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• Teen pleads guilty to murdering a 31-year-old in parking lot

  15-06-2016 23:58 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A Buffalo teen admitted Wednesday to pulling the trigger on a 31-year-old victim, killing him in a convenience store’s parking lot.
  Prosecutors announced the guilty plea on Tuesday, saying 16-year-old Alonte Works, who was 15-years-old at the time of the shooting, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. He admitted to killing 31-year-old Jonathan Jones on Fillmore Avenue in October of 2015 by shooting him.
  Works will be sentenced as a juvenile offender and
  
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• Premier Prospects: Alexander Nylander

  15-06-2016 23:47 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – William Nylander plays in Toronto and his is dad a longtime NHL veteran. Now, another Nylander is in the fold — younger brother, Alexander. For all the hype William has earned as the Leafs top prospect, Alexander more than lives up to the family name.
  “I think I’m a playmaker who has got good vision, good speed, good shot,” Alexander said at the NHL Combine.
  The 2016 OHL Rookie of the Year, Nylander put up 75 points in 57 games
  
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• Man who fired fatal shots at Towne Gardens pleads guilty

  15-06-2016 23:35 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Months after police took a Buffalo man into custody on charges of murder, he’s agreed to a plea deal with prosecutors.
  Acting Erie County District Attorney Michael Flaherty announced 39-year-old Demario Washington pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter for shooting and killing 55-year-old Elroy Damidaux.
  Washington originally faced second-degree murder charges when police arrested him just after the January shooting at 1 Curry Walk.
  When Washington is
  
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• LGBTQ members talk safe spaces as study shows violence more prevalent among community

  15-06-2016 23:30 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — In the days after the Orlando shooting, shooting survivors and those inside the club continue talking about how it was like a sanctuary for them. LGBTQ members here are echoing the same thoughts about Buffalo gay bars and clubs.
  “Those bars are a safe place for us to be,” said Marvin Henchbarger, the Executive Director at Gay and Lesbian Youth Services, who adds gay bars and clubs offer LGBTQ community members a place where they can be themselves saf
  
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• St. Joe’s hires Landri as head coach for football

  15-06-2016 23:28 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – St. Joseph’s Collegiate Institute announced Wednesday that Derek Landri will be their next football head coach.
  Landri is a former NFL player, having been drafted by the Jacksonville Jaguars back in 2007 and spent seven seasons with them, the Carolina Panthers, Philadelphia Eagles, and Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He also graduated from Notre Dame, and holds a record for the most field goals blocked in a single game and career.
  Landri believes in the importance o
  
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• Mysterious web shows up on Lewiston shrubs

  15-06-2016 21:51 via wivb.com
  
  LEWISTON, N.Y. (WIVB) — A creepy looking caterpillar is to blame for a web like structure that showed up on trees & shrubs in Lewiston on Upper Mountain Road.
  Neighbor, Baligh Abuhammed, said, “It looks like the tree kind of built its own veil.”
  People from all over the town have noticed a white “web” like substance on shrubs near Mount St. Mary’s Hospital.
  Abuhammed said, “At the beginning I thought somebody was playing a hoax, but it looks lik
  
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• Dem. Senator frustrated by inaction on guns begins filibuster

  15-06-2016 19:30 via wivb.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A Democratic senator from Connecticut is launching a filibuster and demanding a vote on gun control measures. The move comes three days after 49 people were killed in a mass shooting in Orlando.
  Sen. Chris Murphy is holding up action in the Senate floor, demanding that Republicans allow votes on those measures. He also referred to the 2012 shooting in his home state, when 20 children and six adults were shot at an elementary school in Newtown. He says he can’t look
  
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• Gilmore, Williams sit out Bills’ minicamp

