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• Revamping econ plan, Trump vows tax cuts to ‘jumpstart’ US

  08-08-2016 23:44 via wivb.com
  
  DETROIT (AP) — Trying to turn the page after a tumultuous campaign stretch, Donald Trump unleashed a blistering attack Monday on Hillary Clinton’s approach to the economy while promising he would provide deep tax cuts and jolt middle class workers back to prosperity.
  Trump’s speech to the Detroit Economic Club reflected the Republican presidential nominee’s attempt to reboot and redirect the conversation to his strength: the economy. Trump offered a few new policy specifi
  
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• Former chemical company controller sentenced after stealing nearly half a million dollars

  08-08-2016 23:11 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Nearly half a million dollars was stolen from a Buffalo chemical company, and the culprit was one of their own employees.
  Bernadette Szymanski, 61, worked at FPPF Chemical Company for nearly 25 years, serving as their Controller. She remained with the company until she was fired in 2015.
  The company let Szymanski go following a dispute with her boss over bereavement leave compensation. Szymanski’s boss checked through records and found
  
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• Dry spell affecting lawns, trees, plants and landscaping businesses

  08-08-2016 22:55 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — At Elbers Landscape Service in Buffalo, maintaining plants in the Garden Center has been a challenge.
  “Any installs that we put in in the spring it’s young plants so the roots are not established so it’s going to take more effort to water and to fertilize to make sure that the plants survive this type of drought,” said Jim Hornung, Elbers Landscape owner.
  Between extra labor and higher water bills this business is one of several that has seen
  
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• Shea’s announces next President

  08-08-2016 22:40 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The next President of Shea’s Performing Arts Center has been announced. His name is Michael G. Murphy.
  Murphy succeeds Anthony Conte as President of Shea’s.
  “Returning to western New York and joining the extraordinary arts and culture community that makes Buffalo such a great place to live is a wonderful opportunity for me,” Murphy said.
  A Gowanda native, Murphy currently serves as Managing Director of The Old Globe Theatre in San Di
  
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• Safety issues, statistics about water parks in the US

  08-08-2016 22:31 via wivb.com
  
  The waters are shallow and lifeguards are seemingly everywhere at the proliferating number of water parks around the U.S. But the death over the weekend of a Kansas state lawmaker’s 10-year-old son on a waterslide billed as the world’s largest is the latest example that dangers lurk in the appealing slides and wave pools.
  State Rep. Scott Schwab and his wife say their son, Caleb Thomas Schwab, died Sunday at the Schlitterbahn Waterpark in Kansas City. It opened in 2010, one of five w
  
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• A Hail Mary retirement plan for those with nothing saved

  08-08-2016 22:12 via wivb.com
  
  You’re rounding the corner toward retirement age with not nearly enough set aside.
  We tell young people to start saving for retirement from their first job and not to quit, because even small sums can grow staggeringly large with enough decades of compound returns. But maybe you bumped along from paycheck to paycheck, never saving much. Or maybe you tried to save but got slammed with unexpected setbacks like a late-in-life job loss.
  Let’s be clear: You can’t make up for lost ti
  
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• Rare giant panda baby born at Vienna Zoo

  08-08-2016 22:00 via wivb.com
  
  BERLIN (AP) — Vienna Zoo is celebrating the birth of a rare giant panda.
  The baby bear was born Sunday to mother Yang Yang and father Long Hui. It’s their fourth cub, after Fu Long, Fu Hu and Fu Bao.
  In a statement Monday, the zoo said its newest addition was just 10 centimeters (4 inches) long and weighed 100 grams (3.5 ounces) at birth.
  A spokeswoman for Tiergarten Schoenbrunn, the zoo’s official name, said the panda will be named after 100 days.
  Johanna Bukovsky said no othe
  
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• Cheektowaga Police: Rumors about attempted abductions are false

  08-08-2016 21:59 via wivb.com
  
  DEPEW, N.Y. (WIVB) – News 4 is getting to the bottom of rumors about attempted abductions in the Cheektowaga area. Some of you have written on News 4 social media pages you’re hearing of attempted kidnapping of women and children in popular shopping areas.
  Cheektowaga Police now want to clear up rumors that have been circulating for a few weeks now. Social media news spread like wildfire that there have been attempted kidnappings in Target and Wegmans parking lots
  
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• Boom in live video helping some creators make a living

  08-08-2016 21:50 via wivb.com
  
  ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Casey Cooper is one of the most famous drummers on the planet right now. He has a million followers on YouTube, and his flaming-sticks drumming cover of Ellie Goulding’s “Burn” is insane.
  But he’d just prefer you skip his recorded performances and instead catch him live — on streaming video, that is — because he can make more money that way.
  Live video is fast emerging as a lucrative corner of the internet where artists can profit
  
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• Divided America: Will Trump energize the Latino vote?

