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• Tree topples onto car in City of Tonawanda

  16-08-2016 23:45 via wivb.com
  
  TONAWANDA, N.Y. (WIVB) — A tree crashed onto a vehicle in the City of Tonawanda Tuesday afternoon.
  Police provided pictures of the incident, which took place around 5 p.m. on Franklin St.
  It is not clear how much damage the tree caused, or how long the street will be blocked, but it did knock down some power lines.
  No one was injured.
  (Photo courtesy of Tonawanda Police)(Photo courtesy of Tonawanda Police)
  
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• UB Football hosts media day

  16-08-2016 23:41 via wivb.com
  
  AMHERST, N.Y. (WIVB) – The uniforms have been put on and the team photo has been taken, football truly is just days away from returning to UB Stadium. That was certainly evident at UB media day where the Bulls are more confident than ever in Lance Leipold heading into his second season.
  “I think the level of trust between coach to player and player to coach has increased,” Leipold said. “There is a better understanding. Our ability to execute and get things done has been
  
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• Audit faults NY tourism promotion after damaging storms

  16-08-2016 23:09 via wivb.com
  
  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration failed to properly oversee $22 million spent to promote tourism in areas affected by three damaging storms, federal auditors said.
  New York officials did not comply with procurement rules and failed to ensure money was spent effectively, the report from the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Inspector General concluded. The audit, which was published online Friday, said the lapses amount to a “sig
  
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• Winning TAKE 5 ticket sold in North Tonawanda

  16-08-2016 23:04 via wivb.com
  
  NORTH TONAWANDA, N.Y. (WIVB) — A top prize-winning ticket for the August 15th’s TAKE 5 drawing was sold in North Tonawanda.
  The New York Lottery says the ticket was sold at the 7-Eleven on Ward Rd. It is worth $66,117.
  The top prize in TAKE 5 is won when all five of a player’s numbers match up to the day’s drawing.
  
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• Akron man facing multiple charges after car crash

  16-08-2016 22:30 via wivb.com
  
  TOWN OF NEWSTEAD, N.Y. (WIVB) — An Akron man is facing a plethora of charges after crashing a vehicle in the Town of Newstead.
  On Monday afternoon, members of the Erie County Sheriff’s Office say Dustin Gothard, 27, crashed on Martin Rd. before fleeing the scene.
  At 7:20 p.m., nearly three hours after the search for Gothard began, he was taken into custody on Cedar St.
  Charges against Gothard include aggravated unlicensed operation, DWI, obstructing governmental administration a
  
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• NFL suspends Bills’ Marcell Dareus for 4 games

  16-08-2016 21:48 via wivb.com
  
  PITTSFORD, N.Y. (AP modified) — The NFL has suspended Buffalo Bills defensive tackle Marcell Dareus for the first four games of the season for violating the league’s substance abuse policy.
  The suspension was announced by the team on Tuesday afternoon.
  “Dareus will be eligible to return to the Bills’ active roster on Monday, October 3 following the team’s October 2 game against the New England Patriots,” an NFL spokesperson said.
  The defensive tackle
  
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• Batavia middle school teacher arrested during sex abuse investigation

  16-08-2016 21:38 via wivb.com
  
  BATAVIA, N.Y. (WIVB) — Batavia Police say a child sent sexually explicit photographs of himself to a teacher, and now the teacher is facing charges.
  Monroe County resident Anthony Antinore, 51, is a middle school teacher at the City of Batavia School District. Police say he asked the victim to send him explicit photographs.
  As the result of sexual abuse investigation, Antinore was charged with disseminating indecent material to a minor — a felony.
  He will appear i
  
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• Mom in custody after 4-year-old falls out window

  16-08-2016 21:26 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A four-year-old boy’s mother is in police custody after he fell out of a window.
  Buffalo Police say the boy fell out of an upstairs window on 7th St. just after Noon on Tuesday.
  The boy was taken to Women and Children’s Hospital with what appeared to be minor injuries.
  Charges against the boy’s mother are pending.
  
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• Mom arrested after 4-year-old falls out window

  16-08-2016 21:26 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Buffalo police have arrested 26-year-old Amber Wright after her four-year-old son fell out of a window.
  Buffalo Police say the boy fell out of an upstairs window on 7th St. just after Noon on Tuesday.
  Wright is charged with endangering the welfare of a child.
  The boy was taken to Women and Children’s Hospital with what appeared to be minor injuries.
  Charges against the boy’s mother are pending.
  
