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• Warmer winter, heavy rains bring more bugs to WNY

  02-06-2017 23:55 via wivb.com
  
  NORTH TONAWANDA, N.Y. (WIVB)- If you’ve ventured near the water lately, chances are you’ve been greeted with swarms of insects.
  “We’re definitely seeing an increase in calls this season,” said Karlene Franasiak with Mosquito Joe.
  They’ve received almost triple the number of calls, in fact.
  The family-operated franchise has had to hire additional help to service the spike in calls; most of them have been for mosquitoes and ticks.
  May’s heavy rainfall has
  
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• BREAKING: Partial road collapse at Pennsylvania Avenue and Busti Avenue

  02-06-2017 23:42 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – City officials say that there has been a partial road collapse at Pennsylvania Avenue and Busti Avenue.
  Eastbound traffic on Pennsylvania is being rerouted.
   
  
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• Teen charged in attempted bingo robbery pleads guilty

  02-06-2017 23:35 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – The 17-year-old Buffalo girl charged with attempting to rob volunteers running a bingo game at a Catholic high school has pleaded guilty to second degree attempted robbery.
  Deandrea Franklin was arrested May 6 after walking into a classroom where the bingo proceeds were being counted and pointed a handgun at five bingo volunteers aged 63 to 71 and demanded the money.
  The volunteers attempted to restrain the defendant who fought back violently. During the struggle to
  
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• Buffalo police locate suspect vehicle in Bailey Avenue hit and run

  02-06-2017 23:07 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)- Buffalo police located the vehicle suspected in a Friday hit and run on Bailey Avenue.
  The white four-door SUV was located about a mile away from the scene of the crash, which killed 60-year-old Arthur Redrick.
  Investigators are conducting forensics on the vehicle, which is at a police garage.
  According to Lt. Jeff Rinaldo, the vehicle was not reported stolen. He said it was found unoccupied and not the at the address of its registered owner.
  The fatal hit and run occu
  
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• Some tickets still available for Red Cross BASH tonight

  02-06-2017 22:34 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – The American Red Cross’s Western New York Chapter is getting ready to “#PartyWithAPurpose” Friday night for the 19th annual Red Cross BASH.
  About 4,000 people will attend the military themed fundraiser at Red Cross Headquarters, 786 Delaware Ave. Food and drink will be provided from some of the area’s vest restaurants and DJ Dovey and Nerds Gone Wild will provide the music.
  Guests will also get to bid on dozens of unique auction items donated
  
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• Stanley cup makes appearance at Keybank Center during NHL Scouting Combine

  02-06-2017 22:19 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – The NHL’s Stanley Cup is in Buffalo for Friday and Saturday.
  The trophy is part of the “NHL Centennial Fan Arena” which will be visiting the KeyBank Center June 2 and 3, during the NHL Scouting Combine.
  The NHL Centennial Fan Arena is billed as a “interactive traveling experience honoring a century’s worth of extraordinary players, teams, and unforgettable moments”.
  The NHL Scouting Combine features the top 106 draft eligible playe
  
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• Summer events at Outer Harbor announced

  02-06-2017 19:51 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The Summer program for Buffalo’s Outer Harbor was announced on Friday afternoon.
  The Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation says there will be “something to do every day.”
  “The Outer Harbor is growing in popularity because it offers the perfect combination of things to do and places to get away from it all,” ECHDC Chairman Robert Gioia said. “Fireworks to light the sky, exercise to make your heart race, activities for all t
  
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• Lockport man charged with rape accused of another incident

  02-06-2017 18:58 via wivb.com
  
  LOCKPORT, N.Y. (WIVB) — A Lockport man charged with rape earlier this year has been accused of another rape.
  After Jordan Patterson, 22, was charged with second-degree rape, New York State Police say his arrest prompted a 19-year-old to tell authorities they were also raped by Patterson.
  According to State Police, the 19-year-old said they were raped in September of 2015.
  On Wednesday, which was days after they told authorities this, Patterson was arrested and charged with first-degre
  
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• Griffin not ‘laying down’ for Trump, fears career is over

