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• Red Cross assists 18 people after home goes up in flames

  21-01-2017 23:40 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Buffalo fire investigators are working to find out what caused a serious fire at 435 Bailey Avenue early Saturday morning.
  18 people are being assisted by the Red Cross after a 10-apartment building went up in flames around 5:10 a.m.
  Buffalo Fire Commissioner Garnell Whitfield tells News 4, 16 adults and two children all made it out of the building safely and no one was injured.
  He says fire crews still carried out search efforts when they arrived on the scene becaus
  
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• Fire that left 18 displaced deemed arson by police, victim speaks out

  21-01-2017 23:40 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A 63-year-old man is facing arson, reckless endangerment and criminal mischief charges after Buffalo Police say he set a home on fire early this morning.
  Police arrested Roger Cornell of Olean, N.Y. late Saturday night. Investigators say Cornell used a flammable device to start the fire.
  The fire broke out inside a 10-apartment building at 435 Bailey Avenue around 5:10 Saturday morning.
  18 people were displaced by the fire and are being assisted by the Red Cross
  
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• Fire that left 18 displaced deemed arson by police

  21-01-2017 23:40 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A 63-year-old man is facing arson, reckless endangerment and criminal mischief charges after Buffalo Police say he set a home on fire early this morning.
  The fire broke out inside a 10-apartment building at 435 Bailey Avenue around 5:10 Saturday morning.
  18 people were displaced by the fire and are being assisted by the Red Cross.
  Buffalo Fire Commissioner Garnell Whitfield tells News 4, 16 adults and two children all made it out of the building safely and no on
  
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• WNY Middle School students face off in Future City Competition

  21-01-2017 20:16 via wivb.com
  
  KENMORE, N.Y. (WIVB) –  Months of hard work came to an end Saturday for groups of middle school students across Western New York. They are just a few of the 40 thousand students participating in the Future City Competition across the country.
  From the water crisis in Flint, Michigan to making the 33 here in Buffalo more effiicent and safer, students are tasked with solving real-world problems.
  19 students from 15 schools face off in the Future City Competition. Tea
  
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• Greater Niagara Fishing and Outdoor Expo brings thousands to Niagara Falls

  21-01-2017 17:59 via wivb.com
  
  NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (WIVB) —During the winter months unless you’re ice fishing, a lot of fishermen are dreaming of the days the fish are ready to be caught. This weekend, thousands are traveling to The Conference and Event Center of Niagara Falls to get prepared.
  One fisherman told News 4,”Gone are the days of the little red and white bobber and a hunk of worm.”
  Although it can be as simple as hook, line and sinker, fishermen at the Niagara Convention Center have lots of
  
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• Crews battle fire on Bailey Avenue

  21-01-2017 14:20 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — First responders were busy with a building fire in Buffalo Saturday morning.
  Crews were called to Bailey Avenue at Littell, near Seneca Street, shortly before 5 a.m.
  Multiple viewers shared images of the building on fire.
  Dispatchers confirm the fire was brought under control. The Red Cross is assisting 4 children and 13 adults as a result of the fire.
  
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• Students dead in bus crash in Italy

  21-01-2017 14:13 via wivb.com
  
  Verona, Italy (CBS/WIVB) — Italian police say 16 people died when a bus carrying Hungarian school students returning home from France crashed into the side of a highway near Verona.
  Thirty-nine people survived. Police commander Geralomo Lacquanita said the bus crashed and burst into flames just before midnight, late Friday.
  No other vehicles were involved and it was not clear why the bus went off the road, crashing into the barriers.
  The bus was returning to Budapest with students ages 15
  
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• Over 1 million join anti-Trump women’s marches worldwide

  21-01-2017 09:20 via wivb.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — In a global exclamation of defiance and solidarity, more than 1 million people rallied at women’s marches in the nation’s capital and cities around the world Saturday to send President Donald Trump an emphatic message on his first full day in office that they won’t let his agenda go unchallenged.
  “Welcome to your first day, we will not go away!” marchers in Washington chanted.
  Many of the women came wearing pink, pointy-eared “pussyhats
  
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• Protestors march through Buffalo after Trump’s swearing-in

  21-01-2017 04:45 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — About a hundred protestors took to the streets of Buffalo Friday night to protest our newly sworn in President, Donald Trump.
  At the same time the local protest was happening, a more violent protest was taking place at our nations capital.
  Protestors in Buffalo condemned the rioting.
  “Those people are not with the protests, they are anarchists,” said Jamie Diamond, Buffalo protestor.
  “That’s not necessary, that doesn’t do any good for th
  
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• How does he protect 6 month old grandson from lead contamination?

  21-01-2017 02:08 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – James Adams has owned an apartment building and two adjacent lots, for about 25 years, near some old industrial plants on the East Side of Buffalo that have long since been shuttered, and demolished.
  Adams’ mother and his daughter’s family live in the 4-unit apartment house on Spring Street. Last year, an inspector from the U.S Environmental Protection Agency asked Adams for permission to take soil samples in his yard.
  The retired Ford worker gave his oka
  
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• Stranger danger: man approaches 2 middle school students in Niagara Falls

  21-01-2017 01:18 via wivb.com
  
  NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (WIVB) — In two separate incidents early Wednesday and Thursday morning, two middle school aged girls were approached by a man in his 30’s on their way to school.
  “A student at Gaskill Prep School reported to her dean that on the way to school a gentlemen approached her tried to make conversation with her and apparently tried to hug her,” said Mark Laurrie, Niagara Falls City School District Superintendent.
  Niagara Falls police say the 13-year-old girl
  
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• Western New Yorkers react to President Trump’s inaugural address

  21-01-2017 00:25 via wivb.com
  
  WILLIAMSVILLE, N.Y. (WIVB)- Former Erie County Republican Chairman Bob Davis was decked out in red, white, and blue for the inauguration of the nation’s 45th president, Donald J. Trump.
  Davis organized a watch party for the President’s supporters at Dandelions Restaurant in Williamsville Friday afternoon.
  “I expect this president is going to do some things very quickly and I think he’s going to take a real hard look, quickly, at the ISIS situation,” Davis told
  
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