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• Lancaster man could receive up to 50 years in jail on child porn charges

  29-11-2016 23:49 via wivb.com
  
  LANCASTER, N.Y. (WIVB) — A man from Lancaster who was accused of trying to extort young girls is going to prison.
  Joseph Lombardo, 25, pleaded guilty to child pornography charges.
  Lombardo was accused of meeting underage girls online, getting naked pictures and threatening to make the pictures public.
  Prosecutors say he also had sexual contact with two girls under the age of 18.
  Lombardo could get up to 50 years in prison when he is sentenced on March 7.
  
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• Man accused of stabbing uncle during dispute

  29-11-2016 23:19 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Buffalo police say a 20-year-old man stabbed his uncle during a domestic argument Monday evening.
  The alleged stabbing occurred on Busti Ave. just before 6 p.m.
  Jose Felix was charged with felony assault and criminal possession of a weapon. His uncle suffered non-life threatening injuries.
  
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• ‘Generation Startup’ documentary film by WNY native to air at Eastern Hills cinema

  29-11-2016 23:05 via wivb.com
  
   
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Kimberly Pellnat grew up in Cheektowaga, and studied Communications at Fredonia State University. That was the start of what led to a successful career as a film editor. She’s worked on several high-profile projects including the campaigns of President Obama and Hillary Clinton. She’s now back in town to promote a project called ‘Generation Startup’ that showcases what it’s really like to start your own business.
  “The risk o
  
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• Interview with Ohio State student who took pictures of accused attacker

  29-11-2016 22:56 via wivb.com
  
  (CBS) — Investigators are trying to determine whether a car and knife attack at the Ohio State University was an act of terrorism. A Somali-born OSU student plowed his car into a group of pedestrians on campus and then got out and began stabbing people with a butcher knife Monday before he was shot to death by a police officer. Eleven people were hurt, one critically.
  See CBS’ Brook Silver-Braga interview with Alex Chutkan, an Ohio State Student who took some of the first pictures of
  
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• Local expert explains “Run Hide Fight” response method

  29-11-2016 22:45 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)- Local and state police rushing Ohio State’s campus in search of the attacker Monday wouldn’t have always played out the same way.
  Director of Medaille College’s Homeland Security Program, Steven MacMartin told News 4 officers used to wait for a tactical team to arrive.
  “Columbine is probably a good point to look if you were building a timeline of these things. The shooting at West Virginia is another one you could look at where things probably s
  
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• School bus, truck collide in Buffalo

  29-11-2016 22:32 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A school bus collided with a truck at Seneca and Emslie Streets.
  The crash occurred on Tuesday afternoon and no one was injured.
  The school bus was not damaged, but the truck had minor damage.
  
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• “Rage donations” growing in Western New York

  29-11-2016 22:27 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)- Anger and anxiety, fueling Americans to open up their wallets.
  “This is kind of an interesting psychological phenomenon,” said Marketing Professor at UB’s School of Management, Indranil Goswami.
  He told News 4 the science behind so-called rage donations is pretty simple. When people feel anxious, or a lack of control, they’re more likely to act than when they feel content.
  “We’ve seen more calls about how people can help, how people
  
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• Learning Disabilities Association of WNY joining in on ‘Giving Tuesday’

  29-11-2016 22:13 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — ‘Giving Tuesday’ is a global day of giving back, and it’s all about donating to causes that you care about.
  The Learning Disabilities Association of WNY is joining in on the effort by kicking off two year end campaigns. One supports the equitable education fund and the other supports the Starlight Studio and Art Gallery on Delaware Avenue. The art studio offers a vocational program for people with developmental disabilities.
  Money raised will go tow
  
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• New Niagara Falls illumination project to be unveiled Thursday

  29-11-2016 22:11 via wivb.com
  
  NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. (WIVB) — On Thursday, the Niagara Falls Illumination Board will unveil its enhanced Falls illumination project.
  The $4 million project will be announced on the Canadian side of the Falls at Queen Victoria Place.
  The lighting upgrades are the first to have taken place in more than 20 years, according to the board.
  The ceremony will begin at 5 p.m. with free live entertainment at Illumination Tower. At six, Niagara Falls will go dark and the enhanced lighting wi
  
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• Batavia man found with dead cat cooking in oven sentenced to probation

  29-11-2016 21:34 via wivb.com
  
  BATAVIA, N.Y. (WIVB) — The Batavia man found with a dead cat cooking in his oven was sentenced to five years of probation.
  Before he was arrested in July, Darren Annovi, 42, had no criminal record.
  Firefighters say they saw light smoke everywhere when they entered his E. Main St. home. The cause of the smoke was determined to be the cat.
  According to Wendy Castleman, who works with Volunteers for Animals, Annovi “willfully put his pet cat into a hot oven and killed it.
  
