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• Snowy roads causing trouble in West Seneca

  05-01-2017 23:52 via wivb.com
  
  WEST SENECA, N.Y. (WIVB) — The snowy weather has been causing lots of trouble in the southtowns Thursday.
  Take a look at the early evening snow conditions in West Seneca in the video above.
  
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• Intel chiefs: Trump is wrong, Russia behind 2016 hacks

  05-01-2017 23:26 via wivb.com
  
  WASHINGTON (MEDIA GENERAL) — Old school Republicans in the Senate aren’t sitting idly by as their party’s new leader Donald Trump bashes the intelligence community and questions findings that Russia hacked American entities and operatives in order to influence the 2016 election.
  Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., used his power as Senate Armed Services Committee chairman on Thursday to launch a probe of Russia’s role in the hacking.
  “Every American should be alarmed by
  
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• Evans, member of Buffalo’s 1958 Tangerine Bowl team, dies

  05-01-2017 23:08 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Willie Evans, the star black halfback of Buffalo’s 1958 team that balked at competing in the Tangerine Bowl because of a rule barring integrated football games, has died. He was 79.
  The school announced Evans died in Buffalo on Wednesday after a brief illness.
  Evans grew up in Buffalo and was a member of UB’s 1958 team that went 8-1 and won the Lambert Cup, awarded to the nation’s top small school in the East. Buffalo accepted a berth to play in
  
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• Man convicted of attempted robbery wanted by authorities

  05-01-2017 22:29 via wivb.com
  
  NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (WIVB) — A man convicted of attempted robbery has been accused of violating his parole, and now authorities are looking for him.
  Joel Zsebehazy, 33, stands as 5’10” and weighs 165 lbs. He has blond hair and brown eyes.
  Zsebehazy’s address is listed as 1570 Buffalo Ave. in Niagara Falls.
  He has a violent history, according to Crime Stoppers, and should be considered armed and dangerous. Zsebehazy is suspected in a recent bank robbery, and auth
  
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• Man accused of bank robberies in Amherst, Buffalo

  05-01-2017 21:35 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Police in Buffalo captured a bank robbery suspect after a morning incident on the 200 block of Elmwood Ave.
  Police say a KeyBank branch was robbed around 11:25 a.m.
  The suspect gave the teller a note and demanded money, but no weapon was seen, police say.
  Security officials chased after the alleged robber, and he was subsequently caught near the bank.
  The same suspect was also accused of a robbery at an M&T Bank branch in Amherst on the same day. After
  
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• Travel advisories, restrictions issued

  05-01-2017 21:18 via wivb.com
  
  LANCASTER, N.Y. (WIVB) — Travel advisories were issued in the Towns of Orchard Park and Aurora until further notice.
  The advisories were issued on Thursday afternoon amid lake-effect snowfall.
  In addition to the advisories, the Village of Lancaster issued a restriction against unnecessary travel effective at 4 p.m.
  CLOSINGS | For a full list of closings and cancellations, click/tap here.
  
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• Winter activity enthusiasts embracing lake effect storm

  05-01-2017 19:59 via wivb.com
  
  GLENWOOD, N.Y. (WIVB) —  Fresh powder coats the hills at Kissing Bridge as skiers gear up- ready to carve the slopes.
  “It’s like feathers and it’s this feeling of floating,” Jack Zimmerman, an avid skier.
  These winter weather enthusiasts have been waiting for a storm to come through this part of the county
  “All the lake effect storms have kind of just been a little to the south,” said Rachel Fanelli, the marketing team leader at Kissing Bridge.
  
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• Some WNY drivers deal with messy morning commute

  05-01-2017 17:50 via wivb.com
  
  GOWANDA, N.Y. (WIVB) – The drive to work for many people in parts of Western New York was slow going Thursday morning as a band of Lake Effect Snow sat over some parts of our area.
  Early Thursday morning, the band was dumping snow on places like Gowanda, creating difficult driving conditions and reducing visibility for drivers.
  The conditions prompted Gowanda Schools to cancel classes for the day, one of several districts in the area to do so.
  Gowanda residents told News 4 they believed th
  
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• Bills QB Tyrod Taylor undergoes surgery, Lynn interviews with team

  05-01-2017 17:34 via wivb.com
  
  ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (WIVB) — Buffalo Bills QB Tyrod Taylor elected to have hernia surgery Thursday morning. He shared the news on his Snapchat, posting photos of himself in a hospital gown with a caption reading “Good Morning”
  Taylor consulted with a doctor Wednesday, which led to his decision to undergo the procedure. If Taylor is unable to pass a physical before the third day of the new league year, which is in about nine weeks, the Bills will be on the hook for $27.5 million
  
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• Bills QB Tyrod Taylor undergoes surgery

  05-01-2017 17:34 via wivb.com
  
  ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (WIVB) — Buffalo Bills QB Tyrod Taylor elected to have surgery Thursday morning.
  Taylor consulted with a doctor Wednesday, which led to his decision to undergo a procedure. The Bills were informed of the decision Wednesday.
  A statement from the team did not entail what type of surgery Taylor had.
  
