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• Amber Alert issued for 3-month-old abducted near Albany

  20-10-2017 23:42 via wivb.com
  TROY, N.Y. (NEWS10) – An Amber Alert has been issued for a child abduction near Spring Avenue Friday morning in Troy.
  The incident happened at around 11:30 a.m.
  The child, Donavan Bragg, is a 3-month-old boy with blue eyes. He is approximately 2′ long and weighs about 15 pounds.
  PHOTO/WROCOne suspect, Frank Bragg, is approximately 40 years old with short, brown hair and hazel eyes. He is approximately 6′ tall and weighs about 230 pounds.
  Another suspect, Amanda Rua, is app
  
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• New fall fashion items available at Bills store

  20-10-2017 22:59 via wivb.com
  ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (WIVB) — Bills fans are getting game day ready as the team is heading back to the cap after their bye week.  Fall, football weather should be coming around eventually and Bills backers are gearing up for when those games arrive.
  “You can certainly wear your pride all year long,” said Jason Klein, the retail manager at the Bills store. “We have products that’ll carry all season.”
  And the bills store has attire for every fan. Even th
  
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• Erie County Parks’ fall photo contest kicks off this weekend

  20-10-2017 22:50 via wivb.com
  ERIE COUNTY, N.Y. (WIVB) – The annual “Fall for Erie County Parks” photo contest kicks off Saturday, encouraging county residents to capture the beauty of Erie County’s public parks in their fall foliage.
  The contest runs from Oct. 21 to Nov. 5.
  Rules for the contest can be viewed here.
   Participants who live in Erie County can enter by posting their photos on Facebook and Twitter using the hashtag #FallforECParks .  No professional photographs will be accepted.
  
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• 34 pot farms have burned down in California wildfires

  20-10-2017 22:26 via wivb.com
  California wildfires have destroyed dozens of cannabis farms just weeks before the state’s legal recreational marijuana market goes live.
  34 farms have been destroyed as of Friday, according to Hezekiah Allen, executive director of the California Growers Association.
   But he said that number is likely to rise.“Unfortunately, it will grow significantly,” Allen said. He’s working to confirm additional reports of burned farms by making phone contact with the farmer
  
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• Arrest made in Clarence hit and run that sent two children to hospital

  20-10-2017 22:16 via wivb.com
  CLARENCE, N.Y. (WIVB) – The Erie County Sheriff’s Office has made an arrest in Wednesday’s hit and run accident in Clarence that sent two children to the hospital.
  London White, 27, of Amherst, was charged with leaving the scene of a personal injury accident, speeding, failure to yield right of way, and failure to stop at a stop sign.
  On Wednesday, a white delivery truck  and a passenger vehicle collided at Salt and County roads. The passenger vehicle rolled over with a pa
  
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• Feds release cleanup plan for radioactive landfill

  20-10-2017 19:12 via wivb.com
  TOWN OF TONAWANDA, N.Y. (WIVB) — Dozens of families who live next to radioactive waste finally know what the feds will do to clean it up. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to remove the top five feet of contaminated soil at the old Tonawanda landfill and take it off-site for disposal.
  That process is expected to cost upwards of $10 million dollars, according to Arleen Kreusch, outreach program specialist for the Corps. “The capital costs include preparation of a remedial design
  
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• Student’s yearbook photo rejected because he’s holding gun

  20-10-2017 18:29 via wivb.com
  STANDISH, Maine (AP) — A Maine high school has rejected a student’s submitted yearbook photo because it shows him holding a shotgun.
  Bonny Eagle High School senior Wade Gelinas says he wanted his picture to feature hunting because it is a family tradition.
  Principal Lori Napolitano told a media outlet the school in Standish does not allow weapons in yearbook photos because administrators don’t want to be forced to decide which images are promoting violence and wh
  
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• Trick-or-treating times in WNY

  20-10-2017 18:21 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Here are times when kids can go trick-or-treating in western New York. More places and times will be added to the list.
  Alden – 6–8 p.m.
  Cheektowaga – 6-8 p.m.
  Clarence – 6-8 p.m.
  Depew – 6-8:30 p.m.
  Elma – 5-8 p.m.
  Niagara Falls (City) – 4-7 p.m.
  Tonawanda – 5:30–8 p.m.
  West Seneca – 6-8 p.m.
  
