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• Buffalo Police looking for suspect in theft and vandalism of laundromat

  13-10-2017 22:25 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Buffalo Police are looking for a suspect who did several thousands of dollars’ worth of damage to a laundromat in the 2000 block of South Park Avenue.
  He also stole coins from the laundromat.
  Anyone with information is asked call or text the police confidential tip line at 847-2255.
  
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• Former office manager of medical office pleads guilty to stealing over $318,000 from business

  13-10-2017 22:07 via wivb.com
  AMHERST, N.Y. (WIVB) – An Amherst man has pleaded guilty to stealing from a medical facility while he served as office manager there.
  William Gajewski, 55, of Amherst, pleaded guilty to second degree grand larceny, second degree forgery, and fourth degree criminal tax fraud.
  Gajewski admitted to stealing $318,000 from Buffalo Rheumatology and Medicine in Orchard Park while he served as office manager there from March 1, 2015 to Dec. 31, 2016.
  Gajewski forged documents for false expenses to
  
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• DEC says source of foul smell in Town of Niagara is landfill

  13-10-2017 21:29 via wivb.com
  TOWN OF NIAGARA, N.Y. (WIVB) – The source of the pervasive, rancid smell in the Town of Niagara has been identified.
  The New York State DEC said Friday that the Allied Waste Landfill is the cause of the sulfur and garbage-type odor following an investigation. The odor has led to many complaints.BREAKING: Source of rancid smell in Twn of Niagara is Allied Waste Landfill, @NYSDEC says. Company fined $75K for violations. @news4buffalo pic.twitter.com/Y3uWHhMcCp
  — Dave Greber (@DaveGrebe
  
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• Crews searching for missing member of Buffalo Police Underwater Recovery Team

  13-10-2017 19:43 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Buffalo Police, the U.S. Coast Guard, and other agencies are conducting a search for a member of the Buffalo Police Underwater Recovery Team.
  “Today our Underwater Rescue Team was conducting routine training when at approximately 10 to 1:00 this afternoon one of the divers went missing,” Buffalo Police Lt. Jeff Rinaldo said. “We are currently conducting a rescue search on the Niagara River, in conjunction with multiple other agencies at this time.&r
  
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• Marilyn Manson to perform in Niagara Falls in February

  13-10-2017 18:58 via wivb.com
  NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (WIVB) — Marilyn Manson will perform at The Rapids Theatre this February.
  The February 9 show will also feature Alice Glass.
  Those interested in buying tickets can get them for $45 in advance, and $50 on the day of the show.
  Tickets go on sale Friday, October 20 at 10 a.m. They can be bought at The Rapids Theatre box office, ticketfly.com or by calling (877) 435-9849.
  Doors for the show open at 6:30 p.m. and the show starts at 8. p.m. Anyone younger than 16 must be
  
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• Restoration project underway on iconic Lady Liberty statue

  13-10-2017 18:32 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) –– The Lady Liberty statue facing west toward City Hall is undergoing a transformation. Over the next several weeks crews will work on restoring the historic Buffalo landmark.
  “What started out as some routine roof repair and replacement turned into some preventative maintenance for the statue,” said Chris Potter, Project Manager.
  Scaffolding surrounds the Lady Liberty statue facing City Hall.
  “What we’re doing is addressing some of the op
  
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• Owners of Breaking Bad house putting up fence to keep fans away

  13-10-2017 18:25 via wivb.com
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (WIVB) — There’s bad news for Breaking Bad fans.
  The owners of the house from the hit series are putting up a six-foot fence to keep fans away.
  The house of TV character Walter White is located in Albuquerque and is a tourist attraction.
  Fans have been parking in the driveway for pictures, and even throwing pizzas on the roof to reenact a popular scene.
  The owners have also put up cameras, signs and cones to keep people away.
  
