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• Erie County will get its first cricket field

  11-05-2017 23:17 via wivb.com
  
  TONAWANDA, N.Y. (WIVB) – Cricket, a popular international bat-and-game, is coming to Erie County.
  The Erie County Department of Parks, Recreation and Forestry and the India Association of Buffalo (IAB) have partnered to create the county’s first cricket in Ellicott Creek Park in Tonawanda.
  The new field will be built on the site of a little-used baseball diamond in the park and the IAB hopes to begin playing games as soon as possible.
  The IAB will host matches for teams across Wester
  
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• Former NICU baby giving back with blanket and book drive for her 8th birthday

  11-05-2017 23:05 via wivb.com
  
  ALDEN, N.Y. (WIVB) — Seven year old Alannah Pionessa loves reading books, and being read to.
  Alannah’s mother started reading to her shortly after her birth. She was born 9 weeks early with a rare birth defect. She spent 80 days in the neonatal intensive care unit at Women and Children’s Hospital of Buffalo. Because of all the tubes, Alannah’s parents couldn’t hold her.
  “The next best thing is to read so they learn your voice and they learn your comforting voi
  
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• UPDATE: Lewiston man arrested after striking 5-year-old with vehicle

  11-05-2017 22:56 via wivb.com
  
  LEWISTON, N.Y. (WIVB) – A Lewiston man has been charged with driving while ability impaired after backing into a five-year-old on Upper Mountain Road.
  James Printup, 49, of Lewiston, has been charged with driving while ability impaired, a Leandra’s law violation, and unlawful possession of marijuana.
  According to New York State Police, troopers responded to a collision involving a five-year-old girl around 4:15 p.m. Thursday, Printup, the operator, pulled into a driveway where the fi
  
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• 5-year-old girl struck in driveway in Lewiston

  11-05-2017 22:56 via wivb.com
  
  LEWISTON, N.Y. (WIVB) – A five-year-old girl was struck in a driveway on Upper Mountain Road Thursday afternoon.
  According to New York State Police, the girl’s injuries are not life-threatening and she is conscious and alert.
  She has been transported by Mercy Flight as a precaution.
   
  
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• Why Jason Botterill’s blueprint is readymade to repair the Sabres

  11-05-2017 22:51 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Sabres owner Terry Pegula kept it simple, as usual, when discussing why Jason Botterill is his new General Manager.
  “He’s pretty much done everything you can do in hockey.”
  You’d be hard-pressed to find a 40-year-old hockey executive with more experience – and variance in that experience – than Botterill, who leaves his post as the Pittsburgh Penguins’ associate general manger to come repair a Sabres organization stuck i
  
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• Seven West Seneca East HS students arrested in fight

  11-05-2017 22:26 via wivb.com
  
  WEST SENECA, N.Y. (WIVB) – Seven West Seneca East Senior High School students were arrested Thursday following a large fight at the high school.
  West Seneca Police responded to West Seneca East Senior High School Thursday morning around 10:24 a.m. Upon police arrival and during their subsequent investigation, they arrested seven students on charges of disorderly conduct.
  One juvenile student will face discipline through Family Court. All of the offenders were released to their parents
  
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• Nightly lane closures scheduled for I-290 westbound

  11-05-2017 21:45 via wivb.com
  
  TONAWANDA, N.Y. (WIVB) – Nightly lane closures are scheduled for the Interstate 290 westbound beginning May 15 as part of the New York State Department of Transportation’s project to rehabilitate the Interstate 290 bridges over Parker Boulevard.
  Motorists should expect to encounter nightly lane closures on Interstate 290 westbound between exit 3, US Route 62-Niagara Falls Boulevard, and Exit 2, NY Route 425-Colvin Boulevard between 7 p.m. until 6 a.m.
  These lane closures are expected
  
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• CRIMESTOPPERS: Up to $1,000 award for information about Buffalo man

  11-05-2017 21:24 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Law enforcement officials are offering up a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of a Buffalo man.
  Floyd Crittenden, aka “Pumpkin” is wanted by U.S. Marshals Services for a weapons charge/endangering the welfare of a child.
  He’s described as 5’10”, 160 lbs., with black hair and brown eyes. His last known address was 71 Jackson Terrace, Buffalo.
  Anyone with information is asked to call the Crimestoppers tip line at 867-6161
  
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• Lawsuit filed on behalf of India Cummings

