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• Gosy & Associates will be re-activated in the BCBS Network

  14-05-2016 23:59 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)- BlueCross BlueShield announced Monday, May 9 that Dr. Eugene Gosy was terminated from the BCBS network after closing his office without a contingency plan or arrangements for members to continue pain management treatment or access their medical records.
  It was announced Saturday morning that Gosy & Associates will be re-activated in the BCBS Network effective Monday, May 16.
  The insurer says that with the help of UBMD, Hospice Buffalo, The New York S
  
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• Abdallah eyes world kickboxing title in Lockport

  14-05-2016 21:16 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Guess where the curtain will drop on Amer Abadallah as he fights for a World Kickboxing Title?
  We had offers to do it in Dubai, we had offers to do it in Las Vegas, a couple of bigger cities,” Abadallah says.
  “But Lockport’s home.”
  The 39-year-old kickboxer will fight for a title in his adopted hometown, where he grew up after moving from Jordan, when his father won a bid to own eight McDonald’s restauarants.
  Abdallah has tried to s
  
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• Service dog program for Veterans grows across Western New York

  14-05-2016 17:09 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) –  The number of Veterans relying on service dogs is growing. A program started here three years ago has more than tripled in size.
  Before getting his service dog, a simple outing would bring Chris Charles extreme anxiety.
  Charles said, “A lot of fireworks crowded places the fair, places like that for guys like me you just want to get in get out, my family wants to go, my boys. And my daughter but its tough because I don’t want to be there too lon
  
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• Rural Metrol regional director leaves company

  14-05-2016 16:42 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, NY (WIVB) – Jay Smith, regional director of Rural Metro Ambulance, has left the company.
  Smith, reached by phone, confirms that he left the company this week.
  “It was my suggestion that we mutually agree to separate. I was not forced out by any means,” Smith stated during an exchange of text messages with News 4.
  According to his bio posted on the company website, Smith joined Rural Metro in 2006 as a public affairs manager and in 2009 developed and launched a new serv
  
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• Rural Metro regional director leaves company

  14-05-2016 16:42 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, NY (WIVB) – Jay Smith, regional director of Rural Metro Ambulance, has left the company.
  Smith, reached by phone, confirms that he left the company this week.
  “It was my suggestion that we mutually agree to separate. I was not forced out by any means,” Smith stated during an exchange of text messages with News 4.
  According to his bio posted on the company website, Smith joined Rural Metro in 2006 as a public affairs manager and in 2009 developed and launched a new serv
  
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• Jay Smith leaves Rural Metro

  14-05-2016 16:42 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, NY (WIVB) – Jay Smith, regional director of Rural Metro Ambulance, has left the company.
  Smith, reached by phone, confirms that he left the company this week.
  “It was my suggestion that we mutually agree to separate. I was not forced out by any means,” Smith stated during an exchange of text messages with News 4.
  According to his bio posted on the company website, Smith joined Rural Metro in 2006 as a public affairs manager and in 2009 developed and launched a new serv
  
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• Man listed in serious condition after being shot on East Side

  14-05-2016 11:57 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)- Homicide detectives were called to a scene of a shooting early Saturday, not far from True Bethel Baptist Church.
  Buffalo police say a 22 year-old Buffalo man was struck by gunfire during an apparent dispute at East Ferry and Kehr Streets. The victim was taken to ECMC where he’s listed in serious condition.
  Anyone with information is asked to call or text the Confidential TIPCALL Line at 847 -2255.
   
   
  
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• Parking spaces filled, the struggle finding a spot in the Elmwood Village

  14-05-2016 05:33 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Buffalo is thriving right now and several areas throughout the city can prove it just by looking at the filled parking spaces.
  As the city of Buffalo continues to grow, more and more people are moving to popular areas like the Elmwood Village and Hertel Avenue, but parking has been a problem for residents and customers that shop and eat.
  City officials told News 4 just in the past year they’ve made parking easier in the Elmwood Village by adding more parking sp
  
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• Environmental officials warn boaters of invasive species

