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• SILVER ALERT CANCELED: Leroy Jackson located

  02-04-2017 19:05 via wivb.com
  
  TOWN OF TONAWANDA, N.Y. (WIVB)- A Silver Alert was issued for 83 year-old Leroy C. Jackson Sunday afternoon.
  Jackson went missing from Oakwood Senior Living at 3456 Delaware Avenue and was last seen by staff around 6:30 a.m.
  He was located and reported safe around 2:30 p.m.
   
  
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• Hotel carbon monoxide leak kills child, sickens others

  02-04-2017 18:40 via wivb.com
  
  NILES, Mich. (AP/Wood TV) — Authorities in southwestern Michigan have identified a 13-year-old boy who died after a carbon monoxide leak in a hotel pool area that also sickened about a dozen people.Employees at the Quality Inn & Suites in Niles called 911 around 10 a.m. Saturday after seeing six unresponsive children on the pool deck. Police say a seventh child was found unresponsive in a first-floor room.
  Police Chief Jim Millin says Bryan Douglas Watts of Niles was pronounced de
  
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• Overnight house fire in Jamestown Sunday

  02-04-2017 14:42 via wivb.com
  
  JAMESTOWN, N.Y. (WIVB) — First responders put out another house fire in Jamestown overnight.
  Crews were called to Myrtle Street just after 1:00 a.m., where the house caught on fire.
  Police and firefighters spent several hours at the scene.
  They have not said what caused the fire, nor if anyone was inside at the time.
  The fire scene is in a different section of Jamestown than a cluster of fires late March 24 and early March 25, which investigators say are the work of an arsonist.
  
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• Apartment fire in Jamestown kills man and his dog Sunday morning

  02-04-2017 14:42 via wivb.com
  
  JAMESTOWN, N.Y. (WIVB) — Crews were called to 119 Myrtle Street just after 1:00 a.m., where the upper apartment was on fire.
  A 39 year-old male and his dog were located inside. First responders attempted to resuscitate the victim and animal on scene.The man was transported to WCA Hospital and pronounced dead. The dog died as a result of heavy smoke in the apartment.
  The fire scene is in a different section of Jamestown than a cluster of fires late March 24 and early March 25, whi
  
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• Woman shot at Orchard Park sports complex

  02-04-2017 14:23 via wivb.com
  
  ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (WIVB) — A shooting at a crowded sports complex building has police looking at charges against the owner of the facility.
  Officers from Orchard Park, West Seneca and Hamburg responded to Frank Young Sports Complex on North Buffalo Road just after 1:30 a.m. Sunday.
  Multiple callers reported shots were fired; when officers arrived, they found many people running off, and others trying to drive away.Some of the cars heading out of the parking lot were involved in crashes th
  
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• Dozens rally to make Central Terminal Buffalo’s new train station

  02-04-2017 04:21 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Rallying for the Central Terminal, that’s what dozens of residents, politicians and community leaders are doing.
  Saturday dozens of people gathered inside the Central Terminal to push to make it the preferred location for Buffalo’s new train station.
  “That would be tremendous. It would help our property values and all that, we need something to boost this area,” said a concerned east side resident.
  East side residents are pushing to make the C
  
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• Supporters and protesters gather in Niagara Square

  02-04-2017 02:56 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)- Buffalo School Board Member Carl Paladino led a rally in support of President Donald Trump in Niagara Square Saturday afternoon.
  It was one of many Spirit of America rallies happening across the nation.
  A large group turned out to protest the gathering chanting, “No hate, no fear.”
  Buffalo Police were at the event to keep the peace. They told us no one was arrested.
  Supporters held campaign flags, as they listened to Erie County Sheriff Tim Howard, Paladino
  
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• NY lawmakers miss budget deadline but keep working

  02-04-2017 00:00 via wivb.com
  
  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York lawmakers have put in a rare weekend workday searching for consensus on a new state budget, already a day late.
  Leaders of the Assembly and Senate huddled behind closed doors with Gov. Andrew Cuomo Saturday in the hopes of finding compromises on education spending, charter schools and a push to raise the age of criminal responsibility so 16- and 17-year-old offenders aren’t tried as adults.
  The budget was supposed to be done by Saturday but now it’s
  
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