  15-06-2016 17:51 via wivb.com
  
  ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (WIVB) – Stephon Gilmore has developed into one of the top corner backs in the NFL and now he wants to be paid like it. Gilmore is entering the final year of his contract and he missed all of Bills OTA’s.
  Gilmore was present at the first day of Bills minicamp but his helmet was not. He was a casual observer on the sidelines and that will probably continue the rest of the week.
  “I probably won’t be doing nothing these three days…some individu
  
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• Details emerge about nightclub shooter’s wife

  15-06-2016 17:03 via wivb.com
  
  RODEO, California (AP) — She was a sweet, pretty California girl with Palestinian roots who left an arranged marriage only to find love with a man who committed the worst mass shooting in modern U.S history.
  Little by little, details have begun to emerge about 30-year-old Noor Zahi Salman, who grew up in the small suburb of Rodeo, California, tucked in the dry hills near the oil refineries 25 miles northeast of San Francisco.
  Her romance with Omar Mateen — security guard, bodybuilder
  
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• ‘It was like a war scene’: Orlando nurse relives chilling moments inside ER

  15-06-2016 16:05 via wivb.com
  
  ORLANDO, Fla. (WRIC) — As victims of Sunday’s massacre at an Orlando nightclub continue to heal, many of the ones overseeing their care are also recovering in a much different sense.
  In the middle of such a tragedy, it’s easy to forget about the psychological turmoil many of the doctors, surgeons and nurses endure.
  Media General contributor Parker Slaybaugh caught up with staff at Orlando Regional Medical to find out how she and her fellow staff members
  
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• Heckler interrupts Oregon vigil for Orlando victims

  15-06-2016 15:51 via wivb.com
  
  BEAVERTON, Ore. (KOIN) — Hundreds of cities around the world continue to stand with Orlando in the wake of a nightclub shooting that left 50 people dead.
  More people gathered in Beaverton, Oregon Tuesday night to spread the word of love. But things became difficult when a man tried to stir the pot with bigotry and hate.
  The heckler butted in during a tribute, spewing homophobic and Islamophobic hate speech while the group read the names of each Orlando shooting victim.
  But cooler heads pre
  
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• Buffalo Police identify victims of Sunday night shooting

  15-06-2016 15:27 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Police in Buffalo have identified the victims of a Howard St. shooting that happened on Sunday night.
  Just after 11:30 p.m., Buffalo residents Rakeem Troutman, 25, and Dwaine Giles, 27, were shot near Madison St.
  Troutman was killed, but Giles was treated and released from ECMC.
  
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• Driver with 46 active suspensions, passenger charged in Grand Island

  15-06-2016 15:11 via wivb.com
  
  GRAND ISLAND, N.Y. (WIVB) — A driver with 46 active license suspensions and revoked driving privileges was taken into custody in Grand Island on Monday night.
  Deputies with the Erie County Sheriff’s Office stopped Enoch Cray, 49, after they say he ran a red light and was driving without tail lights. The Rochester man’s suspensions were discovered by deputies and he was subsequently charged with felony aggravated unlicensed operation. Cray was also accused of other traffic and v
  
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• Fishermen rescue deer swimming in Long Island Sound

  15-06-2016 14:43 via wivb.com
  
  NEW YORK (WIVB) — Some fishermen out on Long Island Sound discovered an animal in the water that did not fit among the others — a deer.
  On Saturday afternoon, Rob Kurdy and his friends were coming back from shark fishing when they spotted something six miles off shore.
  They went to check it out and it did not look like the six-point buck was going to be able to tread the 58 degree water much longer.
  “You could see it shivering. It’s barely staying afloat,” Kurd
  
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• Color-coded restaurant menus may help more than calorie counts

  15-06-2016 13:54 via wivb.com
  
  PHILADELPHIA, Penn. (WIVB) — Those calorie counts on restaurant menus may not be enough for people looking to curb their diets.
  Some researchers think it would be a good idea to start color-coding menu choices.
  The team at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine created what is being called a “calorie traffic light.” In the video above, a turkey club sandwich or chips would go into the “red light” zone.
  The researchers already put it to the
  
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• VIDEO: Woman slams car into NYC hair salon

  15-06-2016 13:27 via wivb.com
  
  NEW YORK (WIVB) — A car was captured on video when it recently slammed into a hair salon in New York City.
  The video above shows the car striking construction scaffolding before hitting the building.
  According to a man who saw it happen, the woman driving the car ran a stop sign and hit a parked car before the final crash.
  After the man pulled her out of the vehicle, medical personnel took her to a nearby hospital.
  
