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• WNY premiere of “Marshall” will be held Oct. 7

  28-09-2017 23:22 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – “Marshall” will make its WNY premiere at the North Park Theatre on Hertel Avenue Oct. 7.
  Shot primarily in Buffalo, “Marshall” chronicles the early career of Thurgood Marshall, the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
  A premiere screening of the film will be held at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 7 at North Park Theatre, 1428 Hertel Avenue. A panel discussion and Q&A will be held after the screening, featuring two of the film’s producers.
  
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• Woman dies from flesh-eating bacteria from Harvey-flooded home

  28-09-2017 22:45 via wivb.com
  (CNN) – Four weeks after the storm, Hurricane Harvey’s destruction continues. A recent victim of the super storm is a 77-year-old woman who encountered flesh-eating bacteria inside a home near Houston, according to the Harris County Institute of Forensic Science.Nancy Reed — Harris County’s 36th fatality related to the storm — died on September 15.Necrotizing fasciitis is the cause of Reed’s death recorded by the medical examiner. Complications in the fo
  
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• Police say burial-business trespasser tried cremating corpse

  28-09-2017 22:41 via wivb.com
  AKRON, Ohio (AP) — Police say a trespasser at an Ohio burial vault business tried unsuccessfully to cremate a corpse.
  Police say the break-in at Akron Burial Vault happened late Tuesday or early Wednesday.
  A body that had been in a cardboard cremation container was found on the floor. Business owner Martin Ebie told WKYC-TV the body toppled out of the container after someone tried to push it into the oven.
  An employee called police after discovering the disturbance Wednesday.
  The company m
  
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• UPDATE: Standoff on Michigan Avenue has ended, suspect surrendered

  28-09-2017 22:17 via wivb.com
  UPDATE: The standoff has ended, suspect has surrendered. BREAKING: BPD say stand off on Michigan Avenue has ended. Suspect surrendered.
  — Buffalo Police Dept (@BPDAlerts) September 28, 2017
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Buffalo Police SWAT are responding to a call of a man barricaded with a shotgun in the 1200 block of Michigan Avenue.
  Traffic could be affected.BREAKING: BPD SWAT responding to a call of a man barricaded with a shotgun in the 1200 block of Michigan Avenue. Traffic could
  
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• POLICE: SWAT responding to man barricaded with shotgun on Michigan Avenue

  28-09-2017 22:17 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Buffalo Police SWAT are responding to a call of a man barricaded with a shotgun in the 1200 block of Michigan Avenue.
  Traffic could be affected.BREAKING: BPD SWAT responding to a call of a man barricaded with a shotgun in the 1200 block of Michigan Avenue. Traffic could be affected
  — Buffalo Police Dept (@BPDAlerts) September 28, 2017
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• Arrest made after shooting of 18-year-old woman in Buffalo

  28-09-2017 20:19 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Buffalo police say an arrest has been made after a teenager was shot multiple times on Donovan Dr. last week.
  The 18-year-old female victim was taken to ECMC after the shooting, which occurred just before 9 p.m. on September 18.
  It is not clear who was arrested, or what they are charged with.
  
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• State Police: Man threatens victim with knife after accident

  28-09-2017 17:54 via wivb.com
  NEWSTEAD, N.Y. (WIVB) — An Onondaga County man was arrested after New York State Police say they responded to a road rage incident.
  On Tuesday afternoon, Troopers say they went to the area of I-90 in the Town of Newstead after receiving a report.
  According to them, a driver named Steven Walker, 45, threatened someone with a knife after a minor property damage accident.
  Walker was taken into custody and charged with Menacing, Criminal Mischief, Criminal Possession of a Weapon, Leaving
  
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• Possible data breach at Sonic could put credit card customers at risk

  28-09-2017 17:21 via wivb.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — Sonic says there’s been some “unusual activity” on credit cards used at some of its restaurants.
  The fast food chain said in a statement that its credit card processor told them about the incident last week and that it’s now “working to understand the nature and scope of this issue.” It did not disclose how many credit cards were potentially involved in the incident or when the incident took place.
  There are more than 3,500 Sonic restaura
  