  02-06-2017 18:03 via wivb.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Embattled comedian Kathy Griffin says she’s not afraid of Donald Trump and plans to keep making fun of him but maintained that she’s sorry for a video that depicted her holding a likeness of the president’s severed, bloody head.
  At a rambling press conference Friday, Griffin tearfully predicted her career is over and said Trump “broke me.” Since the video was posted Tuesday, she has lost her job co-hosting CNN’s New Year’s E
  
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• WATCH: Fill the Backpack starts again on Sunday

  02-06-2017 15:43 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The annual Fill the Backpack event will start again on Sunday.
  The program helps provide students from low-income families with take-home bags of food.
  Bags will soon be seen at Wegmans stores across western New York.
  Jennifer Lyons from Fidelis Care, Elyse Burgher from the Food Bank of Western New York and Michelle Mehaffy from Wegmans joined News 4’s Brittni Smallwood on Wake Up! Friday morning.
  See what they had to say in the video above.
  Fill the Backp
  
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• Fill the Backpack starts again on Sunday

  02-06-2017 15:43 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The annual Fill the Backpack event will start again on Sunday.
  The program helps provide students from low-income families with take-home bags of nutritious food.
  Three, five and 10-dollar bags will soon be seen at Wegmans stores in western New York. To participate, shoppers can buy pre-packaged bags of food at the stores and then take them to a cashier.
  Those bags are then placed in students’ backpacks.
  The program’s goal, this year, is to provide s
  
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• Catholic Charities looking for $1 million more in final weeks of Appeal

  02-06-2017 15:25 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The annual Catholic Charities Appeal is in its final weeks.
  $1 million short of its goal, Buffalo Bishop Richard Malone says $10 million has been raised so far.
  Malone hopes that the organization will receive more support and reach their $11 million goal by June 30.
  
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• Runners hit the streets for 4th annual Gay 5K

  02-06-2017 14:58 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Hundreds of runners hit the streets of downtown Buffalo Thursday night, as part of Pride Week.
  The fourth annual Gay 5K took them down Delaware Ave., through Niagara Square, to the Erie Basin Marina and back.
  The run, and the week as a whole, helps raise awareness for the LGBTQ community in western New York.
  “I think that more and more people have heard about it,” Pride Center Executive Director Damian Mordecai said. “People are coming in from
  
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• Cruise Night returning to Lancaster Speedway next Wednesday

  02-06-2017 14:43 via wivb.com
  
  LANCASTER, N.Y. (WIVB) — Cruise Night is coming back to the Lancaster Speedway.
  The weekly event was cancelled for two weeks after a fight between a fan and track security was caught on camera and posted online.
  There will now be extra security at the track, and people will have to pay five dollars to bring their vehicles into the track area.
  The five-dollar fee will help fix damage that has built up over the years. Parking in the main lot will still be free.
  “We strongly feel t
  
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• Dunkirk man accused of assaulting other man with rock

  02-06-2017 14:32 via wivb.com
  
  DUNKIRK, N.Y. (WIVB) — A Dunkirk man was charged with hitting someone else in the head with a rock.
  Conrad Thomas, 31, was arrested after police responded to a call on Monday afternoon.
  When they got to the scene, police say they found a man lying in the road. Thomas is accused of hitting him several times.
  He was charged with assault and disorderly conduct.
  
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• Village of Williamsville holds special meeting for South Long Park plans

  02-06-2017 14:24 via wivb.com
  
  WILLIAMSVILLE, N.Y. (WIVB) — Plans to bring new apartment units and townhouses to South Long Park in the Village of Williamsville look like they will be moving forward.
  The village’s Planning Board held a special emergency meeting Thursday night to speak with the developer of the project.
  The project consists of a land swap with the village, but the Thursday meeting was to go over how this project would fit in the area.
  If approved, construction plans could move forward by the end of
  
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• Walmart testing store employee delivery of US online orders

  02-06-2017 14:12 via wivb.com
  
  BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) — In its latest effort to compete with online giant Amazon, Walmart is testing a delivery service using its own store employees, who will deliver packages ordered online while driving home from their regular work shifts.
  The “associate delivery” program would use Walmart’s 4,700 U.S. stores and roughly 1.2 million employees to speed delivery and cut costs, the company said Thursday. The announcement came just a day before the company’s annual
  
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• Law Enforcement Torch Run raising money for Special Olympics

