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• Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown delivers State of the City

  17-02-2017 23:49 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Mayor Byron Brown delivered his 11th State of the City address Friday to a gathering of business, community and civic leaders at the Buffalo Niagara Convention Center.Inside the convention center, several protestors attempted to disrupt his remarks, but they were quickly escorted out.Brown highlighted a number of initiatives ranging from economic development to job creation.He says there will be no hike in the residential and commercial property tax rate for a 12th
  
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• WNY Furtastic Adopt-a-Thon taking place Saturday

  17-02-2017 23:39 via wivb.com
  
  CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. (WIVB) — The Erie County Departments of Health and Emergency Services are working with a number of local animal shelters and rescues for WNY Furtastic Pet Adopt-a-Thon.
  The event will take place on Saturday, Feb. 18 to help dogs and cats find loving homes.
  “The collaborative event’s goal is to find new families to adopt a substantial number of animals in one day,” the Erie County Department of Health said in a statement.
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• More than 100 expected to be laid off due to closure of Quality Park facility

  17-02-2017 23:08 via wivb.com
  
  ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (WIVB) — More than 100 employees will be affected by the closure of Quality Park envelope facility in Orchard Park.
  The reason for the closure is economic, according to a New York State WARN notice.
  Layoffs of the facility’s 111 employees are expected to start next month and continue through May 18. Facility operations will close between Feb. 17 and June 16.
  
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• Lockport woman’s #Disabledandcute hashtag goes viral

  17-02-2017 23:06 via wivb.com
  
  LOCKPORT, N.Y. (WIVB) — Keah Brown has struggled with cerebral palsy for all of her life.
  “There’s a lot of aching joints it affects my right side mostly so it takes me a while to get dressed in the morning, longer than most people and then when I walk long distances its really rough because my legs start to ache and I have to sit down,” said Keah Brown, Cliche Magazine Senior Entertainment Writer.
  Keah is a published writer, and spends a lot of time writing about challen
  
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• Buffalo native on reality show, “Stranded with a Million Dollars”

  17-02-2017 23:00 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Buffalo native Alonzo Valentine went from being able to go to the fridge and eat anything…to having to hunt for fish and other edible food in a matter of days.
  Last March, he joined the cast of MTV’s new reality show called, “Stranded with a Million Dollars.”
  “If I ate, I had to hunt it. If I didn’t hunt it, then I didn’t eat it. And if I hunted it, I wasn’t going to eat it raw. So I had to cook it in order to eat it.
  
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• Police: Drunk driver backs into parked ambulance on first aid call

  17-02-2017 22:45 via wivb.com
  
  TONAWANDA, N.Y. (WIVB) — A Tonawanda woman was taken into custody after police say she backed into a parked ambulance that was on a first aid call.
  Early Friday morning, Tonawanda police say Tiffany Stein, 30, told them she was “drinking Coors light and had a shot at a bar on Sheridan Drive” before the crash.
  According to police, she was more than twice over the legal limit for alcohol.
  Stein was charged with DWI, unsafe backing and failure to use due care. She was held on
  
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• Grill fire prompts evacuation at Orchard Park Wegmans

  17-02-2017 22:30 via wivb.com
  
  ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (WIVB) — Wegmans says a grill fire occurred at one of their stores on Friday afternoon.
  It happened in the kitchen/prepared foods area of the store on McKinley Pkwy. in Orchard Park.
  When the fire occurred, the store was evacuated, but everything was back to normal later in the day.
  No one was injured.
  
