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• 19 year-old shot on East End Ave. overnight

  04-09-2016 18:27 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y (WIVB)- Buffalo police are investigating a shooting that happened just before midnight.
  Police say a 19 year-old Buffalo man was shot in the 100 block of East End Ave and taken to ECMC in a private vehicle.
  The victim is listed in critical condition.
  Buffalo Police ask anyone with information to call or text the confidential TIPLINE at  847-2255.
   
  
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• 19 year-old shot on East End Ave. late Saturday night

  04-09-2016 18:27 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y (WIVB)- Buffalo police are investigating a shooting that happened just before midnight.
  Police say a 19 year-old Buffalo man was shot in the 100 block of East End Ave and taken to ECMC in a private vehicle.
  The victim is listed in critical condition.
  This shooting happened just hours after a 25 year-old Cheektowaga man was stuck near East Ferry and Carl Street.
  He was transported by ambulance to ECMC where he was treated and released.
  Buffalo Police ask anyone with informa
  
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• Oil pipeline protest turns violent in southern North Dakota

  04-09-2016 08:42 via wivb.com
  
  BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A protest of a four-state, $3.8 billion oil pipeline turned violent after tribal officials say construction crews destroyed American Indian burial and cultural sites on private land in southern North Dakota.
  Morton County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Donnell Preskey said four private security guards and two guard dogs were injured after several hundred protesters confronted construction crews Saturday afternoon at the site just outside the Standing Rock Sioux re
  
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• Pope declares Mother Teresa a saint and model of mercy

  04-09-2016 07:32 via wivb.com
  
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis declared Mother Teresa a saint on Sunday, praising the tiny nun for having taken in society’s most unwanted and for having shamed world leaders for the “crimes of poverty they themselves created.”
  Francis held up Mother Teresa as the model for a Catholic Church that goes to the peripheries to find poor, wounded souls during a canonization Mass that drew an estimated 120,000 people — rich and poor, powerful and homeless — to a s
  
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• Wing fest attracts thousands to the Buffalo area

  04-09-2016 04:33 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Thousands of people traveled to downtown Buffalo this Labor Day Weekend to get a taste of wings from all over the world.
  The 2016 National Buffalo Wing Festival kicked off Saturday at Coca-Cola Field.
  The wing festival attracts people from all over the world. The two day festival is expected to bring in over 70,000 people from all 50 states and 49 different countries.
  “It’s my favorite holiday of the year. Everybody’s got a different take on the win
  
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