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• Kenmore homeowners complain of dirty looking water

  13-05-2016 23:54 via wivb.com
  
  KENMORE, N.Y. (WIVB) — Two homeowners in Kenmore are sick of having to use bottled water for cooking, drinking, and even brushing their teeth. The ongoing problem got worse for them when they woke up on Friday to find yellowish water in their toilet and flowing out of their faucets.
  Their homes are at 315 and 319 Washington Avenue off Elmwood. Now the homeowners are forced to use bottled water.
  The neighbors say they don’t know where else to turn. About once a month, the water from t
  
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• Stolen credit card leads Niagara Co. deputies to suspect in vehicle larcenies

  13-05-2016 23:27 via wivb.com
  
  TOWN OF NIAGARA, N.Y. (WIVB) — A stolen credit card led deputies with the Niagara County Sheriff’s Office to make an arrest related to a string of vehicle larcenies in the Town of Porter.
  After a month of investigating, officials formally accused Niagara Falls resident Joseph Bishara, 27 of the numerous larcenies.
  Authorities say Bishara used a stolen credit card at a Town of Niagara business before he was arrested.
  Bishara was charged with criminal possession of stolen pro
  
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• Jury finds Ohio man guilty of 2014 Buffalo murder

  13-05-2016 23:11 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A jury has found Ohio resident Abimael Ayala-Gonzalez guilty of a 2014 murder that happened Herkimer St.
  Prosecutors say the man shot and killed Manuel Mateo, 51, a resident of New York City, over drugs in August of that year.
  When sentenced on June 14, Ayala-Gonzalez could spend up to 25 years in jail.
  
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• Local parents react to school bathroom guidlines

  13-05-2016 22:10 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)- The same week the Obama Administration took action against North Carolina for what it called “state sponsored discrimination,” it issued a national directive for all public schools.
  The directive states students cannot be discriminated against based on their gender, and should be treated consistent with their chosen gender identity; that means using the bathrooms and locker rooms of that correspond to that chosen gender.
  “I think we’re living in
  
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• Police: Niagara Falls woman found with more than 40 packets of heroin

  13-05-2016 20:41 via wivb.com
  
  NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (WIVB) — Just one day after New York State Police announced a huge drug bust in Buffalo and Lockport, another woman was allegedly found with more than 40 packets of heroin.
  State Police pulled Laura Walker, 30, over on Royal Ave. in Niagara Falls. Upon stopping her, authorities said they could smell marijuana in the Niagara Falls woman’s vehicle.
  A search of the vehicle led police to find not just marijuana, but 41 packets of heroin in Walker’s pos
  
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• Orchard Park woman accused of buying alcohol for multiple kids

  13-05-2016 20:07 via wivb.com
  
  ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (WIVB) — An Orchard Park woman has been accused of providing multiple children with alcohol at her home.
  Police arrested Rebecca Greene, 39, at her home on Friday and charged her with 11 counts of endangering the welfare of a child. Local authorities had been investigating Greene after hearing reports of her giving alcohol to kids.
  The investigation included various interviews with children, their parents and school officials.
  Greene was scheduled for arraignme
  
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• Infant pacifier holders and rattles recalled due to choking hazard

  13-05-2016 18:32 via wivb.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY, OK (WCMH) — Hobby Lobby announced the recall of two different products due to a potential choking hazard.
  The first recall involves the Little Wishes Chenille Stuffed Rattle, including the pink and green fish rattles, blue and yellow fish rattles.
  The rattles are made of a soft chenille fabric with fiber stuffing.
  The rattle seams can separate, exposing the fiber stuffing and bell rattle, posing a choking hazard.
  Affected rattles have a sewn-in label with “Reg. No. PA-
  
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• Macy’s worker ‘feared for her life’ during Massachusetts mall attack

  13-05-2016 18:25 via wivb.com
  
  TAUNTON, Mass. (WPRI) — She says she feared for her life. Jucelia Gleason, a victim who survived the tragedy in Taunton, has a terrifying account of her violent struggle inside the Macy’s store with the man accused of Tuesday’s stabbing rampage.
  Gleason, an employee of Macy’s, said it was a horror scene inside the store after Arthur Darosa drove his car into the front of the building.
  Gleason said Darosa grabbed her hair and grabbed her arm.
  She said she was dragged a few
  
