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• Official: Mexico’s president ‘considering’ scrapping US trip

  25-01-2017 23:53 via wivb.com
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president is “considering” canceling next week’s visit to Washington following President Donald Trump’s order to begin construction of a wall between the two countries, a senior official said Wednesday.
  The decision to rethink the visit comes amid growing outrage in Mexico, and a sense among many that President Enrique Pena Nieto has been too weak in the face of Trump’s tough policy stance.
  The official, who was not authorized
  
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• Driver in fatal Sardinia crash pleads guilty

  25-01-2017 23:07 via wivb.com
  
  SARDINIA, N.Y. (WIVB) — A driver has admitted to vehicular manslaughter after a crash in the Town of Sardinia.
  Delevan resident Robert Sutherland, 22, was high on marijuana when he hit and killed Sam Pagano, 22, last July, prosecutors say.
  Pagano was surveying Route 39 at the time of the crash.
  Sutherland could spend a maximum of seven years in jail when he is sentenced on April 6.
  
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• UB medical students take different approach to patient care

  25-01-2017 23:05 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)- Every Tuesday and Thursday, you’ll find a group of students from the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at UB, out on the streets.
  They’re providing impromptu check-ups to people who may not get into clinics very often.
  The program is called “UB Heals.”
  “We’re at Hope Gardens, which is a 20-bed permanent supportive housing unit for women who have been chronically homeless,” explained staff nurse Kimberly Burlinga
  
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• Stolen Virgin Mary statue quickly returned to Niagara Falls church

  25-01-2017 22:53 via wivb.com
  
  NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (WIVB)– A statue of the Virgin Mary in memory of a former parishioner has been out front of the Holy Trinity Church on Falls Street since 2002, until someone stole it earlier this week.
  Marg Domagalski was driving home from work Monday afternoon when she realized it was missing,
  “Just heart broken why do it, why take it you don’t need to,” said Marg Domagalski, Niagara Heritage of Hope and Service President.
  She says whoever took the statue had to work
  
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• Draft order: Trump intends to stop refugee processing for Syrians

  25-01-2017 22:40 via wivb.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A draft executive order obtained by The Associated Press shows that President Donald Trump intends to stop accepting Syrian refugees and will suspend the United States’ broader refugee program for 120 days.
  The president also plans to suspend issuing visas for people from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria or Yemen for at least 30 days, according to the draft. All are predominantly Muslim countries.
  Trump is expected to sign the order this week. It is not clea
  
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• A look at the Dow’s 1,000-point milestones

  25-01-2017 22:27 via wivb.com
  
  (AP) — The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 20,000 points for the first time Wednesday, two months after its first close above 19,000. Here are other times the Dow first closed above other 1,000-point milestones.
  1,000: Nov. 14, 1972
  2,000: Jan. 8, 1987
  3,000: April 17, 1991
  4,000: Feb. 23, 1995
  5,000: Nov. 21, 1995
  6,000: Oct. 14, 1996
  7,000: Feb. 13, 1997
  8,000: July 16, 1997
  9,000: April 6, 1998
  10,000: Mar. 29, 1999
  11,000: May 3, 1999
  12,000: Oct. 19, 2006
  13,000: April 25,
  
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• Proposed soup kitchen met with controversy in Niagara Falls

  25-01-2017 22:23 via wivb.com
  
  NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (WIVB) —  A proposed soup kitchen is being met with controversy in Niagara Falls. The proposed location is right at the heart of Pine Avenue’s business district in the same building as Carmine’s restaurant. While there is a growing need to help struggling residents some people feel that this particular spot is just not the right location.
  Father Mazur recently bought the building, and plans to use the upstairs part for a soup kitchen. The Pine Avenue Re
  
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• Man who pretended to be cop pleads guilty

  25-01-2017 22:12 via wivb.com
  
  CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. (WIVB) — A man who pretended to be a police officer pleaded guilty in court Wednesday.
  Corey Shepard had been charged with attempted criminal possession of a forged instrument, criminal impersonation, menacing and criminal possession of stolen property.
  Shepard called 911 to report an erratic driver, and also claimed to be an off-duty police officer assigned to Buffalo psychiatric police.
  MORE | Details of the incident can be found here.
  Cheektowaga police later
  
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• The Audcast, Episode 16: Sabres play-by-play man Dan Dunleavy

  25-01-2017 21:09 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — On the sixteenth episode of The Audcast, Buffalo Sabres play-by-play man Dan Dunleavy joins News 4 Sports’ Tom Martin and NHL.com’s Joe Yerdon for an extensive about the state of the Sabres, where they stand heading towards the trade deadline and what goes into Dan’s work behind the mic on game night.
  Other topics discussed include the long-term outlook for goaltender Robin Lehner, the absurdity of the anti-Ristolainens and Dan’s bel
  