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• Authorities looking for man they say raped, killed baby

  20-10-2017 17:46 via wivb.com
  CONNEAUT, Ohio (WIVB) — The U.S. Marshals Service is looking for a fugitive they say raped and killed 13-month-old Sereniti Sutley.
  Joshua Gurto, 37, is wanted by the Conneaut Police Department in northern Ohio. He was last seen in Girard, Pennsylvania.
  A dark grey Ford F-150 truck seen in a surveillance video appears to have a New York license plate. Authorities say Gurto and an unknown male may be in or traveling throughout western New York.
  Gurto is roughly 5’10” and we
  
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• 6 arrested in family court warrant sweep

  20-10-2017 16:47 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Six Erie County men were arrested in a family court warrant sweep by the Erie County Sheriff’s office.
  The arrests were part of the annual National Family Violence Apprehension Sweep, which occurred across the country.
  “Although my Family Court Warrant Unit is active throughout the year, these sweeps concentrate on some of our worst offenders to bring them in front of the courts and ensure the individual is living up to his or her responsibility to t
  
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• Young kids spending more time on digital devices

  20-10-2017 16:22 via wivb.com
  SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (WIVB) — The time children spend on digital devices is shifting.
  New research from non-profit group Common Sense finds kids who are eight years old and younger now spend about 48 minutes per day on mobile devices.
  That’s up from just five minutes per day in 2011.
  Overall screen time, including TV, has not changed much, coming in at an average of two hours and 19 minutes per day.
  
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• GM reaches $120m settlement with states over switches

  20-10-2017 16:11 via wivb.com
  DETROIT (AP) — General Motors Co. has reached a $120 million settlement with 49 states and the District of Columbia over its defective ignition switches.
  GM recalled 2.6 million small cars worldwide in 2014 because their ignition switches could slip from the “run” position to the “off” position, shutting off the engine.
  The switches played a role in at least 124 deaths and 275 injuries, according to a victims’ fund set up by GM.
  Every state
  
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• Woman continues to spread message of love after sign burned outside her home

  20-10-2017 15:15 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The woman behind a movement to spread love through the Queen City is refusing to back down, even after arson.
  Now, her movement is bigger than ever.
  Someone set a sign on fire outside of Johanna Dominguez’s home on Mariner St. last month.
  The sign offered messages of things like unity, women’s rights and LGBT rights.
  Now, Love is Love Buffalo is spreading these signs across the Queen City.
  500 signs were sent out in the campaign’s first week.
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• Retired BPD Homicide Bureau chief gives insight on losing an officer

  20-10-2017 13:44 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The loss of Officer Craig Lehner is being felt all across the Queen City.
  The retired chief of the Buffalo Police Department’s Homicide Bureau, Charlie Fieramusca, did not know Officer Lehner, but he knows how it feels to lose a brother in blue.
  During his tenure, five officers were killed in the line of duty.
  He gave News 4 some insight into what the Buffalo police and others are going through right now.
  “Law enforcement from one end of the country to th
  
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• Company hopes to teach crows to pick up cigarette butts

  20-10-2017 13:11 via wivb.com
  THE NETHERLANDS (WIVB) — A Dutch start-up called Crowded Cities hopes to teach crows to pick up cigarette butts.
  The birds are known to be highly intelligent, even able to make their own tools.
  The “crow-bar” device includes a large funnel for the butts, along with a food dispenser.
  A four-step process would reward the birds with food for each butt dropped in the funnel.
  The company is developing a prototype before researchers study how the cigarette butts affect the birds
  
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• Vacant houses catch fire overnight

  20-10-2017 12:40 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Firefighters are trying to figure out how a fire on Buffalo’s east side started.
  Two homes on Watson St. caught fire around 12:45 a.m. The flames burst through the homes’ roofs.
  According to fire officials, there were some complications in containing the flames.
  “We were hampered initially,” Buffalo Fire Department Division Chief Peter Kertzie said. “We had power lines that had burned down and fallen in the street, so we had to watc
  
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• Nominate your favorite breakfast spot in Buffalo

  20-10-2017 05:15 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Who puts the best eggs, toast and pancakes on your plate? Nominate your choice for the best breakfast in Buffalo below:Take Our Poll
  
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• Choose your favorite breakfast spot in Buffalo

  20-10-2017 05:15 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Who puts the best eggs, toast and pancakes on your plate? Tell us your choice for the best breakfast in Buffalo below:
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• Police: Halloween-masked man attacks neighbor with hatchet in Pennsylvania

  20-10-2017 05:00 via wivb.com
  BUTLER, Pa. (AP) — Police in Pennsylvania say a 70-year-old man wearing a rubbery Halloween mask and brandishing a rusty hatchet attacked his neighbor while he mowed the lawn.
  Penn Township police Cpl. Jack Ripper tells WPXI-TV that Ronald Postreich attacked his 70-year-old neighbor Wednesday night after years of feuding.
  Ripper says the two have been arguing over their rural properties near Butler, but this was the first time it turned violent.
  Postreich is accused of creeping u
  
