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• Williamsville voters could signal school board power shift

  16-05-2016 23:57 via wivb.com
  
  WILLIAMSVILLE, N.Y. (WIVB) —  When voters here head to the polls Tuesday, they’ll have before them a decision to change the makeup of the Board of Education, a makeup that could lead to a drastic exchange of power.
  The reputation of the district is at stake, said board candidate Suzanne VanSice, a special education teacher at Lockport High School and 17-year resident of Williamsville.
  VanSice is one of three residents vying for a seat who have the endorsement of the Williamsvill
  
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• Rural Metro fails to meet response times for Buffalo’s most serious calls

  16-05-2016 23:39 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) —In the City of Buffalo, about 75 percent of the Fire Department calls involve an emergency medical situation.
  “You pick up the phone and call...Buffalo Fire responds and we're there,” said Thomas Barrett, president of the firefighters union, Buffalo Professional Firefighters Association.
  City resident Frank Sloan knows that it’s like to be waiting for help when he was recently suffering chest pains.
  “I just wanted to breathe...I was scared,&rdq
  
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• Sammy Watkins responds to fans, Bills announce star WR had foot surgery

  16-05-2016 23:31 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — An injury-filled news day at One Bills Drive has the team’s best wide receiver reaching out to fans to thank them for support after they learned he had foot surgery.
  Officials say Watkins did have foot surgery in the offseason. According to NFL Insider Ian Rapoport, the surgery consisted of a screw being placed into his foot to repair a small bone fracture.
  The Bills say Watkins isn’t expected to miss regular season time. He’s expected to under
  
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• Dave Chappelle announces surprise show at Shea’s

  16-05-2016 23:13 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — With just under a week of notice, beloved comedian Dave Chappelle announced he’ll be coming to Buffalo to perform at Shea’s Performing Arts Center.
  Chappelle will take the stage on Sunday, May 22 after announcing the surprise performance. Officials say the show will be a strict no cell phones allowed performance, warning those who attempt to use cell phones inside may be removed.
  The performance follows a long-planned and well-received show by comic
  
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• Buffalo man wanted by Marshals on drug charges

  16-05-2016 23:01 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Authorities are searching Buffalo and the western New York area now for a man accused of distributing narcotics in the area, police say.
  Officers say 33-year-old David Mitchell is wanted by U.S. Marshals and more after he absconded his parole and allegedly dealt with illegal drugs. In the search, police in connection with Crime Stoppers are offering a reward of up to $1,000.
  Anybody with information is asked to call (716) 867-6161.
  
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• Local legally blind business owner gains national recognition through business competition

  16-05-2016 22:57 via wivb.com
  
  AMHERST, N.Y. (WIVB) — Karen Richardson-Moore runs her Innovative Back Office Solutions business out of her home. Her day to day work involves paper work and computer screens but she can’t read typical font. Through a program called ZoomText Karen is able to make words bigger.
  “Everything that I see everything that I have to read has to be magnified. So in the regular world the regular font for reading a document or a letter or a bill is point 12, I have to see a point 18,&rdqu
  
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• Team of police make arrest on March Town of Tonawanda murder

  16-05-2016 20:36 via wivb.com
  
  TOWN OF TONAWANDA, N.Y. (WIVB) — Acting on a nearly two-month-old investigation into the death of 51-year-old Roberta Rybinski, police in the Town of Tonawanda teamed up with police in Cattaraugus County to arrest a 49-year-old suspect on murder charges.
  Officers say they found John M. Avent, 49, in Olean with the help of City of Olean Police and the Cattaraugus County Sheriff’s Office after they connected him to the March 8 murder of Rybinski in her Newell Avenue apartment.
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• Dr. Gosy’s office re-opens, patients still in limbo

  16-05-2016 18:33 via wivb.com
  
  WILLIAMSVILLE, N.Y. (WIVB) — Dr. Eugene Gosy’s office reopened Monday morning after a two week hiatus. Hours before it did, patients were waiting outside.
  Bill Graham was one of the first to arrive at 4:30 in the morning. The Cheektowaga man suffers from chronic back pain and his medicine will run out on Monday. He showed up at Gosy and Associates because he wanted to have his prescriptions refilled.
  Dr. Gosy was indicted on 114 federal counts for allegedly over-prescribing narcotics
  
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• 13 officers, including local deputy, receive Medal of Valor from President Obama