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• Police: 4 kids found in unsanitary conditions taken from home

  17-02-2017 22:09 via wivb.com
  
  ATTICA, N.Y. (WIVB) — Four kids were taken from their Attica home after authorities say they discovered them in deplorable conditions.
  Attica police were assisting Wyoming County Child Protective Services in an investigation on Exchange St.
  The four kids were placed in foster care, and a woman was charged. Lisa Strong, 34, faces four counts of endangering the welfare of a child.
  After her arraignment, Strong was jailed in Wyoming County on $2,500 bail. She will be back in court next m
  
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• True or False: Robins are a sign of spring

  17-02-2017 22:00 via wivb.com
  
  JAVA, N.Y. (WIVB) —A lot of viewers have sent in photos to our newsroom of robins. And it’s not just a few. There are flocks of them.This time of year, if you see a bird you might think, is spring coming? Not so fast…Bird migration is a complicated process, especially for Robins.
  Tom Kerr, Naturalist at the Buffalo Audubon Society, told News 4,”We live at the Northern edge of the Robin’s year round range. So there are plenty that stay every year, there’s plen
  
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• Animal remains found in former site of pet store

  17-02-2017 21:51 via wivb.com
  
  BATAVIA, N.Y. (WIVB) — Batavia police are investigating remains found in a building that used to be a pet store.
  An employee with the building’s owner said they found animal remains while cleaning out the basement.
  The remains have been handed over to the SPCA. They are performing an exam to determine what type of animal died.
  Pet store Neptune’s Gardens rented the building for 15 years, but moved to a smaller location several months ago. They are still in business.
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• 2 men plead guilty after waterfall deaths of children

  17-02-2017 21:35 via wivb.com
  
  WARSAW, N.Y. (WIVB) — Two men, charged after they and five children were swept by a 70-foot waterfall, pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide.
  This past June, Farmington resident Tyler Jennings, 34, and Rochester resident Chad Staley, 32, visited Letchworth State Park with five children. After they entered a restricted area of the park, the water right above the Lower Falls, all seven were swept away.
  Two of the children, Dylan Giangregorio, 9, and Preston Gian
  
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• 7, including former police officer, arrested at protest outside Convention Center

  17-02-2017 21:10 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Outside of the venue where Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown gave his State of the City Address, seven protesters were arrested.
  Brown delivered his speech early Friday afternoon. Right near the Buffalo-Niagara Convention Center, at Franklin and Court streets, protesters were seen trying to confront Brown about the recent death of Wardel Davis.Protesters shout they're confronting @MayorByronBrown about death of #WardelDavis @news4buffalo pic.twitter.com/TQ9JELa4Oq
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• Hockey Heaven embracing its name this weekend

  17-02-2017 20:39 via wivb.com
  
   
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Buffalo is known as Hockey Heaven and this weekend, it’s embracing its name as there are several events going on, giving everyone a shot to try out the sport.
  “Buffalo is a hockey town, whether you’re watching or playing,” said Gina Heines, a brand manager with Labatt Blue, the sponsor for the pond hockey tournament happening at Riverworks this weekends.
  There will be a lot of watching and playing hockey this weekend — the Sa
  
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• Two-time Olympian bringing sled hockey to Canalside

  17-02-2017 20:13 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Buffalo area native, Adam Page, is teaching sled hockey to all at Canalside on Sunday. It’s through the Sled Hockey Foundation.
  Page, from Lancaster, is a two-time Olympic gold medalist and has been on Team USA’s Sled Hockey team since he was fifteen.
  “You always try to work,” said Page. “Either at the gym, on the ice, all by yourself – you put a 100% in.”
  Born with spina bifida, the lifelong Sabres fan says he picked up
  
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• Senate confirms Pruitt as head of EPA

  17-02-2017 19:33 via wivb.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has confirmed President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency.
  Scott Pruitt was approved on Friday by a vote of 52-46.
  Pruitt served six years as Oklahoma’s attorney general and was closely aligned with oil and gas companies in his home state, whose executives backed his political campaigns. He filed 14 lawsuits as attorney general challenging EPA regulations, including President Barack Obama’s plan to limit p
  
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• 19-year-old accused of killing friend arraigned in court

  17-02-2017 19:24 via wivb.com
  
  ELMA, N.Y. (WIVB) — A teen accused of killing his friend faced a judge.
  Jake Klocek, 19, is charged with second-degree manslaughter and was arraigned Friday morning. He is also charged with acting recklessly around a gun.
  Police say Klocek accidentally shot Anthony King in the stomach in Elma this past November.
  King, who died at ECMC, was also 19.
  MORE | Find more details on the incident here.
  