  08-08-2016 21:45 via wivb.com
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — It’s a persistent paradox in American politics: Many Hispanic families have an immense personal stake in what happens on Election Day, but despite population numbers that should mean political power, Hispanics often can’t vote, aren’t registered to vote, or simply choose to sit out.
  Enter Donald Trump, and the question that could make or break this year’s divisive presidential election in key states. By inflaming the anti-immigrant sentiments of whi
  
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• Underground meth lab discovered in Amherst

  08-08-2016 21:21 via wivb.com
  
  AMHERST, N.Y. (WIVB) — Sources at the scene say an underground meth lab was discovered in Amherst Monday.
  News 4 crews were there when multiple fire trucks and hazmat teams showed up at a Walmart on Sheridan Drive during the afternoon. The crews were seen retrieving meth lab contents from the sewer.
  No other details are available at this time. Underground meth lab found in Amherst
  
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• Crash results in arrest of driver with 15 active suspensions

  08-08-2016 21:13 via wivb.com
  
  CONCORD, N.Y. (WIVB) — On Thursday, Erie County Sheriff’s deputies responding to a rollover crash ended up arresting the driver.
  Concord resident Joshua Hopkins, 32, was found lying near his vehicle on Woodside Road just before 7 a.m. The vehicle was resting on its roof as the result of a morning crash.
  According to officials, Hopkins had 15 active suspensions on his license for not paying fines or answering summonses in the southern portion of Erie County. This includes summons
  
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• New York ranks high for ‘driving selfies’ as DMV warns against them

  08-08-2016 20:53 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The Auto Insurance Center says New York is one of the top ten states with people who post ‘selfies’ while driving. Now, the state is warning people of the dangers posed by driving selfies.
  Selfies, which are photos taken of oneself, have posed a threat to New Yorkers, who rank eighth on the Auto Insurance Center’s list.
  The ranking comes “in the wake of increasing social media activity,” according to the New York State Department of
  
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• Hulu dropping free video as it prepares cable TV alternative

  08-08-2016 20:23 via wivb.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Hulu is dropping the free TV episodes that it was initially known for as it works on an online television service to rival cable TV.
  Hulu said Monday that free episodes — typically the most recent four or five episodes from a show’s current season — will be gone from the site within a few weeks. But you can still watch for free. The episodes are now on Yahoo .
  While Hulu started as a free site, free video has become more difficult to find after Hulu launch
  
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• Inmate allegedly attempts hospital escape, fails

  08-08-2016 18:51 via wivb.com
  
  MEDINA, N.Y. (WIVB) — More charges are coming against an Orleans County man accused of trying to flee a Medina hospital.
  Back in November, 23-year-old Albion resident Sebastian Bonk was arrested on charges of rape and tattooing a child following an investigation involving him and a 15-year-old girl.
  On August 4th of this year, Bonk was jailed in Orleans County on a charge of criminal possession of a forged instrument.
  That night, members of the Orleans County Sheriff’s Office sa
  
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• FBI offering $20,000 reward for information leading to arrest of 1979 shooting victim’s killer

  08-08-2016 17:55 via wivb.com
  
  CALEDONIA, N.Y. (WIVB) — The Federal Bureau of Investigation is offering a $20,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the killing of Tammy Jo Alexander.
  Alexander, a Florida teenager, was found dead in a Livingston County cornfield on November 10, 1979. She had been shot in the head and the back when she was discovered in Caledonia, a town southwest of Rochester.
  Alexander was not positively identified as the victim until January of last year. She
  
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• Lawmaker’s young son dies on ‘world’s largest’ water slide

  08-08-2016 17:24 via wivb.com
  
  KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — The young son of a Kansas state lawmaker died Sunday on awater slide that is billed as the world’s largest, according to officials and the boy’s family.
  Authorities did not immediately identify the child who died at Schlitterbahn Waterpark inKansas City, Kansas, but state Rep. Scott Schwab and his wife released a statement saying it was their son Caleb Thomas Schwab.
  “Since the day he was born, he brought abundant joy to our family and all those h
  
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• Cheektowaga man killed in Friday shooting

  08-08-2016 17:11 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Buffalo Police announced on Monday that a Cheektowaga man was killed after a shooting on Friday.
  The victim, who was only identified as a 26-year-old Cheektowaga man, was shot around 1:20 p.m. on the 100 block of French St.
  No arrests have been announced in relation to the shooting.
  Anyone with information on the incident is asked to call or text the police department’s confidential tip line at 847-2255.
  
