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• Parkside residents frustrated with ongoing construction project

  07-09-2016 23:56 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)- It was a frustrating end to the Labor Day holiday weekend for Parkside residents like George Alexander.
  Tuesday morning he woke up to a surprise; that he no longer had access to his driveway.
  Alexander said the city never gave him a heads up.  According to the city, that’s the private contractors job.
  Both the contractor and the city told News 4 they knocked on doors early Tuesday morning, to let residents know about the work; Alexander wasn’t hom
  
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• Niagara Falls residents against proposed property reassessment that could raise property taxes for some

  07-09-2016 22:44 via wivb.com
  
  NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (WIVB) — Signs that read stop the reassessments are on the lawns of several houses in the Cataract City.
  “We pay enough as it is a lot of money for taxes I don’t want to see it go up at all,” said Murielle Cook of Niagara Falls.
  Cook is one of several residents who’s against a proposed property reassessment that could raise taxes for some people who live in Niagara Falls. She says she already pays some of the highest property taxes as a resident
  
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• Apple’s iPhone 7 has a better camera, repels water and dust

  07-09-2016 20:29 via wivb.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple announced its newest iPhones, the 7 and 7 plus, which are water and dust resistant.
  Analysts say the new iPhones could help Apple recover modestly from a recent dip in sales. But with few expected dramatic changes from previous models, Apple watchers aren’t expecting the kind of big spikes in consumer demand that the company saw two years ago, when it introduced larger screens.
  Apple sold nearly 92 million iPhones during the first six months of this year, a
  
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• US Coast Guard searches for cruise ship passenger in Bahamas

  07-09-2016 20:19 via wivb.com
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Authorities searched in the Bahamas for a U.S. citizen who went overboard from a cruise ship before dawn Wednesday.
  The U.S. Coast Guard said the 32-year-old woman reportedly fell from the 11th deck of the Carnival Ecstasy as the ship passed near the island of Grand Bahama. Carnival Cruise Line reported that she apparently jumped overboard.
  A statement from the cruise company said emergency procedures were initiated immediately and the crew began to search for the woman. The U
  
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• House vote on impeaching IRS chief possible next week

  07-09-2016 20:06 via wivb.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The House will vote as early as next week on a conservative effort to impeach IRS chief John Koskinen. But congressional GOP leaders still must decide how to avert a federal shutdown and finance federal efforts to contain the Zika virus, even as the approaching elections pressure them to avoid riling voters.
  After House Republicans met privately Wednesday for the first time since Congress returned from summer recess, leaders said GOP lawmakers would meet again next week t
  
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• Peace but extreme poverty in isolated region of Afghanistan

  07-09-2016 20:04 via wivb.com
  
  WAKHAN, Afghanistan (AP) — Saeed Beg and his family live in a two-room mud house with no electricity or running water, no bathroom, no kitchen and no furniture apart from a few threadbare rugs and a couple of thin mattresses.
  With his mother, wife and five children aged from 8 months to 14 years sitting alongside, he describes life in the Sarkand valley of Afghanistan’s far northeastern Wakhan corridor as “very difficult.” As he talks, the face of a child laying kindling
  
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• Official: 3 dead in plane crash near west Georgia airport

  07-09-2016 20:00 via wivb.com
  
  CARROLLTON, Ga. (AP) — A fire official says three people are dead following a plane crash near a small airport in western Georgia.
  Sources say Bud Benefield, a deputy fire chief for Carroll County, confirmed the crash happened Wednesday near West Georgia Regional Airport. The county is located about 45 miles west of Atlanta.
  Benefield did not immediately return phone and email messages from The Associated Press.
  
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• Gov. Cuomo signs liquor law allowing Sunday boozing with brunch

  07-09-2016 19:48 via wivb.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP modified) — Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a new liquor bill into law that will allow people to order alcoholic drinks on Sunday mornings to cap their brunch.
  The old blue law — a remnant of the Prohibition era — banned restaurants and bars from serving alcohol before noon. But some had long been flouting the law at the risk of being shut down.
  This year, state legislators voted in favor of a looser law that allows alcohol to be served Sundays starting at 10 a.m.
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• Sheriff: Inmate found with contraband after visit

  07-09-2016 17:51 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Deputies with the Erie County Sheriff’s Office say an inmate at the Correctional Facility was found with marijuana.
  According to authorities, Tyrell Brown, 23, was searched by a corrections officer after a visit. This is allegedly when the officer found a bag of marijuana in his sock.
  Brown was already being held on a weapons charge and parole violation.
  He was charged with unlawful marijuana possession as well as possessing contraband in prison.
  
