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• Buffalo man in serious condition after parking lot hit-and-run

  22-07-2017 23:11 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)-  Buffalo Police are investigating a hit-and-run that occurred in a parking lot Saturday afternoon.
  Accident investigators say a female driver was backing out of a parking spot in a lot on Main Street when she struck a male.
  Investigators say the 46 year-old Buffalo male was taken to ECMC with serious injuries.
  Police recovered the unoccupied vehicle a short time later and are currently attempting to locate the female driver.
  
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• Buffalo man in critical condition after parking lot hit-and-run

  22-07-2017 23:11 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)-  Buffalo Police are investigating a hit-and-run that occurred in a parking lot Saturday afternoon.
  Accident investigators say a female driver was backing out of a parking spot in a lot on Main Street when she struck a male.
  Investigators say the 46 year-old Buffalo male was taken to ECMC with serious injuries. He is in critical condition.
  Police recovered the unoccupied vehicle a short time later and are currently attempting to locate the female driver.
   
  
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• 1 taken into custody after parking lot hit-and-run

  22-07-2017 23:11 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)-  Buffalo Police are investigating a hit-and-run that occurred in a parking lot Saturday afternoon.
  Accident investigators say a female driver was backing out of a parking spot in a lot on Main Street when she struck a male.
  Investigators say the 46-year-old Buffalo man was taken to ECMC with serious injuries. He is in critical condition.
  Police recovered the unoccupied vehicle a short time later. On Monday morning, police announced that a female was taken into cus
  
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• Amherst police looking to identify person of interest following credit card theft

  22-07-2017 22:34 via wivb.com
  AMHERST, N.Y. (WIVB)- Amherst Police are looking for a person of interest regarding the use of a stolen credit card.
  Police say the card and a backpack were stolen from a vehicle parked at a Maple Road fitness center. The credit card was then used a short time after at a convenience store in Buffalo.
  Authorities are looking to identify the woman seen in surveillance video. She is a white female with a tattoo on her left shoulder.
  If you recognize this person or have any information related
  
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• Buffalo police searching for 29 year-old Felisha Nelson

  22-07-2017 22:00 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)- Buffalo Police are asking for the public’s help locating 29 year-old Felisha Nelson who went missing from an address on Sattler Avenue.Nelson is 4’8″ tall, 110 pounds and has Brown eyes, black hair and medium complexion. She has flowers tattooed on her right thigh and has wavy shoulder length hair, burgundy and black in color.Anyone with information on her whereabouts is asked to call 911.
   
  
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• Actor John Heard, of ‘Home Alone’ movies, dies at 72

  22-07-2017 17:53 via wivb.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — Actor John Heard, best known for playing the father in the “Home Alone” movie series, has died. He was 72.His death was confirmed by the Santa Clara Medical Examiner’s office in California on Saturday. TMZ reported that Heard, who lived in southern California, was found at a Palo Alto, California, hotel where he was recovering from back surgery.
  Heard played Peter McCallister, the father of Kevin, played by Macaulay Culkin, in “H
  
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• Buffalo woman fighting cancer crosses major goal off her bucket list

  22-07-2017 17:33 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – A SUNY Buffalo State Professor is crossing a major item off her bucket list. She’s faced medical challenges her entire life.
  Diane Woolverton from Buffalo says she had no fears about jumping out of a plane. But, a lot of planning went into this jump.
  For years, Woolverton has been fighting mitochondrial disease. Woolverton said,” That’s where the little power plants in your cells die out. So you lose a lot of energy a lot of different
  
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• A hidden piece of history at Canalfest

  22-07-2017 17:00 via wivb.com
  NORTH TONAWANDA, N.Y. (WIVB) –For one week out of the summer, every year, the canal connecting the Tonawanda’s lights up with excitement. That’s because Canalfest comes to town! But there’s a  part of Canalfest’s history that you may not know about.
  Thirty-five years ago, the first ever Canalfest connected Tonawanda to North Tonawanda. Over time it has seen many changes but there has always been one constant. That constant is North Tonawanda native Jan Schreken
  
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• Hamburg homeowner heartbroken after home is crushed by tornado

  22-07-2017 05:15 via wivb.com
  HAMBURG, N.Y. (WIVB) — Tree removal crews spent all day Thursday cleaning up the damage an EF2 tornado left behind in Hamburg. Homeowners were also picking up the pieces in their neighborhoods.
  On Marie Drive in Hamburg the damage was extensive.
  Raymond Dziedzic recounted the frightening moments before the tornado touched down in his backyard.
  “All of a sudden it got dark and one after another I heard the trees fall bang, bang in the kitchen, and then bang in the back.”
  Dziedzi
  
