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• Buffalo Public School “Spud Launchers” will send their potato into space

  11-02-2017 20:37 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) –  A potato in space. That’s the idea behind the “Spud Launchers” project.Three young women, and future scientists, here in Buffalo will have their potato experience orbiting somewhere inside the international space station, and they call themselves, “The Spud Launchers.”
  Three Buffalo Public School students, alongside their Advisor, Andrew Franz, will finally see only the finest of New York State potatoes fly into space.Gabriell
  
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• Polar bears at the zoo enjoy first date

  11-02-2017 18:41 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Today was a very special day for two animals at the Buffalo Zoo. Luna and Sakari, two polar bears, went on their first date.
  On a cold winter day, many people were feeling warm at the buffalo zoo. That’s because Luna and Sakari went on their first date and there will definitely call back. After meeting just recently, the two have grown to love each other, just in time for Valentine’s Day. Caitlyn Bruce, Primary Polar Bear Keeper at the Buffalo Zoo told Ne
  
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• Sargento recalls cheese due to possible contamination

  11-02-2017 15:05 via wivb.com
  
  PLYMOUTH, Wis. (AP modified) — Wisconsin-based cheesemaker Sargento Foods Inc. is recalling a specialty cheese because of possible bacterial contamination.Deutsch Kase Haus, LLC of Middlebury, Indiana, notified Sargento that it supplied the company with a Longhorn Colby cheese that may be contaminated with Listeria monocyctogenes. No illnesses have been reported.
  The recalled products are 6.84-ounce packages of Sargento Ultra Thin Sliced Longhorn Colby with sell-by dates of April 12 and Ma
  
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• Highlights: HS Hoops and Hockey

  11-02-2017 06:06 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)-   St. Francis outlasted Park in another overtime thriller in front of a sellout crowd.
  Elsewhere, Canisius’ Jayce Johnson had 15 points and 7 rebounds to lead the Crusaders to a 72-49 win over St. Joe’s.
  Also, the Kenmore East girls basketball team beat crosstown rival Kenmore West, 42-20. The Bulldogs captured their first Niagara Frontier League title since 2008.
  
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• Parking attendant recovering after assaulted and robbed at gun point

  11-02-2017 04:23 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — People who pay to park in downtown Buffalo are on edge after an armed robbery near Canalside.
  Dozens of people park in the downtown lot daily, it’s the Lower Terrace lot 1447, which is walking distance to Pearl Street and the Key Bank Center.
  Customers say it’s one of the cheaper and quieter lots in the city, but Thursday night a parking lot attendant was beat up and robbed at gunpoint.
  “Approximately 7 pm yesterday (Thursday) a parking lot attendan
  
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• Van Miller’s collection of auction items ‘well received’

  11-02-2017 03:54 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Van Miller’s widow, Gloria, says she is happy to see the items Van collected over decades will now be enjoyed by others.
  ‘The Voice of the Bills’ was known for picking up memorabilia and keepsakes during his 37 seasons as the play-by-play man of the Buffalo Bills. After his death in 2015, his family decided that many of these items should find new homes.
  During Super Bowl weekend, Hunt Auctions took bids on dozens of items from Van’s collectio
  
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• Mother of missing Pembroke woman speaks

  11-02-2017 03:26 via wivb.com
  
  GENESEE COUNTY, N.Y. (WIVB) — A mother from Genesee County is desperate to find her daughter who was last seen in Miami.
  Jennifer Say told News 4 her daughter, 22-year-old Alexis Say was last seen leaving a Miami hospital on Monday, January 23rd. Say grew up in Pembroke and moved to Miami in October of last year.
  Her mother says Alexis was taken to a hospital for treatment after having a seizure. That day, she borrowed a woman’s cell phone to call her mother and hasn’t bee
  
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• Buffalo homeschool mother fights to get her kids back

  11-02-2017 02:32 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Kiarre Harris accused Buffalo Public Schools of getting their homeschool paperwork mixed up, which she says led to her two young children being taken away, but a Family Court judge has upheld CPS for the removal.
  Harris recalled one of the last times she was with her children–on the evening of January 18, at the Millenium Hotel in Cheektowaga, “At this time my children were crying hysterically and I tried to get a minute to say goodbye, they refused to l
  
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• Former pastor convicted again on child sex abuse

  11-02-2017 00:53 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Convicted child molester Roy Harriger has been convicted again, this time in another state and by yet another accuser.
  But for the first time, he’s admitting to years of abuse.
  Harriger has now been convicted of sexually abusing children within his own family and accused of molesting children associated with his church.
  Until he was jailed in April 2015, Harriger continued to preach at Community Fellowship Church in Johnson Creek.
  In April 2015, members of Harr
  
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• Grand Island looking to build its own broadband

  11-02-2017 00:45 via wivb.com
  
  GRAND ISLAND, N.Y. (WIVB) — Town Supervisor Nate McMurray is trying to bring something unique to Grand Island, and so far, he’s the only municipality that’s gotten this far.
  He wants to build a broadband backbone along a mile stretch in the center of town to give residents faster speeds, and at the very least, a choice.
  “He said straight out, ‘They’re ripping you off.'” McMurray said quoting New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. “So they&rsq
  
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• A history of Trump’s statements on the ‘one China’ policy

  11-02-2017 00:00 via wivb.com
  
  (AP) — President Donald Trump sharply reversed himself Thursday after months of suggesting he wouldn’t hold himself to the long-standing “one China” policy, under which the United States only maintains unofficial ties with Taiwan. A history of Trump’s statements on Taiwan since November:
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  Dec. 2, 2016 — Trump speaks by phone with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, breaking four decades of protocol. It’s the first time an American president or president
  
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