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• Man runs into Florida lake to escape cops, gator bites off his forearm

  13-05-2016 17:52 via wivb.com
  
  LAKELAND, Fla. (WFLA) — A man who ran into a Lakeland, Fla. lake to escape from police had three quarters of his arm bitten off by an alligator in the lake, police said on Thursday.
  Officers responded to a home on Long Lake Circle at 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday after receiving a call about a disturbance. A Lakeland Police Department spokesperson said that a mother called and said her son, age, 21, needed psychological help and was having an episode at the time.
  According to the man’s fami
  
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• Semi-truck carrying 40,000 pounds of beer catches fire after crash on I-94

  13-05-2016 17:46 via wivb.com
  
  PORTAGE, Mich. (WOOD) — Portage police in Michigan are investigating a fiery rollover crash on Interstate 94 that sent two drivers to the hospital.
  The crash happened around 3:30 p.m. Thursday on westbound I-94 near exit 75 for Oakland Drive.
  Michigan State Police say heavy rain was falling when a Chrysler minivan lost control and hit the Oakland Drive overpass. The van then veered back into traffic and was hit by a semi carrying approximately 40,000 pounds of beer, troopers said in a Thur
  
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• World’s oldest person dies in New York at age 116

  13-05-2016 17:35 via wivb.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Susannah Mushatt Jones, the world’s oldest person, has died in New York at age 116.
  Robert Young, a senior consultant for the Los Angeles-based Gerontology Research Group, said Jones died Thursday night at a public housing facility for seniors in Brooklyn where she had lived for more than three decades. He said she had been ill for the past 10 days.
  Jones was born in a small farm town near Montgomery, Alabama, in 1899. She was one of 11 siblings and attended a special
  
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• Man admits locking Verizon worker in underground vault

  13-05-2016 17:30 via wivb.com
  
  WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts man accused of locking a Verizon worker inside an unventilated underground vault because he was upset the worker parked on his grass has pleaded guilty to kidnapping.
  Westborough resident Howard Cook Jr. entered the plea Tuesday in Worcester Superior Court.
  The 73-year-old Cook was sentenced to a year of probation and ordered to complete an anger management program.
  Authorities say the retired utility official locked Michael Hathaway in the vault in
  
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• Local, state leaders pushing plan for permit parking in Fruit Belt neighborhood

  13-05-2016 17:21 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – As the battle over street parking in the Fruit Belt neighborhood near the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus continues, but now residents have new hope for something to be done about it soon.
  Mayor Byron Brown, Senator Tim Kennedy, Assemblywoman Crystal Peoples-Stokes, Common Council President Darius Pridgen, local unions and residents of the Fruit Belt neighborhood are all coming together Friday afternoon to release the final details of a plan to address the parking sit
  
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• Jamestown man accused of crack possession after trying to evade police

  13-05-2016 17:16 via wivb.com
  
  JAMESTOWN, N.Y. (WIVB) — Jamestown Police say a man attempted to leave his home as police went to search it for drugs.
  On Thursday afternoon around 3:30 p.m., members of the police department went to a Charles St. address in an attempt to execute a search warrant.
  Their suspect, Timothy Wilson, 28, was seen in the building’s lot trying to escape in a vehicle, according to police.
  After stopping him, police say they found crack cocaine, cash and drug paraphernalia in his possession.
  W
  
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• M&T Bank to pay $64 million for underwriting unqualified loans

  13-05-2016 16:31 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — M&T Bank, whose headquarters is located in Buffalo, has agreed to pay $64 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act.
  Prosecutors say that the bank violated the act by originating and underwriting mortgage loans that did not meet applicable requirements. The loans were insured through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Federal Housing Administration (FHA).
  “Mortgage lenders that fail t
  
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• South Carolina HS student shot in cafeteria, 4 schools on lockdown

