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• Fish and chirps? Crickets make leap in demand as a protein

  13-01-2017 23:22 via wivb.com
  
  WILLISTON, Vt. (AP) — At Tomorrow’s Harvest farm, you won’t find acres of land on which animals graze, or rows of corn, or bales of hay. Just stacks of boxes in a basement and the summery song of thousands of chirping crickets.
  It’s one of a growing number of operations raising crickets for human consumption that these farmers say is more ecologically sound than meat but acknowledge is sure to bug some people out.
  Once consumers get beyond the ick factor, they say, there
  
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• Former Florida Gov. Bush unlikely to run for office again

  13-01-2017 23:16 via wivb.com
  
  COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, whose bid for the presidency was derailed by businessman and eventual winner Donald Trump, says it’s unlikely he’ll ever run for office again.
  Bush, who is spending two weeks at a Texas A&M University teaching a course on the role of governors, said Thursday that he’s focused on building up his business again and working with the foundation he created to push for changes in education policy.
  “I unravele
  
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• Bottle of whisky signed by Trump fetches $7,334 at auction

  13-01-2017 23:11 via wivb.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — A limited-edition whisky signed by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has fetched some 6,000 pounds ($7,334) at a Scottish auction — or twice what was expected.
  Trump signed the presentation box of the GlenDronach single malt whisky bottled in 2012 to mark the opening of Trump International Golf Links in Aberdeenshire. The whisky was of a limited edition distilled in 1985.
  McTear’s Auctioneers in Glasgow says the Canadian buyer won the bottle after intense bidding.
  
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• CDC warns 2017 flu season expected to be worse than last years

  13-01-2017 23:02 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Dr. Joseph Cronin says the flu shows no signs of slowing down in Western New York anytime soon.
  “Just in the last few weeks we’ve seen at minimum 20 people with the flu,” said Joseph Cronin, MD, WNY Immediate Care Physician.
  He sees patients at WNY Immediate Care in North Buffalo.
  Though Erie County is not at epidemic proportions for the influenza virus, Doctor Cronin says there has been a steady gradual increase. The local data is in line with nati
  
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• Coyote spotted in Village of Lancaster

  13-01-2017 22:50 via wivb.com
  
  LANCASTER, N.Y. (WIVB) — Since a coyote has been seen in the Village of Lancaster, police there are warning residents to keep an eye on their kids and pets.
  A resident took photos of a coyote near Wilkshire Pl. and Aurora St. The person who took the pictures says the coyote was also seen at other times in the same area.
  Police are encouraging Lancaster residents to bring any pet food or other potential coyote food sources inside.
  The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
  
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• New exhibits open to the public at Botanical Gardens

  13-01-2017 22:33 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Two brand new exhibits are now on display at the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens.
  The greenhouses have been closed since April of 2015 for renovations. Today two new exhibits, an Asian Rainforest and Aquatic Garden, were unofficially unveiled.
  The exhibits have rare and exotic plants that are typically found in an Asian rainforest. There’s a new waterfall feature that stands about 30 feet high.
  The exhibits create a tranquil environment, it also inclu
  
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• Buffalo Teachers Federation calls for Paladino’s removal from school board

  13-01-2017 22:16 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The Buffalo Teachers Federation released a statement on Friday calling for the removal of Carl Paladino from the Buffalo Board of Education.
  “Citing Carl Paladino’s racist, demented and obscene emails as well as his calls for President Obama’s death and First Lady Obama returning to being a male in a cave with a gorilla, the BTF will seek his removal from the Buffalo Board of Education,” the statement read.
  A resolution was unanimous
  
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• Medical Aid in Dying advocates optimistic in new session

  13-01-2017 22:13 via wivb.com
  
  ALBANY, N.Y. (WIVB)- Susan Rahn lives in three-month blocks. That’s how often she has PET scans; depending on what doctors find, she has to prepare for a different fate.
  Rahn has stage 4 metastatic breast cancer.
  The Rochester wife and mother is an advocate for Medical Aid in Dying. She started speaking out on the issue about a year after her diagnosis, when Brittany Maynard’s story went national. Maynard, a newlywed from California, moved to Oregon to access Medical Aid in Dyin
  