  11-05-2017 19:47 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A lawsuit has been filed on behalf of India Cummings, a woman who died after spending time in the Erie County Holding Center.
  Earlier this year, Erie County medical officials said they still did not know what killed the 27-year-old in February of 2016.
  The lawsuit accused Erie County, the Sheriff’s office, Sheriff Tim Howard and the Lackawanna Police Department of causing her death.
  According to a release from the office of Matthew Albert Esq., Cummin
  
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• Emergency crews seeing cases of Narcan-resistant heroin

  11-05-2017 18:51 via wivb.com
  
  ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WIVB) — Emergency crews say they are seeing cases of Narcan-resistant heroin.
  Narcan can reverse opioid overdoses and save lives, but emergency workers in Rochester believe heroin laced with a synthetic additive may have made its way to the area.
  First responders say this batch prevents Narcan from effectively working.
  “It’s still not effective, so we end up giving them the IV dose which is a little bit more potent,” Greece Volunteer Ambulance Chief Matt
  
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• Erie County Sheriff defends controversial appearance during debate

  11-05-2017 18:45 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The Erie County Sheriff defended a controversial public appearance at Wednesday night’s Sheriff debate in Buffalo.
  Sheriff Tim Howard met challenger Bernie Tolbert at the SEIU offices.
  Democrats have slammed Howard for speaking at a “Spirit of America” rally last month.
  Howard was in his Sheriff’s uniform when he spoke to a crowd that included some white supremacists.
  During the debate, Howard said, “It was to address concerns.
  
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• Group claims Buffalo School District isn’t trying to stop LGBTQ discrimination

  11-05-2017 18:36 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A high school principal is facing allegations of discrimination involving students in the LGBTQ community.
  A civil liberties group filed a lawsuit claiming the Buffalo School District is doing nothing to stop it.
  The New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) says students at McKinley High School have been trying to set up a gay-straight alliance for years, but have been blocked.
  They claim the school has a history of homophobic policies.
  “It’s just really sa
  
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• Erie Co. Sheriff’s Office’s Narcotics Unit conducts 20+ raids so far this year

  11-05-2017 18:18 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – As the opioid epidemic continues to grow in Erie County, the Erie County Sheriff’s Office continues to fight back against the drug suppliers.
  The Sheriff’s Office’s Narcotics Unit has carried out 21 successful raids since January of this year, resulting in arrests and drug seizures.
  MORE | Click here for our coverage of the most recent raid in Cheektowaga.
  “We have seized pounds of heroin; we have seized pounds of fentanyl; we’ve seized
  
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• Wegmans potato salad recalled due to labeling error

  11-05-2017 18:10 via wivb.com
  
  ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC-TV) – Wegmans is recalling potato salad that was sold in stores throughout New York, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania.
  The company says the 48 oz. Family Pack Potato Salad with a use by date of May 7 may have an incorrect back label.
  The incorrect label is intended for Greek Potato Salad, and does not list eggs, an allergen, in the ingredient list. The Potato Salad contains eggs.
  All products may be returned to a Wegmans service desk for a full refund.
  Customers can co
  
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• Roving RV offering mobile salon and spa services while spreading encouragement

  11-05-2017 18:07 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y — The first few steps onto the Fabubus are like any others onto RVs around the nation but upon reaching the pocket door with the ice-etched logo located behind the driver’s seat, those initial expectations disappear.
  “Some people are a little surprised and maybe a little suspect,” said Kirsten DiCarlo, FabUBus’ owner. “Then they walk on and they’re like ‘I can’t believe how big it is; I can’t believe this is really wha
  
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• ALDI holding hiring events for local stores

  11-05-2017 18:05 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — ALDI is looking to hire people for their Buffalo-area stores.
  The grocer is holding hiring events for stores in Niagara and Erie counties on Thursday, May 11 and Monday, May 22.
  The May 11 event takes place from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m. at the Hyatt Place at 5020 Main St. in Amherst. During this event, ALDI will be looking for store associates and shift managers.
  During the May 22 event, which takes place at the Courtyard hotel at 4100 Sheridan Dr. in Amherst, A
  
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• WATCH: “A Day in the Arts” happening this weekend

  11-05-2017 16:44 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — If you’re looking for something to do this weekend, an event filled with exploration and fun is taking place in Buffalo.
  It’s called “A Day in the Arts – An African American Arts Exposition.” The event goes from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. this Saturday, May 13, at the Buffalo School of Visual and Performing Arts.
  Event Chair Dr. Thomasina Stenhouse and Saxophonist Joel Nicholas joined News 4’s Brittni Smallwood on Wake Up! Thursday
  
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• Taco Bell to make prom special for two Attica High School students