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• Motorcyclist suffers non-life threatening injuries after downtown crash

  22-07-2017 04:59 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Buffalo Police responded to the scene of an accident involving a motorcycle on Michigan Avenue and Seneca Street Friday night.
  Incident happened Friday night at approximately 9:30pm at Michigan Avenue and Seneca Street.Buffalo police accident investigators say a motorcycle was traveling north on Michigan around 9:30 p.m. A southbound vehicle was making a turn when the two collided.
  The 27 year-old male motorcyclist was transported to ECMC and treated for non-life thr
  
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• Buffalo Police responding to motorcycle accident at Michigan Avenue and Seneca Street

  22-07-2017 04:59 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Buffalo Police are on the scene of an accident involving a motorcycle on Michigan Avenue and Seneca Street.
  Traffic could be affected in the area.
   
  
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• Two years after Cecil the lion’s death, son Xanda killed by game hunter

  22-07-2017 04:48 via wivb.com
  (CNN) – Cecil the lion’s 6-year-old son was shot and killed by a big-game trophy hunter in western Zimbabwe earlier this month, according to a source familiar with the hunt.Xanda had been tracked with a fitted GPS satellite collar since 2015, the same year his father was killed. His death on July 7 was first indicated by a lack of movement data from the collar.The lion, which was in his prime, had roamed outside the bounds of Hwange National Park and into the Ngamo Forest Area
  
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• Here’s why “Despacito” has become the song of the summer

  22-07-2017 03:27 via wivb.com
  (CBS NEWS) – Young Niana Guerrero drops everything to dance wherever she is to the world’s No. 1 song, “Despacito.” Her video has been viewed more than 69 million times.
  This week, it became the most streamed song in history. Universal Music says the official version and a remix have been streamed 4.6 billion times since the original release six months ago.
  CBS News correspondent Michelle Miller reports the song went to No. 1 in the U.S. this spring. It became just t
  
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• WATCH: Aerial footage of tornado damage in Erie County

  22-07-2017 03:16 via wivb.com
  HAMBURG, N.Y. (WIVB) – The Erie County Sheriff’s Office got a bird’s eye view of the damage from Thursday’s three tornadoes in Western New York.
  In this video, check out some of the footage from ECSO’s Air One.
  
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• One person found dead in one-vehicle accident in Town of Pavilion

  22-07-2017 02:46 via wivb.com
  PAVILION, N.Y. (WIVB) – One person was found dead in a one-vehicle accident in Genesee County Friday.
  The vehicle, which was found wrapped around a tree off of Route 20 in Pavilion, was discovered by a farmer. It was unclear when the accident occurred.
  One male occupant was found deceased in the vehicle.
  
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• Clean-up continues in Orchard Park with days, weeks ahead

  22-07-2017 01:17 via wivb.com
  ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (WIVB) — Three tornadoes in a matter of hours tore through the Southtowns and Southern Tier Thursday, and in spite of the damage experienced in their wake, residents in Orchard Park still consider themselves very lucky. But there were a number of close calls. Although the tree that once provided shade to his house now lying on his garage roof, the remnants of what used to be a shed scatter through his woods and the days if not weeks of work ahead, Jeff Eimer conside
  
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• Deadly salmonella outbreak linked to papayas

  22-07-2017 00:39 via wivb.com
  (CNN) –  Forty-seven people in 12 states have become infected with salmonella believed to be linked to yellow Maradol papayas, federal health officials said Friday.Twelve people have been hospitalized, and one death has been reported, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.“Investigators are working to learn where the contamination occurred in the supply chain,” the CDC said.
  Among those reporting illness, symptoms began between May 17 an
  
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• Tornado damage- an insurance broker weighs in

  22-07-2017 00:25 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Homeowners across WNY are picking up the pieces today after three tornadoes swept through the area on Thursday.
  Filing insurance claims for property damaged in the storm can help make sure you’re covered- an expert, Bob Andrzejewski, an insurance broker at Schunke Insurance in West Seneca, weighed in today on what homeowners should and shouldn’t do.
  
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• WATCH: Doctor weighs in on progress of brain cancer vaccine being tested on Roswell Park patients

  22-07-2017 00:24 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y.–
  Dr. Michael Ciesielski talks about a vaccine therapy developed at Roswell Park Cancer Institute being tested on patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma brain tumors.
  
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