibility for her mistake when she made the announcement at a news conference Monday in Los Angeles. The former world No. 1 doesn’t know what sanctions she will face from the International Tennis Federation.
  The 28-year-old Sharapova said she tested positive for meldonium, which she said she has been taking for 10 years for numerous healt
  
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• Man dies in head-on crash in Erie County

  07-03-2016 21:05 via wivb.com
  
  LANCASTER, N.Y. (WIVB) — A man is dead following a Monday crash in Lancaster between a van and tractor trailer.
  Police in Lancaster responded to the scene of a crash on Genesee Street near Harris Hill Road just before 12 p.m. Officers say they believe the man driving the van crossed the center of the road, striking the tractor trailer.
  The crash killed the driver of the van, sparking an investigation. Officers have yet to release the man’s identity.
  A full investigation is under
  
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• Genesee County Sheriff’s Deputy fired on during traffic stop

  07-03-2016 20:49 via wivb.com
  
  BYRON, N.Y. (WIVB) — A Genesee County Sheriff’s Deputy was rattled after gunshots were fired into his police cruiser during a traffic stop in Byron on Monday.
  The Monday afternoon traffic stop near Route 262 and Route 237 led a driver to pull over into a parking lot of a nearby Arrow Mart. Police later explained the shooting, saying a person opened fire on Deputy Andrew Hale’s vehicle from the second story of a nearby building.
  Gunfire from a .22 caliber rifle pi
  
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• Genesee County Sheriff’s Deputy describes being shot at during traffic stop

  07-03-2016 20:49 via wivb.com
  
  BYRON, N.Y. (WIVB) — A Genesee County Sheriff’s Deputy was rattled after a gunshot was fired into his police cruiser during a traffic stop in Byron on Monday.
  Deputy Andrew Hale was at the Byron Arrow Mart writing a ticket for someone who wasn’t wearing a seatbelt when he heard a pop and his back windows shattered. According to the Sheriff’s Office, gunfire from a .22 caliber rifle pierced the cruiser.
  “You really don’t know what&
  
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• Buffalo Police officer accused of DWI

  07-03-2016 19:38 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A Buffalo Police officer has been suspended with pay after allegedly drinking and driving.
  Sources say the alleged Friday incident led to the arrest of David Rodriguez — a 22-year veteran of the Buffalo Police.
  The officer is a Marine Corps veteran and an accident investigator.
  Rodriguez, who is openly gay, marched in full uniform in the 2015 Pride Parade — a part of Buffalo’s Pride Week.
  
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• Police: Man fatally shot after pointing shotgun at cops in Rochester

  07-03-2016 19:16 via wivb.com
  
  ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say a man has been fatally shot by Rochester police after he pointed a shotgun at SWAT team members during a standoff.
  Police say one of their snipers shot the man at 8:50 a.m. Monday, more than four hours after officers were called to a neighborhood along Lake Avenue for a report of a man armed with a shotgun.
  Residents received an automated phone call around 6:30 a.m. Monday telling them to remain in their homes. An armored vehicle was used to remove re
  
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• Local teen becomes national ambassador for Tourette Association

  07-03-2016 17:45 via wivb.com
  
  SOUTH DAYTON, N.Y. (WIVB) — Watch Willow Daly-Griffen glide through the water, and you’d never know she’s learned to live with Tourette Syndrome.
  “A week without swimming, [and] it constantly gets worse from time to time,” the sixth grader at Pine Valley Elementary said.
  The 12 year old says medicine made her sick, so she worked to find other treatment options, like swimming.
  “It’s still challenging every day. I think that no parent is ever prepared to h
  
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• Supreme Court rejects Apple appeal over electronic books

  07-03-2016 16:26 via wivb.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court rejected an appeal from Apple Inc. Monday and left in place a ruling that the company conspired with publishers to raise electronic book prices when it sought to challenge Amazon.com’s dominance of the market.
  The justices’ order on Monday lets stand an appeals court ruling that found Cupertino, California-based Appleviolated antitrust laws in 2010.
  Apple wanted to raise prices to wrest some book sales away from Amazon, which controlled 90 pe
  
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• Jimmy Carter says he no longer needs cancer treatment

  07-03-2016 16:22 via wivb.com
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — Jimmy Carter announced Sunday that he no longer needs treatment for cancer, less than seven months after revealing he had been diagnosed with melanoma that spread to his brain.
  Carter, 91, shared the news at one of his regular Sunday School classes at Maranatha Baptist Church in his hometown of Plains, Georgia.
  Carter’s spokeswoman said in an email that his doctors will continue to perform scans to ensure cancer cells have not returned, and Carter will “resume tr
  
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• Jimmy Kimmel to host Emmy broadcast airing Sept. 18