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• Police: Man drives with child while on narcotics; more than 100 bags seized

  13-01-2017 21:54 via wivb.com
  
  JAMESTOWN, N.Y. (WIVB) — Jamestown police arrested a man they say had a “large amount of heroin” and drove with a child while on narcotics.
  Police pulled over Felix Rodriguez-Gomez, 31, in the area of W. 11th St. and N. Main St. for alleged vehicle and traffic violations.
  Officers investigated and accused Rodriguez Gomez of driving under the influence of narcotics. A 13-year-old was in the vehicle at the time.
  After Rodriguez-Gomez was taken to the Jamestown City Jail, he was a
  
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• Zac Brown Band coming back to Darien Lake in June

  13-01-2017 21:25 via wivb.com
  
  DARIEN LAKE, N.Y. (WIVB) — Zac Brown Band will be at Darien Lake once again shortly after the start of summer.
  The country band will appear in western New York on June 25 as part of their Welcome Home Tour.
  Tickets go on sale Friday, Jan. 20 at 10 a.m. Prices range from $34.75 to $80.75.
  They can be bought online at LiveNation.com and Ticketmaster.com, or by calling 1-800-745-3000.
  The show starts at 7:30 p.m.
  
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• Takata agrees to guilty plea, will pay $1B for hiding defect

  13-01-2017 20:43 via wivb.com
  
  DETROIT (AP) — Takata Corp. has agreed to plead guilty to a single criminal charge and will pay $1 billion in fines and restitution for a years-long scheme to conceal a deadly defect in its automotive air bag inflators.
  The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit announced the plea deal on Friday, the same day it unsealed a six-count grand jury indictment against three former Takata executives who are accused of executing the scheme by falsifying and altering test reports that showed the i
  
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• Sean McDermott introduced as 20th head coach of the Buffalo Bills

  13-01-2017 20:32 via wivb.com
  
  ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (WIVB) – Sean McDermott was officially introduced as the 20th head coach of the Buffalo Bills on Friday afternoon. Owner Terry Pegula took the podium first and stated that the organization interviewed four candidates for the job and that McDermott stood out from the very beginning.
  McDermott then opened the press conference by thanking his family along with Terry and Kim Pegula and General Manager Doug Whaley.
  Below are some quotes from McDermott:
  ON A WINNING ATTIT
  
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• Southern Tier residents assessing damage from overnight flooding

  13-01-2017 20:22 via wivb.com
  
  SALAMANCA, N.Y. (WIVB) — The water levels are receding in Salamanca, a welcome sight for many who watched the river rising through the night.
  “Over here you [usually] have it all dry land,” said Officer Sam Depasquale with the Salamanca Police Department.
  That dry land along with most of trees lining the Allegheny riverbank sit submerged in rushing waters.
  “I’m kind of scared,” said Cori McKinney, from Salamanca. “People have to get back and forth t
  
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• Bills coach Sean McDermott arrives in WNY

  13-01-2017 18:47 via wivb.com
  
  ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (WIVB) — The Buffalo Bills call it “officially official.” Head coach Sean McDermott arrived at One Bills Dr. in Orchard Park Friday morning.
  The new head coach was seen shaking hands with people in the Bills organization after he got off a plane with his family.
  The Bills will hold a conference introducing McDermott at 2 p.m. You can watch it live on WIVB or on this page.Sean McDermott and his family have arrived in Buffalo! #GoBills https://t.co/np
  
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• Liberty depicted as black woman on $100 gold coin

  13-01-2017 18:19 via wivb.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Mint has unveiled a commemorative $100 gold coin that features an image of Liberty as a black woman.
  The 2017 American Liberty 225th Anniversary Gold Coin shows the woman’s head in profile with a crown of stars. It features the year of the mint’s founding, 1792, as well as 2017. The mint says the other side of the coin will depict an eagle in flight.
  The coin will be released on April 6. The mint says it’s the first in a series of 24-karat gold
  
