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• Inmates at Nashville jail weave dreams into unique purses

  21-03-2016 23:58 via wivb.com
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – There’s a unique line of handbags made in Nashville where the creators literally put their heart and soul into every design.
  The inmates at the Davidson County jail mark time in feet and inches. The strips of paper they cut and fold are keys to their future.(Photo: WKRN)“We’re taking recycle paper products that have been viewed as disposable and we’re taking these beautiful women who sometimes the public feels might be disposable as well, f
  
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• Fate of Williamsville East brothers could be decided in April

  21-03-2016 23:48 via wivb.com
  
  WILLIAMSVILLE, N.Y. (WIVB) — The story of the Siam brothers, a sophomore and junior at Williamsville East High School, touched off a firestorm of responses from students and parents, who said they disagreed with the notion that racism against Muslims exists at this school.
  The responses came in a flurry in the wake of last week’s story about Jameel and Adam Siam, brothers who have attended Williamsville schools their entire lives.
  The teens say they’re the victim of years of bu
  
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• Residents of Johnson Park calling on city to fix their neighborhood

  21-03-2016 23:38 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) —  Johnson Park residents say potholes, disintegrating curbs, and skid marks on the grass are an eyesore in their beautiful neighborhood.
  “Each year it gets worse and worse, and the city has in the past come down and filled in the holes and re-planted the grass but within a week or two it just starts all over again,” said James Ecker, Johnson Park resident.
  “We desperately need new curbs, they are worn down to almost nothing. It would be good to
  
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• Hulk Hogan jury awards $25M in punitive damages

  21-03-2016 23:29 via wivb.com
  
  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A Florida jury awarded a total of $25 million in punitive damages Monday in the Hulk Hogan sex tape trial, hitting Gawker Media with a $15 million judgment and its owner, Nick Denton, with $10 million.
  It also assessed $100,000 against A.J. Daulerio, the Gawker editor who decided to post the edited sex video and wrote the post that accompanied it.
  The punitive damages come on top of a $115 million the jury imposed Friday after two weeks of trial.
  Hogan sued Gawk
  
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• Are Americans over medicated?

  21-03-2016 22:53 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Drugs are big money, to the extent Americans spend hundreds of billions of dollars every year on them. In fact, recent studies show more than 6 in 10 Americans take at least one prescription pill everyday.
  Experts say drugs are part of the American culture, to live free from pain or emotional stress.
  The signs are everywhere. Watch any amount of television and viewers are bombarded with ad after ad for the next miracle drug.
  A study published last fall in the Journal
  
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• Niagara County home condemned; About a dozen cats rescued from poor conditions

  21-03-2016 22:38 via wivb.com
  
  HARTLAND, N.Y. (WIVB) — Acting on a tip from concerned neighbors, police and Niagara County SPCA officials raided a home in Hartland on Chestnut Ridge Road on Monday morning.
  Officials say they are rescuing between 10 and 15 cats from the home, which was in such poor condition, the building inspector condemned the building on the spot. Officials say the cats were fed, but didn’t have clean litter boxes, leaving the cats no other choice but to defecate and urinate throughout
  
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• Traffic stop nets drugs found in creative hiding spot

  21-03-2016 21:01 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A Buffalo man is facing drug charges after police say they pulled him over Saturday night for not stopping at a stop sign.
  Erie County Sheriff’s Deputies stopped Armand Swanson, 19, and say they smelled marijuana when he rolled down the window. Police say Swanson admitted to smoking marijuana before driving, but deputies say they decided to search his car.
  Inside the car, police say they located marijuana inside hidden compartments of a plastic cleaning co
  
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• Niagara County District Attorney resigns; reasons unknown

  21-03-2016 20:07 via wivb.com
  
  NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (WIVB) — Niagara County officials confirmed the top prosecutor in the county has stepped down, according to Niagara County’s attorney Claude Jeorg.
  Niagara County District Attorney Michael Violante, 70, handed in his resignation letter on Monday, Jeorg said. Officials declined to provide details or the motive behind the resignation, instead directing questions to Violante.
  The Republican is departing in the middle of his term, leaving a Democratic governor to
  
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• Ceiling collapses on west side

  21-03-2016 18:33 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A refugee family on Buffalo’s west side has to wait for repairs Monday after their ceiling came crashing down over the weekend.
  Video from the scene showed damage in the family’s kitchen.
  A pastor helping the family with their transition to the U.S. says he is disappointed. He believes the collapse gave the family a bad first impression of Buffalo.
  
