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• UB drops fourth straight in 21-20 loss to Akron

  28-10-2017 23:38 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – After missing four straight games, Tyree Jackson returned to action and threw for a career-high 313 yards, but it wasn’t enough in a 21-20 loss to Akron on Saturday.
  The Bulls, who have now lost four straight games, drop to 3-6 on the season and 1-4 in the Mid-American Conference.  UB will now need to win the final three games of the regular season to become bowl eligible for the first time since 2008.
  Trailing 14-13 in the fourth quarter, the Bulls marche
  
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• Niagara Falls police investigating early morning homicide on 19th Street

  28-10-2017 22:52 via wivb.com
  NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (WIVB)- Niagara Falls police are investigating a fatal shooting on 19th Street that occurred around 3 a.m. Saturday morning.
  When police arrived on scene they located a male victim deceased in the home with a single gunshot wound in the head.
  Police say the suspect fled the area but was spotted a short while later by Officers. There was a brief foot chase before The suspect was apprehended in an alley off of Pine Ave between 24th and 25th Street following a bri
  
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• Arrest made following strangulation death in vacant Buffalo building

  28-10-2017 22:43 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)- Buffalo police have arrested an individual in connection with a homicide that occurred Monday morning on West Avenue.
  Detectives say 46-year-old Preston German of Buffalo was found deceased inside of a vacant structure just before 10 a.m.
  37-year-old Peter Isaacs of no permanent address was charged with murder in the 2nd degree in connection with the strangulation death German.
  Buffalo police say the public providing information that helped lead to the arrest.
  Isaacs was ar
  
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• Couture’s late goal lifts Sharks past Sabres 3-2

  28-10-2017 21:54 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Logan Couture is a known Bills fan.  The Sabres, however, he probably feels a little different about.
  Couture’s tally late in the third period was the difference on Saturday, lifting the Sharks past the Sabres 3-2.
  The loss drops Buffalo to 3-7-2 overall.  They have just one home win in the month of October.
  “I thought we played a pretty good game, it’s just frustrating not to get any points out of it,” Sabres forward Jack Eichel sai
  
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• Keeping Bills in Buffalo meant targeting … Bon Jovi?

  28-10-2017 19:16 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Republican strategist Michael Caputo loves politics and he loves the Buffalo Bills. He also loves music. And in 2014, those three came to an unlikely intersection.
  Caputo wanted to keep his team in Buffalo — and his enemy at the time was one of the biggest hair bands in history.
  “Everybody was trying to fight in their own way to keep the team here,” Caputo said.
  In the wake of the 2014 death of Ralph Wilson, Bills fans grew worried the next owner wo
  
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• South Buffalo athletes raise money for the family of Officer Craig Lehner

  28-10-2017 17:59 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – We’ve told you about community organizations rallying behind officer craig lehner and his family through fundraising efforts.But not all these efforts are created equal.
  The fundraiser for Officer Craig Lehner started with a sticker.
  Coach Brandon Pafk said, “It’s important that we instill in our young people giving back to where you call home.”
  It costs you a one dollar donation, directly to the Police Benevolent Association.
  In return,
  
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• Cheektowaga, Lancaster advance to Section VI Championships

  28-10-2017 05:56 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Checkout the scores from the Section VI Semifinals.
  Class AA
  Williamsville North 31, Niagara Falls 8 FLancaster 61, Jamestown 12 F
  Class A
  South Park 36, West Seneca East 6West Seneca West 35, Iroquois 14 F
  Class B
  Cheektowaga 52 Dunkirk 15 F
  Class C
  Southwestern 28, Wilson 27 F
  Class D
  Franklinville 43, Chautauqua Lake 14 FMaple Grove 26, CSP 20 F
  
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• Mother mourns loss of teenage daughter after ATV accident

  28-10-2017 05:46 via wivb.com
  CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. (WIVB) — A Cheektowaga mother is grieving the loss of her daughter. 14-year-old Mikaela Gwitt died Thursday after she was badly injured in an ATV accident last weekend in Clarence. Charges are possible in the crash, but it’s still not clear what caused it.
  It’s an unbearable pain for Ann Potoczniak one she says she can hardly put into words.
  “I’m in shock, empty. Lost. I feel like I just lost my whole world,” said Ann Potoczniak.
  Her whole wo
  
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• CNN: First charges filed in Mueller investigation

  28-10-2017 04:31 via wivb.com
  WASHINGTON (CNN) — A federal grand jury in Washington, DC, on Friday approved the first charges in the investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller, according to sources briefed on the matter.
  The charges are still sealed under orders from a federal judge. Plans were prepared Friday for anyone charged to be taken into custody as soon as Monday, the sources said. It is unclear what the charges are.
  A spokesman for the special counsel’s office declined to comment.
  Mueller w
  
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• Bills Trade DT Marcell Dareus to Jacksonville in exchange for 6th round pick

  28-10-2017 02:30 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Four days ahead of the trade deadline, the Bills General Manager Brandon Beane pulled off a stunner, sending defensive tackle Marcell Dareus to the Jacksonville Jaguars in exchange for a six round pick.
  “Jacksonville reached out to us today, we thought about it and thought it was a good move for the Bills and Marcell,” Beane told reporters on a conference call late Friday night.  “We wouldn’t have done this if we didn’t have the dep
  
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• Iconic East Side building sells for $1,000 at city sale

  28-10-2017 02:11 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Preservationists have been working tirelessly with the Walden-Bailey neighborhood for years to clean up and preserve the old vacant Wildroot building on Bailey Avenue, but this week, they were dealt an unsettling blow.
  The East Side landmark was sold at Buffalo’s annual tax foreclosure auction to a local businessman whose plans for the iconic property might be at odds with the neighborhood’s aspirations.
  The building itself has stood along Bailey Avenue f
  
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