  07-03-2016 15:59 via wivb.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Jimmy Kimmel will host this year’s Emmy Awards broadcast. Kimmel, host of that network’s late-night “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” will return for the 68th Primetime Emmy Awards, which airs Sept. 18.
  Kimmel’s comment on the news: “I have a feeling I’m going to be great.”
  It’s the second time for Kimmel, who first hosted the Emmys in 2012. The show will originate from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.
  Nominations for
  
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• Photos released from British Royal Family’s French Alps trip

  07-03-2016 15:46 via wivb.com
  
  FRENCH ALPS, France (WIVB) — Photos from the British Royal Family’s recent trip to France were recently released.
  Prince William and his wife Kate enjoyed their first ski holiday in the French Alps last week and took a moment to pose for pictures.
  William and Kate are good skiers, and they’re expecting to teach two-and-a-half-year-old George and 10-month-old Charlotte to ski too.
   
  
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• Police: Long Island man drove drunk while broadcasting himself live online

  07-03-2016 15:15 via wivb.com
  
  FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (WIVB) — A Nassau County man is accused of driving drunk and broadcasting himself over the Internet.
  New York State Police say an Oyster Bay resident was stopped after authorities received multiple calls of an erratic driver on Long Island.
  State Police say that while Ahmed Almalki, 33, was driving drunk on Ocean Parkway, he was also broadcasting his travels on Periscope.
  Troopers say they were able to use the live video to find Almalki and stop him near He
  
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• Bandits forward is a pro behind the mic

  07-03-2016 14:56 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) –  Bandits Forward Mark Steenhuis knows how to get a crowd pumped up when he’s out on the field. The fourteen year veteran is known for his electrifying style of play and his wild curly hair. But give him a mic and put him in front of hundreds of elementary school kids, and he is just as effective as he is with a lacrosse stick.
  “We are the Buffalo Bandits we’re very excited to be in your school this morning. We are going to have a ton of fun,&rd
  
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• Have another bowl! It’s National Cereal Day!

  07-03-2016 14:48 via wivb.com
  
  (MEDIA GENERAL) — Monday is National Cereal Day, celebrated annually on March 7.
  According to the website, nationalcerealday.com, the invention of breakfast cereal came in the mid-1800’s to supplement a “poor American diet” packed with protein, booze and caffeine.
  Now, 2.7 billion boxes of cereal are sold every year. Which is enough to wrap around the earth 13 times.
  If you plan to start your day with cereal, you are not alone. The website says 49 percent of the people in
  
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• North Korea again threatens nuke strikes on US, South Korea

  07-03-2016 14:42 via wivb.com
  
  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Monday issued its latest belligerent threat, warning of an indiscriminate “pre-emptive nuclear strike of justice” on Washington and Seoul, this time in reaction to the start of huge U.S.-South Korean military drills.
  Such threats have been a staple of young North Korean leader Kim Jong Un since he took power after his dictator father’s death in December 2011. But they spike especially when Washington and Seoul stage what they call
  
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• Clinton, Sanders tangle on economy in Democratic debate

  07-03-2016 14:37 via wivb.com
  
  FLINT, Mich. (AP) — Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders tangled aggressively on economic issues in a Democratic presidential debate over trade, Wall Street influence and more.
  Clinton accused him of turning his back on the auto industry and Sanders countered in the Sunday night debate that Clinton’s friends on Wall Street had “destroyed this economy.”
  It was a marked change in tone for the two Democrats, signaling Sanders’ increasingly difficult effort to slow the mo
  
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• Crimestoppers offering reward for local man accused of robbery with a weapon

  07-03-2016 12:46 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Crimestoppers is offering up to $1,000 for information leading to the arrest of a parole absconder.
  Authorities say Dakeem Woods, 24, has a history of weapon possession and was previously accused of robbery with a weapon.
  Woods is described as a black male standing at 6’3″ and weighing 145 lbs. He has black hair and brown eyes.
  Law enforcement officials say Woods lives on Bailey Ave and frequents Buffalo’s West Side. He is considered armed and
  
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• Police investigating possible East Side shooting

  07-03-2016 11:53 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Buffalo Police responded to a call of a shooting on Texas Street overnight.
  Police have not confirmed if a shooting actually took place.
  News 4 arrived at the scene around 1 a.m. to find firefighters, police and EMS officials there.
  Authorities were seen investigating van that appeared to be involved in the alleged incident. It was sitting in the middle of the road.
  
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• Monument destroyed at Isle View Park

  07-03-2016 02:14 via wivb.com
  
  TONAWANDA, N.Y. (WIVB)- A man attempting to commit suicide destroyed a monument honoring people affected by domestic violence in Isle View Park.
  Officials tell News 4 the man drove down an embankment, onto a paved path and hit the tribute garden.
  Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz says the man was trying to drive into the river, then he left his car and jumped into the river. He was rescued and taken to ECMC for treatment.
  Poloncarz says the county will fix the memorial.
  
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