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• Bills’ T Henderson suspended for 10 games

  29-11-2016 20:05 via wivb.com
  
  ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (WIVB) — Buffalo Bills T Seantrel Henderson has been suspended without pay for 10 games after violating the NFL’s substance abuse policy.
  Complications from Crohn’s disease kept Henderson off the field during the offseason, and when he was cleared for practice in August, he played one game with the team.
  Shortly after this, Henderson was suspended for four games after testing positive for marijuana.
  Henderson tried to appeal his suspension, but it was upheld.
  
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• Attorney claims teen who died in Lockport tire plant fire started it

  29-11-2016 19:43 via wivb.com
  
  LOCKPORT (WIVB) — The attorney for a teen charged with setting a Lockport tire plant on fire claims the boy who died, Joseph Phillips, 14, started it.
  The name of the boy who prosecutors charged with helping start the fire has not been released. He was 13 years old at the time of the incident.
  The boy faces 10 charges related to the fire, and denied his involvement.
  MORE | More on charges the teen faces, including criminally negligent homicide, here.
  According to the boy’s lawyer, th
  
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• Trump source says Elaine Chao is Transportation pick

  29-11-2016 18:49 via wivb.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump has picked Elaine Chao to become transportation secretary, a Trump transition official said Tuesday.
  The announcement was expected later in the day, according to the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly.
  Chao, 63, was labor secretary under President George W. Bush and the first Asian American woman to serve in a president’s Cabinet. She also is the wife of Senate Majority Leader Mitc
  
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• Sabres coach says Eichel will play at Ottawa

  29-11-2016 18:43 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP modified) — Sabres center Jack Eichel declared he’s cleared every hurdle in recovering from a sprained left ankle, and coach Dan Bylsma said the center will make his season debut at Ottawa on Tuesday.
  Bylsma noted he was impressed by how the player performed during consecutives days of rigorous practices.
  “Jack looks good on the ice,” Bylsma said.
  Eichel practiced with his expected linemates, Evander Kane and Sam Reinhart, and also assumed his familiar r
  
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• Orchard Park native enrolled at Naval Academy dies after fight with leukemia

  29-11-2016 18:34 via wivb.com
  
  ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WIVB) — An Orchard Park native enrolled at the United States Naval Academy in Maryland has died after fighting leukemia since August.
  Midshipman First Class Jason Jablonski, 21, died at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, according to CBS contributors in Baltimore.
  “Midshipman Jablonski was well known by fellow Midshipmen for his tremendous optimism and ability to have a positive impact on everyone he met, even in the face of a disease like leukemi
  
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• Trump taps Price to lead HHS, plans 2nd meeting with Romney

  29-11-2016 17:54 via wivb.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump made two Cabinet selections on Tuesday, choosing fierce Obamacare critic Georgia Rep. Tom Price to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, and Elaine Chao, who served in the Cabinet of George W. Bush, to serve as the secretary of the Department of Transportation.
  Trump announced his choice of Price, while the selection of Chao, the wife of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, was confirmed by a person with knowledge of the deci
  
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• World’s oldest living person celebrates 117th birthday

  29-11-2016 17:14 via wivb.com
  
  VERBANIA, Italy (AP) — Italy’s Emma Morano, the world’s oldest living person, marked her 117th birthday Tuesday, blowing out all the candles on her cake.
  Beaming at the attention, Morano took in the festivities for her milestone celebration sitting in an armchair in her one-room apartment in the northern town of Verbania, joined by her two elderly nieces, a pair of caregivers and her long-time physician.
  She received a greeting from Italy’s president, read by an official,
  
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• Giving Tuesday efforts benefit Community Missions programs

  29-11-2016 16:47 via wivb.com
  
  NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (WIVB) – People from across the community are coming together to support Community Missions on this Giving Tuesday.
  Community Missions provides 19 programs to people from all walks of life, including youth, adults, families, homeless, youth involved with the juvenile justice system, youth and adults with psychiatric disabilities, persons living with HIV/AIDS, and ex-offender parole individuals.
  The agency depends on support to make all that possible.
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• A list of sports teams involved in fatal plane crashes

  29-11-2016 15:37 via wivb.com
  
  (AP) — Members of Brazilian soccer team Chapecoense were among 81 people on board a chartered aircraft that crashed late Monday in Medellin, Colombia. It was not immediately clear how many players were among the casualties.
  A list of other sports teams involved in fatal plane crashes:
  Nov. 8, 1948 — Czechoslovak national ice hockey team, five members including IIHF Hall of Famer, Ladislav Trojak, in the English Channel.
  May 4, 1949 — Italian soccer club Torino. The four-time le
  
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• Wildfires create ‘State of Emergency’ in Tennessee

  29-11-2016 14:22 via wivb.com
  
  GATLINBURG, T.N. (AP) — The Tennessee Emergency Management Agency says National Guard troops are being sent in to help out as wildfires continue to spread in Gatlinburg and surrounding areas in the Smoky Mountains National Park.
  TEMA spokesman Dean Flener says the troops will transport first responders, perform welfare checks and remove debris.
  Emergency officials in Tennessee ordered evacuations due to the blaze in downtown Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge and in other areas of Sevier County.
  