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• Inmate hospitalized after allegedly jumping from catwalk “on a dare”

  16-08-2016 21:20 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The Erie County Sheriff’s Office says that an inmate was hospitalized after jumping roughly 10-15 feet down from a catwalk.
  The incident occurred while inmates were out of their cells during normal recess time.
  Officials at the county’s Holding Center say the inmate was apparently “acting on a dare” when he jumped from the mezzanine.
  The inmate was taken to a hospital with possible non-life threatening leg injuries.
  
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• Trans-Siberian Orchestra coming back to Buffalo

  16-08-2016 21:08 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The Trans-Siberian Orchestra is coming back to Buffalo on their twentieth anniversary tour.
  The music group, which was launched by Paul O’Neill in 1996, will perform its classic show The Ghosts of Christmas Eve in 61 North American cities from November to News Year’s Eve.
  Pre-sale tickets for fan club members will be sold between September 7-9. All others can buy tickets starting September 16.
  Each ticket purchased online will include a digital copy
  
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• Sold! New Playboy Mansion owner closes deal for $100 million

  16-08-2016 20:31 via wivb.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The deal is done, and the Playboy Mansion has a new owner.
  Daren Metropoulos, who lives next door, said Tuesday that escrow has closed on his $100 million purchase of Hugh Hefner’s man cave.
  The 33-year-old principal in the investment firm Metropoulos & Co. won’t necessarily be moving in any time soon.
  Under terms of the deal, Playboy’s 90-year-old founder may stay there for the rest of his life.
  After Hefner leaves, Metropoulos plans to connect the
  
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• Buyer announced for One Seneca Tower

  16-08-2016 19:37 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Washington-area developer Douglas Development Corporation has been announced as the buyer of Buffalo’s One Seneca Tower.
  The company announced on Tuesday that they executed a Purchase and Sales Agreement to buy the iconic building, which is the tallest privately-owned office building outside of New York City in the whole state.
  This is the company’s first purchase in Buffalo.
  “The redevelopment will have a tremendous impact on the skyline
  
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• Westfield employee sentenced for dumping sewage in Chautauqua Creek

  16-08-2016 19:08 via wivb.com
  
  WESTFIELD, N.Y. (WIVB) — No comment from Westfield’s former Waste Water Treatment Plant Operator, Andrew Thompson, as he left federal court Tuesday morning.
  Thompson was sentenced to 6 months of probation and received a $10,000 fine, which he has 30 days to pay.
  This was all agreed upon in a plea agreement, which Judge Jeremiah McCarthy approved.
  Thompson admitted to violating the Clean Water Act by directing his employees to dump sewage into the Chautauqua Creek in June 2014.
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• Waste water plant manager sentenced after ordering dumping of sewage in Chautauqua Creek

  16-08-2016 19:08 via wivb.com
  
  WESTFIELD, N.Y. (WIVB) — Andrew Thompson was sentenced to 6 months of probation and received a $10,000 fine, which he has 30 days to pay.
  This was all agreed upon in a plea agreement, which a judge approved.
  He admitted to violating the clean water act when he ordered untreated sewage to be discharged into Chautauqua Creek in June 2014.
  Assistant US Attorney Aaron Mango said this all started because a village employee caught the untreated sewage dumping on camera. The video was sent t
  
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• Man arrested after 4-year-old shoots self

  16-08-2016 19:02 via wivb.com
  
  DUNKIRK, N.Y. (WIVB) — After Dunkirk police responded to a report of a gunshot wound in July, the victim turned out to be a four-year-old. On Tuesday, police announced that an arrest had been made in relation to the incident.
  Angel Lopez-Tirado, 27, was charged with reckless endangerment, second and third-degree criminal weapon possession after a young child allegedly played with the gun and shot themself.
  The child suffered non-life threatening injuries and was treated at h
  
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• Buffalo mother receives 20 year sentence for killing her baby

  16-08-2016 18:36 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – A Westside woman will spend the next two decades behind bars after she killed her five-month-old daughter last fall.
  Denay Foster received a determinate sentence of 20 years in prison, plus 5 years post release supervision, after she pleaded guilty to first degree manslaughter in May.
  That manslaughter charge was a reduction from the 2nd degree murder charge she originally arrested back in September, 2015, one day after her five-month-old daughter, Ver’Naylah L
  
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• Man accused of kidnapping autistic boy in Walmart