  13-05-2016 16:02 via wivb.com
  
  GREENVILLE, SC (WSPA) – A student at Southside High School in South Carolina accidentally shot themselves in the school cafeteria Friday morning, putting several schools in the Greenville area on alert, according to school officials.
  The Greenville County School District says the student was shot at 8:40 a.m.
  The student was conscious and talking when they were taken to the hospital by EMS.
  They don’t think the injury is life threatening.
  Police set up a perimeter, searched all stude
  
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• Auction for gun that killed Trayvon Martin possibly hijacked

  13-05-2016 15:47 via wivb.com
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Bidding in an online auction for the pistol former neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman used to kill Trayvon Martin appeared to have been hijacked by fake accounts posting astronomically high bids.
  At one point early Friday, the bidding surpassed $65 million with the leading bidder using the screen name “Racist McShootFace.” The site later showed that account had been deleted.
  Other screen names of bidders on the site included “Donald Trump,” &
  
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• Driver falls asleep before crashing in Town of Niagara

  13-05-2016 15:14 via wivb.com
  
  TOWN OF NIAGARA, N.Y. (WIVB) — The Niagara County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a serious car crash in the Town of Niagara.
  A female driver told authorities she fell asleep at the wheel before she crashed on Hyde Park Boulevard. The car smashed hard into a telephone pole.
  The woman was partially ejected from the vehicle and taken to ECMC with apparently serious injuries.
  
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• Randolph student accused of making bomb threat to school

  13-05-2016 14:53 via wivb.com
  
  RANDOLPH, N.Y. (WIVB) — A Randolph Central School student has been arrested after the Cattaraugus County Sheriff’s Department said he made a bomb threat to the school on Thursday.
  The unnamed 13-year-old allegedly wrote the threat, but authorities did not specify where.
  The student was charged with second-degree falsely reporting an incident and will appear in family court to answer the charge.
  
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• Erie County Legislature Majority shoots down $75K plastic bag study

  13-05-2016 05:20 via wivb.com
  
   
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Paper or plastic? If Erie County Executive Mark Polancarz has his way, he would get rid of plastic bags at grocery stores. But his proposed $50,000-$75,000 environmental study on a plastic bag ban was rejected by the county’s legislative majority.
  The topic of banning or reducing plastic bags is happening all across the nation. But, Erie County republican legislators are saying they have larger issues at hand to spend money on.
  Tricia Mekarski of Bu
  
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• A look inside the new John R. Oishei Children’s Hospital

  13-05-2016 05:20 via wivb.com
  
   
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Buffalo Women and Children’s Hospital is getting a new name and a new home. Construction for the new John R. Oishei Children’s Hospital is underway
  The new hospital is being built on the Buffalo Niagara medical campus. A lot of work still needs to be done on the free-standing modern facility, but officials told News 4 it will be a big upgrade from the current hospital.
  The new children’s hospital is 50 percent completed. The $270 million proj
  
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• Officials want 16-year-old charged with attempted murder after teacher assault

  13-05-2016 03:44 via wivb.com
  
  VINCENNES, Ind. (WTHI) – Officials have confirmed a 16-year-old student could face multiple charges, including attempted murder, after an incident that occurred after hours at a high school in Vincennes.
  The Vincennes School Corporation Superintendent told News 10 Thursday morning that the incident happened on Wednesday at Lincoln High School.
  The Vincennes Police Department reports they were called to the school around 4:30 p.m. for reports of a teacher who had been assaulted. When o
  
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• Video: Duckling rescue caught on officer’s body camera

  13-05-2016 03:36 via wivb.com
  
  APPLETON, Wis. (WBAY) – An Appleton Police Department Community Service Officer came to the rescue after several ducklings fell through a sewer grate and were separated from their mama.
  This isn’t the first time Appleton Police Department Community Service Officer Payne Hughes has found himself reaching into a sewer to save some ducklings. His department-issued body camera caught the whole operation on Mistwood Lane Wednesday morning.
  “I think we’re at 120-something
  