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• Buffalo fire causes $150,000 in damage

  15-06-2016 12:59 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A Buffalo fire is under investigation after causing $150,000 in damage at a home on Stevenson St.
  The two-alarm blaze began around 2:30 a.m. on the building’s second floor.
  Officials say no one was hurt and that the American Red Cross is helping two adults and one child.
  
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• Various Kellogg’s snacks being recalled due to unlabled possibility of peanuts

  15-06-2016 12:05 via wivb.com
  
  BATTLE CREEK, Mich. (WIVB) — More than a dozen Kellogg’s snacks are being recalled due to the possible presence of peanut residue.
  The products are being recalled because the possible residue was not declared on the snacks’ packaging. The FDA says that the possible residue exposure is low and would not likely cause adverse health issues among most who are allergic to peanuts.
  Here are the recalled products:The snacks were distributed throughout the U.S. and Puert
  
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• Efforts to expand Uber, Lyft in NY faltering in state legislature

  15-06-2016 11:39 via wivb.com
  
  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Efforts to allow Uber and Lyft to expand into upstate New York are faltering in the final days of the legislative session in Albany.
  Lawmakers are divided over how much the app-based ride-hailing services should be required to pay in insurance costs. While one bill has support in the Senate, a measure in the Assembly failed to make it out of committee on Tuesday. Uber itself opposed that proposal, saying the insurance costs would be too high.
  Unless a new agreement is r
  
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• Toddler found dead after being dragged away by alligator in Orlando

  15-06-2016 07:34 via wivb.com
  
  LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — The body of a 2-year-old Nebraska boy who was snatched off a Walt Disney World beach by an alligator and dragged underwater was recovered Wednesday, ending a ghastly search at one of the world’s most popular tourist destinations.
  Divers found the body of Lane Graves of Elkhorn, Nebraska, about 16 hours after authorities first got the call that a reptile had taken the boy at Seven Seas Lagoon, Sheriff Jerry Demings said. The child’s father tried to
  
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• LIVE STREAM: Officials speak after Disney closes all beaches, authorities search for boy dragged into water by gator

  15-06-2016 07:34 via wivb.com
  
  LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — The search continued Wednesday morning for a 2-year-old boy who was dragged into the water by an alligator near Disney’s upscale Grand Floridian Resort & Spa, authorities said.
  APP USERS | Tap here to watch the conference live.
  The effort was still considered a “search and rescue operation,” said Jeff Williamson, a spokesman for the Orange County Sheriff’s Department.
  “We are very hopeful,” he said at a morning news conf
  
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• Gator drags toddler into water near Disney resort

  15-06-2016 07:34 via wivb.com
  
  LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — Authorities were searching early Wednesday for a 2-year-old boy who was dragged into the water by an alligator near Disney’s upscale Grand Floridian Resort & Spa.
  The family of five from Nebraska was on vacation and wading in a lake Tuesday evening when the attack happened, Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings told a news conference. The father tried to rescue his son but was unsuccessful, Demings said.
  More than 50 law enforcement personnel were sear
  
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• North Collins residents voice concerns about relocation of sex offenders

  15-06-2016 05:49 via wivb.com
  
  NORTH COLLINS, N.Y. (WIVB)- Neighbors are concerned after the state relocated two sex offenders to North Collins. They were moved from a home in West Seneca.
  Dozens of residents packed, elbow to elbow, into a town meeting to make it clear these men are not welcome in their town etiher.
  “Nobody is safe with those guys living there,” said Tina Sweet, who has an 11 year old son.
  Sweet said the kids of North Collins are essentially being locked up now that two sex offenders are bein
  
