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• Seattle Mayor Ed Murray resigns after fifth child sex-abuse allegation

  12-09-2017 23:33 via wivb.com
  (CNN) – Seattle Mayor Ed Murray announced his resignation Tuesday, hours after new sexual abuse allegations surfaced against the embattled politician.The mayor’s announcement comes after his cousin gave an interview with the Seattle Times alleging abuse, the latest in a series of allegations against the mayor. The cousin is the fifth person to accuse Murray of child sexual abuse.Murray denied the allegations, as he has in the past. He said he was resigning effective 5
  
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• Buffalo Police investigating robbery at M&T on Jefferson Avenue

  12-09-2017 23:27 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO. N.Y. (WIVB) – Buffalo Police are investigating a robbery that happened at approximately 1:40 p.m. Monday at the M&T Bank on Jefferson Avenue.
  The suspect is described as a black male, 170 lbs., with a scar on his right cheek. He is described as wearing a red plaid shirt under a white/grey vest, a baseball cap and glasses. The suspect allegedly passed a note to the teller demanding money before fleeing in an unknown direction with an unknown amount of money.
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• The changing demographics of who is filling college classrooms

  12-09-2017 22:57 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Will Mitchell walks into an office at Erie Community College, sitting down to do some work. He has some time in between classes before jetting off to work as a personal trainer.
  The 33-year-old is back in school for the first time in several years after serving in the U.S. Marine Corps. and getting a businesses administration degree.
  “Returning to school can be challenging,” said Mitchell. “Just being in that classroom environment again.”
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• Florida airports are open but cancelations linger after Irma

  12-09-2017 22:10 via wivb.com
  (AP) – Most commercial airports in Florida are open although hundreds of flights are still being canceled or delayed as the state recovers from Hurricane Irma.
  Miami International Airport said Tuesday that limited airline and cargo flights had resumed. The first departure was an American Airlines flight to Las Vegas around 7 a.m.
  The Federal Aviation Administration says airports in Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, Orlando, Tampa and Jacksonville are open. The airport in Naples on the sout
  
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• iPhone 8 with camera, display, speaker upgrades

  12-09-2017 20:29 via wivb.com
  CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) — Apple is refreshing its lineup of iPhones with camera, display and speaker improvements.
  The new phones promise to shoot pictures with better colors and less distortion, particularly in low-light settings. The display will adapt to ambient lighting, similar to a feature in some iPad Pro models. Speakers will be louder and offer deeper bass.
  The new iPhone 8 will keep its predecessor’s size — 4.7 inches __ but have a higher starting p
  
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• Active shooter reported at New Hampshire medical center

  12-09-2017 20:26 via wivb.com
  LEBANON, N.H. (AP) — Police say they are investigating reports of an active shooter at New Hampshire’s largest hospital.
  Lebanon police said Tuesday that they are investigating reports of an active shooter at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.
  A spokesman for the hospital, Mike Barwell, would say only that they have reported “an incident” to police and that officers are responding.
  
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• Small plane crashes into tree in Connecticut

  12-09-2017 19:25 via wivb.com
  CONNECTICUT (WIVB) — A small plane crashed into a tree and then slammed into the ground in Connecticut.
  It happened shortly after the plane veered off a nearby runway.
  The pilot ended up in the hospital with minor injuries.
  Crews are looking into a small fuel leak after the plane went down, and the FAA is investigating the crash.
  
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• Prosecutors to consider charges in Australian woman’s death

  12-09-2017 18:30 via wivb.com
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The case of a Minneapolis police officer who shot and killed an Australian woman in July has been handed over to prosecutors for possible charges, investigators and prosecutors announced Tuesday.
  It’s the third high-profile police shooting in recent years in which a Minnesota prosecutor will make a charging decision himself rather than rely on the grand jury process, which has been criticized because it is secret and rarely ends in officers being charged.
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• Bed bugs found in Erie County Family Court building

  12-09-2017 18:01 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Bed bugs have been found on the third floor of the Erie County Family Court building.
  A pest control company will be treating both the third floors of the court building and the nearby Rath Building after 5 p.m. Tuesday. Anyone who works in the areas set to be treated must leave the area at that time and take their personal items with them.
  10 out of 18 floors in the Rath Building, and the elevator, have been chemically treated before. Erie County Comptroll
  
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• Buffalo Police: Woman injured in home invasion

  12-09-2017 17:35 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Police say a woman was seriously injured by two people who broke into a home on Skillen St. Monday.
  According to a police report, the two unknown suspects forced themselves through the front door and punched the victim several times in the ribs and face.
  One of the suspects duct taped the woman and demanded money while waving a gun in her face, police say.
  Nothing was taken, police say, and the suspects fled through the front door.
  The victim was taken to ECMC.
  
