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• Moms are using the internet to bully other parents

  12-05-2016 23:35 via wivb.com
  
  CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. (WIVB) — Monica Froese taps keys and maneuvers her mouse around her laptop screen, writing her latest blog post on her site, RedefiningMom.com.
  “For a while I was passively blogging,” said Froese, working mom who lives in the Buffalo area.
  Froese says she has created friendships and quite the following through the online forum. Each post she writes receives around 20,000 unique viewers.
  “When I started I was shocked about the response,” said F
  
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• Buffalo ranked America’s favorite city to visit, upstaging all competitors

  12-05-2016 21:01 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A snowy climate didn’t hold back Buffalo in a recent ranking of America’s favorite cities to visit — it beat out all other competitors, including the beloved tourist destination of New York City.
  Yes, it beat out beautiful east coast cities like Charleston and Raleigh and topped west coast favorite San Francisco. The Queen City even topped paradise in the form of Honolulu.
  The honor comes from Travel and Leisure in its annual ranking of ci
  
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• Police announce 20 arrests following major Buffalo, Lockport drug bust

  12-05-2016 20:05 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — One by one they marched through the courthouse doors, arms shackled at the waist, clad in orange. Twenty out of 25 western New York drug dealers — some of the high-level pushers who officials said are responsible for the region’s opioid epidemic.
  State police, along with members of the Erie and Niagara county sheriff’s office and the Buffalo Police Department, executed three search warrants Thusday morning in the city of Buffalo.
  The take: More tha
  
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• Police searching for Buffalo tire thief

  12-05-2016 19:38 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Someone who parked their car on Norwood Ave. Wednesday night woke up to find their tires had been stolen.
  News 4 is working to find out who did it.
  Police took the report earlier this morning, but have not identified any suspects.
  
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• Trump, Ryan, pledge to worth together; endorsement may come

  12-05-2016 19:01 via wivb.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan pledged to work together despite their differences after a meeting Thursday aimed unifying a party torn over Trump’s rise to the cusp of the Republican presidential nomination. The speaker appeared closer to offering a full-throated endorsement.
  Trump and Ryan issued a statement describing their meeting as a “very positive step toward unification” that recognized “many important areas of common ground&r
  
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• Explore & More Touch-A-Truck moving downtown ahead of new museum opening

  12-05-2016 18:31 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – By this time next year, construction should be well underway for the new Explore & More Children’s Museum at Canalside. But, that group is getting a head start on serving the downtown Buffalo community, by bringing one of it’s huge annual events into the city this summer.
  Local leaders came together Thursday morning at City Hall to lay out the details of the upcoming citywide Day of Play at Explore & More’s Touch-A-Truck event. That will be
  
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• Flooring company manager accused of stealing thousands of dollars from customers, company

  12-05-2016 17:50 via wivb.com
  
  CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. (WIVB) — A manager at a Cheektowaga flooring company was charged with grand larceny after police say he stole customers’ money and gave out “special discount deals” while keeping the money for himself.
  Cheektowaga Police say Depew resident Bradley Pilarski, 37, was a Flooring Fanatic manager for the last eight months. In the last several months, police say Pilarski stole customers’ deposits and deleted their invoices so that the busi
  
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• Naloxone training session to be held in Chautauqua County

  12-05-2016 16:52 via wivb.com
  
  FREWSBURG, N.Y. (WIVB) — Residents of Chautauqua County will get a chance to learn how to use naloxone at an opioid overdose response training session in Frewsburg next week.
  The free session is open to the public and will teach residents how to use naloxone, or as it also goes by, Narcan, in the case of an opioid overdose.
  Skills taught by the Strength of Support (S.O.S.) group will include recognizing an overdose, noticing risk factors, rescue breathing and naloxone administration.
  
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• Food Truck Thursday holds first event of the season

  12-05-2016 15:56 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Food Truck Thursday is underway in Buffalo’s Niagara Square.
  The season’s first event began at 11 a.m. and will run until 3 p.m. More than a dozen trucks are expected to show up to the event.
  Food Truck Thursday will happen every Thursday in the Square until the middle of September.
  
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• Officials to close Erie Co. roads for Marine training this weekend

  12-05-2016 15:43 via wivb.com
  
  EAST CONCORD, N.Y. (WIVB) — The United States Marine Corps has announced that it will be holding a three-day training exercise in Erie County that will block off roads in the area.
  Officials report that the area, located in East Concord off of Genesee Road near both Route 219 and Route 16, will be closed to the general public from Friday, May 13, through Sunday, May 15. The specific roads were not addressed by officials.
  Authorities say that the property is owned by the county’s Depa
  
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• Genesee Co. head-on crash traps, hospitalizes driver

  12-05-2016 15:25 via wivb.com
  
  BERGEN, N.Y. (WIVB) — One person was trapped in a car after a head-on crash in the Genesee County town of Bergen just before 7:30 a.m. Thursday.
  As a Batavia truck driver was traveling down Route 33 at West Bergen Road, he tried to pass a turning vehicle that was almost stopped.
  While this was happening, the truck passed the vehicle by moving left and ended up colliding head-on with another car.
  The car driver, a Rochester man, was taken to Strong Memorial Hospital
  
