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• Buffalo State student stabbed in campus parking lot

  16-04-2017 19:21 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)- Buffalo State Police are investigating an assault that took place on campus early Sunday morning.
  Police say a male resident student reported that he was attacked from behind and stabbed in the back by an unknown weapon just before 3 a.m. in Lot R-14.
  The victim was treated and released from ECMC.
  Authorities believe the incident resulted from a fight that occurred earlier in the night at an off-campus party. They are investigating along with City of Buffalo Police
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• UB students create petition to stop elimination of four athletic programs

  16-04-2017 16:17 via wivb.com
  
  AMHERST, N.Y. (WIVB) – After the University at Buffalo’s decision to cut four sports teams from its athletic program, a petition has been started to stop the school from cutting the teams.
  A University at Buffalo sophomore is behind the efforts to bring the sports back. Mira Shami, a sophomore architecture major, is one of the students behind the petition to save four sports programs at her school.
  She said, “They came to do what they love, and it’s really
  
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• Historic Colored Musicians Club celebrates major milestone

  16-04-2017 06:05 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)- Hundreds of people gathered at Hotel Lafayette Saturday night to celebrate 100 years of music. They marked the anniversary of Local 533 whose members eventually formed Buffalo’s historic Colored Musicians Club.
  The best of the best have performed at the club, including Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie.
  The founders of the club were honored at the event.
  “They started right around the time of World War I,” said George Scot
  
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• Niagara County Sheriff’s Office investigating after child injured in lawnmower accident

  16-04-2017 05:52 via wivb.com
  
  NIAGARA COUNTY, N.Y. (WIVB)- The Niagara County Sheriff’s Office is investigating after a five year old child was injured in a lawnmower accident.
  Sheriff Jim Voutour told News 4 deputies responded to the 3200 block of West Lake Rd. in Wilson around 6:00 p.m, on Saturday
  A family member was mowing the lawn when the young girl, playing in the yard, tried to jump on the lawn mower, according to the Sheriff’s Office. The child’s foot got caught in the mower and was severely d
  
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• Man seriously injured following shooting

  16-04-2017 05:48 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — One person has serious injuries following a shooting on Buffalo’s east side.
  The shooting happened just before 10 p.m. Saturday on Dodge Street.
  On the scene — a News 4 photographer saw Buffalo Police and homicide detectives. Neighbors tell our photographer they heard more than a dozen shots fired.
  About half a dozen police vehicles responded and closed off the street.
  We have reached out to a spokesperson for buffalo police for more information
  
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• Cheektowaga man shot and killed on Dodge Street

  16-04-2017 05:48 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A Cheektowaga man has died following a shooting on Buffalo’s east side.
  The shooting happened just before 10 p.m. Saturday in the 100 block of Dodge Street.
  Neighbors told our News 4 photographer at the scene they heard more than a dozen shots fired.
  Police say the 44 year-old victim was shot while in a vehicle. He was declared deceased a short time later.
  Anyone with information is asked to call or text the Confidential TIPCALL Line at 847-
  
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• Three adults and a baby hospitalized after Niagara County crash

  16-04-2017 05:47 via wivb.com
  
  TOWN OF HARTLAND, N.Y. (WIVB)- Three adults and a baby were taken to the hospital after a head-on crash in Niagara County on Saturday.
  Niagara County Sheriff Jim Voutour told News 4 two vehicles collided in the Town of Hartland on Ridge Rd., between Orangeport Rd. and Hartland Rd. It happened around 6:45 p.m.
  One vehicle was carrying a one year old child, and the child’s mother and grandmother. Both adults were flown by Mercy Flight to ECMC with serious injuries.
  The baby is in stable
  
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• 30 in 30: Tight end Evan Engram

  16-04-2017 05:10 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Evan Engram should be drafted pretty quickly — depending on how teams view him — either as a big wide receiver or a smaller tight end.
  “I’m just a move guy that can play anywhere on the offensive side of the ball. I can be in the slot, out wide or physical in the run game too.”
  Engram could have gone pro after three years at Ole Miss.
  Instead he went back to school — doubled his receiving numbers and quadrupled his touchdowns.
  
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• 30 in 30: Ohio State linebacker Raekwon McMillan

  16-04-2017 05:00 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Raekwon McMillan is so competitive.. he can tell you every team he lost to during his college career at Ohio State.
  “Virginia Tech, Michigan State, Clemson, Penn State,” he said at the NFL Combine.
  He is considered one of the most respected linebackers in this year’s draft class, and was one of the best at stopping the run during his college career. The first team All-Big ten McMillan is looking forward to show what he can do at the next level.
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• Loved ones pay final tribute to fallen officer

  16-04-2017 04:22 via wivb.com
  
  TONAWANDA, N.Y. (WIVB) — Family, friends and hundreds of law enforcement laid to rest a Town of Tonawanda Police Lieutenant Saturday.
  33 year-old Thomas Diehl lost a year-long battle to a rare form of leukemia earlier this week.
  Police officers from all over the region paid their final tribute to Diehl at his funeral.
  Men and women dressed in blue lined the sidewalks outside St. Amelia’s Roman Catholic Church.
  “He’s our brother, he’s my brother, this is something th
  
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• Hansen family helps to protect others from silent killer

  16-04-2017 01:01 via wivb.com
  
  CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. (WIVB) — A West Seneca family is on a mission to make sure every family in Western New York has a working carbon monoxide detector in their home.
  Ken Hansen helped had out 200 new detectors on Saturday.
  He has been doing this ever since his 16-year-old daughter Amanda Hansen died. She was at a friend’s house for a sleepover in 2009 when carbon monoxide filled the room — killing her.
  The Hansen’s created a foundation in her honor with the intent to protec
  
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