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• What do you know about the Electoral College?

  19-12-2016 23:21 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)- Monday, 306 Republicans and 232 Democrats will officially gave the thumbs up for the candidate who won their state in the 2016 Presidential Election; those 538 political notables make up the Electoral College.
  “It’s the result of a compromise, as many things in the Constitution are,” said James Gardner. He’s the Interim Dean of UB’s Law School.
  As Gardner explained, the framers of the Constitution had to please 13 colonies who often w
  
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• Chronic pain: a new treatment path? (PART ONE)

  19-12-2016 23:05 via wivb.com
  
  AMHERST, N.Y. (WIVB)- Director of the Dent Cannabis Clinic, Dr. Laszlo Mechtler, has to find out how to accommodate a massive influx of new patients.
  “This is a game changer,” he told News 4.
  Dr. Mechtler doesn’t have a day off as it is, but he’s expecting his calendar is get even busier.
  Since the Department of Health added chronic pain as the 11th indicator for medical marijuana treatment, Mechtler told us he’s waiting for the “flood gates to open.
  
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• Local woman creates first of it’s kind diaper bank in Buffalo to help low-income families

  19-12-2016 22:56 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Raziya Hill spends a lot of her free time packing up donated diapers in her home and boxing them.
  “I get donations of diapers and I also get monetary donations I then use to purchase diapers through jet.com. I deliver either packs of 20 diapers or 10 pull ups that’s per child per month per family,” said Raziya Hill, Every Bottom Covered Founder and Executive Director.
  Hill started a first of it’s kind diaper bank in Buffalo, called ‘Ever
  
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• Award winning documentary created by WNY man shines light on down syndrome

  19-12-2016 22:29 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — An award winning documentary that sheds light on down syndrome will premiere on Showtime Showcase this week. It was created by a man who’s from Western New York.
  The film, called ‘Kelly’s Hollywood’ tells the story of a brother and his sister with down syndrome, and how he helps her pursue her dream of becoming a star in Hollywood.
  The film was directed by Brian Donovan who’s originally from the Kenmore Tonawanda area, and his sister Kel
  
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• Obama pardons 78, shortens sentence for 153 others

  19-12-2016 21:18 via wivb.com
  
   HONOLULU (AP) — The White House says President Barack Obama has pardoned 78 people and shortened the sentence of 153 others convicted of federal crimes. It’s the most number of individual clemencies in a single day by any president.
  Obama has been granting commutations at rapid-fire pace in his final months in office, but he has focused primarily on shortening sentences rather than pardons. Pardons amount to forgiveness of a crime that removes restrictions on the right to vote
  
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• Reports: Truck runs into crowded Christmas market in Berlin

  19-12-2016 21:00 via wivb.com
  
  BERLIN (AP) — German media are reporting a truck has run into a crowded Christmas market in the center of Berlin, causing multiple injuries.Both the Berliner Zeitung newspaper and the Berliner Morgenpost reported the truck ran into the market outside the landmark Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church on Monday evening.
  A photo posted by the Morgenpost showed damaged tables and stalls.
  The Berliner Zeitung said police believed there to be multiple injuries, but police couldn’t immediately be
  
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• At least 9 killed after truck hits German Christmas Market

  19-12-2016 21:00 via wivb.com
  
  BERLIN (AP) — A truck rammed into a crowded Christmas market in the center of Berlin on Monday evening killing at least nine people, and causing multiple injuries, police said.
  The truck crashed into the market outside the capital’s popular Christmas market at the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church.
  AP Television footage showed a large Scania truck with its windshield smashed out on the sidewalk alongside the market, with a swarm of ambulances nearby. A large Christmas tree with a gold s
  
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• At least 12 killed after truck hits German Christmas Market

  19-12-2016 21:00 via wivb.com
  
  BERLIN (AP) — Berlin police have raised the death toll after a tractor-trailer rammed into a Christmas market in the German capital.
  The truck rammed into a crowd Monday evening, killing at least 12 people, and causing multiple injuries, police said.
  The truck crashed into the market outside the capital’s popular Christmas market at the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church.
  AP Television footage showed a large Scania truck with its windshield smashed out on the sidewalk alongside
  
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• Post office prepares for busiest day of the year

  19-12-2016 19:24 via wivb.com
  
  AMHERST, N.Y. (WIVB)– Another truck pulls up to the loading dock; the door opens with a heavy clunk, revealing pallets with packages piled high.
  Some might be phased by this but the United State Postal Service workers have gotten used to it over the last few weeks as the holiday season is well underway.
  “It’s about the whole team – clerks, carriers, rural carriers, the maintenance department, supervisors — everybody works as a team to get the job done,” s
  
