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• Disney to pull content from Netflix

  08-08-2017 23:53 via wivb.com
  (CNN) – Disney is parting ways with Netflix.
  The company said Tuesday that it will end its partnership with the streaming service in 2019.
   Disney also announced it will launch its own streaming services, and plans to acquire a majority stake in BAMTech, a major streaming and marketing service.
  According to a spokesperson, Marvel TV series like “Luke Cage,” “Jessica Jones” and “The Punisher” will continue to live on Netflix — for now. Animated
  
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• Cheetos to open restaurant with celebrity chef

  08-08-2017 23:17 via wivb.com
  (CNN) – Cheetos, the snack chip owned by PepsiCo (PEP), is launching a pop-up restaurant in New York City devoted to Cheetos-inspired dishes.
   The Spotted Cheetah, which opens to the public between August 15 and August 17, is a marriage between Cheetos and celebrity chef Anne Burrell.
  Burrell has worked at several high-end New York restaurants, is an author of popular cookbooks and host of culinary shows, Chef Wanted, Worst Cooks in America and Secre
  
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• Shots fired on Northland and Jefferson Ave. Tuesday morning

  08-08-2017 23:02 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Shots were fired around 11:45 a.m. Tuesday near Jefferson Avenue and Northland Avenue in Buffalo.
  No one was shot, a Buffalo Police spokesperson said.
  There is a report that an unoccupied vehicle was struck.
   
  
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• Country music star Glen Campbell dead at 81

  08-08-2017 22:53 via wivb.com
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Glen Campbell, the grinning, high-pitched entertainer whose dozens of hit singles included “Rhinestone Cowboy” and “Wichita Lineman” and whose appeal spanned country, pop, television and movies, died Tuesday, his family said. He was 81.
  PHOTO/APCampbell’s family said the singer died Tuesday morning in Nashville and publicist Sandy Brokaw confirmed the news. No cause was immediately given. Campbell announced in June 2011 that he had been
  
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• No-cost or lower-cost Naloxone to be offered statewide starting Wednesday

  08-08-2017 22:26 via wivb.com
  NEW YORK (WIVB) – Beginning Wednesday, New York State will host the first program in the nation to offer no-cost or lower cost naloxone, which can reverse opioid overdoses, at pharmacies statewide.
  People with health insurance coverage, including Medicaid and Medicare, will receive up to $40 in co-payment assistance for the life-saving drug.
  Uninsured people and those without prescription coverage will still be able to receive naloxone for free through New York’s network of registere
  
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• Report: “Sex and the City” actress considering run for New York governor

  08-08-2017 22:10 via wivb.com
  (CBS) – Actress Cynthia Nixon, best known for playing the serious-minded Miranda on HBO’s “Sex and the City,” is one of a handful of progressives mulling a 2018 primary challenge against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the Wall Street Journal reports.
  Nixon, who has become an outspoken activist and supporter of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, is being courted to run by liberal groups. And although she has dismissed speculation about a political career in the past, she&rsq
  
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• Trump warns North Korea of ‘fire and fury’

  08-08-2017 22:03 via wivb.com
  WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) – President Donald Trump says that North Korea “had best not make any more threats to the United States” or “they will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen.”
  Trump issued the warning during a briefing on opioid addiction at his golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey.
  A Japanese defense paper and a U.S. media report said Tuesday that North Korea may have successfully produced a miniaturized nuclear warhead that can fit inside i
  
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• UP! Aerial Fitness taking workouts to new heights

  08-08-2017 18:27 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — “It’s a lot of different movements that you don’t get out of a standard workout in a normal gym,” said Angela Pellett, UP! Aerial Fitness Instructor.
  At UP! Aerial Fitness, you can literally take your workouts to new heights.
  “You don’t really realize you’re working out until you’re done,” said Kimberly Eichorn, UP! Aerial Fitness Co-owner.
  Inside the former school 56, you can break a sweat in the gym in an untrad
  
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• Niagara County to spread baits aimed at protecting animals from rabies

  08-08-2017 18:08 via wivb.com
  LOCKPORT, N.Y. (WIVB) — Health officials are starting a month-long campaign to help keep rabies from spreading in raccoons.
  The Niagara County Health Department will start spreading out special baits that contain the rabies vaccine.
  Senior Public Health Sanitarian Peter Tripi said “Rabies remains a very serious disease as it is nearly always fatal once symptoms are evident. Coordinated efforts such as this are a vital way to protect Erie County residents and their pets from cont
  
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• Sculpture at Disney World honors boy killed by gator

  08-08-2017 17:20 via wivb.com
  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Walt Disney World has erected a lighthouse sculpture to honor the memory of a 2-year-old Nebraska boy who was killed by an alligator last year at one of its hotels.
  Area television stations reported that the lighthouse was installed within the past week near where the boy died at the Florida resort.
  Last year, an alligator grabbed little Lane Graves, who was playing along the Seven Seas Lagoon beach outside Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort
  
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• Body of child found in WV after mother crashes while driving to Buffalo

