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• West Seneca 5-year old grows veggies to help her brother

  05-08-2016 23:49 via wivb.com
  
  WEST SENECA, NY (WIVB) – We found a little girl with a big heart who is using her unique talents to help her brother.
  Five-year old Isla Stadler came up with a unique fundraiser to help him. The boy has a rare kidney disease.
  She has been gardening for two years. Her garden produced more than 40 pounds of vegetables — she sold them last night at the Main Street Marketplace in West Seneca.
  Melissa Stadler, Isla’s mother explains,  “She planted the seeds
  
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• Contractors warn about companies scamming homeowners during the drought

  05-08-2016 22:45 via wivb.com
  
   
  NORTH TONAWANDA, N.Y. (WIVB) — Frank DiMaria is working on a home which had a crack in the basement wall.
  “When a house is sinking, it’s not always the whole house,” said Frank DiMaria, the owner of Frank’s Services.
  That’s the case with this house – the wall was bowing from pressure so Frank’s Service is in there repairing it. DiMaria determined that through a series of tests on the house.
  “We don’t just see a crack and say
  
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• Youth academy offers potential police officers look into the field

  05-08-2016 22:16 via wivb.com
  
   
  CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. (WIVB) — Around a dozen young Cheektowaga residents who are hopeful about someday driving police cruisers are going through a series of tests to determine if they have what it takes to serve and protect.
  “We’ve been going to the range, shooting guns, learning everything the police are doing but on a smaller scale,” said David Grant, one of the Youth Police Academy participants.
  This is the first year Cheektowaga is hosting the program. There
  
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• Tonawanda tire plant to double tire making production

  05-08-2016 19:01 via wivb.com
  
  TONAWANDA, NY (WIVB) – There is very good news for the works at Sumitomo Rubber Industries, the former Goodyear Dunlop Tire Company in Tonawanda.
  High demand for SUV tires has prompted the company to plan on investing $87 million in the facility over the next four years.
  The goal is to produce 10,000 tires a day by the end of 2019.  They currently put out about half that number.
  Sumitomo Rubber says they have already started moving some production of tires from their Thailand fac
  
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• Not Guilty plea for NT man accused of setting volunteer firefighters home on fire

  05-08-2016 18:15 via wivb.com
  
  NORTH TONAWANDA, N.Y. (WIVB) – Two days after the arson fire that destroyed a volunteer firefighter’s home, the man police say is responsible was arraigned in city court.
  Matthew Jurado, 39, is charged with 2nd degree arson, a class B felony, in connection with Wednesday’s fire at the Oliver Street home of Ken Walker, a black firefighter who received a threatening, racist letter Monday, demanding he resign from the fire service.
  According to court documents News 4 obtained Frid
  
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• 200-year old prints of Erie Canal traveling to 30 communities

  05-08-2016 17:53 via wivb.com
  
  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The co-founder of a Vermont history museum is traveling New York’s Erie Canal with prints of rarely-seen, nearly 200-year-old artwork of the waterway.
  Arthur Cohn, director of the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, plans to stop in about 30 communities along the canal over the next six weeks as he discusses the canal’s impact on the nation’s growth in the 19th century and hands out prints of John Henry Hopkins’ artwork.
  In the fall of 1825, just day
  
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• Low water levels force early closing of S.Tier marina

  05-08-2016 16:45 via wivb.com
  
  FREWSBURG, NY (WIVB) –  The lack of any significant rainfall this summer and predictions for the near future has prompted a Southern Tier marina to close a month early.
  Water levels are low at the Onoville Marina on the Allegany Resevoir.
  The marina has posted that all boats must be removed by Monday, August 15.
  However camping will continue through mid-September.
  
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• Dunkirk Fishing Pier reopens after DEC rehab

  05-08-2016 15:58 via wivb.com
  
  DUNKIRK, NY (WIVB)  The DEC has reopened the Dunkirk Fishing pier after extensive repair work and improvements to the pier’s accessibility.
  Off limits since June, the pier now has an upgraded design and improved stability.
  It’s a popular fishing spot for area anglers.
  The pier now has improved railings, benches and improved sidewalk.
  The improvements were made available through the NY Works Program.
  
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• Car fire spreads to two homes in Amherst

  05-08-2016 15:29 via wivb.com
  
  AMHERST, NY (WIVB) –  An electrical fire in a car sparked a three-alarm fire in Amherst late Thursday causing extensive damage to two homes.
  The blaze started in a car parked between 94 and 102 Oakwood Drive shortly before 11 p.m.
  Amherst Fire Control estimates the fire caused $550,000 damage with most of the damage to the home at 102 Oakwood, the location where the fire started.
  No injuries were reported.
   