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• Smoke fills rail car in Buffalo Sunday night

  21-03-2016 18:24 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y (WIVB) — The NFTA ran with no problems Monday, but several people still want answers. They had a scary ride Sunday night.
  Smoke filled their rail car somewhere between the Humboldt and LaSalle stops and the passengers had to get off the train.
  One person told News 4 that they started to smell burning rubber and saw smoke coming from underneath the third car.
  NFTA officials say an air leak in the brakes caused the smoke.
  The passengers told us they were frustrated bec
  
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• Decision 2016: brokered convention possibility and breakdown

  21-03-2016 17:29 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Presidential candidates are out campaigning ahead of Tuesday’s primary contests.
  The candidates are trying to get the most delegates to secure their party’s nomination. But what happens if the candidates don’t have enough votes to lock in the majority?
  If a republican candidate doesn’t have 1,237 delegates going into the Republican National Convention, then a contested convention will take place.
  “It hasn’t happened in a long time,
  
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• Daily fantasy sports sites agree to stop taking bets in NY

  21-03-2016 17:28 via wivb.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The nation’s top two daily fantasy sports websites have agreed to stop operating in New York through the end of baseball season.
  New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced the deal with DraftKings and FanDuel on Monday. In a statement, he said:
  “I’m pleased to announce that both FanDuel and DraftKings will stop taking bets in New York State, consistent with New York State law and the cease-and-desist orders my office issued at the
  
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• Hero puppy alerts Hamburg resident of house fire

  21-03-2016 17:09 via wivb.com
  
  HAMBURG, N.Y. (WIVB) — Crews at the scene of a house fire on Chapel Glen Drive in Hamburg arrived to find a building in flames Monday morning.
  Hamburg Vol. Fire 1st Assistant Chief Eric Dahlgren said crews went to the scene shortly after 5 a.m.
  He says a female resident’s 10-month-old German Shepherd puppy alerted her of the fire. Both were able to make it safely out of the building. The American Red Cross was not alerted since the homeowner has family in the area.
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• Suspect in 2003 Rochester-area murder, robbery believed to be in local region

  21-03-2016 16:26 via wivb.com
  
  ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WIVB) — The Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking for a person of interest in relation to a 2003 murder and robbery in Webster.
  The suspect, a man believed to be between 43 and 45 years old today, is accused of committing the acts at the Xerox Federal Credit Union near Rochester. Officials say he posed as an FBI agent; some people even believed he was a woman.
  The suspect fatally shot one bank employee and wounded another before leaving the sc
  
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• Police: Mall Easter bunny, father scuffle after child slips

  21-03-2016 15:07 via wivb.com
  
  JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — The Easter bunny has been involved in a mall brawl.A mall Easter bunny and a father got into a scuffle Sunday after the man’s child slipped from a chair while getting her photo taken, Jersey City police said Monday.
  A video posted on Twitter on Sunday evening shows a chaotic scene at the Newport Centre in Jersey City, New Jersey, near an area set up to take photos with the Easter bunny.
  City spokeswoman Jennifer Morrill says the father of the 1-year-old verba
  
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• Butler service makes downtown hotel stand out

  21-03-2016 14:54 via wivb.com
  
  If you’re planning a visit to the Mansion on Delaware Avenue, you can expect to be treated like royalty from the moment you arrive. It’s the only hotel in Buffalo that has a staff of butlers to make your stay more comfortable.
  “Definitely when people think butler, they think Alfred and Jeffrey from the Fresh Prince,” one of the butlers, James Flemming, told News 4. “But we’re a little bit different than that.”
  Flemming doesn’t wear tuxedo tails or
  
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• Five cheetah cubs born in rare C-section procedure at Cincinnati Zoo

  21-03-2016 14:53 via wivb.com
  
  CINCINNATI (AP) — Cincinnati Zoo officials say five cheetah cubs born after a rare C-section procedure are getting around-the-clock critical care in the zoo’s nursery.
  The zoo’s director of animal health says it’s only the third C-section he has been involved with and his first on a cheetah.
  The Cincinnati Enquirer reports the three male and two female cubs were born March 8 at the zoo’s cheetah breeding facility in Clermont County.
  Just over 50 cheetah cubs ha
  
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• 13-year-old leads police on chase, crashes into power pole

  21-03-2016 14:43 via wivb.com
  
  PASCO COUNTY, FL (WFLA) – A 13-year-old girl was driving and another teenage girl was in the passenger seat when they hit a power pole after a Pasco County deputy followed them trying to pull them over, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. When an ambulance responded to the crash, it was hit by another car near the scene.
  It all happened on Darlington Road near US Highway 19 early Sunday morning. Two teens, both 13-year-old girls, were in a 2007 Hyundai Sonata, going east on Darli
  