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• AP Exclusive: Lie detectors trip applicants at border agency

  13-01-2017 18:11 via wivb.com
  
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — David Kirk was a career Marine pilot with a top-secret security clearance and a record of flying classified missions. He was in the cockpit when President George W. Bush and Vice Presidents Dick Cheney and Joe Biden traveled around the nation’s capital by helicopter.
  With credentials like that, Kirk was stunned to fail a lie detector when he applied for a pilot’s job with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which guards 6,000 miles of border with Mexico and Can
  
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• Water receding but flooding issues continue in southern Chautauqua County

  13-01-2017 18:02 via wivb.com
  
  TOWN OF GERRY, N.Y. (WIVB) – One day after snow melt and rain caused creeks and rivers to begin rising in Western New York, some areas in southern Chautauqua County still are under water.
  Several roads in the town of Gerry have stretches that remain covered in water, including a few that are still closed. Property owners on E Ross Mills Road told News 4 the water was at least waist deep over the road where it dips before heading up a hill.
  The colder weather Friday helped get the waters to
  
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• Police: Boy pulls gun on classmate, demands Chicken McNugget

  13-01-2017 17:58 via wivb.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A 12-year-old New York City boy is accused of pulling a gun on a classmate and demanding that she give him her chicken nugget.
  Police say the boy first approached the girl inside a McDonald’s in Harlem on Tuesday and asked her for one of her Chicken McNuggets. When the girl refused, police say the boy followed her as she walked to a nearby subway station and pointed a gun at her head, demanding that she give him a nugget.
  Police say the girl smacked the gun away
  
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• Erie County Holding Center, Correctional Facility have visiting hours this Friday

  13-01-2017 17:50 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The Erie County Holding Center and the Correctional Facility have visiting hours Friday, Jan. 13 due to the closure on the following Monday.
  The facilities are closed to visitors on Monday because it is Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
  Friday’s visitation hours are the following:
  Morning Session:
  Visitor sign-up 7:10 A.M. – 11:00 A.M.
  Visiting 7:30 A.M. – 11:30 A.M.
  Closed 11:30 A.M. – 12:15 P.M.
  Afternoon Session:
  Visitor sign-up 12:15 P
  
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• Tonawanda man accused of driving drunk with open beer bottle in vehicle

  13-01-2017 17:34 via wivb.com
  
  TONAWANDA, N.Y. (WIVB) — City of Tonawanda police arrested a man they say was driving with an open beer bottle in the vehicle and a suspended license.
  Police pulled over Tonawanda resident Kale Moberg, 48, when they saw him allegedly speeding on Roosevelt Ave.
  According to authorities, Moberg showed signs of intoxication and told police he had been “drinking beer at a friend’s house.” An open beer bottle was found in the vehicle, police say.
  Moberg’s license wa
  
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• Woman rescued from burning car

  13-01-2017 16:48 via wivb.com
  
  BERGEN, N.Y. (WIVB) — A man says he used his work equipment to help rescue a woman trapped in a burning car.
  It happened Thursday afternoon on Route 33 and West Bergen Rd. in the Town of Bergen.
  Two cars were involved. New York State Troopers say the accident happened when an 18-year-old woman ran a stop sign and hit another car driven by a 74-year-old man.
  Ross Gingrich says he and his partner Brian Frew work for Genesee Lumber and just made a delivery across the road.
  Gingrich says
  
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• Remains found in Arizona ID’d as missing real estate agent from Wilson

  13-01-2017 16:32 via wivb.com
  
  KINGMAN, Ariz. (AP modified) — Authorities have positively identified human remains found last weekend near Kingman, Arizona as those of a real estate agent missing since June 2015.
  Kingman police said Thursday that the Mohave County Medical Examiner’s Office used dental charts for verification.
  Authorities say 40-year-old Sidney Cranston Jr. was last seen on June 16, 2015 when he was showing property to an unknown client. Cranston was a native of Wilson. He moved out west more than
  
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• Police looking for Elmwood Ave. bank robbery suspect

  13-01-2017 16:00 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Buffalo police are looking for the suspect in a bank robbery on the 700 block of Elmwood Ave.
  Just before 4 p.m. Thursday, police say someone demanded and made off with an undisclosed amount of money from an M&T Bank branch.
  Anyone with information on the robbery is asked to call or text the police department’s confidential tip line at 847-2255.
  