  02-06-2017 13:53 via wivb.com
  
  CLARENCE, N.Y. (WIVB) — The Flame of Hope will be burning brightly on Friday to raise money and awareness for Special Olympics.
  Dozens of volunteers, police and young people ran more than three miles in Clarence Thursday night. They went from the New York State Police barracks to Tully’s Restaurant, carrying the Flame of Hope.
  The Law Enforcement Torch Run raises money for Special Olympics of Western New York.
  They also honored Trooper Kevin Dobson, who was killed during a traff
  
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• Riverside family loses everything in morning house fire

  02-06-2017 12:27 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Crews brought a house fire in Buffalo’s Riverside neighborhood under control on Friday morning.
  Firefighters arrived at the scene on Crowley Ave. just before 5 a.m.
  There, flames could be seen shooting out of the roof, near the house’s rear.BFF battling a house fire on Crowley Ave.Flames visible in the rear of the home. @news4buffalo pic.twitter.com/4MU6SfBXcr
  — Chris (@CBNEWSPHOTOG) June 2, 2017
  The Buffalo Fire Department’s Chief says a woma
  
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• Crews fight fire at home in Riverside neighborhood

  02-06-2017 12:27 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Crews brought a house fire in Buffalo’s Riverside neighborhood under control on Friday morning.
  Firefighters arrived at the scene on Crowley Ave. just before 5 a.m.
  There, flames could be seen shooting out of the roof, near the house’s rear.BFF battling a house fire on Crowley Ave.Flames visible in the rear of the home. @news4buffalo pic.twitter.com/4MU6SfBXcr
  — Chris (@CBNEWSPHOTOG) June 2, 2017
  The Buffalo Fire Department’s Chief says a woma
  
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• Hundreds Celebrating National Doughnut Day

  02-06-2017 10:19 via wivb.com
  
   
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — National Doughnut or Donut Day began being celebrated to honor the the Salvation Army Lassies, the women who made doughnuts for the soldiers serving in World War I who then went on to front lines with the troops during WWII to provide home-cooked meals and boost morale.
  The celebration started to honor the women providing those meals.
  Now, it is a day for many to eat their favorite treat. National Doughnut Day is always celebrated on the first Friday of J
  
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• Local leaders weigh in on decision to leave Paris Accord

  02-06-2017 05:03 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – World, national, state and local leaders weighed in on President Donald Trump’s Thursday announcement that the U.S. will begin the process of pulling out of the Paris Accords, a global environmental pact to respond to climate change.Emmanuel Macron, president of France,spoke against the White House’s decision to pull out of the agreement: “We all share the same responsibility – make our planet great again.”
  “This is a sad chap
  
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• Hamlin Park residents fight back against crime in their neighborhood

  02-06-2017 04:45 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — People who live in Hamlin Park on Buffalo’s east side are taking matters into their own hands.
  Neighbors say crime and disturbances continue to be a problem in their neighborhood. They’re battling drug activity on the street, shootings and rowdy neighbors.
  “We’ve had a number of shootings, we’ve had a number of violent acts against people for no reason, we’ve had bullets go through a couple of houses where people are sleeping, you
  
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• Meet the Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame class of 2017

  02-06-2017 04:42 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO. N.Y. (WIVB) – The Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame has inducted its class of 2017.
  The 12-member class is the 27th class to be inducted into the Hall of Fame since its inception in 1991.
  2017 GBSHOF Inductees :
  Charles Daniels (D) – Olympic Swimming Gold Medalist
  Danny DiLiberto – World Champion Billiards Player & Pro Boxer
  Sandra Hollander (D) – Buffalo State Softball Coach
  Willie “Hutch” Jones- Basketball player, Bishop Turner, Vanderbilt &am
  
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• Clarence teen now charged with attempted murder

  02-06-2017 04:19 via wivb.com
  
  CLARENCE, N.Y. (WIVB) — A former Clarence High School student will remain in the Erie County Holding Center until July after charges against him were upgraded late last month.
  Representatives from the Erie County Sheriff’s Office said the March 31 incident in which a 21-year-old man was shot in the leg was a robbery gone bad. But it’s become far worse for the main suspect in this case, Zachery Aroix.
  Aroix was initially charged with attempted robbery, assault, reckless endanger
  
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• State Police make 22 DWI arrests in WNY over Memorial Day Weekend

