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• Rock and Roll legend Chuck Berry dies at 90

  18-03-2017 23:43 via wivb.com
  
  ST. LOUIS, MO (WIVB) — Chuck Berry, the rock `n’ roll founder who defined its joy and rebellion in “Johnny B. Goode” and other classics, has died in St. Charles County, Missouri, west of St. Louis. He was 90.
  St. Charles county police say they responded to a medical emergency Saturday afternoon and found Berry unresponsive. He could not be revived and was pronounced dead.
  Berry hit the Top 10 in 1955 with “Maybellene” and went on to influence generations of m
  
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• Teen tells police: ‘I didn’t know what to do.’

  18-03-2017 22:22 via wivb.com
  
  LOCKPORT, N.Y. (WIVB) — The 14-year-old who helped to start the Aug. 10 fatal fire at a tire recycling plant told a Lockport detective he panicked when he witnessed rapidly spreading flames inside an abandoned building.
  “I didn’t know what to do,” the teen told Detective Lt. Todd Chenez. “I ran out to try and get help.”
  The video\ — an hour-and-20-minute interrogation by Chenez of the teen and his parents — was part of the evidence introduced durin
  
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• Chemical plant fire in Grand Island causes substantial damage

  18-03-2017 21:24 via wivb.com
  
  GRAND ISLAND, N.Y. (WIVB)- Crews responded to a fire at IsleChem Business Center on Long Road just before 12:30 p.m. on Saturday.
  Smoke was showing upon arrival and Firefighters discovered 3 labs on the second floor fully involved.
  A second alarm was called in order to relieve the first firefighters at the scene.
  The fire was declared under control at 1:47 p.m.
  Grand Island Fire Information Officer Ray Pauley tells News 4 that damage estimates were not available at the time of cal
  
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• Niagara County high school gets nominated for Kenny award

  18-03-2017 18:22 via wivb.com
  
  PENDLETON, N.Y. (WIVB) — Beauty and the Beast has been in the spotlight recently because of the Disney movie remake. One local school is putting on the show as a musical and doing it pretty successfully.
  Starpoint Central School District wants you to, “be their guest,” this weekend as they present their rendition of the musical. Jason Gielow, producer of the musical told News 4, “We chose Beauty and the Beast for a couple reason, obviously the movie premiered yesterd
  
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• Maple weekend kicks off in Hamburg despite snow

  18-03-2017 17:58 via wivb.com
  
  HAMBURG, N.Y. (WIVB) – Maple Weekend is back, and local farms are serving up syrup in full force. New York is the third largest syrup producer in the country.
  Outside of Smith’s Maple Farm in Hamburg, snow falls. But inside, It’s a celebration of all things maple syrup.
  Owner, Carl Smith said, “For the last 10 or 11 years, we’ve had weather at 60 degrees, or 25 degrees with snow. We’re still open and we give the public the opportunity to come visit.&
  
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• Grieving father opens up about son’s death a day after arrest is made

  18-03-2017 03:52 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — If you take a walk or a drive down Sherman Street you will find blue and silver balloons tethered tightly to a tree outside Buffalo’s Sperry Park. It’s a memorial for 21 year-old Laron Watkins.
  Watkins was shot and killed near the park on August 4, 2016.
  “We put this (memorial) here not just to remind us of what happened, but to remind everyone this is one of the kids from a neighborhood that lost his life out here to the street’s violence,&rd
  
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• WNY takes electronic route to keep living NY’ers off death list

  18-03-2017 00:48 via wivb.com
  
  TONAWANDA, N.Y. (WIVB) – It happens thousands of times a year—living, breathing Americans find out their government has declared them dead.
  Nancy Pipalski of North Tonawanda knows firsthand how it can affect your life, “I am alive and my family, they are worried about me and so are my friends because I have really taken this badly. I am very upset.”
  It can happen to just about anyone.The Social Security Administration mistakenly enters the names of living people, such as
  
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