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• Actress Mary Tyler Moore dead at age 80

  25-01-2017 20:52 via wivb.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Mary Tyler Moore, the star of TV’s beloved “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” whose comic realism helped revolutionize the depiction of women on the small screen, has died.
  Moore died Wednesday with her husband and friends nearby, her publicist, Mara Buxbaum, said. She was 80.
  Moore gained fame in the 1960s as the frazzled wife Laura Petrie on “The Dick Van Dyke Show.” In the 1970s, she created one of TV’s first career-woman
  
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• Trump: Wall construction will begin within months

  25-01-2017 20:19 via wivb.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump moved aggressively to tighten the nation’s immigration controls Wednesday, signing executive actions to jumpstart construction of a U.S.-Mexico border wall and block federal grants from immigrant-protecting “sanctuary cities.”
  “Beginning today the United States of America gets back control of its borders,” Trump declared during a visit to the Department of Homeland Security. “We are going to save lives on both sid
  
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• Elections officials reassure voters as President Trump calls for voter fraud investigation

  25-01-2017 19:44 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Despite claims from President Donald Trump that up to 5 million people may have voted illegally in the last election, Erie County’s Elections Commissioners say voters should feel confident about the effectiveness of the procedures in place to prevent such issues.
  Trump took to Twitter Wednesday morning to call for a major investigation into voter fraud, looking specifically for those voters who are registered in two states, those who cannot legally vote here, a
  
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• Charges pressed against alleged shooter in “crime of passion”

  25-01-2017 19:23 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Nadiyah Whitaker’s lip quivers and she wipes away tears hearing the judge deny bail.
  Whitaker is charged with second degree murder. Police say she’s the woman who shot and killed Shanna Mason on New Year’s Day. It happened on Gold Street. Police telling News 4, it was targeted. The victim, Mason, was on her break from work when she was gunned down. She leaves behind three young children.
  Police arrested Whitaker eight days later, charging her w
  
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• Sheriff: Buffalo man found with fentanyl, crack, loaded gun

  25-01-2017 18:56 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A Buffalo man is facing multiple charges after being confronted by members of the Erie County Sheriff’s Office.
  Members of the Sheriff’s Office’s Narcotics Unit approached a vehicle in a Williams St. parking lot driven by 22-year-old Marquis Shaw.
  Shaw and a passenger were removed from the vehicle. Shaw is known to have a suspended license, authorities say.
  The members of the Narcotics Unit searched the vehicle. The Sheriff’s Office says
  
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• 3 airsoft guns were found in student’s car

  25-01-2017 18:34 via wivb.com
  
  NEWFANE, N.Y. (WIVB) – Officers found three airsoft guns in a student’s car in the parking lot of Newfane High School.
  This happened on Friday, January 20 around 10:20 in the morning.
  Niagara County Sheriff Jim Voutour says the student did not bring the airsoft guns into the school.
  One student was charged with possession of marijuana.
  Michael Baumann, the superintendent of the Newfane School District, said they’re handling the disciplinary actions regarding the airsoft guns th
  
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• 100-plus puppies rescued after delivery van crashes in NY

  25-01-2017 18:28 via wivb.com
  
  AVOCA, N.Y. (AP) — An animal welfare group is caring for the scores of puppies that were being transported in a box van when it crashed and overturned on an upstate New York highway.
  State police say the vehicle crashed Tuesday on Interstate 86 in the Steuben County town of Avoca, 50 miles south of Rochester.
  Troopers say a Missouri woman was driving the van carrying more than 100 puppies when she lost control of the vehicle, causing it to hit a ditch and overturn.
  Troopers and employees o
  
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• Police: Man charged with raping 14-year-old girl

  25-01-2017 18:21 via wivb.com
  
  TOWN OF FARMERSVILLE, N.Y. (WIVB) — New York State Police arrested a man accused of having sexual relations with a teenager.
  Little Valley resident Loren Warner, 27, was charged with rape, criminal sex act and disseminating indecent material to minors.
  Troopers say Warner’s alleged victim was a 14-year-old girl.
  Warner was jailed in Cattaraugus County on $30,000 bail.
  An investigation is ongoing. State Police say there could be multiple victims in New York and other states.
  
