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• Campers heading into neighborhoods and discussing development

  04-08-2016 23:51 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Kids from around Buffalo are at a University at Buffalo summer camp where they’re learning about the problems different neighborhoods continue facing.
  “We’re learning about neighborhood development,” said Ayana Thomson, a 12-year-old camper. “Like how to improve a neighbor and make it more appealing to everyone else.”
  The neighborhoods they’ve selected to look at are on the East Side near Genessee Street, an area no
  
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• Dry conditions creating issues for homeowners

  04-08-2016 23:38 via wivb.com
  
  LEWISTON, N.Y. (WIVB) — The drought around the region is impacting many people including dozens of homeowners who are facing foundation issues.
  “The clay swells automatically and then, when it dries, it drinks dramatically causing the foundation to drop,” said Dick Young, the president at Young Waterproofing.
  The contractor says the Lewiston house they’re currently working on has dropped around two inches in just a matter of weeks.
  “From two weeks until today,
  
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• Bills Training Camp One-on-One: Charles Clay

  04-08-2016 23:28 via wivb.com
  
  PITTSFORD, N.Y. (WIVB) – As Charles Clay enters his second year with the Bills, News 4 Sports Director Josh Reed spoke with the tight end on Thursday after training camp.
  JOSH REED: Another day of Bills camp…hanging out with tight end Charles Clay, Charles..It was the warmest weather have had so far.. have you been able to adjust to that so quickly?
   CHARLES CLAY: Yeah, it took a little time I had a water bottle with me the majority of practice but it was a little hot
  
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• New survey shows majority of Americans have unhealthy work-life balance

  04-08-2016 23:02 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — At the Gates Vascular Institute, many employees work around the clock.
  “You’re always online with some sort of data coming your way be it volume data or issues going on or anything from a hospital stand point so you’re always online, always on the go, and you’re always in the know so you’re never off,” said Chris Lane, Buffalo General Medical Center and Gates Vascular Institute President.
  Lane says everyday is different but on a gi
  
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• Zika front lines: could the virus come to WNY?

  04-08-2016 22:46 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y.(WIVB) – Health officials are working from above to try and combat the Zika virus in south Florida ;A Miami neighborhood is now ground zero for the virus, after a slew of local infections.
  The CDC is advising pregnant women and their partners to avoid the specific neighborhood, but Director of Maternal-Fetal Medicine for Catholic Health, Dr. Bruce Rodgers, is telling his patients to take it one step further.
  “My own personal recommendation is that I advice the pregn
  
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• Health Dept. sluggish on medical marijuana report

  04-08-2016 22:37 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)- More than a month ago, News 4 began asking the Department of Health when it would have a progress report on the Compassionate Care Act, the state’s medical marijuana program.
  It was signed into law July of 2014. According to the law’s text, beginning two years after the Compassionate Care Act was signed, a report is to be sent to the legislature and the governor, detailing how the program is working; what’s going well, what needs adjustments.
  We start
  
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• Sign of the times as changeover takes place at the FNC

  04-08-2016 18:08 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, NY (WIVB) –  The next time you attend a hockey game or concert you may notice a big change to the First Niagara Center.
  Crews are working to transform the signage,including the one at the main entrance over to KeyBank Center now that the merger between the banks is complete.
  The deal between the two banks was approved by the Federal Reserve last month.
  Dave Greber will have more on the transition tonight on News 4 at Six.
   
  
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• As drought worsens, local farmers battle more wildlife invaders

  04-08-2016 17:40 via wivb.com
  
  BRANT, N.Y. (WIVB) – Most of Western New York is now under a drought warning after Governor Andrew Cuomo ordered the Department of Environmental Conservation to issue the higher level alert this week.
  Many of us can see the effects of the drought on our lawns and in our gardens, but farmers are dealing with this on a larger scale. And, as the wildlife around them struggles in the drought, they also have to fight pests going after crops.
  “The deer are pretty hungry,” said Martin
  
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• New Lucille Ball statue to be unveiled on Saturday

  04-08-2016 15:50 via wivb.com
  
  CELERON, NY (WIVB)    This Saturday a new statue of Lucille Ball will be unveiled near Jamestown to replace the one that became known as “Scary Lucy”.
  The tribute to actress Lucille Ball will be dedicated in Lucille Ball Memorial Park in Celeron, Lucy’s birthplace.
  Sculptor Carolyn Palmer is not revealing much ahead of the big day but reportedly the piece will showcase Lucille Ball’s ‘energy and confidence’.
  The “Scary Lucy” statue a
  
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• Police standoff ends peacefully near Rochester

  04-08-2016 14:47 via wivb.com
  
  ROCHESTER, NY (WIVB) –  Police near Rochester had closed off Lake Road in Webster while they investigated a possible kidnapping.
  Police report that the woman is now safe.  Greece Police say the victim was taken from her home and later dropped off at a gas station on route 104 around 2 a.m.   Lake Road was shut off for several hours before the suspect surrendered peacefully.
   