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• Gov. Cuomo establishes WNY employment ‘strikeforce’

  13-05-2016 03:23 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — As part of his push to decrease unemployment across the state, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a new initiative to connect job seekers with employment opportunities in western New York.
  The program, which Cuomo calls his ‘unemployment strikeforce,’ will be spread throughout offices in Buffalo, Lackawanna and Niagara Falls, focusing on removing barriers to employment for those who live in areas with high unemployment rates.
  Cuomo said he launched a si
  
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• Hamburg woman sentenced to prison for stealing from employer

  13-05-2016 03:17 via wivb.com
  
  HAMBURG, N.Y. (WIVB) — After admitting to stealing from her employer, a Hamburg woman is heading to prison for between four and eight years.
  Prosecutors said 57-year-old Joan Joyce faced sentencing on Thursday in front of an Erie County Court judge for the crimes to which she pleaded guilty, including second-degree grand larceny and five counts of first-degree offering to file a false instrument for filing.
  Joyce admitted eventually after she was arrested that she stole about $263,000
  
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• Therapy dog gets helping paw after tearing ACL

  13-05-2016 03:07 via wivb.com
  
  KENMORE, N.Y. (WIVB) — A beloved therapy dog actively involved in Kenmore Mercy Hospital’s pet therapy program recently needed a helping hand — or paw — from the medical staff there.
  After tearing her ACL, Sydney — an active Yorkie — needed some bed rest. Not wanting to slouch on the patients who need her most, orthopedic nurses in the hospital found the volunteer a small baby stroller to help her get around.
  Officials say Sydney is on the mend and will c
  
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• UB Track & Field’s Malayah White shatters Bulls’ records

  13-05-2016 02:52 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Malayah White has been running her whole life.
  “My parents said they saw me running at the playgrounds or in our backyard and they were like ‘wow, she is actually pretty fast to be so little.'” The UB senior track star said.
  Her passion for the sport landed the Mount Saint Mary’s graduate at the University at Buffalo for track and field. After two successful campaigns, White injured her foot her junior season. She found motivation from th
  
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• Local police work with FBI, more to bust local man accused of having 15,000 child porn photos

  13-05-2016 02:50 via wivb.com
  
  KENDALL, N.Y. (WIVB) — A local man faces felony charges of multiple child pornography charges after officers say they located 15,000 images of child pornography on his computer.
  Officers in Orleans County say they worked with a host of agencies including the Federal Bureau of Investigation starting in January to investigate David Perry Sr., 67, for potentially possessing child porn.
  After putting together sufficient evidence, officers say they were permitted a search warrant to seize
  
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• Senate deal reached on reduced Zika funding measure

  13-05-2016 02:27 via wivb.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Top Senate negotiators announced agreement Thursday on a $1.1 billion emergency funding measure to battle the Zika virus. That’s less than President Barack Obama’s $1.9 billion request, which has upset some senior Democrats.
  Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., told reporters that she still prefers Obama’s proposal but has reached agreement with Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., on the smaller measure, which is likely to be added next week to a bill funding veterans and tra
  
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• Early morning crash draws Mercy Flight on Route 33

  13-05-2016 02:23 via wivb.com
  
  BERGEN, N.Y. (WIVB) — A host of first responders rushed to the scene of an early morning head-on collision in Genesee County.
  Genesee County Sheriff’s Office officials say a work truck traveled over the median line at the intersection of Route 33 and West Bergen Road, hitting another vehicle head-on at 7:27 a.m.
  Officials say the driver of the work vehicle was uninjured, but the victim — a 66-year-old — suffered serious injuries and needed to be extricated from his C
  
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• Tenants of Shoreline Apartments told to get out

  13-05-2016 01:48 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – There are 172 families on edge, at the Shoreline Apartments on Niagara Street, after the owners told them they have to get out by November 1.
  For years the owners, Norstar Development U.S.A., LLC, have assured tenants the demolition of their apartment complex would be phased in over a period of years, and no one would be displaced. It is now a different story, and tenants are worried because trying to find affordable housing on such short notice is nearly impossible
  
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