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• Apple crop not hurt by record heat, but picking season slightly shortened

  28-09-2017 17:16 via wivb.com
  GASPORT, N.Y. (WIVB) – For many of us, it just wouldn’t be fall without a trip to an apple orchard, but this year, it really hasn’t felt like fall very much because of a recent heatwave that only broke late this week.
  Melinda Vizcarra, whose family owns Becker Farms and Vizcarra Vineyard, says the apple crop is in great shape this year, although when Western New York started dealing with record heat, fewer people came out to enjoy it for a short time. “It was really hot l
  
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• KeyBank branch robbed on Wednesday

  28-09-2017 16:55 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Buffalo police are investigating a Wednesday bank robbery on Main St.
  Police say the robbery happened at the KeyBank branch on the street’s 2400 block, just after Noon.
  According to authorities, the suspect entered the bank, demanded money from a teller and received it before leaving on foot.
  Anyone with information on the robbery is asked to call the police department’s confidential tip line at (716) 847-2255.
  
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• Fish fall from sky with rain in northern Mexico

  28-09-2017 16:41 via wivb.com
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Civil defense officials in northeast Mexico say a light rain was accompanied by small fish that fell from the sky.
  Tamaulipas civil defense says in a brief statement that rain Tuesday in the coastal city of Tampico included fish. Photos posted on the agency’s Facebook page show four small fish in a bag and another on a sidewalk.
  According the U.S. Library of Congress, it’s a phenomenon that has been reported since ancient times. Scientists believe that tornad
  
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• House Majority Whip Scalise returns to work at Capitol

  28-09-2017 16:21 via wivb.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The congressman shot in June at a baseball practice is returning to work at the Capitol after three months in the hospital and at a rehabilitation facility.
  That’s the word from Majority Whip Steve Scalise’s office. The Louisiana Republican will vote Thursday morning and address his colleagues on the House floor. This is his first public appearance since the shooting.
  Scalise and four other people were injured June 14 when a gunman opened fire on a Republican
  
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• VP Mike Pence coming to Buffalo

  28-09-2017 15:26 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Vice President Mike Pence will make an appearance in Buffalo next month.
  Pence is scheduled to come to the Queen City for a fundraiser for Rep. Chris Collins, according to sources with knowledge of the event.
  News 4 will provide more information on the appearance as soon as it is available.
  
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• Trump waives cargo restrictions to speed help to Puerto Rico

  28-09-2017 15:18 via wivb.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration announced it will waive federal restrictions on foreign ships’ transportation of cargo to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico.
  White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said on Twitter Thursday that President Donald Trump has “authorized the Jones Act be waived for Puerto Rico.” She said Trump is responding to a request from the governor, and it “will go into effect immediately.”
  The announcement cam
  
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• Reports: Justin Timberlake to perform at Super Bowl 52

  28-09-2017 13:48 via wivb.com
  MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (WIVB) — It looks like Justin Timberlake may be ready for a Super Bowl halftime show.
  Reports say the singer will take part in Pepsi’s Super Bowl 52 show in Minneapolis this coming February.
  The NFL isn’t saying anything about the show yet.
  His return will come more than a decade after his part in Janet Jackson’s infamous wardrobe malfunction.
  The FCC fined CBS $550,000 for the incident, but a federal appeals court threw it out.
  