  08-08-2017 16:35 via wivb.com
  WEST VIRGINIA (WCMH/WVNS) – A minor crash in West Virginia led to the discovery of a child’s body Sunday morning.
  The mother, Erica Newsome, wrecked the car near Route 250 in the Allegheny Mountain area around 11:30 a.m. on Sunday, according to West Virginia State Police. Witnesses told troopers they saw the mother try to hide the 11-year-old child’s body over the hillside.
  Troopers say it was only a minor accident.
  After investigating, troopers contacted authorities in Ja
  
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• Woman makes wool hats after daughter adopts sheep from SPCA

  08-08-2017 15:55 via wivb.com
  WEST FALLS, N.Y. (WIVB) — A West Falls woman named Rebecca adopted three sheep from the SPCA Serving Erie County, and her mother has been making good use of their wool.
  Rebecca’s mother, Bonnie, is a spinner and knitter. She used their shorn wool to make two hats for members of the SPCA’s educational farm staff.
  In addition to those hats, Bonnie made a third one that the SPCA is selling in their Petique.
  “Thanks, Bonnie, for giving Sheila and Patti a warm reason to look f
  
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• Accident causes SUV to land in creek

  08-08-2017 15:38 via wivb.com
  CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. (WIVB) — A vehicle was found in a creek on George Urban Blvd. Tuesday morning.
  Authorities say a two-car accident caused the SUV driver to lose control and land in the creek.
  The driver was extricated from the vehicle by fire crews and taken to ECMC.
  The other driver involved in the accident did not need hospital treatment.
  Injuries suffered in the accident do not appear to be serious.
  The SUV was later removed from the creek.
  
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• Camp counselor arrested again, charged with sex crime

  08-08-2017 15:10 via wivb.com
  CASTILE, N.Y. (WIVB) — A camp counselor in Wyoming County has been charged with Sexual Misconduct.
  Previously, New York State Police say Nicholas Maroney, 20, came back to YMCA Genesee/Camp Hough drunk and went to sleep in the wrong cabin.
  Troopers say Maroney was seen leaving the occupied bunk bed of a 7-year-old girl in the morning.
  After this, he was arrested and jailed in Wyoming County without bail.
  The new Sexual Misconduct charge against Maroney stems from information Troopers
  
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• LIVE STREAM: Bills coach Sean McDermott speaks after morning practice

  08-08-2017 14:13 via wivb.com
  ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WIVB) — Buffalo Bills Head Coach Sean McDermott is speaking after this morning’s practice.
  APP USERS | Tap here to watch live.
  
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• U.K. official launches plan to crack down on children’s screen time

  08-08-2017 13:15 via wivb.com
  ENGLAND (WIVB) — How much time are you letting your kids spend on their phone, or on social media?
  One expert has launched a new campaign to crack down on children’s screen time.
  She compares kids over-using social media to binge eating junk food.
  The Children’s Commissioner in the United Kingdom believes parents need to intervene and stop this trend, but it’s Anne Longfield’s comparison to junk food that’s turning heads worldwide.
  She believes kids&rsquo
  
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• Pedestrian killed in hit-and-run crash near Buffalo airport identified

  08-08-2017 12:07 via wivb.com
  CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. (WIVB) — Cheektowaga police have confirmed one man was killed in a hit-and-run crash as he was walking on Genesee Street by the Buffalo-Niagara International Airport early Tuesday morning.
  The crash happened just before 5 a.m. In the westbound lanes of Genesee, near the intersection with the entrance to Starbucks.
  Authorities temporarily closed the westbound lanes of Genesee between Holtz Dr. and the entrance to the Route 33 expressway, as they investigated. Acc
  
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• Pedestrian killed in hit-and-run crash near Buffalo airport

  08-08-2017 12:07 via wivb.com
  CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. (WIVB) — Cheektowaga police have confirmed one man was killed in a hit-and-run crash as he was walking on Genesee Street by the Buffalo-Niagara International Airport early Tuesday morning.
  The crash happened just before 5 a.m. In the westbound lanes of Genesee, near the intersection with the entrance to Starbucks.
  Authorities closed the Westbound lanes of Genesee between Holtz Dr. and the end of Route 33, as they investigated. Access to the airport is limited to
  
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• Vehicle strikes pole in Niagara Falls

  08-08-2017 05:05 via wivb.com
  NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (WIVB) –  Niagara Falls emergency crews are on scene at Hyde Park and College Avenue for a vehicle that struck a pole.
  Crews are treating one person.
  According to The Action, the engine of the car flew about 20 to 25 feet away from the vehicle.
  We’ll have more information as it becomes available.
  
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• 85-year-old man killed after striking pole in Niagara Falls

  08-08-2017 05:05 via wivb.com
  NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (WIVB) — Police in Niagara Falls think an elderly man’s medical issue caused him to lose control of his vehicle and crash around 10:30 p.m. on Monday.
  Video above, taken by The Action, shows the scene of the fatal crash at Hyde Park and College Ave.
  The man’s vehicle hit a pole, bringing it down and taking out power lines in the area.
  He was an 85-year-old from Niagara Falls. Police have not released his name.
  