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• EPA plans next phase of creek clean-up

  07-09-2016 17:51 via wivb.com
  
  LOCKPORT, N.Y. (WIVB) – People in Niagara County can speak up tonight about the EPA’s plan to clean up a contaminated creek. The government estimates it will take $23 million to complete phase two of the Eightenmile Creek project.
  This segment focuses on a one mile stretch from Upson Park, north to Harwood Street. That includes several industrial properties, like White Transportation and the former United Paperboard Company.
  It’s a complicated clean-up because even the EPA does
  
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• AP source: Bills Henderson appealing NFL 4-game suspension

  07-09-2016 17:37 via wivb.com
  
  ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — A person with direct knowledge of the situation has told The Associated Press that Buffalo Bills offensive tackle Seantrel Henderson is appealing the NFL’s ruling to suspend him for four games for testing positive for marijuana.
  The person spoke on the condition of anonymity on Wednesday because the suspension is being appealed and the NFL has not announced its ruling. ESPN.com first reported that Henderson was facing a suspension.
  The person said Hende
  
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• Local group looking for volunteers to tutor adults with trouble reading

  07-09-2016 17:01 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A western New York group is asking for volunteers to help adults who do not read or write English well.
  Literacy New York Buffalo-Niagara says thousands of adults in Erie and Niagara counties are functionally illiterate. This means that thousands read below a fifth-grade level.
  New York State currently ranks 49th in volunteerism in the entire nation, according to Literacy New York Buffalo-Niagara.
  Despite this, Literacy New York wants 25 loca
  
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• UNICEF says 28 million children uprooted by global conflict

  07-09-2016 15:54 via wivb.com
  
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Some 28 million children around the globe have been driven from their homes by violent conflict, with nearly as many abandoning their homes in search of a better life, according to a UNICEF report released Tuesday.
  The report found that while children make up about a third of the world’s population as of 2015, they accounted for nearly half of all refugees, with the number of child refugees having doubled in the last decade.
  “What’s important is that
  
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• Showcasing Lao culture, Obama pushes back on US isolationism

  07-09-2016 15:45 via wivb.com
  
  LUANG PRABANG, Laos (AP) — President Barack Obama ventured Wednesday to a remote mountain town in Laos to tour a centuries-old Buddhist temple, gently chiding Americans to resist turning a blind eye to the world outside their borders.
  Obama used a visit to the northern city of Luang Prabang to push back against an America-centric world view promulgated by Republican Donald Trump. Questioned by young Southeast Asians, Obama said the U.S. could be a great force for good but has been constrai
  
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• Marilyn’s ‘Happy Birthday’ gown going to auction in the fall

  07-09-2016 15:12 via wivb.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The flesh-colored, skin-tight beaded gown Marilyn Monroe wore during her breathless rendition of “Happy Birthday” to President John F. Kennedy is going on the auction block this fall.
  Julien’s Auctions is offering the sequined stunner at a sale in Los Angeles on Nov. 17.
  The auction house believes the gown could fetch $2 million to $3 million.The sultry actress wore the barely-there dress at Kennedy’s 45th birthday celebration at Madison Square Garde
  
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• LIVE STREAM: Gov. Cuomo speaks at sustainable development conference in Buffalo

  07-09-2016 14:48 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Gov. Andrew Cuomo is speaking in Buffalo at 9 a.m. to discuss sustainable development.
  APP USERS | Watch the conference live here.
  
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• Former Buffalo State student admits to threatening school staff, police officers

  07-09-2016 14:43 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A former Buffalo State College graduate student is facing up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine after admitting to threatening a number of people.
  Prosecutors say Colorado resident Benjamin Bolton, 32, entered the school as a student in Fall of 2013. He was kicked out in April 2014 after a number of disputes with faculty members and other incidents.
  In the Summer of 2015, prosecutors say Bolton made a number of calls to Buffalo State employees, inc
  
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• Shooting victim leaves hospital after being told of treatment plans

  07-09-2016 13:44 via wivb.com
  
  NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (WIVB) — A man was shot in the leg in Niagara Falls around 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.
  After the shooting, which happened near Whitney Ave. and 17th St., police say the man drove himself to a nearby hospital.
  The man’s stay at the hospital was short though, as he took off when staff told him he would have to go to ECMC.
  It is not clear what the man’s reasons were for not wanting to go to the facility.
  
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• Sorry kids: Docs urge flu shots, not nasal spray, this year

  07-09-2016 12:38 via wivb.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Kids may get more of a sting from flu vaccination this fall: Doctors are gearing up to give shots only, because U.S. health officials say the easy-to-use nasal spray version of the vaccine isn’t working as well as a jab.
  Needle-phobic adults still have some less painful options. But FluMist, with its squirt into each nostril, was the only ouch-free alternative for children, and has accounted for about a third of pediatric flu vaccinations in recent years.
  The proble
  
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• WATCH LIVE: Apple to show off new iPhones and maybe new ways to listen

  07-09-2016 12:32 via wivb.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple is expected to show off new iPhones, an updated smartwatch — and maybe some new gear for listening to both — during its annual fall product launch event today.Hard-core Apple fans will be watching closely for details about the newest features coming to Apple’s gadgets, from a widely anticipated dual-lens camera for the iPhone to a rumored GPS sensor in the Apple Watch.
  But even casual users of consumer technology may be interested to see if Appl
  
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• Apple to show off new iPhones and maybe new ways to listen