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• Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center to hold coat and Winter clothing sale

  28-09-2017 13:34 via wivb.com
  NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (WIVB) — It may not be cold enough outside for a coat…yet, but Thursday and Friday, there’s a place you can buy one and help an area hospital.
  The auxiliary of Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center holds a sale of what it calls gently-worn men’s and women’s coats, jackets, suits and sweaters, plus handbags and jewelry.
  The sale takes place in the auditorium of the medical center from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. on Thursday and 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
  
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• Tractor-trailer takes out power pole, closing down street

  28-09-2017 13:06 via wivb.com
  TONAWANDA, N.Y. (WIVB) — Police in the City of Tonawanda say a truck accident closed off Delton St. for nine hours.
  At 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, a Canadian tractor trailer driver cut a corner too sharply and struck a power pole.
  The driver, Jagroop Singh, 21, was not injured.
  National Grid replaced a pole and a transformer following the incident. No one lost power, but the traffic light at Main St. and Delton was out.
  Singh was ticketed for traveling on a residential street and having too
  
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• Red Cross helping 9 adults, 8 kids after early morning fire

  28-09-2017 12:44 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A fire broke out overnight in Buffalo’s Riverside neighborhood.
  The American Red Cross is helping nine adults and eight children after a fire on Crowley Ave., near Riverside Park.
  The fire began after 1 a.m. Thursday at a building that contained three apartments.
  Everyone was able to get out of the building, but firefighters went in to rescue a dog named Bella.
  “My friend lives here, and heard that the babies got out safe, but the dog was still in the hou
  
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• Red Cross helping 18 people after early morning fire

  28-09-2017 12:44 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A fire broke out overnight in Buffalo’s Riverside neighborhood.
  The American Red Cross is helping 18 people, including 10 children after a fire on Crowley Ave., near Riverside Park.
  The fire began after 1 a.m. Thursday at a building that contained three apartments.
  Everyone was able to get out of the building, but firefighters went in to rescue a dog named Bella.
  “My friend lives here, and heard that the babies got out safe, but the dog was still in the h
  
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• Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner dies at 91

  28-09-2017 05:52 via wivb.com
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Playboy founder Hugh M. Hefner, the pipe-smoking hedonist who revved up the sexual revolution in the 1950s and built a multimedia empire of clubs, mansions, movies and television, symbolized by bow-tied women in bunny costumes, has died at age 91.
  Hefner died of natural causes at his home surrounded by family on Wednesday night, Playboy said in a statement.
  As much as anyone, Hefner helped slip sex out of the confines of plain brown wrappers and into mainstream conversat
  
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• Texas Roadhouse locations donate some profits to Red Cross for hurricane victims

  28-09-2017 05:10 via wivb.com
   
  TONAWANDA, N.Y. (WIVB) – Texas Roadhouse restaurants across the country are donating all profits made between 4 p.m. and 10 p.m. Wednesday to the American Red Cross to help hurricane victims- including the location in Tonawanda.
  Kevin Brewster, kitchen manager for the Texas Roadhouse Tonawanda location, said that the restaurant loves to help the community.
  The chain has also donated more than 50,000 meals to hurricane victims in Texas and Florida.
  
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• Demonstrators gather outside New Era Field to protest Bills’ protest

  28-09-2017 05:04 via wivb.com
  ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (WIVB) – A group of demonstrators waved American flags outside of New Era Field Wednesday evening, in opposition of Buffalo Bills players kneeling during the National Anthem.
  One protester told News 4 that the purpose wasn’t to boycott the game, but to spread the message of what the American flag means to them.
  Here’s what some of the demonstrators had to say:
  
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• Here’s what the president’s new tax plan looks like

  28-09-2017 04:52 via wivb.com
  (CBS NEWS) – The Trump administration’s proposal for changes to the tax code will reduce the number of individual tax brackets, eliminate most personal deductions and lower corporate tax rates, according to senior administration officials.
  With Senate Republicans’ last-ditch attempt at health care reform dead, the GOP is pivoting to another policy arena in which it hopes to find more success. But the White House is leaving many of the details to the House Ways an
  
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• Frustration mounts between hourly employees and Town of Tonawanda

  28-09-2017 04:32 via wivb.com
  TONAWANDA, N.Y. (WIVB) — The Hourly Employees Association and the Town of Tonawanda are at a standstill.
  About 200 town employees have been without a contract for the last six years. The last time the union had a contract was in 2011.
  Health coverage and retroactive pay are the main issues driving contract talks.
  “My guys are starting to get very frustrated. It’s been a while without raises, they’re still going out and doing the same work they’ve done everyday, givi
  