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• Firefighter dies after falling off engine, truck backs over him

  21-03-2016 14:36 via wivb.com
  
  CONWAY, S.C. (AP) – A South Carolina firefighter has died after being struck by a fire engine while responding to a house fire.
  Conway Fire Chief Le Hendrick tells local media outlets that firefighter Christopher Gene Ray died Sunday afternoon while responding to a structure fire. Cpl. Sonny Collins of the South Carolina Highway Patrol says Ray had been riding on a Conway fire engine when he fell off and was struck as the fire truck reversed over him.
  The State reports that Ray had be
  
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• Law agencies come together to mourn fallen Indiana deputy

  21-03-2016 14:26 via wivb.com
  
  HOWARD COUNTY, Ind. (WISH) – Police departments from all over Indiana are volunteering to help the Howard County Sheriff’s Department as it mourns the loss of Deputy Carl Koontz.
  In a press conference on Monday morning, Howard County Sheriff Steve Rodgers identified Evan Dorsey as the suspect. He already had an outstanding warrant in Clinton County when the shooting happened. Dorsey was shot and the circumstances around his death are unclear.
  According to jail records, Dors
  
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• Fire blazes through house on Swinburne St.

  21-03-2016 13:58 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Fire crews responded to a blaze at the corner of Swinburne and Ashley Streets in Buffalo this morning.
  The fire started at a 2.5 story house on Swinburne and extensively damaged the building’s roof. It is not known if anyone was hurt or how much damage the fire caused.
  News 4 will have more information as it becomes available.
  
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• Apple starts busy week with new iPhone launch

  21-03-2016 11:55 via wivb.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple is kicking off a busy week: Today the giant tech company will host reporters and analysts at its Silicon Valley headquarters for a product launch event. On Tuesday, its lawyers will square off with authorities in federal court over the FBI’s demand for help unlocking a San Bernardino killer’s encrypted iPhone.
  The tech giant’s dispute with the government has commanded headlines for weeks, but it may get scant mention at the company’s produ
  
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• Obama in Cuba: Historic Castro summit a key test for detente

  21-03-2016 11:48 via wivb.com
  
  HAVANA (AP) — Brushing past profound differences, President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro will sit down Monday at Havana’s Palace of the Revolution for a historic meeting, offering critical clues about whether Obama’s sharp U-turn in policy will be fully reciprocated.
  For Obama, there’s no better place than Havana to show that engagement can do more than isolation to bring about tangible change in the tiny communist nation. Yet for the Cubans, the glaring q
  
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• Experts say child-resistant tops are not child-proof

  21-03-2016 11:29 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — 59,000 children end up in the emergency room every year because of accidentally taking medicine.
  If that number is not alarming enough, here’s another wake-up call. Kids often take the drugs at their grandparents’ houses.
  So, even if you don’t have children in your house, you need to think about where you stash your pills.
  Experts at safe kids worldwide warn that those child-resistant tops on medicine are not child-proof. Most of the kids who e
  
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• Expanded ferry service between Canalside and Outer Harbor

  21-03-2016 04:46 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The bike ferry at Canalside was a huge hit last summer and now lawmakers look to expand the service to meet the demands of its customers. The new goal of the bike ferry is reliable and predictable.
  “In order to continue and build on the success of Canalside and the Outer Harbor, bicyclists and pedestrians need to be able to rely on the ferry,” said Sean Ryan, New York State Assembly member.
  Last season the Queen City bike ferry became the first direct acc
  
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• Bonnies fall to Oregon St.

  21-03-2016 04:42 via wivb.com
  
   
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)- The St. Bonaventure women lost to Oregon State 69-40 in the 2nd round of the NCAA tournament. The Bonnies never held a lead in the game but kept it close for most of the 1st half despite poor shooting and foul trouble. The Bonnies were led by Miranda Drummond’s 12 points and Katie Healy had eight points and six rebounds for the 10th-seeded Bonnies. St. Bonaventure finishes the season with a 24-8 record.
  
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• St. Patrick’s Day parade draws thousands

  21-03-2016 02:40 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — St. Patrick’s Day may have been on Thursday, but locals continued celebrating the holiday Sunday with the annual Saint Patrick’s Day Parade. It was a sea of green in downtown Buffalo as thousands lined the sidewalks with their Irish pride.
  The parade had the traditional Irish dancers, blaring bagpipes along with several local Irish bands.
  For many, the parade signifies the start of Spring which also fell on the same day this year.
  New Yorkers said it&rsqu
  
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