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• Jamestown Police make arrest after finding body of man in driveway

  19-08-2017 23:05 via wivb.com
  JAMESTOWN, N.Y. (WIVB)- Jamestown Police found the body of Michael Bull laying face down in a driveway on 6th Street early Saturday morning.
  An investigation revealed that Bull’s cause of death was blunt force trauma.
  Police charged 51-year-old Brian Korzeniewski with second degree murder and he is awaiting arraignment.
   
  
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• Suspect arrested in killings of 2 Florida officers

  19-08-2017 22:12 via wivb.com
  KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) — A suspect in the fatal shooting of two police officers in Florida was arrested in a bar several hours after the attack, authorities said Saturday.Everett Miller faces a charge of first-degree murder for the killing of Officer Matthew Baxter, who died Friday night after the attack. Sgt. Sam Howard died Saturday afternoon, and authorities hadn’t yet said what charges he could face for that.
  During a patrol late Friday of a neighborhood with a history of
  
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• Bicyclist suffers serious injuries in Saturday morning collision with car

  19-08-2017 21:47 via wivb.com
  TOWN OF LEROY, N.Y. (WIVB)- A bicyclist suffered serious injuries after colliding with a car Saturday morning.
  The Genesee County Sheriff’s Office says 73-year-old Darwin Matthews was riding his bike north on Route 5 when he failed to yield right of way to an eastbound vehicle.
  Matthews was taken to Strong Memorial Hospital with serious physical injuries. The driver of the vehicle involved was treated at the scene and released.
   
   
   
  
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• 7-year-old dies in Niagara Falls house fire

  19-08-2017 20:20 via wivb.com
  NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (WIVB)- Niagara Falls Firefighters responded to calls of a house fire on South Avenue just before 11:30 p.m. Saturday night.
  Two adults and 13 children were able to safely escape the home. Niagara Falls Police tell News 4 that a 7 year-old child died inside the home.
  Red Cross volunteers are providing emergency assistance to the family.
   
  
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• Local veteran wins new car through ‘Vehicles for Vets’ giveaway

  19-08-2017 04:21 via wivb.com
  Buffalo, N.Y. (WIVB) — A local veteran is the proud owner of a new car thanks to Basil car dealership’s “Vehicles for Vets” event.
  Linda George’s name was drawn out of 8 other finalists’ who are all local veterans or active duty military members. Each person had to be nominated to become a finalist, and stories of their contribution during or currently with the military landed them a spot in the drawing. Linda was nominated by her husband for her service as a
  
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• Call 4 Action: garbage gone, could house be next?

  19-08-2017 02:37 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Homeowners on West Northrup Place in Buffalo’s University Heights got so fed up with a “zombie home” in the middle of their block, they invited Call 4 Action to take a look on Tuesday, and the same day a City of Buffalo “cut and clean” crew mowed down the 3’ tall weeds, ripped out the overgrown shrubs, and removed a truckload of garbage from the yard.
  Mickey Vertino, president of the University Heights Collaborative was impressed,
  
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• Bed bugs back at the Rath; have they ever left?

  19-08-2017 00:16 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Bed bugs at the Rath Building downtown are back. But some employees who have reached out to News 4 this week and last, said they’ve never really been gone — and recently, they’ve gotten worse.
  In January, after memos notifying employees of bed bugs at the Rath were obtained by News 4, the county said they take the nuisance seriously, and they would treat the building as necessary.
  The county’s buildings and grounds department has been open wit
  
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• Canadian man arrested for mailing pythons, here’s the animals you can mail

  19-08-2017 00:07 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – A Canadian man could face at least 10 years in prison for trying to send a special package through the mail. Investigators say he tried to ship several pythons and other snakes. Mailing snakes and certain other animals is illegal, but there’s a surprising list of animals you actually mail through the United States Postal Service.
  Steve Lane says he has baby chicks delivered to his pet shop every Easter season by the mailman. That’s not the only animal tha
  
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