  11-05-2017 16:29 via wivb.com
  
  BATAVIA, N.Y. (WROC) — Taco Bell is rolling out the red carpet for two Attica High School students going to prom.
  The fast food restaurant will treat Kristy Mell and boyfriend, Bo White, along with eight of their friends, to a limo and a pre-prom dinner at Taco Bell’s Batavia location on May 12.
  The couple’s “promposal” caught the attention of the chain. While dining at the Batavia location, Mell asked white to prom with a sign that read “Bo, you are hot,
  
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• Sabres hire Jason Botterill as new GM

  11-05-2017 16:09 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The Buffalo Sabres have hired Jason Botterill as their new General Manager.
  The team made the announcement on Twitter Thursday.IT'S OFFICIAL! Jason Botterill has been named General Manager of the Buffalo Sabres. pic.twitter.com/RSyHIGnJ7c
  — Buffalo Sabres (@BuffaloSabres) May 11, 2017
  Botterill is coming to Buffalo from Pittsburgh, where he served as the Penguins’ Associate General Manager.
  “We are very happy to welcome Jason Botterill to the Buffal
  
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• Driver hospitalized, charged after rollover crash in Tonawanda

  11-05-2017 15:43 via wivb.com
  
  TONAWANDA, N.Y. (WIVB) — City of Tonawanda police responded to a rollover accident on Fillmore Ave. Thursday morning.
  The accident, which happened in front of the Inner Harbor Yacht Club around 7 a.m., resulted in the driver being taken to ECMC for scrapes on her leg.
  The driver, North Tonawanda resident Angelina Schara, 26, was charged with criminal mischief, as well as traffic and vehicle violations.Police say that following a domestic incident with her boyfriend, she drove away qui
  
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• Former Dunkirk mayor to be sentenced for wire fraud

  11-05-2017 14:48 via wivb.com
  
  DUNKIRK, N.Y. (WIVB) — The man who served as Mayor of Dunkirk from 2002 to 2012 could spend the next 20 years behind bars.
  After pleading guilty to wire fraud earlier this year, Richard Frey will be sentenced on Thursday afternoon.
  According to prosecutors, Frey, 85, executed a scheme to defraud the owner of a food production company and the co-owners of a hospitality company. Checks from those people totaled more than $54,000.
  This occurred while Frey was in office.
  Frey did not
  
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• Scene secure after SWAT team responds to Lewiston home

  11-05-2017 12:55 via wivb.com
  
  LEWISTON, N.Y. (WIVB) — Lewiston police and a SWAT team from the Niagara County Sheriff’s office were seen staged in front of a house on Albright Rd. Thursday morning.
   
  Wednesday night, around 8:30 p.m., Lewiston police say they received a call claiming there was a distraught man in the house. The call came from someone else who lived there, police say.
  According to police, there were guns in the house.
  When officers responded, no one came to the door, and when police call
  
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• Woman fatally struck by car in Amherst

  11-05-2017 12:30 via wivb.com
  
  AMHERST, N.Y. (WIVB) — A pedestrian was killed while crossing an Amherst intersection around 12:30 a.m. on Thursday.
  Amherst police say a an unnamed 24-year-old woman was crossing Sweet Home Rd. near the Chestnut Ridge intersection when she was struck by a northbound car.
  She was pronounced dead at the scene.
  The driver has only been identified as an 18-year-old from Niagara Falls.
  Roughly six hours earlier, another person was killed in Amherst due to a vehicle accident. Det
  
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• UB student fatally struck by car in Amherst identified

  11-05-2017 12:30 via wivb.com
  
  AMHERST, N.Y. (WIVB) — A University at Buffalo student was killed while crossing an Amherst intersection around 12:30 a.m. on Thursday.
  Amherst police say Angel McNight-Miller, 23, was crossing Sweet Home Rd. near the Chestnut Ridge intersection when she was struck by a northbound car.
  The New York City resident was pronounced dead at the scene.
  The driver was identified as an 18-year-old UB student from Niagara Falls.
  Roughly six hours earlier, another person was kille
  
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• Sextortion cases on the rise, parents beware

  11-05-2017 05:05 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – The Internet can be a great place to explore, learn and connect. But increasingly, there are certain danger zones that have law enforcement agencies wondering what’s next.FBI supervisory special agent Peter Orchard, who’s spent 22 years with the bureau, thought he had seen it all during his career.
  “About every two weeks my guys will bring me something new that I just shake my head,” said Orchard, who oversees the child exploitation task force
  
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• Pickup struck tree on Transit Road in fatal Amherst accident

