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• 18 million more uninsured if Obamacare killed, not replaced

  17-01-2017 23:56 via wivb.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Insurance premiums would soar for millions of Americans and 18 million more would be uninsured in just one year if Republicans scuttle much of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul without a replacement, Congress’ budget analysts said Tuesday.
  Spotlighting potential perils for Republicans, the analysts’ report immediately became a flashing hazard light for this year’s effort by Donald Trump and GOP lawmakers to annul Obama’s law and &
  
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• Police investigating fatal crash on Main St.

  17-01-2017 23:45 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Buffalo police are investigating a fatal crash involving one vehicle on the 2500 block of Main St.
  Sources tell News 4 that the driver, an 80-year-old Buffalo man, may have suffered from a medical condition before crashing into a utility pole.
  The crash happened around 2:30 p.m. Tuesday.
  The driver had to be extricated from the vehicle and was taken to Sister’s Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
  
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• Former Boy Scout leader pleads guilty to having child porn

  17-01-2017 23:39 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A former Buffalo Boy Scout leader has admitted to having child pornography.
  Daniel Huzinec, 25, pleaded guilty to receiving child porn.
  Prosecutors first investigated him more than two years ago.
  Police say he shared sexually explicit pictures of children online in December of 2014. He confessed to taking a picture of a boy while he was sleeping on a Boy Scout camping trip.
  Huzinec faces between five and 20 years in prison.
  
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• Presidential Inauguration history in WNY

  17-01-2017 23:38 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The tragic fall of one President led to the rise of another. President William McKinley visited the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo in September, 1901. A 28-year-old named Leon Czolgosz approached him with a gun. He shot the President in the stomach twice.
  “Czolgosz was an anarchist and he believed that by killing the President of the United States that the entire United States government would fall,” said Stanton Hudson, Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural N
  
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• GM to add or keep 7,000 US jobs, make $1 billion factory investment

  17-01-2017 23:26 via wivb.com
  
  DETROIT (AP) — General Motors is planning to invest $1 billion in U.S. factories and add thousands of new white-collar jobs.
  The measures have been in the works for years, but were announced today after criticism from President-elect Donald Trump.
  In all, GM says it will create or keep 7,000 jobs in the next few years, including about 7,000 at factories.
  Another 5,000 new positions will be created at its auto financing arm, and to develop new technologies.
  Trump has demanded that the auto
  
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• Obama cuts short Chelsea Manning’s prison sentence

  17-01-2017 23:09 via wivb.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is commuting the prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, the former Army intelligence analyst who leaked classified documents.
  The White House says Manning is one of 209 inmates whose sentences Obama is shortening.
  Manning is more than six years into a 35-year sentence for leaking classified government and military documents to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks. Her sentence is now set to expire May 17.
  She was known as Bradley Manning at the time of h
  
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• Cuomo: NY budget to include free state tuition, tax relief

  17-01-2017 22:32 via wivb.com
  
  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says highlights of his proposed state budget will include free state tuition for middle-class students, money for water quality and an expanded child care tax credit.
  The Democrat was expected to release his sweeping spending plan Tuesday.
  Lawmakers will spend the next several weeks pouring over the $150 billion-plus budget before making their own recommendations. Cuomo and the Legislature hope to approve the budget before April 1, the start o
  
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• Medical officials still not sure what killed inmate

  17-01-2017 22:23 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Erie County medical officials say they still don’t know what killed 27-year-old India Cummings.
  She died 20 days after entering the Erie County Holding Center last February.
  Her family’s lawyer says her cause of death is listed as “undetermined.” He released the latest report from the Medical Examiner.
  Cummings was arrested and taken to the Holding Center for an alleged car jacking. Her family is planning to sue the county.
  
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• Buffalo Zoo looking for help naming new ocelot kitten

  17-01-2017 19:53 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The Buffalo Zoo has announced the birth of a new ocelot.
  The kitten was born on November 17 to Ayla, 6, and Pedro, 12. They are second-time parents.
  The kitten, who is a boy, has not yet been named. The zoo is asking the local community help decide between four names — Javiar, Nico, Pablo and Tacito.
  You can cast your vote for which name you like best here.
  The chosen name will be announced on Sunday, January 22 at 10:30 a.m. — the same tim
  
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• Sheriff’s Office searching for suspect in Town of Alden

  17-01-2017 18:33 via wivb.com
  
  ALDEN, N.Y. (WIVB) — The Erie County Sheriff’s Office is searching for an assault suspect in the Town of Alden.
  The Sheriff’s Office has asked people to stay clear of Broadway and Townline Rd. in the town.
  St. John’s Baptist School is on lockout as a precautionary measure.
  The Sheriff’s Office also said that they are working with Alden Primary at Townline to initiate a precautionary lockout at the school. The Sheriff’s Office says the school is not i
  
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• Sheriff’s Office searching for assault suspect in Town of Alden

  17-01-2017 18:33 via wivb.com
  
  ALDEN, N.Y. (WIVB) — The Erie County Sheriff’s Office is searching for an assault suspect in the Town of Alden.
  The Sheriff’s Office says a woman was attacked with a knife in a church parking lot. She suffered two lacerations on her left abdomen and has non-life threatening injuries.
  According to the Sheriff’s Office, the victim said she felt she was harassed and stalked, but there was no evidence she reported it to authorities.
  The suspect is described as a whi
  