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• Hundreds lit up LaSalle Park as tribute to fallen officer Lehner

  20-10-2017 04:58 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Hundreds of people gathered at LaSalle Park Thursday night for a tribute to fallen officer Craig Lehner.
  Scott Hemperly organized the tribute on Facebook. He served with Lehner years ago.
  “It’s horrible when anybody dies, but when you know them personally and hear all the stories attributed to him and everybody that knew him in the community, everyone is dealing with it in their own way and this is my way of dealing with it,” said Hemperly.
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• Bush condemns Trump-era America: ‘Bigotry seems emboldened

  20-10-2017 04:56 via wivb.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — Former President George W. Bush on Thursday denounced bigotry in Trump-era American politics, warning that the rise of “nativism,” isolationism and conspiracy theories have clouded the nation’s true identity.
  The comments, delivered at a New York City conference hosted by the George W. Bush Institute, amounted to an indirect critique from a former Republican president who has remained largely silent during President Donald Trump’s unlikely rise to po
  
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• Sources: Lehner dove into Niagara River alone, tether line snapped

  20-10-2017 04:41 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Buffalo police have for decades trained on the Niagara River. Because it’s among the fastest rivers in North America, they’ve done so with the full understanding of the danger that comes along with diving into such treacherous conditions.
  They were of the same mentality last Friday, officials have said, when Officer Craig Lehner entered those swift waters for the final time.
  Lehner dove into 25 feet of water alone last Friday, according to multiple police
  
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• Buffalo tourism officials raising city’s profile as a ‘destination’

  20-10-2017 02:10 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – It was a first in Buffalo—local tourism officials inviting top convention and travel experts from across the country for a “Travel Industry Summit”, to help raise Buffalo’s profile as a travel destination.Staff from the agency formerly known as the Convention and Visitors Bureau, Visit Buffalo Niagara officials showed the out-of-town contingent the many sights Western New York has to offer, and then asked for their ideas.
  With Buffalo known as
  
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• 4 ON 4 College Hoops preview: St. Bonaventure

  20-10-2017 01:53 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – As the countdown to the college basketball season begins, we are going “4 on 4” with the Big Four programs…sharing the four things you need to know about each team. First up… St. Bonaventure.
  ADAMS AND MOBLEY 1-2 PUNCH – The duo returns as one of the best backcourts in the country. Last season the averaged 39 points per game — good for 4th best in the NCAA. Both nabbed spots on the Atlantic 10 preseason first team.
  ADAMS RETURNS
  
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• Police video shows large bear peering into shop windows

  20-10-2017 01:00 via wivb.com
  KINGS BEACH, Calif. (AP) — A very large bear-about-town was spotted peering into shop windows in a California tourist community on Lake Tahoe.
  The Placer (PLAH’-ser) County Sheriff’s Office posted video on its Facebook page of the four-pawed prowler early Wednesday.
  In it, Deputy Don Nevins shines his car’s spotlight on the animal and shouts, “Hey, big boy!” before warning the bear against breaking into any of the shops it’s sniffing around.Sho
  
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• LAPD says it is investigating alleged sex assault involving Harvey Weinstein

  20-10-2017 00:28 via wivb.com
  (AP) – The Los Angeles Police Department said Thursday its Robbery-Homicide Division interviewed “a potential sexual assault victim involving Harvey Weinstein.”
  The assault allegedly occurred in 2013, and the case is being investigated, the LAPD said in a statement.#LAPD Robbery Homicide Div has interviewed a potential sexual assault victim involving Harvey Weinstein in 2013.Investigation ongoing
  — LAPD HQ (@LAPDHQ) October 19, 2017
  Authorities did not immediately offer a
  
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• Backyard chicken trend causes spike in infections, 1 fatal

  20-10-2017 00:23 via wivb.com
  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Luke Gabriele was a healthy 14-year-old football player in Pennsylvania when he began to feel soreness in his chest that grew increasingly painful. After his breathing became difficult, doctors detected a mass that appeared to be a tumor.
  For a week, Dan and DeAnna Gabriele thought their son was dying until tests identified the cause: not cancer, but chickens — the ones he cared for at home. They had apparently infected him with salmonella that produced a seve
  
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• Minister on catcalling law: Some men still say ‘It’s French culture’

  20-10-2017 00:14 via wivb.com
  Paris (CNN) – Men who catcall, harass or follow women on the street in France could face on-the-spot fines under a new sexual-abuse law planned by the country’s minister for gender equality.The legislation aims to crack down on the kind of predatory behavior that Marlene Schiappa says restricts French women’s everyday lives, making them afraid to leave their homes.“In France …. every woman has experienced that situation,” the minister told CNN. “G
  
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