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• Town files civil suit against Burchfield building’s architects, engineers

  08-08-2017 04:56 via wivb.com
  WEST SENECA, N.Y. (WIVB) — The Town of West Seneca is moving forward, filing a civil lawsuit against the Burchfield designers — Louis Design Group and Nussbaumer & Clarke, inc. The town taking legal action after a consultant came in, looking at the Burchfield Nature and Art Center, determining a man made error and design flaw is the cause behind the site being structurally unsound.
  “It is a design and engineering problem,” said Eugene Hart, one of the town counci
  
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• Wyoming County man facing more charges

  08-08-2017 04:31 via wivb.com
  TOWN OF WARSAW, N.Y. (WIVB) — Jared Price, 21, is facing felony charges now for allegedly damaging a Sheriff’s Deputy’s cruiser following a domestic incident on July 28, 2017.
  According to the Wyoming County Sheriff, Price intentionally damaged electrical wiring and bent the backseat of the cruiser gaining access to those wires which control the car’s airbags. The damage is estimated to be around $3000.
  This new charge is the latest of many Price if facing. Aside fro
  
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• Lawyer: UK model’s ‘strange’ tale of Italian kidnap is true

  08-08-2017 04:10 via wivb.com
  LONDON (AP) — Chloe Ayling’s ordeal sounds like a tale spawned by nightmares of the evil that lurks online.
  The 20-year-old British model says she was lured to Italy with the promise of a photo shoot, then drugged, stuffed into a suitcase, transported to an isolated farmhouse and held, at times in handcuffs, for almost a week.
  Ayling has told police the “terrifying experience” ended when her captor, who had threatened to hold her for ransom or advertise her as sex slave o
  
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• Niagara Falls is seeking event providers to organize ice skating, other outdoor winter activities

  08-08-2017 03:03 via wivb.com
  NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (WIVB) – The Niagara Falls Community Development Department is looking to bring ice skating or another outdoor winter activity to three downtown surface parking lots this winter.
  The department is currently seeking activity proposals via Request for Proposal (RFP) for the parking lots at First Street and Rainbow Boulevard, Third Street and Third and Niagara streets.
  Preference will be given to any proposal that creates outdoor public ice skating.
  “Ice skating in d
  
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• West Seneca police calling seniors to ask, ‘R U OK?”

  08-08-2017 02:22 via wivb.com
  WEST SENECA, N.Y. (WIVB) – West Seneca police are updating a community service that has been on their books since 1999 by asking their senior citizens and people with physical disabilities, “Are You OK?”, but the program goes by the simple letters, “R-U-O-K”—formal title, RUOK Telephone Reassurance System.
  Its purpose is daily telephone checks on registered participants to make sure they are doing okay, because for these folks, the simplest mishaps such as sli
  
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• World War II Boeing B-17 “Flying fortress” bomber flies into Buffalo

  08-08-2017 02:17 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – One of only 12 World War II Boeing B-17 bombers will take to the skies in Buffalo this weekend.
  The Liberty Foundation is taking the “flying fortress” to cities around the country to help keep the history of World War II alive.
  The restored aircraft- known as the “Madras Maiden”- is also a living museum and will be grounded for tours at the Buffalo-Niagara International Airport on Aug. 12 and 13.
  Roy Phillips, a 93-year-old World War II vetera
  
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• Arkansas inmates snatch keys, take control of part of prison

  08-08-2017 01:37 via wivb.com
  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Six inmates have snatched keys from three correctional officers at a maximum security prison in Arkansas and are holding the officers in an area where the prisoners now control the keys and the doors.
  The Arkansas Department of Correction said Monday in a statement that the inmates took the keys during recreation call at the Maximum Security Unit in Tucker, 30 miles southeast of Little Rock.
  A department spokesman had no further details. The department said its eme
  
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• Parasitic cyclospora infections up 134% this summer

  08-08-2017 01:25 via wivb.com
  (CNN)There were 206 cases of cyclospora infections reported by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from the first of May to the beginning of August, a 134% increase from the 88 cases reported over the same time period in 2016.Cyclospora infections or cyclosporiasis are caused by ingestion of the parasite Cyclospora cayetanensis in food or water. Cyclospora infect the small intestine and most commonly cause watery diarrhea; other symptoms include abdominal cramping,
  
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• Grand Island man charged with BWI after boating without navigational lights

  08-08-2017 01:20 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – A 19-year-old Grand Island man was charged with boating while intoxicated after his vessel was stopped for operating without navigational lights Sunday night in the east branch of the Niagara River.
  The Erie County Sheriff’s Office’s Marine Unit stopped the vessel operated by Thomas Stedman around 9:30 p.m. Sunday.
  Deputies observed signs of intoxication, and Stedman refused to submit to a breath test. He was arrested for BWI, unlawful possession of marij
  
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