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• Kissmas Bash coming back to the KeyBank Center

  12-09-2017 17:15 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Kissmas Bash will be back at the KeyBank Center on December 9.
  The concert, which is put together by Kiss 98.5, will feature national acts, but they have not yet been announced.
  The KeyBank Center says the artists will be announced in the upcoming weeks.
  Tickets for the show go on sale this Saturday at 10 a.m. Prices range from $25 to $85.
  They can be bought at the KeyBank Center Box Office, Tickets.com or by calling 888-223-6000.
  
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• Buffalo’s mayoral candidates cast Primary Election ballots

  12-09-2017 17:06 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Western New Yorkers are heading to the polls Tuesday for Primary Day voting, and one race to watch is the one for Buffalo’s mayor.
  Three Democrats are facing each other for the chance to appear on the November ballot. Incumbent Mayor Byron Brown is taking on City Comptroller Mark Schroeder and Erie County Legislator Betty Jean Grant in this race.
  Voter turnout is typically pretty low on Primary Day, so each ballot cast could make a difference in the outcome of
  
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• Thieves have been stealing tires, rims on Hondas in Buffalo all Summer

  12-09-2017 16:53 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — In Buffalo, parked cars are being left on cement blocks after thieves take off with the tires and rims.
  The thefts have been happening to Honda owners throughout the Summer.
  The Honda Accord holds the top spot on the list of stolen vehicles compiled by the National Insurance Crime Bureau.
  “First and foremost, there is some kind of a ‘locking lug’ that you can apply to your wheels,” Frank Scafidi, with the bureau, said. “That is the best
  
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• Floridians say online retailers let them down ahead of Irma

  12-09-2017 15:06 via wivb.com
  MIAMI (AP) — Maya Kogul was in California when Hurricane Irma began twirling toward Florida. She knew stores would run out of key supplies before she got back to her downtown Miami home earlier this week, so she placed an order for three cases of water through a Nestle water delivery company. She waited and waited, but the order didn’t come.
  More than 50 Floridians told The Associated Press that they did not receive flashlights, battery-operated radios, boxed milk, water bottles and
  
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• BPD officer accused of Assault to return to court

  12-09-2017 14:49 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A Buffalo police officer accused of assaulting a person in custody will return to court for a pre-trial conference.
  Officer Joseph Hassett was arrested two weeks ago. Police say that in March, Officer Hassett tripped a suspect who was in handcuffs, causing him to hit his head on the ground.
  MORE | Learn more about Hassett’s arrest and plea of ‘not guilty’ here.
  Hassett has been free on his own recognizance. He will be in court at 2 p.m.
  
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• UN approves watered-down new sanctions against North Korea

  12-09-2017 14:30 via wivb.com
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council on Monday unanimously approved new sanctions on North Korea but not the toughest-ever measures sought by the Trump administration to ban all oil imports and freeze international assets of the government and its leader, Kim Jong Un.
  The resolution, responding to Pyongyang’s sixth and strongest nuclear test explosion on Sept. 3, does ban North Korea from importing all natural gas liquids and condensates. It a
  
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• Apple may test the bounds of iPhone love with a $1,000 model

  12-09-2017 14:09 via wivb.com
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple is expected to sell its fanciest iPhone yet for $1,000, testing how much consumers are willing to pay for a device that’s become an indispensable part of modern life.
  Apple hasn’t confirm that it will be introducing a new iPhone, although a financial forecast issued last month telegraphed something significant in the pipeline.
  An expensive new iPhone would set a new price threshold for other devices intended to appeal to a mas
  
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• Disney World plans to reopen Tuesday after cleaning from Irma

  12-09-2017 13:54 via wivb.com
  NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Hurricane Irma shut down Disney World on Sunday and Monday, but the resort is on track to reopen its gates Tuesday.
  Photos and videos surfaced online of trees knocked down at Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme park and the Polynesian Resort. Irma caused flooding to the Grand Floridian Resort and to Epcot park.
  “We are beginning an initial assessment of our property,” a Disney World spokeswoman said early Monday. “While we experienced high winds and
  
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• Meet the first woman to call NFL game in 30 years

  12-09-2017 13:43 via wivb.com
  NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — In 1987, Gayle Sierens became the first woman ever to call the NFL on TV — a regionally televised Chiefs-Seahawks game in the last week of the season. She never called another.
  In Syracuse, New York, the father of Beth Mowins noticed Sierens’ picture in the newspaper and clipped it out for his daughter, who had grown up broadcasting neighborhood kickball games into a toy microphone.
  “I was already a budding sportscaster back then,” Mowins recal
  
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• Sides agree to stop monkeying around in primate selfie suit

  12-09-2017 13:33 via wivb.com
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Monkey see. Monkey sue. Monkey settle.
  Attorneys representing a macaque monkey have agreed to a compromise in a case where they asserted the animal owned the copyright to selfie photos it had shot with a photographer’s camera.
  Under the deal, the photographer agreed to donate 25 percent of any future revenue from the images to charities dedicated to protecting crested macaques in Indonesia, said the lawyers from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals who fil
  
