Buffalo news

• Canisius’ repeat quest falls short in 49-28 loss to Stepinac in Catholic title game

  25-11-2017 23:07 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Archbishop Stepinac scored 26 unanswered points in the third quarter to pull away and secure a 49-28 win over Canisius in the Catholic State Championship on Saturday.
  The Crusaders, who entered as the defending champions, finish the season with a 9-4 overall record.  Stepinac has won two of the last championships, including a win over St. Francis in 2015.
  Canisius opened the scoring, with Jayce Johnson connecting with Rutgers recruit Paul Woods for a 60-yard tou
  
  Read more

• Florida teenager accused of killing grandmother stopped at Peace Bridge

  25-11-2017 18:27 via wivb.com
  MIAMI (AP modified) — U.S. Border patrol agents detained a Florida teenager at the Peace Bridge whom police want to interview in connection with the death of his grandmother.Officials in Florida started looking for the 15-year-old and his 53-year-old grandmother on Wednesday after they failed to pick up the teen’s father at the airport. The father had been on vacation with his girlfriend and his mother was watching her grandson while they were gone.
  When the father got to his home in
  
  Read more

• Extradition hearing for wanted Florida teen could happen this week

  25-11-2017 18:27 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — An extradition hearing for a Florida teen and person of interest in a murder is expected to happen this week, and possibly as soon as tomorrow.
  15-year-old Logan Mott was taken into custody by U.S. Customs and Border Protection Friday after making a wrong turn at the Peace Bridge.
  As of Sunday evening he is still in custody in Buffalo, but Buffalo Police say Florida authorities have arrived here.
  Officers say there was a grant theft auto warrant out for his arre
  
  Read more

• Pastor completes his week living with Buffalo’s homeless

  25-11-2017 17:29 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)- Rev. Eric Johns completed his week long journey of living with the homeless for the 19th time Saturday. As pastor of the Buffalo Dream Center, he has made it his mission to raise awareness about Buffalo’s homeless population. Every year, for the last 19, he hits the streets and lives as a person without a home would.
  Johns said, “I slept out here for a few nights and the rest of the nights I was on Exchange Street near the railroad station and slept under a
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• List of celebrities coming to World’s Largest Disco

  25-11-2017 16:24 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)- The 24th annual World’s Largest Disco will be held tonight at the Buffalo Niagara Convention Center.
  The celebrity guests include:
  Anson Williams- Actor and director best known for his role as “Potsie” on the TV series Happy Days.
  Priscilla Barnes- Actress best known for her role as Terri Alden on Three’s Company. She held subsequent parts in various TV series including Starsky and Hutch, Kojak, the Rockford Files and The Love Boat.
  Willie Aames
  
  Read more

• Local team prepares for global robotics competition

  25-11-2017 14:52 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)- These days, you’ll find the St. Joseph’s Collegiate Institute’s ‘First Robotics’ team hard at work in their Innovation Center after school.
  They’re preparing for this year’s competition; the global challenge connects students to industry experts.
  “The point of the competition is to have students working with mentors, working in the field, or just as interest area to build these engineering and problem solving skills,&rdqu
  
  Read more

• Dozens of people hit the slopes for opening day at Holiday Valley

  25-11-2017 04:24 via wivb.com
  ELLICOTVILLE, N.Y. (WIVB) — Holiday Valley welcomed dozens of people on the slopes Friday for it’s opening day! The resort officially opened Friday at 9 a.m., a day earlier than they opened last year. Two new slopes will open this year for their 60th anniversary.
  “Every year for thanksgiving we spend our thanksgiving here and then we go skiing on Friday if it’s open,” said Elena Wearsch.
  At Holiday Valley, the day after thanksgiving isn’t Black Friday. On the
  
  Read more

• UB tops Ohio, garners bowl game eligibility

  25-11-2017 02:33 via wivb.com
  AMHERST, N.Y. (WIVB) – For the first time in four years the Bulls final game of the regular season mattered.
  Win and go to a bowl game — lose and the season is done.
  Buffalo had a tough task at hand welcoming an 8-3 Bobcats program to town.
  But, the came out of the gate with a spark, scoring touchdowns on three straight drives.
  Off the opening kick off, Tyree Jackson connected with Anthony Johnson for a touchdown. Then on Ohio’s first drive, the Bobcats quarterback was sac
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• West Seneca West wins state title, Maple Grove comes up just short

  25-11-2017 02:22 via wivb.com
  SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WIVB) – When Matt Myers made the shocking decision to transfer from the Bishop Timon program to West Seneca West, many thought he was crazy.
  The rising senior had already committed to play at University at Buffalo and then made the switch just weeks before the start of the season.
  It ended up paying off.
  Myers quarterbacked an Indians team that capped a perfect 13-0 season with a NYSPHSAA class A state championship on Friday, winning 14-6 over Youngstown.
  It was a low
  
  Read more

• Kenmore West grad, Marine without a place to live after fire rips through home

  25-11-2017 01:03 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Jeremy Leatherbarrow spent the past four years living just outside a military base in North Carolina.
  The U.S. Marine sergeant was excited for the upcoming holidays because maybe he’d get the chance to return to Buffalo to see his family and girlfriend.
  But on Nov. 12, he was left with little but the clothes he was wearing, when a fire ripped through his home.
  Leatherbarrow, a 2013 graduate of Kenmore West High School, was in his garage that Sunday installing a
  
  Read more

• Local officers provide family with Thanksgiving meal

  25-11-2017 00:58 via wivb.com
  TOWN OF TONAWANDA, N.Y. (WIVB) — Three Town of Tonawanda police officers are getting a well deserved thank you from a local family, who may not otherwise have been able to enjoy a Thanksgiving dinner.
  What started off as a routine call to make sure the family was doing OK, ended up being so much more for both sides.
  Officers Kelly Wright, Jeremy Wyse and Alexander Pasquale were dispatched to a home in the town of Tonawanda earlier this month, to check the welfare of a local family.
  This ca
  
  Read more

Follow @Buffalo_News_US on Twitter!