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• Pathway to Citizenship: Immigration reform’s immovable roadblock

  20-09-2016 23:46 via wivb.com
  
  WASHINGTON (MEDIA GENERAL) — Immigration issues sit at the nexus of the current election cycle.
  Republican nominee Donald Trump made building The Wall central to his campaign, saying he would guard American citizens from illegal Mexican “rapists” waltzing across the open southern border.
  Hillary Clinton’s approach is the diametric opposite. Democrats are courting Hispanics, an essential and sizable segment of their base, by calling for fewer deportations and granting
  
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• Queen City “ex-pats” celebrate everything Buffalo in Washington, D.C.

  20-09-2016 23:43 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – A piece of Buffalo will make an appearance in the nation’s capital.  The “City-Bration” buffalo affectionately named “Buffy” is on her way to D.C. be part of the annual ‘Buffalo Nite” celebration.
  If you’re not familiar with Buffalo “City-bration,” It’s where Buffalo ex-pats now living in the nations capital celebrate all things Buffalo at the Dirksen Senate Building.
  There are
  
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• Air Force: Pilot killed after ejecting in California

  20-09-2016 23:25 via wivb.com
  
  YUBA CITY, Calif. (AP) — The U.S. Air Force says one pilot was killed and another injured when they ejected from a U-2 spy plane shortly before it crashed in Northern California.
  Military officials say the aircraft crashed shortly after taking off from Beale Air Force Base on a training mission around 9 a.m. Tuesday.
  The Air Force did not release the pilots’ names or any information about the condition of the surviving airman.
  The aircraft was assigned to the 1st Reconnaissance squad
  
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• Training helps law enforcement respond to calls involving people with mental health problems

  20-09-2016 23:10 via wivb.com
  
  WILLIAMSVILLE, N.Y. (WIVB) — A special training is helping law enforcement respond to calls involving people with mental health problems.
  It’s an 8 hour a day training that’s happening through Friday. A dozen Buffalo Police officers as well as members of the NFTA, Cheektowaga Police department, Kenmore Police department and other agencies are learning the crisis intervention team, or CIT training model.
  The CIT program by Crisis Services is designed to improve the way law enfor
  
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• New gender neutral bathroom promotes acceptance at the University at Buffalo

  20-09-2016 23:10 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — It looks just like a normal single stall bathroom, the only difference is the label. It’s the first bathroom both males and females can use at the University at Buffalo.
  “It allows people to have a choice of what bathroom they want to go to and it helps people feel more comfortable while they’re in there so I personally feel it’s a good thing that UB did that,” said Jonathan Folmsbee, UB graduate student.
  The gender neutral restroom is l
  
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• Federal hearing begins for man connected to international kidnapping case

  20-09-2016 23:10 via wivb.com
  
   
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Eighty people sit in the Honorable Richard Arcara’s federal courtroom, anxious to see who will be among the jurors selected to hear the case against Philip Zodhiates.
  He’s the Virginia businessman connected to an international kidnapping case that has made headlines around the world.  A grand jury indicted Zodhiates on conspiracy and international parental kidnapping. He has pleaded not guilty.
  The case stems from a 2009 kidnapping i
  
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• Local company joins fight against Zika virus

  20-09-2016 23:07 via wivb.com
  
  SPRINGVILLE, N.Y. (WIVB)- A Springville workshop is home base to a serious Zika-fighting machine; the CSM3 Turbine Vector Sprayer and Duster.
  It’s a machine that’s been around since the 1940s, but it’s generally not until a big mosquito-related outbreak occurs that Buffalo Turbine gets a spike in orders for it.
  The spread of the Zika Virus in Florida has kept the company busy, general manager Paul Syracuse told News 4.
  “We’re getting numerous calls, I&rsqu
  
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• Offensive line provides bright spot for Bills

  20-09-2016 23:02 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – With back-to-back losses to open the season, there is plenty of fingers to point in the Bills organization. The offense proved lack luster in week one, and despite scoring 24 points Thursday, offensive coordinator Greg Roman was relieved of his duties.
  The one bright spot for the team has been the offensive line. Providing protection for Tyrod Taylor, who has only been sacked twice so far this year.
  “Everything’s always put on them,” Rex Ryan said.
  
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• Moments in Brad and Angelina’s Hollywood romance

  20-09-2016 22:53 via wivb.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Irreconcilable differences have brought an end to a Hollywood romance for the ages. Angelina Jolie Pitt filed for divorce from Brad Pitt on Monday after 12 years together. A collection of key moments in their relationship.
  A HOLLYWOOD MEETING (2003)
  Co-stars falling in love is about as cliched as it gets, but it happens, even when one party is married. The scene for Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie was “Mr. & Mrs. Smith,” a sexy action comedy about an unhappy
  
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• UB football preps for rush heavy Army

  20-09-2016 22:47 via wivb.com
  
  AMHERST, N.Y. (WIVB) – The UB football team faces a tough test Saturday when they return home. Hosting an Army team that has the second best rushing offense in the country. The Black Knights already have 15 touchdowns on the ground and a 3-0 record.
  “We have to pay attention to our pad level and get our pads down be able to tackle,” junior defensive end Demone Harris said. “Get our pass down, stay disciplined and really execute the game plan better than we did last w
  
