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• Defense leads the way in UB’s “Blue and White” Scrimmage

  15-04-2017 23:20 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – This time last year it was all about the quarterback battle in Amherst. But, this April Tyree Jackson has the starting job under his belt. That doesn’t mean he didn’t have anything to prove. It was a rough night for the sophomore who threw two of seven interceptions allowed by Bulls quarterbacks.
  “My family comes out from Michigan and all of a sudden we throw two picks off the bat,” Jackson said. “I mean, it is not a big deal…it i
  
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• Buffalo kicks off Earth Week with tour of Modern Disposal recycling plant

  15-04-2017 21:08 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)-It’s an important part of the daily routine that a lot of people skip over. Recycling…But the city of Buffalo is trying to change that. Recycling has now become just as easy as throwing out trash, so there’s no more excuses not to do it. Modern Disposal Services hosted an open house to show where the recyclable materials go once they leave your house.
  Fenna Mandoloang, manager at Modern Disposal told News 4, “It starts in the recycling bin, it’
  
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• April the giraffe in NY has calf before 1.2 million online

  15-04-2017 20:02 via wivb.com
  
  HARPURSVILLE, N.Y. (AP modified) — And baby makes glee.Before an online audience of more than a million viewers, April the giraffe gave birth to a calf Saturday at a New York zoo, ending weeks of proverbial pacing by animal lovers in a virtual worldwide waiting room.
  The 15-year-old giraffe delivered her calf shortly before 10 a.m. EDT in an enclosed pen at the zoo in Harpursville, a rural upstate village about 130 miles (209 kilometers) northwest of New York City. The mama giraffe tenderl
  
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• Niagara Falls Police searching for 24 year-old Kurt Beehler

  15-04-2017 19:53 via wivb.com
  
  NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (WIVB)- Niagara Falls Police are searching for 24 year-old Kurt Beehler of Niagara Falls to check his welfare.
  Beehler is a white male, 6 feet tall, 180lbs with blue eyes, short brown hair and a beard. He was last seen in Niagara Falls on April 8 wearing white jeans, gold t-shirt, black sneakers and a baseball hat.
  Police say he may be driving his brown 2005 Mercury Sable with NY license plate AWC1949.
  Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Mr. Beehler a
  
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• Overnight shooting on East Ferry critically injures Buffalo man

  15-04-2017 19:13 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)- Police are investigating an overnight shooting that injured a Buffalo man.
  Ferry-Fillmore officers responded to the call in the 1000 block of East Ferry around 12:45 a.m. Saturday morning.
  A 21 year-old Buffalo male who had been shot was located at the scene. He was taken to ECMC and is currently listed in critical condition.
  Anyone with information is asked to call or text the Confidential TIPCALL Line at 847-2255.
  
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• Calling all start-ups: 43North kicks off fourth year of business competition

  15-04-2017 16:36 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – 43North is kicking off its annual business startup competition. The Buffalo-based business competition which gives out millions of dollars to startups over the past three years is officially accepting pitches.
  For the second straight year, 43North will charge an application fee, which hopes to discourage less-than-serious applicants from entering the contest. This year, they’re looking for start-ups to participate that have a concrete foundation.
  
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• April the Giraffe shows signs of giving birth

  15-04-2017 14:07 via wivb.com
  
  HARPURSVILLE, N.Y. (WIVB) — The giraffe who’s been a media sensation for at least a month and a half is showing clear signs of childbirth Saturday morning.
  In the Animal Adventure Park’s live YouTube video, April is walking around her enclosure, reaching around to her backside, where there are two hoofs sticking out.
  Within 45 minutes of the first notices of these signs of childbirth, over 577,000 people had logged in to the Park’s webstream.
  This is a developing story; c
  
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• April the Giraffe gives birth to calf

  15-04-2017 14:07 via wivb.com
  
  HARPURSVILLE, N.Y. (WIVB) — The giraffe who’s been a media sensation for at least a month and a half gave birth to her calf on Saturday morning.
  In the Animal Adventure Park’s live YouTube video, April was walking around her enclosure early Saturday morning in labor.
  Within 45 minutes of the first notices of these signs of childbirth, over 577,000 people had logged in to the Park’s webstream.
  April gave birth just before 10 a.m. with more than 1 million viewers.
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• The history of the butter lamb and another lamb you’ll see at the Broadway market

  15-04-2017 12:07 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) —With so many cultures and ethnicities it’s no secret that Buffalo has some unique foods and traditions, especially around the holidays.
  You may have seen these little friends in the refrigerator section of the grocery store. It’s the butter lamb, made famous years ago in the Queen City by a woman named Dorothy Malczewski.
  Michelle Lupas, General Manager of Lupas Meats and butter lamb retailer told News 4 about Dorothy. She said, “She started the butt
  
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• Remembering Sister Klimczak 11 years later

  15-04-2017 04:41 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Eleven years ago the community lost a beloved nun.
  Sister Karen Klimczak was a tireless servant and spent most of her life taking in ex-convicts to try to get their lives back on track.
  But, on April 14, 2006 in the middle of Good Friday, Sister Klimczak was murdered by one of the convicts living at the Bissonette House.
  “I’m realizing that earlier today was when she was downtown and going through the stations of the cross with so many people, came home a
  
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• Falls Water Board does 3-step and family is out in the street

  15-04-2017 02:47 via wivb.com
  
  NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (WIVB) – Colleen Atwood’s lease shows her landlord’s water bill is added to her rent, but on Tuesday she suddenly got a one day notice her water was being shut off, on Wednesday the water was shut off, then Friday, a Niagara Falls code enforcement officer slapped a condemnation notice on her house.
  It is all so confusing for Colleen because she also been notified, the mortgage on her house has been foreclosed and it is about to go on the auction block.
  Desp
  
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• Lawmakers, parents promise fight for psych center far from over

  15-04-2017 00:16 via wivb.com
  
  DEPEW, N.Y. (WIVB) — The Western New York Children’s Psychiatric Center in West Seneca will close, and the children that fill the 46 beds at the facility will be moved to the Buffalo Psychiatric Center on Forest Avenue.
  But the fight for that plan to be scrapped is far from over, according to some lawmakers and parents of patients, who this week were forced to pivot their approach after a major decision in Albany.
  As Gov. Andrew Cuomo made way around the state Monday and Tuesday, sig
  
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