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• Pistol used in Trayvon Martin shooting to be auctioned

  12-05-2016 14:59 via wivb.com
  
  SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — Former Florida neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman is auctioning off the pistol he used in the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager.
  In an interview with Orlando, Florida, TV station WOFL, Zimmerman said he had just gotten the pistol back from the U.S. Justice Department, which took it after he was acquitted in Martin’s 2012 shooting death.
  “And I thought it’s time to move past the firearm,” Zimmerman told t
  
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• Assemblyman Ryan announces run for re-election

  12-05-2016 14:35 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Democratic Assemblyman Sean Ryan announced he will run for re-election in New York’s 149th District.
  Ryan, an experienced attorney, has served portions of Buffalo and Lackawanna, the entire villages of Hamburg and Blasdell and the Town of Hamburg since being chosen in a special election in September of 2011.
  He was subsequently re-elected to full terms in 2012 and 2014.
  Ryan will release a statement on his run for re-election at 5 p.m. at the Can
  
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• Police: Drunk Rochester student steals ambulance from medics treating other drunk man

  12-05-2016 12:44 via wivb.com
  
  ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WIVB) — Emergency responders were temporarily left without a vehicle after police say a drunk college student stole an ambulance early Friday morning.
  Officials with Rural Metro were at the University of Rochester campus on Library Road treating an intoxicated man around 2:20 a.m., according to Rochester Police.
  This is when authorities say university student Robert Cordaro, 22, got into the medics’ ambulance and drove away with it.
  Cordaro only drove
  
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• Ex-NY Senate leader Skelos sentenced to 5 years in prison

  12-05-2016 12:11 via wivb.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A once-powerful New York politician convicted of using his position as Senate majority leader to pressure companies to provide hundreds of thousands of dollars for his son was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison, the latest in a spate of corruption cases that have roiled Albany.
  The sentence for Dean Skelos was significantly lower than prosecutors had asked for, and the judge noted that the dollar value in the case “pales in comparison” to that of New Yo
  
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• Driver facing charges after crashing into tree, gas meter and Amherst home

  12-05-2016 12:04 via wivb.com
  
  AMHERST, N.Y. (WIVB) — A car crashed into an Amherst home and flipped over around 11 p.m. Wednesday night.
  Police say Nicholas Perkins, 25, was driving too fast down Tonawanda Creek Road before he struck a tree, a gas meter and then the house.
  Homeowner Kory Reid immediately took notice of the loud crash noise.
  “We heard a rollover, and the next thing you know we’re thinking ‘Hey, is this gonna hit our house? Because, usually it stops, and it just hit our h
  
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• Possible parking changes coming to Buffalo’s Fruit Belt neighborhood

  12-05-2016 05:45 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — There may be light at the end of the “parking” tunnel for Buffalo’s Fruit Belt neighborhood. On Wednesday, officials came up with a preliminary agreement to solve the parking problem.
  Most older homes do not have driveways, and many fruit belt residents have to rely on street parking. But those spots can be very hard to come by because nearby workers are taking advantage of them.
  Fruit Belt resident and CFA member, India Walton, said, “So with
  
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• He was supposed to survive 15 years, 50 years later he tells his survival story

  12-05-2016 03:34 via wivb.com
  
  ROCHESTER, Minn. – A young Minnesota boy was given a life expectancy of just 15 years after a diving accident left him quadriplegic. That was 50 years ago this month.
  Randy Krulish has lived most of his life in a wheelchair after breaking his neck when he was 12.
  In 2013, Krulish decided to write a book about his journey of faith and discovery called “Walk.” Besides the book, Krulish has done more than 20 speaking engagements, including one Tuesday afternoon in Rochester.
  
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• Szczerbinski couple competes in Obernauer Masters

  12-05-2016 03:31 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – John and Kristina Szczerbinski met the way many couples do.
  “We met in college at one of the USBC events. He bowled for Wichita State and I bowled for Maryland Eastern Shore,” Kristina said.
  “We just communicated and had those conversations through text messaging,” John added.
  The two continued a long distance relationship following college and this past August they got married. Now the Szczerbinski’s live in John’s hometown o
  
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• Report: Nearly half of U.S. households don’t use landline telephones

  12-05-2016 03:28 via wivb.com
  
  NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (WWLP) – Amid a nationwide strike of unionized Verizon wireline workers, a new study shows that more people are ditching their landline telephones.
  It’s been nearly five weeks since workers went on strike. Looking for a new contract and benefits, they’ve been picketing outside of many Verizon stores including one location in Hadley. But a new report by the CDC shows that nearly half of all Americans only have a cell phone. A nearly three p
  
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• Woman arrested for stabbing husband in chest in Dunkirk trailer park