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• Neighbors react to double shooting on Buffalo’s West Side

  28-09-2017 03:52 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)- Buffalo Police are searching for the two people they believe are responsible for a double shooting. A 23 year old Buffalo man was killed and a 32 year old Buffalo woman critically injured overnight at the corner of Parkdale and Potomac Avenues.
  Officers continued to patrol the area more than 12 hours after the shooting. The shooting happened just feet from where the female victim lives.
  Neighbors heard the violence just after midnight.
  “It sounded like gunshot th
  
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• Roach infestation closes portion of Cuba’s Main Street

  28-09-2017 02:25 via wivb.com
  CUBA, N.Y. (WIVB) — A portion of East Main Street in Cuba’s business district was closed Wednesday to allow workers to hose down sidewalks, trees, even light poles in an effort to flush cockroaches that had taken hold in that end of the village.
  The size of the infestation — and it’s broader impact that forced the closure of some businesses and the village street — is something the Allegany Department of Health has never seen, according to its director.
  Representati
  
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• Teen stabs classmates at NYC school, killing 15-year-old boy

  28-09-2017 02:22 via wivb.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — A high school student who hadn’t been getting along with two classmates suddenly attacked them with a switchblade during history class Wednesday, killing one boy and gravely wounding another, police said.
  Fifteen to 20 students witnessed the attack. After leaving the classroom, the 18-year-old assailant handed the bloodied knife to a school counselor he met in the hall, then went to an assistant principal’s office and quietly waited for authorities to arrive, po
  
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• Wrecking machine at his front door, disabled veteran tries to save home

  28-09-2017 01:52 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Marine veteran Ronald Devers is on a mission to save his East Side home which has been in his family for decades. Fire ripped through the house on East Utica Street, in April, and now the City of Buffalo is in the process of tearing it down.
  Devers contacted Call 4 Action in desperation, “I am asking for the assistance of others to help keep a house that has been in the community for over a 100 years, still in the community.”
  Smoke and flames destroyed th
  
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• WATCH: Josh Reed & Sal Cappacio break down Bills Vs. Falcons

  28-09-2017 01:03 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – When it comes to offense, the Atlanta Falcons boast one of the most prolific offenses in the NFL with Matt Ryan, Julio Jones, Mohamed Sanu to go along with Devonta Freeman.
  The Bills defense, especially the secondary, have put together three complete games — not allowing a passing touchdown.  Facing Atlanta could be their toughest test of the season.
  
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• Two KeyBank branches to close this December

  28-09-2017 00:48 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – KeyBank will close two branches this December.
  The Northtown Plaza branch on Sheridan Drive and the Pine Avenue branch in Niagara Falls will both close in early December. All clients have been notified.
  No jobs will be lost due to the consolidation, a spokesperson for KeyBank confirmed.
  
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• Bills Hall of Famer Thurman Thomas helps RCSD launch new breakfast program

  28-09-2017 00:32 via wivb.com
  ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC-TV) – The Rochester City School District celebrated the importance of breakfast Wednesday morning by raising a glass to milk.
  At School No. 23, classes welcomed former Buffalo Bill Thurman Thomas to launch the “first class” hot breakfast program. The launch coincides with World School Milk Day, celebrated annually around the world to teach students the benefits of drinking milk, at school and at home, as part of a healthy, balanced diet.
  RCSD students will
  
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• “Lucifer” heat waves could become regular summer occurrence

  28-09-2017 00:05 via wivb.com
  BERLIN — Climate researchers are warning that Europeans should prepare for the return of “Lucifer,” saying the hellishly named heat wave that hit parts of the continent this summer could become a regular occurrence due to man-made climate change.
  Hotter-than-usual temperatures in the Mediterranean region resulted in higher hospital admissions, numerous forest fires and widespread economic losses between June and August. Peak heat struck Italy and the Balkans for three
  
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