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• DOT to hold meeting in Hamburg on proposed Route 20 project

  17-01-2017 17:59 via wivb.com
  
  HAMBURG, N.Y. (WIVB) — Hamburg residents have the chance to learn more about proposed improvements for Route 20.
  The New York State Department of Transportation (DOT) will hold a meeting a Thursday, Jan. 19 to talk about the ideas, which would affect the road from Amsdell to Lakeview Rd.
  The project would create a center two-way left turn lane. This would be done by re-striping the current four-lane part “as a single-lane in each direction with a two-way center turn la
  
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• School bus crashes during freezing rain storm

  17-01-2017 17:22 via wivb.com
  
  LOCKPORT, N.Y. (WIVB) — Rain falls, freezing on roadways, glazing blacktops. It’s a messy morning commute for many is leading to a number of crashes.
  “A lot of people assume it’s rain — but there is a slickness out on the roadways,” said Trooper Jim O’Callaghan with the New York State Police. “When there is an accident, there are usually multiple cars involved and they’ll just keep hitting each other because people don’t know
  
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• Batavia businessman survives plane crash in Michigan

  17-01-2017 17:16 via wivb.com
  
  HOWELL, Mich. (WIVB) — CBS contributors in Rochester say a Batavia businessman made it out of a plane crash alive.
  The crash happened Monday in Livingston County, Michigan when Pete Zeliff tried to land his commuter plane at the county airport, sources say.
  Contributors say the plane “crashed through a fence and skidded across a road” before it caught fire, but it is not clear what caused the crash.
  A passerby helped Zeliff out of the plane, according to authorities.
  Zeliff own
  
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• Orlando nightclub gunman’s wife faces charges tied to attack

  17-01-2017 16:58 via wivb.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The widow of the Orlando nightclub gunman has been charged with helping her husband in the months leading up to the June massacre that left 49 people dead, according to an indictment unsealed Tuesday.
  Noor Salman, 30, is due in federal court in Oakland on Tuesday, following her arrest a day earlier on the Florida charges.
  The two-count indictment accuses her of knowingly aiding and abetting her husband, Omar Mateen, in providing material support and resources to the Is
  
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• MH370 hunt ends, maybe forever, after nearly 3 years, $160M

  17-01-2017 16:53 via wivb.com
  
  SYDNEY (AP) — The nearly three-year search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 ended Tuesday, possibly forever — not because investigators have run out of leads, but because the countries involved in the expensive and vast deep-sea hunt have shown no appetite for opening another big phase.
  Late last year, as ships with high-tech search equipment covered the last strips of the 120,000-square kilometer (46,000-square mile) search zone, experts concluded they should have been searching a s
  
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• Icy roads cause school bus crash in Lockport

  17-01-2017 16:37 via wivb.com
  
  LOCKPORT, N.Y. (WIVB) — A school bus was involved in a crash in Lockport Tuesday morning.
  About 20 students were on board, headed to Lockport High School when the crash occurred. No one was hurt.
  The students who were on the bus had the option to stay in school or be picked up by their parents after being evaluated by the school nurse.
  Authorities say that icy roads played a factor in the crash.
  Market St. was closed from Union to Main St., but reopened shortly before 9 a.m.
  
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• Catholic Health announces temporary limitations on visitors due to the flu

  17-01-2017 15:56 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The prevalence of the flu throughout New York has led Catholic Health to temporarily ban young visitors from its hospitals and long-term care facilities.
  Anyone younger than 14 will not be allowed to visit during this time to reduce the spread of influenza.
  “We never want to restrict visitors, however our primary concern is to protect the health and safety of our patients, residents, visitors and staff,” Dr. Kevin Shiley said.
  The facilities wit
  
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• Niagara Falls teenager excited to attend Trump’s inauguration

  17-01-2017 05:27 via wivb.com
  
  NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (WIVB)- From the primaries to Election Night, this presidential race has captured the attention of 13 year old Michael Zafuto.
  Now, the 8th grader from Niagara Falls is getting a once in a lifetime opportunity to go to Washington D.C. and watch as Donald Trump is sworn in as the 45th President of the United States.
  “I just love history and I just want to be part of this historic event,” said Zafuto.
  He made that message clear in an email to Congressman B
  
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• Break-ins have police, residents on alert

  17-01-2017 00:28 via wivb.com
  
  TOWN OF TONAWANDA, N.Y. (WIVB) — A series of car break-ins in the town of Tonawanda have police and local residents on alert. Authorities said this should serve as a good reminder to take simple steps to ensure more people don’t fall victim.
  The break-ins to vehicles and at least one garage happened over the weekend on Rosemont Avenue in the Town of Tonawanda. Police say the suspect or suspects were able to gain access to vehicles, and that each of them were unlocked.
  Inside one of t
  
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• Trump’s tweets about John Lewis prompt reaction on both sides

  17-01-2017 00:15 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – The feud between Georgia congressman John Lewis and President-elect Donald Trump is prompting swift reaction from both sides of the aisle.
  Lewis, a civil rights icon, questioned the legitimacy of Trump’s presidency during an interview with NBC News over the weekend.
  “I don’t see this President-elect as a legitimate president,” Lewis told “Meet the Press” on Sunday.
  Trump fired back via Twitter, calling Lewis, “all talk, no a
  
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