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• Weakened Irma leaves 3 dead in Georgia, 1 in South Carolina

  12-09-2017 12:34 via wivb.com
  ATLANTA (AP) — Irma weakened to a still-deadly tropical storm as it swirled beyond Florida, killing at least three people in Georgia, flooding the coast, sending trees crashing onto homes and forcing the world’s busiest airport in Atlanta to cancel hundreds of flights.
  The former hurricane remained an immense, 415-mile (668-kilometer) wide storm as its center moved on from Florida Monday afternoon, giving its still-formidable gusts and drenching rains a far reach.
  Some 540,
  
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• WNY native writes vivid description of ‘horrifying’ night during Hurricane Irma

  12-09-2017 06:18 via wivb.com
  LAKE MARY, FLORIDA — (WIVB) News Four talked to WNY native Michelle Valiquette Wilson on Friday before Hurricane Irma made landfall in Florida. Michelle worked as a news producer here at Channel 4 for some time. She and her husband, Eric, moved to Florida several years ago where they are raising their son, Aidan.
  Michelle told us on Friday that the highways were clogged and gasoline was scarce, so she and Eric decided to ride out the storm in their home, which was built to withstand a hurr
  
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• Candidates for Buffalo mayor make final push to sway voters

  12-09-2017 06:13 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)- The three Democratic candidates for Buffalo mayor are gearing up for the primary on Tuesday.
  Buffalo Comptroller Mark Schroeder spent Monday knocking on doors, handing out fliers and shaking hands.
  “It’s like groundhog day for me,” he said. “I’ve been doing it for 120 days in a row.”
  We caught up with Schroeder in Allentown where he was spreading the message that he hopes to be a street mayor.
  “In our neighborhoods, there
  
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• Irma weakens into a tropical depression

  12-09-2017 05:10 via wivb.com
  (AP) – The National Hurricane Center says Irma has weakened into a tropical depression.
  The storm, located about 5 miles (10 kilometers) west of Columbus, Georgia, is still bringing heavy rain to the U.S. Southeast on Monday night.
  Irma is expected to drop 2 to 5 inches of rain across South Carolina and northern portions of Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi.
  Irma’s top sustained winds are 35 mph (55 kph), and it is moving northwest at 15 mph (24 kph).
  The hurricane center has disconti
  
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• Buffalo Board of Education selects new member to fill Park District seat

  12-09-2017 05:05 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – The Buffalo Board of Education has voted unanimously for Dr. Catherine Flanagan-Priore to fill the Park District seat.
  The seat was recently vacated by Carl Paladino, who was ousted after State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia ordered his removal in August.
  The board interviewed 16 candidates to fill the position.
  She will be sworn in as a board member 5 p.m. Wednesday.
   
  
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• Pendleton mom gets fed up with prescription red tape, Calls 4 Action

  12-09-2017 02:54 via wivb.com
  PENDLETON, N.Y. (WIVB) – Even though doctors have been prescribing the same crucial medications for Mary Kosmerl’s devastating illnesses for many years-—multiple sclerosis (MS) and myasthenia gravis (MG)–in January, her medical insurer decided every time she needed to get the prescription for MG refilled she would have to get a new authorization from her doctor before they would approve it.
  But that new procedure required more than the doctor’s authorization, and i
  
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• Boston man charged with DWI after crashing into garage

  12-09-2017 01:48 via wivb.com
  BOSTON, N.Y. (WIVB) – A Boston man is facing charges after striking a utility pole and crashing into a garage on Boston State Road around 7:30 p.m. Sunday.
  The vehicle, driven by Kevin Thomas, 63, of Boston, apparently left the roadway, striking a utility pole, before careening into a garage causing significant damage to the structure and vehicle located near it.
  Deputies who arrived at the scene spoke with Thomas and observed signs of intoxication, sheriff’s reports say.
  Thomas fail
  
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• Stauffer’s plant in Allegany County to close

  12-09-2017 01:37 via wivb.com
  CUBA, N.Y. (WIVB) – Animal cracker manufacturer D. F. Stauffer Biscuit Co., Inc. announced Monday that its Cuba, NY plant will be closing by the end of 2017.
  The production at the Allegany County plant will be consolidated into its higher production facilities located in York, PA and Santa Ana, CA.
  Employees at the Cuba plant are being given the opportunity to transfer to Stauffer’s manufacturing sites in PA and CA, the company announced in a press release Monday.
   
  
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• Buffalo Police responding to call of child struck on bicycle

  12-09-2017 01:29 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Buffalo Police are responding to a call of a child struck on a bicycle at West Delavan and Chapin Parkway.BREAKING: BPD responding to a call of a child on a bike struck by a vehicle at West Delavan & Chapin Pkwy.
  — Buffalo Police Dept (@BPDAlerts) September 11, 2017
  We’ll have more information as it becomes available.
  
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