  16-08-2016 18:25 via wivb.com
  
  FREDONIA, N.Y. (WIVB) — Fredonia Police say an autistic boy was kidnapped at Walmart.
  Around 10:30 p.m., police responded to a call for a missing child at the Walmart store on Bennett Rd.
  After the 13-year-old’s parents informed officials he was missing, police and Walmart employees searched for him.
  The boy was not found in the store, but he was located in the area of Cushing St.
  After being reunited with his family, police told News 4 that the boy had left the store with Samue
  
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• Man accused of kidnapping 13-year-old with autism in Walmart

  16-08-2016 18:25 via wivb.com
  
  FREDONIA, N.Y. (WIVB) — Fredonia Police say a 13-year-old with autism was kidnapped at Walmart.
  Around 10:30 p.m., police responded to a call for a missing child at the Walmart store on Bennett Rd.
  After the 13-year-old’s parents informed officials he was missing, police and Walmart employees searched for him.
  The boy was not found in the store, but he was located in the area of Cushing St.
  After being reunited with his family, police told News 4 that the boy had left
  
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• ID of body found at Lockport fire site still in question; residents return to homes

  16-08-2016 18:07 via wivb.com
  
  LOCKPORT, N.Y. (WIVB) — While the family of Joseph Phillips awaits official word about whether the charred remains found late last week at High Tread International are that of the missing 14-year-old, clean-up has gotten well underay.
  Truck load after truck load of burned rubber and twisted metal on Monday were being hauled away to a local landfill, a process that  could take days.The piles are no longer shouldering, but the smell of burning rubber was still thick in the air, as resid
  
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• Officials: Property owners did nothing wrong that would have started Lockport fire

  16-08-2016 16:47 via wivb.com
  
  LOCKPORT, N.Y. (WIVB) — Investigators looking into last week’s Lockport tire plant fire revealed that individuals involved with it are underage, but refused to give names. Along with that, they said that the people who own the plant property did nothing to cause the fire.
  Officials in the city held a conference on Tuesday morning.
  In addition to their investigation announcement, officials said no arrests have been made and they have no one in custody.
  The massive fire, which beg
  
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• LIVE STREAM: Officials hold conference on Lockport tire plant fire

  16-08-2016 16:47 via wivb.com
  
  LOCKPORT, N.Y. (WIVB) — Officials are holding a conference in relation to the Lockport tire plant fire from last week.
  APP USERS | Tap here to watch the live conference.
  
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• Truck driver starts street fire after knocking down power pole, multiple lines

  16-08-2016 16:03 via wivb.com
  
  TONAWANDA, N.Y. (WIVB) — A truck driver from Ohio took down a power pole in Tonawanda when he tried to turn around.
  The driver of the tractor trailer tried the maneuver shortly before 1 a.m. Tuesday morning. While doing so, police say he knocked down a pole, but also took down wires from five other poles in the process.
  The downed lines touched, and so, a fire began at the intersection of Main and Fletcher St.
  Tonawanda fire officials were forced to watch the lines burn until National Grid
  
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• Lackawanna man set to be sentenced after murdering wife

  16-08-2016 11:21 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – A Lackawanna man who was convicted of 2nd degree murder in the stabbing death of his wife should learn his fate Tuesday.
  Daniel Whiting is scheduled to be sentenced at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Erie County Court.
  Whiting is facing 25 years to life in prison for the death of his wife, Ashley.
  Ashley Whiting was stabbed about 30 times on July 1, 2015, while her two young children were there.
  Daniel Whiting has claimed an intruder broke into their home, and he woke up to find t
  
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• Lackawanna man sentenced after murdering wife

  16-08-2016 11:21 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – A Lackawanna man who was convicted of 2nd degree murder in the stabbing death of his wife will spend 25 years to life in prison.
  Daniel Whiting was sentenced at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Erie County Court.
  Whiting will spend time in prison for the death of his wife, Ashley.
  Ashley Whiting was stabbed about 30 times on July 1, 2015, while her two young children were there.
  Daniel Whiting has claimed an intruder broke into their home, and he woke up to find that
  
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• Lackawanna man given maximum sentence for murdering wife

  16-08-2016 11:21 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Daniel Whiting was sentenced to 25 years to life behind bars for the Second Degree Murder of his wife, Ashley Whiting.
  Whiting was sentenced Tuesday in Erie County Court by Judge Kenneth Case.
  He was convicted of stabbing Ashley Whiting 30 times on July 1, 2015 while their two young children were in the house.
  Daniel Whiting claimed an intruder broke into their home, and he woke up to find that person stabbing Ashley. He also claimed he was stabbed in
  
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• Car strikes utility pole in Amherst

  16-08-2016 04:38 via wivb.com
  
  AMHERST, N.Y. (WIVB) — National grid is at the scene after a car struck a utility pole on North Union Road Monday afternoon.
  The accident happened around 3 p.m. A car went off the road and struck a utility pole, knocking down power lines.
  North Union Road remains closed between Route 5 and Reist Street. It is not known if anyone was seriously injured.
  News 4 will update as more information is available.
  