  02-06-2017 04:05 via wivb.com
  
  ALBANY, N.Y. (WIVB) – New York State Police arrested 22 people for driving while intoxicated over Memorial Day Weekend in Western New York.
  The arrests were made as part of a state-wide crackdown effort on drinking and driving, distracted driving, and speeding.
  Additionally, New York State Police Troop A (Western New York) issued 474 speeding tickets, 48 tickets for distracted driving, 428 tickets for child restraint or seat belt violations, and 17 “Move Over” tickets.
  Statewid
  
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• Lane closures scheduled for I-290 in Tonawanda Saturday

  02-06-2017 03:22 via wivb.com
  
  TONAWANDA, N.Y. (WIVB) – Maintenance work is scheduled for the Interstate 290 bridge over Colvin Boulevard (Route 425) this weekend.
  Lane closures will be in place on Saturday from 6:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Interstate 290 eastbound between Exit 1, Delaware Avenue (NY Route 384) and Exit 3, Niagara Falls Boulevard (U.S. Route 62).
  Motorists are advised to expect slow traffic and to allow for additional travel time.
  The work is weather sensitive and will be delayed in case of inclement weather.
  
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• Man charged with threatening, extorting husband and wife

  02-06-2017 03:12 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – An  Amherst man is facing witness intimidation and extortion charges after following a federal investigation which alleges that he threatened a physician and his wife and extorted them for money.
  Gary Drago, 56, of Amherst, was charged by criminal complaint with intimidation of a witness and making a threatening communication to exhort money.
  According to the U.S. Attorney handling the case, the FBI received a complaint on May 15 from one of the victims, stating
  
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• Lackawanna man pleads guilty to selling crack cocaine, assaulting person he believed was informant

  02-06-2017 02:42 via wivb.com
  
  LACKAWANNA, N.Y. (WIVB) – A Lackawanna man has pleaded guilty to drug and retaliation charges in U.S. District Court.
  Sharon Thompson, 25, of Lackawanna, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute and distributing crack cocaine within 1,000 feet of a public housing property and conspiracy to retaliate against an informant.
  According to assistant U.S. Attorney George C. Burgasser, who is handling the case, Thompson sold crack cocaine to a confidential informant working with the
  
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• Driving school to the rescue of dad working for truck license

  02-06-2017 02:22 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Hiram Rosado is one hard working dad. He is living with 6 of his 7 kids under the same roof, the youngest of his children is seriously ill, his wife, Guelmary has been sick, and Hiram grabs all the overtime he can get.
  The Rosado’s put it all on the line so Hiram could take a truck driving course and get a bigger paycheck, But things didn’t work out, and the CDL training school has so far failed to return their money–$3100 which they can’t af
  
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• County moves to fund private sector to help fight opioid epidemic

  02-06-2017 01:15 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Erie County Legislators last week decided they will pay private and non-profit addiction treatment centers to step up their fight against the county’s opioid epidemic, rather than spending the money, at least all of it, in house.
  But opponents of the decision say it’s a move that’s far too slow — and more people could die because of it.
  “The efforts that we’ve made are fine,” said Legislator Joseph Lorigo, C-West Seneca. &ldq
  
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• CUOMO: New York State will continue to cut greenhouse gas emissions in light of Paris accord decision

  02-06-2017 00:34 via wivb.com
  
  ALBANY, N.Y. (WIVB) – New York State, along with California and Washington, will redouble its efforts against climate change following President Donald Trump’s Thursday announcement that the U.S. will withdraw from the Paris Accord.
  One World Trade Center and the Kosciuszko Bridge will also be lit green in honor of the Paris Accord, Cuomo announced.
  Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order Thursday stating that all government agencies and all public benefit corporations and author
  
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• UPDATE: 28-year-old woman missing in Niagara County

  02-06-2017 00:03 via wivb.com
  
  SANBORN, N.Y (WIVB) – Niagara County Sheriff’s deputies are searching for a missing 28-year-old woman.
  Andrea M. Swartwood was last seen on May 30 in the area of Hoover Road in Sanborn. She is known to have family and friends in Niagara Falls.
  Swartwood is described as 5’5″, 110 lbs., with blonde hair and green eyes. She was last seen wearing black pants and may be operating a black 2007 Toyota Corolla with New York State registration GKN5940.
  Anyone with information rega
  
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