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• Authorities search for boy dragged into water by gator

  15-06-2016 05:42 via wivb.com
  
  LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — Authorities were searching early Wednesday for a 2-year-old boy who was dragged into the water by an alligator near Disney’s upscale Grand Floridian Resort & Spa.
  The family of five from Nebraska was on vacation and wading in a lake Tuesday evening when the attack happened, Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings told a news conference. The father tried to rescue his son but was unsuccessful, Demings said.
  More than 50 law enforcement personnel were sear
  
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• Police: Woman stopped driving wrong way down I-290 while drunk

  15-06-2016 04:03 via wivb.com
  
  TONAWANDA, N.Y. (WIVB) — Officers say they stopped a drunken driver who could have caused a great deal of damage while driving the wrong way down I-290.
  Officers rushed to the eastbound lanes of the expressway on Thursday just after 5:30 p.m., stopping Tanya Muscato, a 39-year-old West Seneca resident, who had been driving in a westbound direction.
  Following a battery of tests, police say they learned Muscato drove with a .22 percent blood alcohol content — more than twice the l
  
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• WNY volunteers hit the ground, ready to help in Orlando

  15-06-2016 03:30 via wivb.com
  
  ORLANDO, FL (WIVB) — Two trained western New York trauma counselors are on the ground in Orlando after a devastating shooting claimed the lives of 49 victims, leaving 53 others injured.
  Survivors and families of the victims are just beginning the long road to recovery, and Tara Hughes and Peggy McGee-Smith are ready to help them heal. They’re in Florida to help by listening to victims and begin processing their grief.
  McGee-Smith, who helped in Newtown, Connecticut along with Hu
  
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• Following search, bodies of both missing boys located in Letchworth State Park

  15-06-2016 01:24 via wivb.com
  
  CASTILE, N.Y. (WIVB) — The somber search is over for two brothers who were carried by current over Letchworth State Park’s lower falls over the weekend with the rest of their seven-person group.
  New York State Police have been on the hunt with park authorities for the bodies of the two boys after the family fell into the Genesee River while in unauthorized parts of the park. Current carried the family over the waterfall, causing injuries to several family members who were rescue
  
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• NY bill could allow cash checking firms to become creditors

  15-06-2016 01:22 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Getting a loan in New York could get a lot easier, especially for those shunned by banks, if a new bill pending in Albany is passed. All you would have to do is head to your closest business that cashes checks.
  But opposition is mounting by consumer watchdog groups who claim questions about protecting borrowers from abusive lending practices have not been answered sufficiently.
  The measure would allow check-cashing services to offer loans to individuals and small bu
  
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• Nurse aid charged with slapping nursing home resident

  15-06-2016 00:56 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A Buffalo woman faces serious charges of slapping an elderly nursing home patient, the New York Attorney General’s Office announced on Tuesday.
  Officials announced the arrest of Angelene Burton, 53, on Tuesday. Burton allegedly slapped an 88-year-old Highpointe on Michigan Health Care Facility patient on both the head and face.
  The resident, described as an Alzheimer’s patient, suffers from acute kidney failure. The assault is a violation that would
  
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• Gun stocks surge, local pistol permit class interest rises as gun control conversations continue

  15-06-2016 00:25 via wivb.com
  
   WHEATFIELD, N.Y. (WIVB) — Police report the gun Omar Mateen used to murder 49 people and injure 53 others was an “AR-15 style gun.”
  It has some people talking about the damage these guns can do.
  “There are 49 people dead, 53 wounded — and one shooter,” said Brian Higgins (D) the congressman representing the 26th district. The democratic congressman says he’s supporting banning AR-15 style rifles.
  “They’re not manufactured
  
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