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• Residents can get rid of documents at Saturday shredding event

  13-10-2017 17:49 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The Roebling Avenue Block Club will host a Community Shredding and Recycling Event on Saturday.
  Those who attend can have their personal documents shredded safely at the corner of Roebling and E. Delavan avenues.
  Acceptable items include, but are not limited to the following:
  Confidential documents containing account numbers or social security numbers
  Bank or medical statements
  Tax documents
  For every vehicle, no more than five boxes of documents can be brought
  
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• Top tips for Halloween fire safety

  13-10-2017 17:22 via wivb.com
  TOWN OF WHEATFIELD, N.Y. (WIVB) – Between the ghosts, the ghouls, and the goblins, Halloween can be a scary holiday. What’s really scary, though, are all the fire hazards that come with the season.
  Halloween decorations, like hay bales, corn stalks, and cotton spread out to be spiderwebs, can easily go up in flames. “Watch what you’re doing,” said Frontier Volunteer Fire Company past chief Richard Silvaroli. “Obviously, if there’s something there that yo
  
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• Children hospitalized after 4-vehicle crash

  13-10-2017 17:21 via wivb.com
  AMHERST, N.Y. (WIVB) — Amherst police are investigating a four-vehicle crash that happened Friday morning.
  The incident happened around 8 a.m. at the intersection of Main St. and Eggert Rd.
  One of the vehicles had a 13-year-old and a five-year-old in it. They were both taken to Women & Children’s Hospital with head and back injuries.
  Anyone with information on the accident can call police at (716) 689-1311.
  
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• NYS Comptroller: Some schools are under-reporting bullying, harassment

  13-10-2017 17:10 via wivb.com
  ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WIVB) — New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli says some New York schools are under-reporting bullying and harassment incidents.
  Auditors visited 20 schools, outside of New York City, in the state. Here is what they found:
  Some schools underreported incidents or failed to report them at all, including one case in which a school failed to report cyberbullying despite the fact that police were involved;
  Another school failed to report a pattern of bullying that had
  
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• Human remains found in North Collins sent to NYC for analysis

  13-10-2017 16:25 via wivb.com
  NORTH COLLINS, N.Y. (WIVB) — Human remains found in North Collins back in June have been sent to New York City.
  The skeletal remains were found by two hikers near Marion J. Fricano Town Park in North Collins.
  An Erie County Sheriff’s deputy went to the scene and verified that contents found in a boot above ground were part of a human skeleton.
  It’s estimated that the body had been buried anywhere from 15-30 years ago.
  “How it managed to get to the surface like that,
  
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• State Police looking to identify burglary suspects

  13-10-2017 15:58 via wivb.com
  NORTH COLLINS, N.Y. (WIVB) — New York State Police are looking to identify two people suspected of commercial burglaries in the North Collins area.
  Surveillance video captured the suspects breaking into a business on the night of September 14, Troopers say.
  They are described as white males who could be in their late teens or early twenties.
  Troopers say they were wearing outdoor gear to try and hide their faces.
  Anyone who knows who they are can call State Police at (716) 289-8367.
  
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• PHOTOS: Bills ahead of Buffalo Kickoff LIVE

  13-10-2017 15:44 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Here’s a preview of some of the players we’ll be talking about on Buffalo Kickoff LIVE this Sunday at 11:30 a.m. Buffalo Bills Image courtesy of Getty ImagesImage courtesy of Getty ImagesImage courtesy of Getty ImagesImage courtesy of Getty ImagesImage courtesy of Getty ImagesImage courtesy of Getty ImagesImage courtesy of Getty ImagesImage courtesy of Getty ImagesImage courtesy of Getty ImagesImage courtesy of Getty ImagesImage courtesy of Getty ImagesIm
  
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• WATCH: The Strictly Hip’s Jeremy Hoyle talks upcoming Vegas show

  13-10-2017 15:21 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Jeremy Hoyle, a member of The Strictly Hip, came to News 4 on Friday morning, ahead of the band’s performance in Las Vegas.
  The Strictly Hip is a local band that plays the music of Canadian rock group The Tragically Hip.
  Next week, the band will head to Las Vegas to perform at the New York-New York Hotel and Casino.
  Hoyle spoke with News 4’s Melanie Orlins about how the show came about and what it means to them on Wake Up!
  
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• Murky timeline is a focus of Las Vegas shooting probe

  13-10-2017 14:20 via wivb.com
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nearly two weeks after one of the deadliest shootings in modern U.S. history, authorities have yet to sort out the basic facts surrounding the case of a high-stakes video poker player who murdered 58 people from his high-rise hotel room in Las Vegas.
  What drove Stephen Paddock to open fire on the country music festival? Police and the FBI say they’re still at a loss to explain his motive.
  When did he fire his first shots in his Mandalay Bay hotel room? Those facts ar
  
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• Missing 90-year-old man safely located

  13-10-2017 13:54 via wivb.com
  WHEATFIELD, N.Y. (WIVB) — Members of the Niagara County Sheriff’s office have located a missing, elderly man.
  Donald Murphy, 90, left Crestwood Court in the Town of Wheatfield on foot at 4 a.m. Friday.
  He was found later in the morning.
  
