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• Bona wins 4th straight, UB blows past Central Penn

  09-12-2017 23:52 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Jaylen Adams scored a season high 25 points and Courtney Stockard had 13 off the bench to help rally St. Bonaventure past Yale 75-67 on Saturday.
  The victory is the fourth straight for the Bonnies who improves to 7-2 overall.
  Tied at 35 in the second half, Adams helped spark an 8-0 run with a rare four-point play.  The senior guard went 4-of-7 from distance and made all nine of his free throw attempts in the win.WATCH: Highlight’s following this afternoon&
  
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• Labatt Blue, Uber launch ‘Safe Rides Pledge’

  09-12-2017 19:52 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)- To celebrate the first holiday season with ridesharing in Buffalo UBER AND Labatt Blue announced an initiative to promote safety during the holiday season this year.
  Buffalo residents can take the pledge to ride and drive safely this holiday season and be entered for a chance to win free rides for 20 friends and family members to get them to and from their holiday event.
  Through Wednesday, December 13 you can enter for a chance to win Uber rides. One winner will be ran
  
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• Pilot records database rolled out by FAA

  09-12-2017 18:00 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – The Federal Aviation Administration has released its beta test of an online Pilot Records Database designed for air carriers to check the background and training of pilots before they’re hired.Families of Flight 3407 crash victims and Western New York’s congressional delegation believe this is another step in making the skies safer for the flying public.“I think the airlines need to know everything about the pilots before they hire them,” sai
  
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• Firefighters forced to step aside as winds powered infernos

  09-12-2017 17:32 via wivb.com
  FALLBROOK, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters in Southern California were on high alert for dangerous fire potential even before the first blazes broke out.But once flames met ferocious winds, fire crews were mostly powerless to stop infernos that destroyed more than 500 buildings, killed dozens of horses and forced hundreds of thousands of people to run from six out-of-control fires that have burned over 260 square miles (673 square kilometers) since Monday
  
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• Buffalo Public Schools offers class to help diversify teaching force

  09-12-2017 15:57 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – A group of 18 future teachers are already working towards their goals. All 18, are high school freshman.
  Leaders with the Urban Teachers Academy call these students, “pioneers.”
  Buffalo Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Kriner Cash says fewer people are going into the teaching profession, and there’s a need for new teachers now. He said, “This is the time our young people, you need to consider going into teaching professionally. 
  
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• Sabres fall to Blackhawks 3-2 in OT

  09-12-2017 05:54 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – One streak ends and another one begins.
  Gustav Forsling found the back of the net in the final 10 seconds of overtime to help Chicago snap a five game losing skid in a 3-2 win over the Sabres on Friday.
  The win by the Blackhawks denied the Sabres a chance win back-to-back games for the first time since October.
  Trailing 2-1 late in the third period, despite having a six skaters on the ice, the Blackhawks managed to out hustle the Sabres and get the game-tying goal.&n
  
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• Bandits top Rock 13-9 in season opener

  09-12-2017 04:42 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Dhane Smith tallied a team high seven points to help power the Bandits to a season opening 13-9 victory over their rivals from Toronto on Friday.BANDITS WIN! pic.twitter.com/tG2JqQnr2Q
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  Smith scored a goal and had six helpers as Buffalo led wire-to-wire.
  Rookie Josh Byrne, who was the No. 1 overall picked in the NLL Draft, scored a goal and finished with five points in his f
  
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• Dollar General is opening 900 new stores next year

  09-12-2017 04:30 via wivb.com
  (CNN) – Dollar General is bucking the retail trend.
  The discount chain announced Thursday that it plans to open 900 new stores in 2018 for the second year in a row. Dollar General did not say how many new jobs the openings could create.“Our first priority remains investing in new stores where we continue to see great returns,” said CFO John Garratt on a call with investors.
  Dollar General has become a shopping staple across the country. It currently has more than 14,000 stores
  
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• Mayor hands Key to the City over to USS Little Rock

  09-12-2017 01:30 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – By the time the new USS Little Rock is commissioned next Saturday and heads out to sea, the crew will have spent the better part of two weeks at Canalside, mostly getting the high tech cruiser shipshape.
  But they are also seeing the sights Western New York has to offer–from Buffalo’s sports teams and entertainment scene to the world famous Niagara Falls.
  Mayor Byron Brown presented the crew of the Little Rock with the key to the city, Friday, in recogniti
  
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• Western New Yorkers dig out after lake effect blast

  09-12-2017 01:29 via wivb.com
  EAST AURORA, N.Y. (WIVB) — The lake effect snow blast came and went, but it left behind a mess for western New Yorkers.
  “Well yesterday I shoveled, and today I shoveled, but I’m 69 and got a lot of shoveling years left,” said Tom Casey, East Aurora resident.
  Friday morning’s commute to work was a messy one as some streets looked more like a parking lot.
  While the metro area only saw a few inches on the ground, people in East Aurora are digging out after getting 16 i
  
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• Morning snow causes traffic to slow for everyone including plows

  09-12-2017 00:55 via wivb.com
  AMHERST, N.Y. (WIVB) — A snow band started moving through the region right as kids were heading to school and people were hurrying off to work. It caused for a messy morning commute, many were stuck in traffic on the snow-covered roads, including the snow plow drivers.
  “Everyone has to get used to driving in the snow again and the first couple of times were slower than normal,” said Pat Lucey, the Amherst Highway Department Superintendent. “I know a lot of people wer
  
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• First black astronaut honored on 50th anniversary of death

  09-12-2017 00:34 via wivb.com
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — America’s first black astronaut, Air Force Maj. Robert Lawrence Jr., finally got full honors Friday on the 50th anniversary of his death.
  Several hundred people gathered at Kennedy Space Center to commemorate Lawrence, who almost certainly would have gone on to fly in space had he not died in a plane crash on Dec. 8, 1967.
  The crowd included NASA dignitaries, astronauts, fellow Omega Psi Phi fraternity members, schoolchildren, and relatives of Lawrence and
  
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• Charges dismissed against boy, 9, who brought gun to school

  09-12-2017 00:26 via wivb.com
  HAMILTON, Ohio (AP) — A Juvenile Court judge in Ohio has dismissed charges against a 9-year-old boy who said he brought a handgun to school because he’d been bullied.
  The Hamilton-Middletown Journal News reports the judge in southwest Ohio’s Butler County said Thursday during a hearing that the boy is bright but too young to understand the charges after asking him questions.
  The third-grader faced juvenile charges of bringing a gun into a school and felonious assault
  
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