  11-05-2017 04:37 via wivb.com
  
  AMHERST, N.Y. (WIVB) – A fatal, one-vehicle accident occurred on Transit Road in Amherst about 6 p.m. Wednesday.
  A 2005 pickup truck was northbound on Transit Road when the vehicle left the roadway and struck a tree.
  The driver, Steven J. Brewer, of Lockport, was transported by Twin City Ambulance to Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital where he died from his injuries.
  Amherst Police and the Swormville Fire Department responded to the scene.
  The accident is currently under investigation. Any
  
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• Cellino and Barnes has filed to dissolve

  11-05-2017 04:21 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – News 4 has confirmed that Cellino and Barnes, one of Western New York’s biggest law firms, has filed to dissolve.
  Documents were filed Wednesday in State Supreme Court ordering those involved in the case to show reason why Cellino & Barnes should not be dissolved.
  Ross . Cellino Jr. filed the lawsuit to dissolve the firm Wednesday in New York State Supreme Court.
  Terry Connors, the attorney representing Cellino said Wednesday night that he has no comment at
  
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• Cheektowaga man pleads guilty to conspiracy to sell meth

  11-05-2017 03:14 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – A Cheektowaga man has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than five grams of methamphetamine in U.S. District Court.
  Jason Yelder, 35, faces a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of 40 years, and a fine of $5 million.
  According to assistant U.S. Attorney Michael J. Adler, who is handling the case, Yelder was arrested for driving with a suspended license in March 2016. The defendant’s vehicle was search
  
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• Niagara County will offer two satellite pistol permit offices

  11-05-2017 03:11 via wivb.com
  
  NORTH TONAWANDA, N.Y. (WIVB) – Getting a pistol permit in Niagara County will become easier thanks to a new satellite pistol permit office program.
  The county’s Pistol Permit Office will begin offering part-time satellite offices alongside the NYS Department of Motor Vehicles in North Tonawanda and Niagara Falls.
  Niagara County Clerk Joseph Jastrzemski said that New York State’s pistol permit process is a burden for many gun owners, and that he’s made it a goal of his off
  
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• Buffalo Police moving forward with process to try body cameras

  11-05-2017 02:26 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)- Some Buffalo Police officers could have body cameras by the end of the summer as part of a pilot program. The department has been looking into adding them for about two years.
  Buffalo Police officers do not currently wear body cameras and there are no dash cameras in their vehicles.
  Commissioner Daniel Derenda put together a panel to look into the possibility of adding body cameras. The panel includes members of the BPD administration, the union representing the offic
  
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• Former Williamsville surgeon avoids prison in federal fraud case

  11-05-2017 01:54 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Attorneys for Mohamed Yusuf Saddiqui, 73, told a federal judge, the former Williamsville surgeon has dedicated most of his life tending to the medical needs of others, but as the reality of losing his medical license set in, Siddiqui was overcome with emotion.
  The former physician avoided prison, Wednesday afternoon, when a federal judge sentenced him for illegally prescribing pain pills for a patient, then taking some of those pills for his own use.
  Siddiqui gave u
  
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• Report: Chad Kelly signs contract with the Denver Broncos

  11-05-2017 00:56 via wivb.com
  
  DENVER, CO (WIVB) – According to KUSA in Denver Colorado, the Broncos have signed quarterback Chad Kelly to a four-year deal. Kelly was drafted with the final pick in the final round of the 2017 NFL Draft. The Ole Miss alum is battling a wrist injury. He told New 4 Sports that he had been working out everyday since the draft and was leaving for Denver on Wednesday morning. The Broncos rookie minicamp is set to begin on Thursday.Broncos have reached agreement on 4-year deal with 7th ro
  
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• Buffalo Bisons offer “No Rain Guarantee” for homestand

  11-05-2017 00:53 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – After a soggy start to the 2017 baseball season, the Buffalo Bisons are issuing a “No Rain Guarantee” for their seven-game homestand, May 15 to 21.
  For the duration of the homestand, the team is guaranteeing no measurable rainfall at the ballpark during games- and if it rains any time between the first pitch and the final out, fans can exchange their ticket for that game for two additional tickets for any remaining game in May.
  Any unused 2017 game ticket
  
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• Canisius women’s lax heads back to NCAA Tourney

  11-05-2017 00:40 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – The Canisius women’s lacrosse team is back in familiar territory, winning their 6th MAAC title in the last 7 years.
  “I really don’t know how talented this group really is,” Golden Griffins head coach Scott Teeter said. “Every time I raise the bar they match that accomplishment.”
  “This program started not very well. They won one game in their first season,” junior Eric Evans said. “Now that the has brought it to th
  
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