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• Cheektowaga man dies after series of weekend shootings

  08-08-2016 17:11 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Buffalo Police announced on Monday that a Cheektowaga man was killed after a shooting on Friday.
  The victim, who was only identified as a 26-year-old Cheektowaga man, was shot around 1:20 p.m. on the 100 block of French St.
  No arrests have been announced in relation to the shooting.
  Buffalo was plagued by three other shootings during the weekend. One occurred Friday on Walden Ave., leaving a 37-year-old Buffalo man in critical condition.
  The other two happened on Sun
  
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• Robinson sentenced for Purdy Street murder

  08-08-2016 16:01 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The 20-year-old Buffalo man who confessed to the murder of Antoin Vance was sentenced to 18-years-to-life in prison.
  During the final days of November, last year, Leonard “Pooter” Robinson fatally shot Vance inside the man’s Purdy St. home after arguing about money. In addition to Vance, Robinson also shot 24-year-old Dominique Jackson, who survived.
  Following the shootings, Robinson took off in a vehicle, eventually driving off of Hu
  
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• Delta grounds departing flights because of computer issue

  08-08-2016 12:56 via wivb.com
  
  CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. (WIVB) – Passengers arriving for early morning Delta flights out of Buffalo Niagara International Airport Monday found themselves waiting in long lines as the airline worked to right a system wide computer issue.
  That problem, which was caused by a power outage in Atlanta around 2:30 a.m., prompted Delta to ground all departing flights at all airports. Planes that were in the air when the outage began were able to continue to their destinations as planned.
  Many customers
  
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• Donation drive gives Walker family a chance to start over

  08-08-2016 04:26 via wivb.com
  
  NORTH TONAWANDA, N.Y. (WIVB) — An emotional week ends with hope. Hope that a family can rebuild.
  Gratwick Hose Volunteer firefighter, Ken Walker and his family suffered a devastating loss early this week. Police say a neighbor set fire to their home, just two days after he received a racist threat in the mail.
  Police don’t know yet if the two acts were related.
  “It was a very tumultuous week and a full range of emotions. Monday we were sickened and revolted by the letter and We
  
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• Bills sign linebackers Spikes, Hawthorne and tight end Mundine

  08-08-2016 01:19 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) –  Despite no training camp Sunday for the Buffalo Bills, the team still stayed active, signing former New England Patriot linebacker Brandon Spikes and linebacker David Hawthorne onto the roster.
  This comes after 2016 second-round pick and linebacker Reggie Ragland injured his knee during practice on Friday. Spikes last played for the Bills in 2014, after playing his first four seasons with the Patriots. The twenty-eight year old took to social media, saying
  
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• National march team preps for “Drums Along the Waterfront” at the Ralph

  08-08-2016 00:57 via wivb.com
  
  WEST SENECA, N.Y. (WIVB) — The annual “Drums Along the Waterfront – Tour of Champions” takes center-field at Ralph Wilson Sunday on Sunday night. The top seven drum corps in the world will be competing.
  “It’s not like college marching band or your local marching band – it’s like a marching band on steroids, it will be the craziest best thing you’ll ever see, with giant props and people performing in ways that you have never seen before on a m
  
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• Hundreds ride to remember life of Jonathon Cote

  08-08-2016 00:21 via wivb.com
  
  WILLIAMSVILLE, N.Y. (WIVB) — Friends and family paid tribute Sunday to fallen U.S. Army Airborne veteran Jonathon Cote.
  It has been more than eight years since the Williamsville native was kidnapped and held hostage in Iraq for almost a year and a half.
  His body was found 17 months later.
  On Sunday hundreds geared up and rode in his memory.
  The annual Jonathan Cote Memorial Motorcycle Ride raises money for Western New York Heroes, which helps support veterans, members of the armed services
  
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