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• Millennials are falling behind their boomer parents

  13-01-2017 15:28 via wivb.com
  
  SOUTH MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin (AP) — Baby Boomers: your millennial children are worse off than you.
  With a median household income of $40,581, millennials earn 20 percent less than boomers did at the same stage of life, despite being better educated, according to a new analysis of Federal Reserve data by the advocacy group Young Invincibles.
  The analysis being released Friday gives concrete details about a troubling generational divide that helps to explain much of the anxiety that defined th
  
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• Wheatfield mom and daughter found safe

  13-01-2017 14:48 via wivb.com
  
  WHEATFIELD, NY (WIVB) — The Niagara County Sheriff’s office has located a missing Wheatfield mom and her daughter.
  Patricia Jemiolo, 44, and her 10-year-old daughter, Rebecca, were last seen on Wednesday around 5:30 p.m. leaving their Niagara Falls Boulevard home.
  News 4 learned they were found safe on Friday morning.
   
  
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• Woman found dead in Town of Tonawanda street

  13-01-2017 14:45 via wivb.com
  
  TOWN OF TONAWANDA, N.Y. (WIVB) — Police want to know more about a woman found dead in a street this morning.
  A driver spotted the elderly woman lying in Colvin Boulevard near Lorelee Drive around 6:30 a.m. and called police.
  Police Captain Joseph Carosi tells News 4 officers are still gathering evidence and working to notify the woman’s family. They’re not sure how she died.
  This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
  
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• Anthony Lynn named Chargers head coach

  13-01-2017 05:53 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – After a roller coaster of a season as the Buffalo Bills offensive coordinator and a one game stint as interim head coach, Anthony Lynn has a permanent job as the man in charge of the Chargers.
  News 4 Sports Director Josh Reed broke the story:Done deal!! Former #Bills head coach Anthony Lynn has signed a contract to become #Chargers next head coach
  — Josh Reed (@4JoshReed) January 13, 2017
  Lynn was named the Bills replacement for Rex Ryan when he was fired
  
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• Source of bed bug infestation at county building unknown

  13-01-2017 00:52 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Erie County employees on at least three floors of the county’s largest office building could be exposing themselves to bed bugs.
  And although county officials said Thursday they’ve done their best to inform everyone of the infestation at the Edward A. Rath County Office Building, many employees interviewed in a variety of locations downtown said they weren’t fully aware of where the bugs were, whether they were protected or what the county was doing
  
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• Marine Corps Veteran, Buff State tight end looks to continue football career

  13-01-2017 00:19 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – “My biggest thing was to be a part of something bigger than myself, to be a part of a team.”
  For Nick Jones, a West Seneca West grad, his first taste of team was not on the high school football field.
  “I tried to play football but it didn’t work out,” Jones said with a laugh.
  Instead, right out of high school, he joined the Marine Corps and spent five years traveling the world and protecting our country.
  “I went to Afghanistan in 2
  
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• Caught on camera: Suspected tire thief arrested

  13-01-2017 00:10 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – A suspected tire thief thought no one was watching under the cover of darkness.
  But in reality, private video surveillance footage was recording his movements.
  Buffalo police say they’ve made an arrest in the case of vehicle tire thefts in the Allentown-West Side area that occurred over the last few months.
  “We were able to obtain video surveillance cameras from private residences that showed what he was doing,” said Joseph Gramaglia, chief of Buff
  
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