  Our sister station WROC reports that the Monroe County Sheriff’s Department had a helicop
  
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• Where Does My Stuff Come From technology connects consumers with local farms

  04-08-2016 12:36 via wivb.com
  
  BRANT, N.Y. (WIVB) – Farm to table is a big food trend wthese days, but how do you really know where your food is coming from? Technology has an answer.
  Where Does My Stuff Come From is a database that can be accessed by scanning QR codes on produce and packaging. It can tell you exactly how far you are standing from the farm where your food was grown, as well as providing hot links to that farm’s website and Facebook page.
  MORE | click here to view what you would see if you scanned
  
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• Overnight shootings leaves 1 dead and 4 injured

  04-08-2016 12:01 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO (WIVB) – Police in Buffalo are investigating two early morning shootings in the Broadway-Fillmore neighborhood.
  Police were called to the 200 block of Sherman Street around 2 o’clock Thursday morning. We’re told 4 people there were shot and a 21-year-old man from Buffalo died on the scene.
  We are working to find out how the three other victims are doing.
  Around the same time, police responded to another call on the 500 block of Hickory Street. They say a
  
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• Overnight shootings leaves 1 dead and 3 injured

  04-08-2016 12:01 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO (WIVB) – Police in Buffalo are investigating two early morning shootings in the Broadway-Fillmore neighborhood.
  Police were called to the 200 block of Sherman Street around 2 o’clock Thursday morning. We’re told 3 people there were shot and a 21-year-old man from Buffalo died on the scene.
  We are working to find out how the three other victims are doing.
  Around the same time, police responded to another call on the 500 block of Hickory Street. They say a
  
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• London Police say knife attack leaves 1 dead, 5 hurt

  04-08-2016 04:15 via wivb.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — London police say a woman has died and five others were injured in a knife attack in a central part of the city.
  A statement from the London Metropolitan Police early Thursday said the attack happened late Wednesday in Russell Square, which is near to the British Museum.
  It said six people were treated at the scene, and that the woman later died. The condition of the others was not immediately known.
  The statement said one man was arrested, and that a police officer had used
  
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• London Police say American woman killed, 5 hurt in knife attack

  04-08-2016 04:15 via wivb.com
  
  LONDON (AP) – British police say a man who stabbed six people in London’s Russell Square was a Norwegian of Somali origin, but they have found no signs of radicalization.
  Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley says the investigation “increasingly points to mental health issues” as lying behind the rampage.
  He says one person was killed in the attack, an American woman.
  The five injured people are British, American, Israeli and Australian.
  None has life-threatening injuries.
  
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• County Legislature questions ECWA and Health Dept. over boil water notice

  04-08-2016 01:28 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)- Leaders of the Erie County Water Authority were in the hot seat on Wednesday. County lawmakers drilled them about the major water main break in Amherst two weeks ago.
  It led to a boil water notice for more than 200,000 people.
  “I understand doing things in the interest of caution but we shouldn’t be doing them for no reason at all,” said Majority Leader Joseph Lorigo.
  ECWA Chairman Earl Jann told legislators the boil water notice was unnecessary. Jann
  
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• Small businesses booming across city, state

  04-08-2016 01:09 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Across the country, state and region, small businesses are popping up in different neighborhoods.
  “People want to be doing business here,” said Susan McCartney, the Director for the Small Business Development Center at Buffalo State College.
  McCartney says around two or three years ago interest surrounding small businesses started increasing.
  “There is a direct correlation between optimism of a community and individual’s willingness and c
  
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• Police won’t file charges in case of burned Town of Tonawanda baby

  04-08-2016 00:38 via wivb.com
  
  TOWN OF TONAWANDA, N.Y. (WIVB) — It’s been a frustrating three months for the parents of a baby badly burned in April. But it’s been equally frustrating for police looking into the case, because of the lack of cooperation they said they’ve received throughout their investigation.
  The investigation into how Matty was burned started late at night on April 10, when his parents Amber and Charles returned home from work to find the then-6-month-old suffering.
  “We got hom
  
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• IRS scammers reportedly forging caller ID data to appear local

  04-08-2016 00:31 via wivb.com
  
  BATAVIA, N.Y. (WIVB) — The IRS scam is nothing new, it has been around for some time, costing victims millions of dollars nationwide. But there’s a frightening new trick these scammers are rolling out.
  Detective Richard Schauf with the Batavia Police Deptartment said, “By having a phone number that would look familiar or look local, it’s just adding one more layer of that confidence that things are what they are.”
  Recently, IRS scammers are up to their old tric
  
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• Pope creates commission to look at possibility of ordaining women deacons

  04-08-2016 00:21 via wivb.com
  
  AMHERST, N.Y. (WIVB) — It’s a momumental moment for the Catholic Church as Pope Francis announces the creation of a commission to look into the possibility of having women ordained as deacons.
  “The study will involve both the historical and theological points of view,” said Monsignor Robert Zapfel, the pastor at St. Leo the Great in Amherst.
  Pope Francis has been hailed by many as a progressive church leader so the local monsignor at St. Leo isn’t shocked he is
  
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