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• Spike in bike thefts in Buffalo

  16-08-2016 04:21 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Buffalo has become a bike friendly city, but we’re also seeing a spike in bike thefts. In public forums on Facebook, there’s been a lot of chatter about stolen bikes in different parts of the city.
  “It’s a very thick lock and the police said they definitely took some time to cut that off,” said Dan Green of Buffalo.
  Green says he rode his bike to work around 9 o’clock this morning and locked it near main street, but was shocked to
  
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• Call 4 Action: contractor fails to show, homeowner hires the help

  16-08-2016 01:53 via wivb.com
  
  AKRON, N.Y. (WIVB) – Roofer Chauncey Vanice is finally getting paid to do the work he was hired to do–not by the contractor who hired him, but by the homeowner who hired the contractor.
  “We told Chauncey that if he would come up and finish the roof, we will take care of him,” said Mark Kloss who is taking up the slack for his dad, Walter Kloss, an elderly Korean War veteran, now battling cancer.
  The elder Kloss paid the contractor, Sunbilt Living, more than $5,400 to put
  
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• Karlos Williams returns to Bills camp

  16-08-2016 01:43 via wivb.com
  
  PITTSFORD, N.Y. (WIVB) – Karlos Williams showed up at camp overweight and not in shape. He’s finally been cleared to begin practicing. The Bills have a lot of depth behind LeSean McCoy but, despite a great rookie season Rex has all but said that Williams won’t be handed the backup job, which is fine by Karlos.
  “That’s exciting,” Williams said Monday. “I think that’s when the best comes out. When you’re in the backfield with guys like tha
  
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• Bills training camp: one-on-one with Cardale Jones

  16-08-2016 01:36 via wivb.com
  
  PITTSFORD, N.Y. (WIVB) – Sports Director Josh Reed chatted with the rookie quarterback during the Bills return to training camp on Monday.
  JOSH REED: The toughest position to make the transition from college to the NFL is at quarterback. With that being said joining us is rookie Cardale Jones. How is your first camping going?
  CARDALE JONES: learned a lot from EJ and Taylor and Coach Roman and Coach Lee. I’m just learning how to prepare and play as an NFL quarterback.
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• Bills training camp: one-on-one with Cardae Jones

  16-08-2016 01:36 via wivb.com
  
  PITTSFORD, N.Y. (WIVB) – Sports Director Josh Reed chatted with the rookie quarterback during the Bills return to training camp on Monday.
  JOSH REED: The toughest position to make the transition from college to the NFL is at quarterback. With that being said joining us is rookie Cardale Jones. How is your first camping going?
  CARDALE JONES: learned a lot from EJ and Taylor and Coach Roman and Coach Lee. I’m just learning how to prepare and play as an NFL quarterback.
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• National Weather Service talks lightning safety after 11 people hit in NYS

  16-08-2016 01:35 via wivb.com
  
  CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. (WIVB) — Over the past few days we saw a number of thunderstorm systems move through Western New York. In the past five days,  just in New York State alone, 11 people were struck by lightning, including 2 people who were killed in Batavia.
  David Zaff, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Buffalo, said, “It has been a busy week for us in New York and in general when you count the whole United States.”
  On Saturday in the Capital Region &ndas
  
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• HS Football Preview: Canisius Crusaders

  16-08-2016 00:04 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Our first News 4 High School Football Preview is the Canisius Crusaders, the perennial Monsignor Martin favorites who fell just short of a championship last season.
  You can bet they won’t be satisfied until they reclaim that title.
  Led by returning seniors Cole Burniston, Mason Hoose and Paul Woods, the Crusaders sport a balanced roster that still includes the nation’s top kicker in Blake Haubeil, who is committed to Ohio State.
  “We always try
  
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• Dangerous Delivery: Why having a baby in the U.S. is riskier now than ever

  16-08-2016 00:00 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) –  Having a baby in the United States is more dangerous than you may think. It’s hard to understand how the United States is now one of only eight countries, including Afghanistan and South Sudan, where the number of women dying as a result of pregnancy and childbirth is on the rise. The mortality rate for American moms has more than doubled in the past twenty five years.
  6-month-old Abigail Sanchez is perfectly happy and healthy. But her mom,
  
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