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• Local high school football players take a knee during anthem

  13-10-2017 13:23 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The take-a-knee movement that has generated so much controversy in the NFL has come to a Buffalo high school.
  Several members of the South Park High School football team went down on one knee during the national anthem before their game against Lake Shore.
  Players have been taking a knee to protest racial injustice and police brutality.
  President Trump called on teams to fire NFL players who protested during the anthem.
  
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• Man killed in September shooting was wanted by police

  13-10-2017 13:03 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A man who was killed in a double shooting last month on Buffalo’s west side had been wanted by police.
  Deion Brown, 23, died near Parkdale and Potomac avenues on September 27.
  A week earlier, News 4 reported that he was wanted by police on a parole violation.
  A 32-year-old woman was also shot, along with Brown, last month. She’s still in critical condition.
  As of Friday morning, Buffalo police have not made an arrest in the shooting.
  
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• Cuomo now plans to give away all of Weinstein’s donations

  13-10-2017 12:23 via wivb.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo now plans to give away all of the campaign contributions he’s collected from disgraced Hollywood executive Harvey Weinstein.
  The Democratic governor on Thursday had earlier said he gave away just $50,000 of the over $110,000 he’s received in total from Weinstein because the rest of the money had already been spent. He called it the “right symbol.”
  But later Thursday evening, Cuomo’s campaign reversed course and releas
  
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• Sabres stay winless in 3-2 loss to Sharks

  13-10-2017 07:20 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y (WIVB) – Jason Pominville scored twice, but it wasn’t enough in a 3-2 loss to the Sharks Thursday.
  Buffalo remains winless on the year and is now 31st in the league standings.  San Jose picks up its first two points of the season, improving to 1-2 overall.
  The Sharks struck early, taking advantage of a Sabres penalty and opened a 1-0 lead 2:15 into the game on Tomas Hurtl’s first goal of the season.
  Buffalo battled back as Jack Eichel connected with Jason Pomi
  
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• California wildfires bring record 31 deaths

  13-10-2017 03:50 via wivb.com
  (AP) – Northern California’s wildfires have now killed 31 people — making this the deadliest week of wildfires in state history.
  Sonoma County Sheriff Robert Giordano said Thursday night that two more people have been confirmed dead there. That raises the statewide death total from 29 to 31.
  The Oakland Hills fire of 1991 killed 29 people by itself.
  While no one fire currently burning has killed that many, collectively this is the deadliest series of simultaneous fires in the s
  
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• Buffalo Police investigating discovery of body in train boxcar

  13-10-2017 03:00 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Buffalo Police are investigating the discovery of a body inside of a railroad train boxcar just before 9 a.m. on Tifft Street.
  An autopsy will be conducted to determine the deceased male’s cause of death.
  Police say foul play is not suspected.
   
  
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• ISIS fighters holed up in Raqqa believed to have women, children to use as human shields

  13-10-2017 02:39 via wivb.com
  RAQQA, Syria — The heart of Raqqa is shattered, laid waste by three years of ISIS rule and a siege that’s lasted four months.
  On the front line, U.S.-backed Syrian militiamen decided to put on a show for the camera. ISIS gunmen are hiding in the ruins of a nearby apartment building, they said, but it looked more like boredom than real fighting. Progress here is grindingly slow.
  They know exactly where ISIS is — in a tiny sector of the city — but they c
  
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• Hurricane Ophelia strengthens to Category 2 storm, NHC says

  13-10-2017 01:57 via wivb.com
  MIAMI — Hurricane Ophelia strengthened to a Category 2 storm, swirling far from land in the eastern Atlantic, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center’s (NHC) latest advisory.
  The NHC says Ophelia is barely moving and is continuing to strengthening, now boasting top sustained winds of 100 mph.
  On Thursday afternoon, Ophelia’s core was located about 715 miles southwest of the Azores, where it was virtually stationary.
  The Miami-based hurricane center says Opheli
  
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