  07-09-2016 12:32 via wivb.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple is expected to show off new iPhones, an updated smartwatch — and maybe some new gear for listening to both — during its annual fall product launch event today.
  WATCH LIVE | Apple will make the reveal live here at 1 p.m. EST. Click or tap to watch.
  Hard-core Apple fans will be watching closely for details about the newest features coming to Apple’s gadgets, from a widely anticipated dual-lens camera for the iPhone to a rumored GPS sensor in the A
  
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• One man hurt in Town of Tonawanda shooting Wednesday

  07-09-2016 10:45 via wivb.com
  
  TOWN OF TONAWANDA, N.Y. (WIVB) — Police were called to a street early Wednesday morning for the second time in four days after a shot was fired; they say this time a man was shot.
  Officers were called to Ritchie Avenue around 1:00 a.m. where they say a man was shot in the leg.  The victim was taken to Erie County Medical Center for treatment.
  The incident Wednesday morning is unrelated to a call Sunday where nearby residents were told to stay indoors, police on the scene told News 4.
  
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• Lackawanna City Council looks at changing police education requirements

  07-09-2016 05:24 via wivb.com
  
  LACKAWANNA, N.Y. (WIVB)- A high school diploma might soon be all you need to take the Lackawanna Police Officer exam.
  “I think there’s a lot of people out there that are capable of doing the job, that know the streets, that grew up in the city that can handle the job without having a college education,” said Joe Jerge, 3rd Ward Councilman.
  Currently applicants need to have a high school diploma, or GED, and at least three years of active military experience, or have an Ass
  
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• Two alarm fire breaks out on Grant Street

  07-09-2016 05:18 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Firefighters are at the scene of a two alarm fire on Grant Street.
  The fire broke out just after 9:30 p.m. in a two story building. After receiving multiple reports that someone may be inside the home, firefighters searched and did not find anyone.
  A fire official says the home is vacant and will be demolished. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
   
   
  
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• Selling your home could lead to expensive surprises

  07-09-2016 03:11 via wivb.com
  
  KENMORE, N.Y. (WIVB) – If you are about to sell your home that you have been living in your for 5 years or more, you could be in for a couple of big surprises.
  First ring suburbs such as Tonawanda, Amherst, and the Village of Kenmore require a sump pump, which can tack thousands of dollars onto the sale price, even if water has never been an issue.
  The sump pumps have to be inspected with the homes electrical circuitry and plumbing, which can lead to other surprises.
  If you bought a home
  
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• Big changes roll out for Peace Bridge traffic

  07-09-2016 00:57 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)- The state’s Gateway Connections Improvement Project aims to ease traffic congestion from the Peace Bridge onto Buffalo’s streets.
  The major changes of the $56 million project rolled out Tuesday.
  Baird Drive, which runs through Front Park, is closed
  A roundabout at Porter Avenue directs traffic onto the Peace Bridge, the northbound Interstate, or to LaSalle Park
  All traffic exiting on the U.S. side of the Peace Bridge will be directed to the right
  The hope,
  
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• SPECIAL REPORT: Resettlement agencies face challenges finding housing for refugees

  07-09-2016 00:39 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)- The number of refugees coming to Buffalo continues to grow. In 2016, more than 1,000 refugees have been resettled in the Queen City, according to city officials.
  The growth has rejuvenated the West Side but now resettlement agencies are struggling to find housing.
  “If I had 10 more multi family income properties in this neighborhood, I’d fill every one of them,” said Michael Maywalt, owner of Maywalt Realty. “The demand is very, very strong for
  
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• Resettlement agencies face challenges finding housing for refugees

  07-09-2016 00:39 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)- The number of refugees coming to Buffalo continues to grow. In 2016, more than 1,000 refugees have been resettled in the Queen City, according to city officials.
  The growth has rejuvenated the West Side but now resettlement agencies are struggling to find housing.
  “If I had 10 more multi family income properties in this neighborhood, I’d fill every one of them,” said Michael Maywalt, owner of Maywalt Realty. “The demand is very, very strong for
  
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• Market rates and labor costs affecting local farmers

  07-09-2016 00:36 via wivb.com
  
  EDEN, N.Y. (WIVB) – The owners of Amos Zittel and Sons say they understand the gamble of losses and profits in farming, due to the weather and prices each year. However, due to a number of issues, this year has been worse than others.
  “You have good years and you have bad years. But on a bad year, when your labor costs are only going up, you can imagine what that does to the bottom line,” David Zittel, one of the co-owners of Amos Zittel and Sons said.
  Their family has been gro
  
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• Dept of Ed had ‘significant concerns’ over ITT’s finances, ability to serve students

  07-09-2016 00:13 via wivb.com
  
  TOWN OF AMHERST, N.Y. (WIVB) — On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Education responded to ITT Technical Institute’s unexpected closure by telling students and faculty the sanctions it imposed were due to “significant concerns” about the for-profit school’s administrative capacity, organizational integrity, financial viability and ability to serve students.
  The doors at ITT Tech’s Getzville campus were locked Tuesday morning, effectively locking out the futures
  
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