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• LIVE STREAM: Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown delivers State of the City address

  17-02-2017 18:23 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown delivers his 11th State of the City Address at 12:40 p.m.
  APP USERS | Tap to watch the address live here.
  
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• Jamestown bar ordered to shut down

  17-02-2017 18:12 via wivb.com
  
  JAMESTOWN, N.Y. (WIVB) — A Jamestown bar has been ordered to immediately shut down.
  The Outback, or as people also know it, “The Bar,” was told to cease all food and beverage services on Friday.
  The Environmental Health Division of the County Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) served the order since the bar operator failed to maintain a valid permit for operation.
  “This is an unfortunate situation but despite our efforts to work with The Outback/The
  
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• 375 students hit by flu at SUNY Brockport

  17-02-2017 17:52 via wivb.com
  
  BROCKPORT, N.Y. (AP) — Hundreds of students at a state college in western New York have come down with the flu over the past two weeks.
  Officials at The College at Brockport tell sources that about 375 students have sought treatment for flu symptoms since around Feb. 1.
  Libby Caruso, the college’s director of health counseling services, says none of the students who have had bouts of the flu were known to be hospitalized. She says it’s the largest number of flu cases at Br
  
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• WYRK holds radiothon to raise money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

  17-02-2017 17:42 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Volunteers at the Country 106.5 WYRK studios in downtown Buffalo have been busy since Thursday answering phones as donations have continued to come in for the radio station’s first-ever radiothon for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
  By 12:30 p.m. on the second day of the radiothon on Friday, $161,568 had already been donated. The radiothon continues through 7 p.m. Friday.
  MORE | To make a donation, call 1-800-372-4999.
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• Analysis: O.J. Simpson could be released from jail months from now

  17-02-2017 17:28 via wivb.com
  
  LOVELOCK, Nev. (WIVB) — Since 2008, former Buffalo Bills running back O.J. Simpson has been locked up at a correctional facility in Nevada. He was imprisoned after an incident where he forcefully tried to reclaim memorabilia from a Las Vegas hotel room.
  Simpson was sentenced to 33 years in jail, but may be getting out as early as this summer.
  Convicted of conspiracy, burglary, robbery, kidnapping and assault with a deadly weapon, Simpson may be released early, according to a
  
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• Trump weighs mobilizing National Guard for immigration roundups

  17-02-2017 16:32 via wivb.com
  
  (AP) — The Trump administration is considering a proposal to mobilize as many as 100,000 National Guard troops to round up unauthorized immigrants, including millions living nowhere near the Mexico border, according to a draft memo obtained by The Associated Press.
  The 11-page document calls for the unprecedented militarization of immigration enforcement as far north as Portland, Oregon, and as far east as New Orleans, Louisiana.
  Four states that border on Mexico are included in the propos
  
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• Trump expected to name Buffalo native as communications director

  17-02-2017 15:36 via wivb.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is expected to name Republican consultant Mike Dubke as White House communications director. That’s according to a person with knowledge of his hiring.
  Dubke is the founder of Crossroads Media, a GOP firm that specializes in political advertising.Company he founded says Michael Dubke was a @buffalobills season ticket holder @news4buffalo pic.twitter.com/hM1snpvamH
  — Nalina Shapiro (@nalinashapiro4) February 17, 2017
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• Overnight fire at Cheektowaga business

  17-02-2017 13:55 via wivb.com
  
  CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. (WIVB) — Firefighters worked quickly early Friday morning to keep a fire behind a Cheektowaga business from spreading. Crews got the call around 4:30 in the morning.
  They contained the flames and smoke to a rear two car garage attached to the main building. The main buildings houses Ink Spot, a tattoo and piercing business.
  Investigators tell us News 4 the garage has significant damage. No one was hurt. Investigators are working to find out the case.
  Crews had a
  