  14-05-2016 04:28 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Boating season officially begins on Sunday! Officials are warning people to watch out for harmful castaways. We’re talking about invasive creatures that can damage the ecosystem in our beloved lakes, rivers, and streams.
  Officials say these “aquatic hitchhikers” not only harm the waters they invade, they can also be harmful to our health. That’s why they’re asking boaters to double check all of their equipment.
  Micheal Goehle, Deputy Com
  
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• Mobile home fire under investigation

  14-05-2016 03:50 via wivb.com
  
  TOWN OF NIAGARA, N.Y. (WIVB) — Fire crews quickly responded to a mobile home fire on A Street Friday night.
  The fire broke out just after 8 p.m. Dispatchers confirm that everyone made it out of the home safely.
  The cause remains under investigation.
  
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• Legislation heads to Albany for Fruit Belt parking permits

  14-05-2016 03:37 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Officials have reached an agreement for the Fruit Belt parking permits. During a news conference Friday, Mayor Byron Brown announced that legislation will be introduced in Albany that will benefit the residents in the Fruit Belt.
  The legislation will allow the city to create a proposal.
  Officials say this proposal would allow residents to get free parking permits for half the street, while the other half would be free general parking. There will be 500 total spaces.
  
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• Erie County opioid deaths double within a year

  14-05-2016 03:29 via wivb.com
  
  ERIE COUNTY, N.Y. (WIVB) — A new report highlights a disturbing trend in the number of fatal opioid overdoses from 2014-2015.
  The number of opioid-related deaths doubled from 127 in 2014 to 256 in 2015, increasing by 102 percent.  According to the report, the typical overdose victim was a 38-year-old white male.
  Erie County Health Commissioner Dr. Gale Burstein addressed the problem with the following statement: 
  “This is a staggering total, especially when you conside
  
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• Car destroyed by fire before owner can get it fixed

  14-05-2016 01:38 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Samantha Garcia was driving her 2008 Toyota Camry along Hinman Ave. in North Buffalo, last August, when something strange happened, “The window started going up and down by itself—the driver door, the window.”
  The window stopped, then started going up and down again, but this time Garcia said smoke started coming out of the door. She pulled the car over, next to a repair shop at Hinman and Military Road.
  The door then burst into flames, and the mot
  
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• Gosy patients being turned away from local ERs

  14-05-2016 00:55 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Local hospital emergency departments are turning people seeking pain medications and narcotics away — handing them a letter rather than pills — despite the fact some area doctors have instructed them to do so.
  But officials from the hospital community say the letter is not a response to the closure of Dr. Eugene Gosy’s practice and the subsequent investigation.
  In fact, hospital administrators say the letter was drafted and provided to area faciliti
  
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• Bills rookies tour Buffalo

  14-05-2016 00:25 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Friday afternoon, 17 of the Bills rookies took a tour of their new home city.
  The players boarded a bus at One Bills Drive and first headed to the New Era Cap Company where they got to design their own hats and tour the facility.
  After that the Bills headed to Canalside and hopped on a boat for a tour of the Queen City by water. A few of the players even took the wheel and drove the boat along the Erie canal.
  “Football is just my second job,” quarter
  
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• Fredonia Police install year-round drug drop-off box

  14-05-2016 00:23 via wivb.com
  
  FREDONIA, N.Y. (WIVB) — The Fredonia Police Department has installed a year-round prescription drug drop-off box at their headquarters.
  Police say that prescription drugs are abused by 12 to 17-year-olds more than any other kind of drug. They cite insecure storage of the drugs as a reason the teenagers are able to access them.
  Officials say that on any day, people can use the drop-off box to safely get rid of prescription drugs, prescription patches, vitamins, samples, pet medications
  
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• Local activist says felony charge is political witch hunt

  14-05-2016 00:00 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A man who’s been no stranger to controversy now finds himself at the center of it — charged with a felony for allegations of voter fraud.
  It’s a move he and his supporters are calling nothing more than a political witch hunt.
  Thompson has spent much of the past decade rallying against the state’s political system, from the conservative pulpit of the Tea Party to protests against New York’s controversial SAFE Act.
  The former Grand Island
  
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