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• 28 year-old dies in Cheektowaga Police custody

  19-12-2016 19:06 via wivb.com
  
  CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. (WIVB)- The Cheektowaga Police Department says a 28 year-old Buffalo man died while in their custody Monday morning.
  The man was a passenger in a vehicle that was stopped by Cheektowaga Police around 9 p.m. Sunday night for vehicle and traffic law violations. Police say he had 39 oxycodone pills hidden in his sock and a bag of marijuana in his pants.
  He was taken to police headquarters without incident and charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance, crimina
  
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• Jaguars name Doug Marrone interim coach for final 2 games

  19-12-2016 18:57 via wivb.com
  
  JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The Jacksonville Jaguars have named Doug Marrone interim coach for the final two games of the season.
  General manager Dave Caldwell made the announcement Monday, a day after owner Shad Khan fired coach Gus Bradley.
  Marrone served as Jacksonville’s assistant head coach/offensive line coach the past two seasons. Before that, he was Buffalo’s head coach for two seasons (2013-14). Marrone went 15-17 with the Bills.
  Owner Shad Khan fired Bradley f
  
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• Electoral College members meet to cast their votes

  19-12-2016 16:56 via wivb.com
  
  ALBANY, N.Y. (WIVB) – The 29 members of the Electoral College in New York State are meeting at noon to cast their ballots for the next president. These meetings are happening across the country Monday, in what’s generally a formality finalizing the results of the presidential election.
  When the Electoral College votes are tallied up on January 6, President-elect Donald Trump is expected to win by a large margin, as determined by the states’ results on Election Day. Although Tru
  
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• Zsa Zsa Gabor: A rare, unforgettable celebrity

  19-12-2016 08:47 via wivb.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — You didn’t have to know exactly who she was to appreciate Zsa Zsa Gabor.
  She belonged to a rare, hard-to-catalog vintage of celebrity, not only the great-aunt of Paris Hilton, but a true ancestor of Hilton’s jet-set flamboyance.
  For such a flashy member of the leisure class, she did plenty, appearing in a number of films, including Orson Welles’ “Touch of Evil”; logging enough husbands to field a baseball team; and flaunting sex appeal, excess
  
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• Real life ‘Grinch’ steals Christmas decorations off front lawn of Hamburg home

  19-12-2016 05:54 via wivb.com
  
  HAMBURG, N.Y. (WIVB) — When the lights and decorations go up in the Pierce Avenue neighborhood in the Village of Hamburg, it’s a sure sign that Christmas is coming.
  “This is a labor of love this has been going on for years and years, Ken’s grandparents started it, Rita and Eugene. Now Ken and his fiance have really got it down with their friends and family,” said Billy Shoemaker, neighbor.
  It’s a tradition that Ken Boris has kept up for the past 15 years.
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• NYSP investigating fatal car crash in Town of Boston

  19-12-2016 01:14 via wivb.com
  
  TOWN OF BOSTON, N.Y. (WIVB) — New York State Police are investigating a fatal car crash that happened on Boston State Road Sunday evening.
  NYSP tell News 4 two cars collided head on.
  One person was in one vehicle and three people were in the other. Right now it is unclear who was killed.
  Police did not say if anyone else suffered injuries.
  Boston State Rod Northbound and Southbound is closed between Chestnut Ridge Road and Omphalius Road in the Town of Boston.
  Police say weather and road c
  
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• Fire destroys home in Cassadaga Sunday afternoon

  19-12-2016 00:42 via wivb.com
  
  CASSADAGA, N.Y. (WIVB) — A family already dealing with cancer lost their home and belongings in a fire in Cassadaga Sunday afternoon.
  The fire happened on Bruyer Road.
  No one was home at the time of the fire and no one was hurt.
  News 4 learned the homeowner’s 10-year-old daugher was diagnosed with cancer two years ago.
  The cause of the fire is unknown at this time.
  Photos courtesy: Daniel Kohler
  
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• Man shot in arm while waiting for metro train

  19-12-2016 00:32 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — NFTA Police say a Buffalo man was shot while waiting for a train.
  It happened around 11:30 p.m. on Friday Dec. 16 at the upper level of the NFTA’s University Metro Rail Station.
  Police say they found the man in a parked van after he was shot in the arm.
  Police are looking for any witnesses to come forward.
  Members of the university community are also reminded to stay alert, use university transportation and report any suspicious activity to the University
  
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