   
   
  
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• Several hurt and rescued after boating accident

  05-08-2016 13:16 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – The Coast Guard rescued six people from Buffalo’s waterfront Friday morning.
  The call came in after midnight that a boat had crashed into the breakwall just north of the Small Boat Harbor.
  Buffalo Police, Fire and the Coast Guard worked together to rescue everyone.
  Initially officials were notified that people were in the water with injuries. As a result, the Coast Guard searched the water and approached their boat slowly. When they got to it, five people were
  
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• Woman seriously burned, two others hurt in North Buffalo fire

  05-08-2016 12:57 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, NY (WIVB) – Buffalo firefighters rushed to Hertel Avenue near Starin early Friday morning.
  A 30-year-old woman has serious burns after she went back into the house because she thought someone was in there.
  A 28-year-old man who also lives in the house ran back in to save her.
  The fire started in the back of the first floor.
  It’s a two family home, but only two people lived there.
  When fire officials got on the scene, they worked to put out the blaze and stop it from spr
  
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• Body pulled from Lake Erie

  05-08-2016 05:47 via wivb.com
  
  PORT MAITLAND, CANADA (WIVB) — Police in Canada are in the process of identifying a body that surfaced on Lake Erie Thursday morning.
  The Ontario Provincal Police received a call from a concerned boater after he saw what appeared to be a deceased person floating in the water.
  Crews brought the body to shore and the individual was pronounced dead. Multiple police agencies are conducting an investigation.
  The body was found not far from where the boat of missing man Giuseppe Reinhart washed
  
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• Buffalo School students new to U.S. celebrate completion of summer English program

  05-08-2016 03:50 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) —  For some students, trying to cram in all of the math, English, and science in school can be tough. It’s even harder if English is your second language.With the school year around the corner, one Buffalo school is wrapping up program aimed at helping those students.Daniel Murtha, the Jump Start Program Coordinator said, “The purpose of this program is to develop the language proficiency the language abilities for these student who just arrived i
  
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• Police arrest neighbor in connection with arson at NT firefighter’s home

  05-08-2016 03:46 via wivb.com
  
  NORTH TONAWANDA, N.Y. (WIVB) — Police say they have arrested a man in connection with a fire started at North Tonawanda firefighter’s home.
  39-year-old Matthew Jurado has been arrested and charged with 2nd degree arson after police say he admitted to torching Kenneth Walker’s home. Walker is a member of Gratwick Hose Fire Company in North Tonawanda.
  According to police, Jurado lives across from Walker and was recently upset by his removal from the fire department.
  A day be
  
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• Suspense intensifies over racially charged No. Tonawanda fire

  05-08-2016 02:21 via wivb.com
  
  NORTH TONAWANDA, N.Y. (WIVB) – When news got out that a volunteer firefighter—North Tonwanda’s only black firefighter–was the target of a racially insulting threat and his home caught fire, Mayor Arthur Pappas said the city’s reaction was clear and immediate.
  “In this community, I think it was anger, it was shock, it was just appalling.”
  Kenneth Walker, a volunteer for the Gratwick Hose Fire Company, received a note in his mailbox Monday, that said, usi
  
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• Man accused of threatening Buffalo police in court

  05-08-2016 01:04 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – A man accused of threatening to kill Buffalo police officers was indicted Thursday on federal charges. Arthur Jordan pleaded guilty to a weapons charge. The decision by a grand jury could put him in even more trouble.
  Jordan is charged with one count of interstate communication of threat to injure. Prosecutors said Jordan made a threatening post on Facebook last month, just after two African-American men were killed by police officers in Louisiana
  
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• The Erie County Fair train arrives in Hamburg

  05-08-2016 00:29 via wivb.com
  
  HAMBURG, NY (WIVB) – It’s a signal that opening day for the Erie County Fair is just days away.
  The James E. Strates Fair Train arrived at the  historic Erie County Railroad Depot in Hamburg Thursday afternoon.
  It was greeted by the Pepsi-Cola Marching Band.
  Families gathered along the tracks to watch the train- taking pictures and videos – and even clapping!
  It has more than 50 rail cars for rides and equipment and 34 trucks.
  This is the Erie County Fair’s 92nd year
  
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• Federal trial underway for town of Tonawanda man

  05-08-2016 00:26 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The trial of a Baghdad-born, town of Tonawanda man got underway this week, centered around a key question: Is Steve Jabar a thief? Or is he a target of the Bush administration, who didn’t take kindly to Jabar’s outspoken demeanor against the Iraq war.
  Jabar, or as he was known when News4 interviewed him in 2004, Steve Sharrif, is a native of Baghdad, who moved to the town of Tonawanda in the 1990s and became a U.S. citizen.
  His father was killed by Saddam
  
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• Obama says US does not pay ransom, defends payment to Iran

  05-08-2016 00:04 via wivb.com
  
   WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama expressed surprise Thursday at criticism of his administration’s $400 million cash payment to Iran to settle a longstanding legal claim, adamantly rejecting claims that it was a ransom paid for the release of four Americans held in Iran.
  “This wasn’t some nefarious deal,” Obama told reporters at the Pentagon. He pointed out that the payment, along with an additional $1.3 billion in interest to be paid later, was announc
  
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