  16-05-2016 18:22 via wivb.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP modified) — President Barack Obama says police officers receiving the Medal of Valor demonstrate how loving one’s country means loving one another.
  Obama is bestowing the medal on 13 law enforcement officers in a ceremony in the East Room of the White House. He says every one of the recipients acted without regard for his or her personal safety.
  Niagara County Sheriff’s Deputy Joe Tortorella was one of the 13 officers who was awarded by Obama on Monday morning.
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• Postal Service launches new initiatives to help prevent dog attacks on mail carriers

  16-05-2016 17:54 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The United States Postal Service has introduced two new initiatives to help prevent dog attacks amid National Dog Bite Prevention Week.
  This past year, more than 6,500 postal workers were attacked by dogs while on duty. The Postal Service says 69 of those attacks were in western New York.
  National Dog Bite Prevention Week lasts from May 15-21 and seeks to spread education on how to prevent attacks from happening.
  As part of the week, the Postal Service has annou
  
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• Bike to Work Week activities encourage more cyclists to hit the streets

  16-05-2016 17:28 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Most of us are used to hopping in our cars to head to work, but this week everyone is encouraged to hop on their bikes instead.
  This is Bike to Work Week, part of national Bike Month, and GObike Buffalo is offering a number of opportunities for more people to give biking a shot. “We have over 40 events happening this month and it’s all geared towards getting people out there, riding more often,” said GObike Buffalo Executive Director Justin Booth.
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• Bridge demolition to close parts of Scajaquada over weekend

  16-05-2016 17:10 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Westbound and eastbound lanes of the Scajaquada Expressway will be closed during parts of the weekend due to demolition of the Elmwood Ave. Bridge over the road.
  Starting Friday, May 20, Route 198 westbound will be reduced to one lane in the area of Elmwood Ave. from 6 p.m. until 6 a.m. the next day.
  Along with this, Route 198 eastbound at Elmwood Ave. will be closed from 10 p.m. Friday until 6 a.m. Saturday. During this time, traffic will have to utilize the current
  
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• Whole Foods lawsuit withdrawn, man says ‘company did nothing wrong’

  16-05-2016 16:56 via wivb.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — The lawsuit against Whole Foods for writing a gay slur on a cake has been withdrawn.
  Jordan Brown apologized to the company for using “the media to perpetuate this story.” He said the company did nothing wrong and he wants to apologize for questioning their values, and the bakery associate he accused in the lawsuit.
  In light of Brown’s apology Whole Foods has decided to drop their counter-suit. A spokesperson said “We’re very pleased that
  
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• Father indicted on charges related to October crash that killed young son

  16-05-2016 16:11 via wivb.com
  
  SARDINIA, N.Y. (WIVB) — After pleading not guilty to a fatal October crash that killed his son, Kevin McCabe, 32, has been indicted on multiple charges related to the incident.
  Authorities accused McCabe of driving under the influence of narcotics while with his 4-year-old son and niece this past Fall. While driving, the Belfast man crashed into the back of a tractor trailer, leading to his son Tristan’s death.
  Along with the death of his son, McCabe was put into 
  
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• Abandoned Angola garage transformed into high energy gym

  16-05-2016 15:50 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) –  Angola’s newest fitness guru doesn’t like to stand still. She would much rather bounce, jump, dance, and play. Judy Sinishcalchi opened Garage Fitness after driving by an abandoned garage in the town, and getting inspired.
  “I was not looking for something at all. I just found my passion last year, and I wanted to proceed forward with it,” Sinishcalchi told News 4. “I came in here and the walls were black. And for three months I jus
  
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• Safyre Terry’s mother pleads guilty to lying about fire that killed family

  16-05-2016 15:42 via wivb.com
  
  ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Three years ago, a deadly Rotterdam fire killed three children and sent the wrong man to jail.
  This is the same fire that left young Safyre Terry badly burned.
  While to date no one has been charged for causing the fire, her mother Jennica Duell is due in federal court. She is accused of lying about what happened that night.
  Duell pleaded guilty to three of five counts of perjury in front of a federal grand jury on Monday. She originally pleaded not g
  
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• Former drug addict shares her struggle with heroin

  16-05-2016 15:26 via wivb.com
  
  YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) – Heroin is one of the most addictive drugs, and one of the hardest to recover from.
  Targeting receptors in a person’s brain, it gets the user addicted until it’s all they can think about. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, heroin use has increased in the United States across all ages and all income levels. And it’s more than doubled in the last decade.
  It has claimed the lives of at least 18 people per week
  
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• Memorial for Prince held at his Jehovah’s Witnesses church