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• Bus driver mistakenly drops off 1st-grader 9 miles from home

  20-09-2016 22:24 via wivb.com
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A school bus driver in Philadelphia dropped a 6-year-old first-grader off at the wrong stop, about 9 miles from her home.
  Maniyah Hickman tells The Philadelphia Inquirer she was scared when she saw it wasn’t her stop and couldn’t get back on the bus before it left.
  She waved her arms to get help when she says “a nice man” came to her aid. Chris Gray gave the girl his cellphone so she could call her grandmother. He bought her chips and a drin
  
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• Medina man jailed on crack cocaine-related charges

  20-09-2016 22:12 via wivb.com
  
  MEDINA, N.Y. (WIVB) — A Medina man is facing criminal drug possession and sale charges after being arrested on Friday.
  Christopher Haitz, 45, was under investigation in relation to crack cocaine.
  Haitz was arraigned and jailed in Orleans County on $50,000 bail.
  
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• Italian company to take over Chautauqua County cheese plant, saving 80 jobs

  20-09-2016 21:51 via wivb.com
  
  ASHVILLE, N.Y. (WIVB) — 80 Chautauqua County jobs will be saved after an Italian company agreed to purchase the Empire Specialty Cheese plant in Ashville.
  The plant, which makes mozzarella and ricotta cheese, was previously “in a difficult financial situation” due to constraints and needed improvements.
  Nuova Castelli Group will invest several million dollars into the manufacturing facility, which will include the additions of new machinery and equipment.
  “We want to
  
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• Jamestown police looking for man accused of assaulting victim, firing weapon

  20-09-2016 21:25 via wivb.com
  
  JAMESTOWN, N.Y. (WIVB) — Jamestown police are looking for a man accused of assaulting another person in an apartment.
  Police say a man at a Prendergast Ave. apartment fired off a shot from a pistol, but without hitting anyone. During an altercation, the man allegedly struck his victim with the pistol.
  The gun holder then left the apartment in a green caravan, according to police.
  He is described as a dark-skinned Hispanic man in his 40s. At the time, police say he was wearin
  
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• Batavia teacher admits to lesser charge amid sex abuse investigation

  20-09-2016 21:03 via wivb.com
  
  BATAVIA, N.Y. (WIVB) — A Batavia teacher has pleaded guilty to attempted disseminating indecent material to a minor.
  Originally charged with a felony, Monroe County resident Anthony Antinore, 51, allegedly received sexually explicit photos from a student. According to police, Antinore asked the student to send him the photos.
  Police say the student was not willing to testify before a grand jury or at trial.
  Antinore pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge, instead of a felony.
  In court, he
  
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• Driver who fatally struck Amherst man will not be charged

  20-09-2016 20:34 via wivb.com
  
  AMHERST, N.Y. (WIVB) — After an Amherst man was killed crossing Niagara Falls Boulevard weeks ago, police say that the driver who struck him will not be charged.
  John Strasser, 61, was fatally hit by an SUV shortly before 6 a.m. on August 30.
  The accident closed a stretch of the road for hours that morning.
  Darkness could have been a factor in the crash, but alcohol or drugs were not suspected.
  
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• FBI says it looked into New York bombing suspect 2 years ago

  20-09-2016 20:21 via wivb.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The FBI looked into New York bombing suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami two years ago after his father called with concerns his son was a terrorist, a law enforcement official said Tuesday. But the father later retracted the claim and told investigators he just meant his son was hanging out with the wrong crowd.
  In any case, the FBI checked its databases and found nothing connecting Rahami to terror groups, the official said.
  The father contacted the FBI after Rahami was charged wit
  
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• Cosmetic surgery rider for Buffalo teachers upheld

  20-09-2016 18:36 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A controversial part of Buffalo teachers’ union contracts, the cosmetic surgery rider, has been upheld.
  Back in June, the Buffalo School District was issued a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO), allowing teachers and their families to continue getting plastic surgeries.
  The order kept the district from ““terminating the cosmetic surgery provision of the parties’ collective bargaining agreement, pending disposition of the grievance and arbi
  
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• LeSean McCoy sued over Philadelphia nightclub brawl

  20-09-2016 17:58 via wivb.com
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Buffalo Bills running back LeSean McCoy has been sued over a Philadelphia nightclub brawl that left two off-duty police officers injured.
  The civil suit says McCoy beat and kicked one officer while he was on the ground and punched another officer in the eye. The suit was filed Tuesday in Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas.
  District Attorney Seth Williams announced in April that no charges would be filed in connection with the Feb. 7 fight, saying he couldn’t
  
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• Dads Take Your Child to School Day aims to get more men involved

  20-09-2016 17:50 via wivb.com
  
  NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (WIVB) – Across the state, a lot of kids got a special trip to school Tuesday, not because of how they got there, but because of who made the trip with them.
  This is Dads Take Your Child to School Day, and districts like the one in Niagara Falls, opened their doors to invite in men who have significant relationships with the children in their classrooms.
  “Children who have men involved in their lives in a significant way have better outcomes academically, socially
  