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• Person looking for lost cross containing son’s ashes in Fredonia

  05-01-2017 17:25 via wivb.com
  
  FREDONIA, N.Y. (WIVB) — Fredonia police shared on a post on their Facebook page about a lost cross in the area, and are asking anyone who finds it to turn it in.
  The person searching for the cross says it has significant meaning — It contains the ashes of their son.
  The cross was on a chain, and the person looking for it says someone tried to rip it off their other son’s neck on either New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day. The incident allegedly happened in th
  
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• Anthony Lynn to interview for Bills head coach position

  05-01-2017 16:57 via wivb.com
  
  ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (WIVB) — The man who led the Buffalo Bills during their final game this season will be interviewed to possibly remain in the position.
  Anthony Lynn, who served as offensive coordinator before becoming interim head coach, will be interviewed as a head coach candidate Thursday.
  Lynn took over as interim head coach after the firing of Rex Ryan, who was with the team for nearly two seasons.
  The Bills’ final season game, which was against the New York Jets, was a l
  
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• Giving peanut-based foods to babies early prevents allergies

  05-01-2017 16:35 via wivb.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Most babies should start eating peanut-containing foods well before their first birthday, say guidelines released Thursday that aim to protect high-risk tots and other youngsters, too, from developing the dangerous food allergy.
  The new guidelines from the National Institutes of Health mark a shift in dietary advice, based on landmark research that found early exposure dramatically lowers a baby’s chances of becoming allergic.
  The recommendations spell out exactly h
  
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• GALLERY: Lake-effect snow covers part of WNY in first week of 2017

  05-01-2017 15:45 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — During the first week of 2017, lake-effect snow came down in western New York, especially in the southern tier. Look at these photos sent to us by viewers: Lake-effect snow in western New York (Viewer submitted photo from Springville)(Viewer submitted photo from West Valley)(Viewer submitted photo from Perrysburg)(Viewer submitted photo)(Viewer submitted photo)(Viewer submitted photo from Colden)(Viewer submitted photo from Colden)(Viewer submitted photo)(Viewer
  
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• Buffalo Police investigating fourth homicide of 2017

  05-01-2017 04:27 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Buffalo Police say the death of a man whose body was found near the Kensington Expressway Wednesday morning a homicide. This is Buffalo’s fourth homicide of 2017.
  Neighbors told News 4 they heard gunshots early in the morning.
  “I heard one gunshot, but my wife was awake and she told me she heard three or four of them,” said one neighbor, who did not want to be identified. He said he has real worries about his family’s safety in the area.
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• BREAKING: Buffalo Police investigating fourth homicide of 2017

  05-01-2017 04:27 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Buffalo Police say the death of a man whose body was found near the Kensington Expressway Wednesday morning a homicide. This is Buffalo’s fourth homicide of 2017.
  Neighbors told News 4 they heard gunshots early in the morning.
  “I heard one gunshot, but my wife was awake and she told me she heard three or four of them,” said one neighbor, who did not want to be identified. He said he has real worries about his family’s safety in the area.
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• Government mistake turns grandmother into a ‘zombie’

  05-01-2017 02:26 via wivb.com
  
  NORTH TONAWANDA, N.Y. (WIVB) – For Nancy Pipalski, each day is like being in the middle of one of those ‘zombie’ movies:The government says she is dead, but the North Tonawanda grandmother is still living, breathing, and eating real food–not the creepy stuff that zombies eat.
  Pipalski somehow ended up in the U.S. Social Security Administration’s Death Master File—a data base of Americans who are reported deceased–and when your name ends up in the DMF, y
  
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• Private colleges want Gov. Cuomo’s free tuition proposal to expand to all students

  05-01-2017 01:25 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)- Students and educators are calling a plan by Governor Andrew Cuomo to ease the tuition burden, a win.
  Governor Cuomo has proposed the state provides tuition-free college to SUNY and CUNY schools for families that earn up to $125,000 per year.
  “I think we all applaud that,” said Gary Olson, the Daemen College president.
  Olson wants to see the proposal expanded to cover private education. Right now, the state’s Tuition Assistance Program helps students
  
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• Erie County Executive lives on less than $7 a day, fights poverty stigma

  05-01-2017 00:01 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz is living in poverty this week.
  Poloncarz can’t spend more then $6.36 a day on food for one week That’s the average amount a person living in poverty can afford here in Erie County. And Poloncarz is now learning first hand, it’s not easy.
  Poloncarz is using his more than 11 thousand followers on twitter to get the conversation started on social media. He said, “People are following what i’m
  
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