  16-05-2016 15:20 via wivb.com
  
  MINNETONKA, Minn. (AP) — Security was tight as mourners packed a Jehovah’s Witnesses Kingdom Hall on Sunday evening for a memorial for megastar Prince, who worshipped there before he died last month.
  Traffic cones lined the streets in front of the church in the Minneapolis suburb of Minnetonka, and media and fans were kept well back from the invitation-only event. City spokeswoman Kari Spreeman said last week that police were preparing for up to 500 people, including up to 50 high-pr
  
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• Overdose billboards going up across Ohio

  16-05-2016 15:15 via wivb.com
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (WKBN) – Billboards are going up Monday in 15 counties in Ohio urging friends and relatives of drug users to know the signs of an overdose.
  The public service messages are sponsored by the Ohio Health Department.
  The campaign urges anyone close to those who are addicted to drugs to get an overdose antidote, such as naloxone, which will reverse a heroin or opiate overdose.
  The state is launching the billboards in tandem with a radio and social media campaign in counties hit h
  
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• Jennifer Lawrence has some unkind words for Donald Trump

  16-05-2016 15:04 via wivb.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — It appears we know who Jennifer Lawrence won’t be voting for this fall.
  During a Friday appearance on the BBC’s “Graham Norton Show,” the 25-year-old Academy Award-winning actress said she was at a concert where she heard Donald Trump was in attendance.
  She says she was “adamant” about finding Trump so she could make a video of herself shouting an expletive and making an obscene gesture at him. She says she thinks the likely Republican pres
  
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• Cancer patient receives first penis transplant in US

  16-05-2016 14:53 via wivb.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — A cancer patient has received the first penis transplant in the United States, a Boston hospital said Monday.
  Massachusetts General Hospital has confirmed that Thomas Manning of Halifax, Massachusetts, received the transplanted penis in a 15-hour procedure last week. The organ was transplanted from a deceased donor.
  The New York Times first reported the transplant Monday.
  Dr. Curtis Cetrulo, who helped lead the surgical team, tells the newspaper that normal urination should b
  
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• 2016 college graduates entering an improving job market

  16-05-2016 14:40 via wivb.com
  
  DE PERE, Wis. (WBAY) – Elizabeth Heckenlaible doesn’t have to stress after graduating from St. Norbert College in Wisconsin Saturday.
  With degrees in mathematics and economics, Elizabeth, who need only three years to graduate, already has a job lined up.
  “I have a position with Oshkosh Corporation,” she says. “I’ll be doing data analysis.”
  Heckenlaible is one of many in her graduating class leaving school with a job this year.
  462 graduates crossed the s
  
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• Dozens of car tires slashed in Johnson Park

  16-05-2016 04:47 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — More than a dozen people living near a buffalo park woke up to find their tires slashed.
  Buffalo Police say they are warning residents to keep a close eye out following the crimes.
  Rows and rows of cars were seen with flattened tires in Johnson Park.
  Police say it happened sometime between midnight and 7 a.m. Sunday morning.
  Police do not have any suspects at this time but are investigating the crimes.
  
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• Police investigating fatal motorcycle crash

  16-05-2016 03:56 via wivb.com
  
  TOWN OF PENDLETON (WIVB) — One person is dead after a motorcycle crash in Niagara County.
  It happened on Meyer Road in the Town of Pendleton around 7 p.m.
  A lieutenant with the Niagara County Sheriff’s Office said the motorcyclist was killed after hitting a tree.
  Police say the driver was traveling at high speeds when they lost control on the shoulder and collided with the tree.
  Authorities have not released the identity of the driver.
  
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• Police identify victim of Niagara County motorcycle crash

  16-05-2016 03:56 via wivb.com
  
  TOWN OF PENDLETON (WIVB) — One person is dead after a motorcycle crash in Niagara County.
  It happened on Meyer Road in the Town of Pendleton around 7 p.m.
  A lieutenant with the Niagara County Sheriff’s Office said the motorcyclist, later identified as Pendleton resident Robert D. Lanternier, 57, was killed after hitting a tree.
  Police say the Lanternier was traveling at high speeds when he lost control on the shoulder and collided with the tree, which ejected him
  
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• Grand Island residents and officials want bridge toll removed

  16-05-2016 00:35 via wivb.com
  
  GRAND ISLAND, N.Y. (WIVB) — Some Grand Island residents and officials want to see the tolls removed from the bridges, calling them a burden on the people who live there and tourists that visit the region. The Grand Island supervisor says the tolls are unfair, especially for a bridge that payed for itself multiple times.
  “Mr. Cuomo! Tear down these tolls!”, said Nathan McMurray, Town of Grand Island Supervisor, after holding a press conference with the bridges as a backdrop on S
  
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