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• WATCH: News 4 coverage of the Blizzard of ’77

  25-01-2017 17:37 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Roughly 40 years ago, parts of western New York were buried in snow during the Blizzard of ’77.
  The fierce storm kept people indoors (when they weren’t shoveling) and, in most cases, off the roads.
  News 4 was in the thick of it with coverage. Watch these broadcasts from four decades ago to relive the monstrous blizzard.
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• Bruno Mars will perform at the Grammy Awards next month

  25-01-2017 17:03 via wivb.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Bruno Mars will bring his upbeat, funky swag to the Grammys stage.
  The Recording Academy announced Wednesday that the singer-songwriter-producer will perform at the Feb. 12 show at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
  Mars, a four-time Grammy winner, is nominated for album of the year as a co-producer on Adele’s comeback effort, “25.” He worked on the ballad “All I Ask.”
  Other album of the year nominees include Drake, Justin Bieber, Sturgill
  
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• Buffalo police looking for missing girl

  25-01-2017 16:42 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Buffalo police are looking for help finding a missing 11-year-old girl.
  Tiyasis Robinson is missing from an address on Guilford St.
  Robinson was last seen wearing a white shirt, a black hoodie, blue jeans and a gray hat.
  Anyone with information on where she is or has been is asked to call 911.
  
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• Dow Jones industrial average eclipses 20,000 for the first time

  25-01-2017 15:44 via wivb.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — The Dow Jones industrial average is trading over 20,000 points for the first time, the latest milestone in a record-setting drive for the stock market.
  The market has been marching steadily higher since bottoming out in March 2009 in the aftermath of the financial crisis. The rally continued after the election of Donald Trump as U.S. president last fall.The Dow was up 102 points, or 0.56 percent, to 20,018.The Nasdaq rose 48 points, or 0.9 percent, to 5,600. The Standard
  
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• Police: 7 protesters who climbed DC crane associated with Greenpeace

  25-01-2017 15:11 via wivb.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Police say they believe seven protesters who climbed a 270-foot crane at a downtown Washington construction site just blocks from the White House are associated with the environmental group Greenpeace.
  Capt. Robert Glover of the Metropolitan Police Department told reporters Wednesday morning that officers were called to the area of 15th and L streets and found three people who weren’t authorized to be at the site attached to the crane. He says another four people ar
  
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• LIVE STREAM: Police: 7 protesters on DC crane associated with Greenpeace

  25-01-2017 15:11 via wivb.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Police say they believe seven protesters who climbed a 270-foot crane at a downtown Washington construction site just blocks from the White House are associated with the environmental group Greenpeace.
  APP USERS | See live video from the scene here.
  Capt. Robert Glover of the Metropolitan Police Department told reporters Wednesday morning that officers were called to the area of 15th and L streets and found three people who weren’t authorized to be at the site attac
  
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• Seneca Nation reacts to President Trump’s executive action on Dakota Access Pipeline

  25-01-2017 06:26 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)- Members of the Seneca Nation will continue to fight the Dakota Access pipeline despite President Donald Trump’s executive order to move forward with construction.
  President Trump also took executive action on Tuesday to advance construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.
  “The orders signed today by President Trump are an affront to those who have rightly and bravely sought to protect their water and their sacred sites from the destruction of the pipeline proj
  
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• Commissioner tells Council, police used SUV to stop ‘suicidal’ suspect

  25-01-2017 02:26 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Buffalo Police Commissioner Daniel Derenda tackled a number of sticky issues– including video of an officer slamming into a suspect with a police cruiser—in a hearing before the Common Council’s Police Oversight Committee, Tuesday.
  It was Derenda’s first public comment on the incident, leading to the arrest of Buffalo man described by family members as mentally ill. Derenda limited what he told councilmembers since the actions of police are s
  
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• Buffalo school board member says others conspiring to shut him out

  25-01-2017 01:14 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The Buffalo Board of Education has settled on trying to oust Carl Paladino not because of what he said last month about the former president and first lady. But because they say he divulged information covered during executive session, which was meant to be kept secret.
  Now, another board member and Paladino ally is accusing the board’s majority of holding it’s own secret meeting and intentionally excluding him.
  “You don’t have a right to over
  
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• News 4 Sports Director Josh Reed interviews GM Doug Whaley

  25-01-2017 00:26 via wivb.com
  
  MOBILE, AL (WIVB) – Sports Director Josh Reed caught up with Bills’ General Manager Doug Whaley at the Senior Bowl practices on Tuesday afternoon. Below is a transcript of their conversation. 
  Josh Reed: It has been a busy offseason for the Bills since we have last spoken with you. You have hired an offensive coordinator and defensive coordinator. What can you tell us about Rick Dennison and Leslie Frazier?
  Doug Whaley: First of all Sean is doing a meticulous job of tr
  
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• New 4Sports Sports Director Josh Reed interviews GM Doug Whaley

  25-01-2017 00:26 via wivb.com
  
  MOBILE, AL (WIVB) – Sports Director Josh Reed caught up with Bills’ General Manager Doug Whaley at the Senior Bowl practices on Tuesday afternoon. Below is a transcript of their conversation. 
   
  Josh Reed: It has been a busy offseason for the Bills since we have last spoken with you. You have hired an offensive coordinator and defensive coordinator. What can you tell us about Rick Dennison and Leslie Frazier?
  Doug Whaley: First of all Sean is doing a meticulous jo
  
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