  12-05-2016 03:13 via wivb.com
  
  DUNKIRK, N.Y. (WIVB) — A local man is recovering in the hospital after police say his spouse stabbed him in the chest with a knife.
  New York State Police rushed to the scene of a reported stabbing at the Lakeside Trailer Park on Route 5 in the Town of Dunkirk, arresting Kristi Jones, 24, and rushing a victim to the hospital.
  Jones faces charges of second-degree assault and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon. She was jailed on $30,000 cash bail or $60,000 property bond.
  Her
  
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• NY begins suspending toll evaders’ vehicle registrations

  12-05-2016 03:02 via wivb.com
  
  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The state of New York has begun suspending the registrations of vehicles driven by persistent toll evaders in an effort to make sure motorists don’t try to cheat the system.
  Gov. Andrew Cuomo says Wednesday that the process of suspending 575 registrations has started. It is part of a policy implemented this year that allows the state to suspend registrations of those who fail to pay tolls five times in 18 months.
  Cuomo says chronic toll evaders force law
  
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• Police search for man who stole jewelry from Jared

  12-05-2016 02:35 via wivb.com
  
  CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. (WIVB) — Security cameras captured footage of a man accused of stealing from a well-known local jeweler, prompting a police search.
  Officers are asking the public to take a look at security footage which shows a man wearing a University at Buffalo jacket who may have stolen a gold chain necklace from Jared’s Jewelers. The chain is valued at $1,500.
  Anybody with information is asked to call police at (716) 686-3546.
   
  
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• Building owner pays $58,000 in back taxes, property is sold next day

  12-05-2016 02:13 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Kevin Judge has a hard luck story to tell:over the last few years, he was in two traffic accidents, limited mobility, and while hospitalized contracted MRSA—a type of staph infection that is resistant to most antibiotics.
  “I ended up with two broken elbows and as I was rehabbing with the two broken elbows, I got hit by a car.”Then Kevin’s condition got even more complicated, “I had to get a knee replacement which ended up going into MRS
  
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• Family of man who died in Snowvember storm scores victory in courtroom

  12-05-2016 02:08 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The family of Donald Abate, who died when first responders never located his stopped car during the November storm of 2014, scored a victory in the courtroom against Erie County.
  Jacqueline Abate, Donald’s widow, is pursuing a lawsuit against the county, saying they’re at fault for never making it to his vehicle the night of the historic snowstorm. As part of her case, her lawyers are seeking access to 911 calls and information to be handed over to t
  
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• Local man charged with felony DWI following speed stop

  12-05-2016 01:39 via wivb.com
  
  BOSTON, N.Y. (WIVB) — A Cattaraugus County man faces felony charges of drinking under the influence of alcohol after police say they stopped him for driving 70 miles per hour in a 55 miles per hour zone.
  New York State Police say they began interviewing 30-year-old Kirk Sterling and learned he may be under the influence, prompting further testing. Authorities say he registered a .14 percent blood alcohol content in a breathalyzer test.
  Authorities say due to a prior conviction of DWI
  
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• Police investigating after puppy found dead in Dunkirk

  12-05-2016 01:16 via wivb.com
  
  DUNKIRK, N.Y. (WIVB) — An investigation is underway after police say a family located their 3-month-old puppy dead in a home on Main Street on Tuesday night.
  Members of the family, who say the scene of the puppy death was upsetting, flagged down a nearby officer after locating the puppy’s body at about 9:30 p.m.
  The puppy’s owners say the death took them by surprise after they found the puppy’s body stuffed behind a suitcase.
  Officers say additional information isn&r
  
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• Basketball standouts expelled, claim they’re being shut out by diocese

  12-05-2016 00:55 via wivb.com
  
  LANCASTER, N.Y. (WIVB) — Two star basketball players at St. Mary’s High School in Lancaster were expelled with just two games to go in the season.And they say the school, and in this case the Catholic Diocese, have stonewalled them when it comes to the answer to a simple question: Why?
  “He worked hard to go to college,” said Felicia Baker, mother of Takal Molson. “He wanted to receive scholarships. That’s all I want to do is make sure my son is where he’
  
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• New homeowners prepare to deal with changes to STAR Program

  12-05-2016 00:29 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)- New York State is changing the way it does the School Tax Relief Exemption program this upcoming year. It just passed the state budget in April.
  The changes to the STAR Program will only apply to people who bought a house, or changed home ownership, after March 1, 2015.
  Amherst Town Assessor David Marrano has been working on a long list of residents who will be affected by changes to the STAR Program.
  “For folks who bought their homes after March 1, 2015, includi
  
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• Buffalo Addiction Specialist says local doctor want to help Gosy patients

  12-05-2016 00:02 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Two weeks after his office closed in Williamsville, thousands of Dr. Eugene Gosy’s patients are still left without treatment options. The doctor is accused of giving out thousands of illegal prescriptions. The closing of his office has cut off patients from their opioid prescriptions.
  Dr. Paul Updike says fear is at the center of this opioid epidemic. He said, “There’s fear on the sides of the physicians, there’s fear on th
  
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