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• Pond hockey tournament about to get underway

  17-02-2017 10:31 via wivb.com
  
   
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – The annual Labatt Blue Pond hockey tournament is going on this year.
  It’s been growing every year and now, more nearly a thousand people are here for the annual pond hockey tournament, losing their pads and showing off their skating and stick skills.
  It’s taking place at Buffalo Riverworks all weekend starting at 1pm Friday afternoon.
  Aside from pond hockey, there’s bubble hockey, an exhibition sled hockey game, and a game between Buffal
  
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• Tonawanda Coke study nears start date

  17-02-2017 05:18 via wivb.com
  
  TONAWANDA, N.Y. (WIVB) — Researchers are getting closer to testing soil as part of the Tonawanda Coke study.
  Three years ago Tonawanda Coke Corporation was ordered to pay millions in fines after breaking the Clean Air Act. Now the company is required to fund work to help the community study and address its effects.
  Some residents say the study is a long time coming.
  “There’s a death in my immediate family that is maybe attributable to air pollution so I’m trying to follow
  
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• He paid his parking ticket, but his car registration still got suspended

  17-02-2017 01:57 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Larry Miller of Buffalo might have learned a very important lesson about parking tickets in Buffalo—you have to pay the fine, even if you challenge it in court. If you win the challenge, they return your money.
  Miller delivers newspapers for the Buffalo News, has been driving a rental car for his job for almost a week because his SUV–a Jeep Cherokee–has been locked up at tow lot, in Depew, since last Friday.
  The rental is depleting Miller’s r
  
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• Adams, Mobley duo for Bonnies among the best in the country

  17-02-2017 00:52 via wivb.com
  
  OLEAN, N.Y. (WIVB) – All eyes were on Jaylen Adams when this Bonnies season began.
  The junior was named to the preseason Atlantic 10 first team, and currently sits in the top-20 nationally for scoring, averaging 21 points per game.
  “I look forward to this last stretch,” Adams said. “Hopefully we can get something cooking.”
  But, when the double teams came for Adams, and when he missed two games with an injury, the Bonnies didn’t break a sweat.
  Matt Mobley,
  
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• Approach to immigration enforcement means a more active force

  17-02-2017 00:46 via wivb.com
  
  HAMBURG, N.Y. (WIVB) — Customs and Border Patrol agents have made headlines twice this week.
  If their activities so far in 2017 are any indication, this is likely just the beginning, thanks to a new approach to the same federal immigration laws.
  A spokesman for CBP emphasized Thursday this week’s enforcement activities were investigated heavily before any action was taken. And they were targeted against the people who were ultimately arrested after the agency received tips, in one ca
  
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• The hidden history of Niagara Falls

  17-02-2017 00:30 via wivb.com
  
  NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (WIVB) – In Niagara Falls, historians and members of the community are working together to uncover the hidden history of the Underground Railroad in the Cataract City.
  It’s a deep history that dates back to the 1800’s.
  A small group has spent the last decade collecting artifacts, periodicals, and other documents, trying to piece together the history of this region. Now they’re ready to bring it to life.
  Here’s a taste of some of the stories they
  
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• Bumpy ride frustrates Southtowns residents

  17-02-2017 00:29 via wivb.com
  
  SPRINGVILLE, N.Y. (WIVB) – Pothole problems are plaguing drivers who use a county road in the town of Concord.
  Many in the community have raised red flags about driver safety, and the damage done to vehicles.
  Springville-Boston Road, a 9-mile stretch owned and maintained by Erie County, is in desperate need of attention.
  Motorists have about had it with swerving around potholes.
  Residents like Jackie Ettipio have real concerns about the road’s condition.
  “You do lose control wh
  
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