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• Man killed in Newfane house fire identified

  29-11-2016 13:58 via wivb.com
  
  NEWFANE, N.Y. (WIVB) — Niagara County Sheriff’s Deputies are investigating a morning fire that took the life of a man.
  The fire started around 4:30 a.m. Tuesday in an apartment behind a house on West Avenue near Dutton Place. Roads in the area remain closed.
  Niagara County Sheriff James Voutour confirmed the death in a tweet around 7 a.m. The victim was identified as 54-year-old James Marsh.
  Investigators told News 4’s Ali Ingersoll the apartment didn’t have working
  
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• Man killed in house fire in Newfane

  29-11-2016 13:58 via wivb.com
  
  NEWFANE, N.Y. (WIVB) — Niagara County Sheriff’s Deputies are investigating a morning fire that took the life of a man.
  The fire started around 6 a.m. Tuesday in an apartment behind a house on West Avenue near Dutton Place. Roads in the area remain closed.
  Niagara County Sheriff James Voutour confirmed the death in a tweet around 7 a.m.
  This is a developing story. Watch News 4 Wake Up on CW23 for live updates from the scene.
   
  
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• Five survivors, rest killed in Colombia plane crash

  29-11-2016 10:43 via wivb.com
  
  BOGOTA, COLUMBIA — The Latest on the Colombia plane crash involving members of a Brazilian soccer team (all times local):
  4:25 a.m.
  Colombian police say that five people have survived a plane crash near Medellin’s international airport and the rest of the passengers have been killed.
  Gen. Jose Acevedo, head of police in the area surrounding Medellin, provided the information.
  A chartered aircraft with 81 people on board, including the Brazilian first division Chapecoense soccer team
  
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• Brazilian soccer team’s plane crashes in Colombia; 76 dead

  29-11-2016 10:43 via wivb.com
  
  MEDELLIN, Colombia (AP) — A chartered plane carrying a Brazilian first division soccer team crashed outside Medellin while on its way to the finals of a regional tournament, killing 76 people, Colombian officials said Tuesday. Six people initially survived, but one of them later died in a hospital.
  The British Aerospace 146 short-haul plane, operated by a charter airline named LaMia, declared an emergency and lost radar contact just before 10 p.m. Monday (0300 GMT) because of an electrical
  
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• City officials shut down Sweets Lounge after weekend shooting

  29-11-2016 06:24 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)- Closed for business. Mayor Byron Brown and Buffalo Police shut down Sweets Lounge and Restaurant Monday evening, a day after three women were shot at the bar.
  Buffalo Police told News 4 the women, in their 20’s and 30’s, were shot inside the bar Sunday at about 3:00 a.m.
  They were taken to ECMC with minor injuries. Buffalo Police are investigating whether the shots were fired from outside after an altercation inside the bar.
  The owner will have to appeal to
  
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• High School Hockey: Monday November 28th

  29-11-2016 05:37 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – The first full night of federation hockey in section six brought to overtime games to HarborCenter Monday night. Including a thriller where Bishop Timon came back from down 3-1 to win in overtime. Watch the highlights above.
  CANISIUS 2 – ORCHARD PARK 2 (OT)
  TIMON 4 – HAMBURG 2 (OT)
  
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• Police investigating hunting death in Chautauqua County

  29-11-2016 03:11 via wivb.com
  
  TOWN OF BUSTI, N.Y. (WIVB) —  Police are investigating the death of a hunter in the Town of Busti.
  Fire officials say they were contacted by concerned family members after a man went out hunting Monday morning and did not return. After searching a wooded area near Orr Street and Garfield Road the deceased man was found.
  Investigators say the man suffered a gunshot wound. His name has not been released.
  The incident remains under investigation by the Lakewood-Busti Police Department.
  
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• Police investigating High Street shooting

  29-11-2016 01:53 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Buffalo police responded to an afternoon shooting on High Street Monday.
  Police say a 34-year-old man was shot in the foot just after 3 p.m. The victim was treated and released from the hospital.
  Anyone with information is asked to contact Buffalo Police at 847-2255.
   
  
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