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• Kellogg recalls some Eggo waffles over listeria fear

  20-09-2016 17:27 via wivb.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Kellogg Co. is recalling about 10,000 cases of its Eggo Nutri-Grain Whole Wheat Waffles in 25 states because they could be contaminated with the bacteria listeria.
  Listeria can cause serious and even deadly infections. It primarily affects the elderly, pregnant women, newborns and people with weak immune systems.
  The Battle Creek, Michigan company said Monday it has received no reports of illnesses. Kellogg says it learned of the potential problem after routine tests.
  The r
  
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• Angelina Jolie files for divorce from Brad Pitt

  20-09-2016 17:12 via wivb.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Brangelina is no more. Angelina Jolie Pitt has filed for divorce from Brad Pitt, bringing an end to one of the world’s most star-studded, tabloid-generating romances.
  An attorney for Jolie Pitt, Robert Offer, said Tuesday that she has filed for the dissolution of the marriage. Offer said the decision to divorce was made “for the health of the family.”
  The couple has six children together: Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, and twins Knox and Vivienne.Though toge
  
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• VIDEO: Cheektowaga middle school dances their way into new year

  20-09-2016 16:58 via wivb.com
  
  CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. (WIVB) — Students, teachers and other staff members appear excited to be back at John F. Kennedy Middle School in Cheektowaga.
  James Cercone posted a video on Vimeo showcasing the school’s dance moves to the sounds of Justin Timberlake’s “Can’t Stop the Feeling.”
  After just one day online, the video has gained more than 2,600 views.
  Watch the video above, courtesy of Cercone.
  
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• 8 new arrests in France truck attack that killed 86 in Nice

  20-09-2016 16:02 via wivb.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — French authorities have made eight new arrests in connection with the Bastille Day truck attack in Nice that left 86 people dead, the Paris prosecutor’s office said Tuesday.
  The office said the suspects detained Monday were French and Tunisian and had links to the attacker, Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, who plowed a 19-ton truck down Nice’s Promenade des Anglais and into a crowd assembled for a July 14 fireworks display. All eight were arrested in the Alpes-Maritimes
  
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• 2nd trial in flight of woman, child in same-sex custody case

  20-09-2016 15:51 via wivb.com
  
  MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — A second criminal trial is set to begin in what started as a custody dispute between two women joined in a Vermont civil union and is now a conspiracy that reaches into Central America.
  Jury selection is scheduled to begin in Buffalo on Sept. 20 in the trial of a Virginia businessman charged with helping Lisa Miller and her daughter Isabella escape first to Canada and then Nicaragua amid the custody battle.
  Philip Zodhiates is charged with international parental kidn
  
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• Rex’s Biggest Challenge

  20-09-2016 05:55 via wivb.com
  
   
  BUFFALO, NY (WIVB)-  Two games, two losses, and one fired assistant coach. The Bills season has not gone as scripted and it could get worse… way worse. The Cardinals and the Patriots, Super Bowl contenders, are on deck so things don’t get any easier for the Bills. Rex Ryan doesn’t remember a more challenging start to a season during his coaching career.
  
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• Cheektowaga Kmart to close its doors

  20-09-2016 05:18 via wivb.com
  
  CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. (WIVB) — Days are numbered for Kmart’s Cheektowaga store on Walden Avenue.
  Business Insider reports this is part of 64 store closures spanning across 28 states. According to the report, all stores affected will close by Christmas.
  As of now, this is the only known Western New York store expected to close. It is unclear how many employees will be laid off.
  Here’s a full list of 2016 closings, according to Business Insider:
  Kmart #3044: Lawton, OK
  Kmart #31
  
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• Security tightens in WNY in wake of NYC bombing

  20-09-2016 00:45 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Security was tight throughout Buffalo Monday, less than 48 hours after a bomb ripped through the night in New York’s Chelesa neighborhood.
  From the U.S.-Canadian border to the rail lines and terminals of the NFTA, the increased presence was visible, by design.
  “We have stepped up security efforts throughout our transit system, and at both airports, the subway system and our bus system,” said NFTA Executive Director Kimberley Minkel. “You&rsquo
  
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• Local experts talk forensics in NYC bomb investigation

  20-09-2016 00:16 via wivb.com
  
  NEW YORK, N.Y. (WIVB)- State and federal investigators are working to determine what occurred during the hours, minutes, and seconds before an explosion in the Chelsea district of Manhattan injured 29 people.
  “So many years of forensics with bombings have improved the sophistication of investigators to be able to come up with that information not just from a bomb that doesn’t go off, but one that does go off,” said Peter Ahearn, former Agent in Charge with the FBI.
  Ahearn
  
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• Social Security’s challenging financial future

  20-09-2016 00:07 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y (WIVB) - Social Security turned 81-years old this year.
  It’s a depression-era social insurance program, established in 1935, designed to protect the financial security of Americans in their old age.
  The horrific effects from the Great Depression saw millions of Americans lose their jobs and savings.
  Initially, the program was intended to provide temporary “relief” until more Americans were able to secure retirement income.
  Social Security is a pay-as-you-go program
  
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