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• Mom and daughter duo reach monumental volunteering milestone

  15-12-2017 23:51 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Mallory and Connie Wojcinski spend a few hours each week at Roswell Park Cancer Institute.
  “I see the staff and people here do so much for the patients and their families and that’s why we give back,” said Connie, a volunteer at the hospital. “We walk through the halls and people shout out ‘Hi Mallory!'”
  The mom and daughter duo have been volunteering at the hospital since 2014 and have accumulated 500 hours since starting. It
  
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• East Side church burglarized three times in three months

  15-12-2017 23:36 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — When Pastor Charles H. Walker arrived at Mt. Hope Community Church Wednesday afternoon, he saw several sets of footprints leading from the sidewalk to the back of the church. A pit formed in his stomach and a sinking feeling started when he unlocked the door.
  “When I came in here, I just started screaming and wailing,” said Pastor Walker. “I am hurt.”
  The thieves took off with around $4,000 in music equipment like speakers, subwoofers, a
  
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• Colden man charged with firing bullets into building

  15-12-2017 21:34 via wivb.com
  SARDINIA, N.Y. (WIVB) – A 19-year-old Colden man was arrested Thursday for allegedly firing shots into a building in Sardinia.
  Casey Schrader, 19, of Colden, was charged with felony counts of criminal mischief and reckless endangerment following an Erie County Sheriff’s Office investigation into bullet holes found in a non-residential structure.
  Deputies were dispatched to Sardinia on Dec. 5 for reports of three bullet holes in a building. One bullet was found lodged in an exterior w
  
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• Website provides personalized care packages to troops overseas

  15-12-2017 18:40 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Looking to send a little love to military members overseas?
  “Troopster” is a website that allows customers to send personalized military care packages to troops stationed or deployed overseas.
  The website is operated by active duty Navy petty officer Chelsea Mandello, who is in town this weekend to witness the USS Little Rock commissioning.
  Officer Mandello joined News 4’s WakeUp! show on Friday, talking about Troopster.To visit the Troopster websit
  
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• Dutch police shoot man armed with knife at Amsterdam airport

  15-12-2017 18:28 via wivb.com
  THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Dutch military police say they have shot a man after he threatened to use a knife at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport. In a tweet, the Marechaussee police service says the “situation is safe” and the suspect has been detained and removed from the scene.
  Schiphol, just outside Amsterdam, is one of Europe’s busiest airports.
  An airport spokeswoman says the airport’s main plaza was and remains evacuated after military police shot the man
  
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• Military aircraft makes precautionary landing in Wyoming County

  15-12-2017 17:27 via wivb.com
  NORTH JAVA, N.Y. (WIVB) – A New York Army National Guard Black Hawk helicopter made a precautionary landing in Wyoming County Friday after smoke was reported in the cockpit.
  The helicopter is based out of Rochester and was performing a routine training.
  According to a NY Army National Guard public information office, the pilot and co-pilot noticed an electrical problem and made a precautionary landing in North Java near Pleasant Valley Road and Peedee Road.
  No one was hurt.
   
   
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• Tobogganing, skiing start this weekend at Chestnut Ridge, Emery Park

  15-12-2017 15:56 via wivb.com
  ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (WIVB) – Ready for some wintry fun?
  Tobogganing starts Friday night at Chestnut Ridge Park, and skiing will begin at Emery Park on Saturday.
  You can check times and availability for all of Erie County park’s winter activities by clicking here. 
  
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• Eminem to host pop-up with ‘mom’s spaghetti’ on the menu

  15-12-2017 15:48 via wivb.com
  DETROIT (AP) — Rapper Eminem is hosting a promotional event in Detroit in the style of a pop-up restaurant with a menu featuring “mom’s spaghetti.”
  Eminem touted the Friday event at the Shelter club to promote his new album, “Revival,” in a tweet Thursday, saying: “Detroit! Come vomit up some spaghetti with me this weekend at our official #Revival pop up.”
  He says food and exclusive merchandise will be available.
  The spaghetti menu item i
  
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• Catt Co DA: No laws broken in Metcalf case

  15-12-2017 05:01 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The prosecutor appointed to investigate the 2012 case of Richard Metcalf Jr. at the Erie County Holding Center believes no laws were broken by county jail guards who admitted to using force to restrain the inmate.
  Cattaraugus County District Attorney Lori Rieman’s ruling on Friday came more than 10 months after she was appointed by an Erie County State Supreme Court judge to re-investigate the case.In taking 10 months to issue her ruling, Rieman&
  
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• US prosecutors move to cash in on $8.5M in seized bitcoin

  15-12-2017 04:33 via wivb.com
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — U.S. attorneys in Utah prosecuting a multimillion-dollar opioid drug-ring are moving quickly to sell seized bitcoin that’s exploded in value to about $8.5 million since the alleged ringleader’s arrest a year ago.
  The U.S. Attorney’s Office for Utah cites the digital currency’s volatility in court documents pressing for the sale. The bitcoin cache was worth less than $500,000 when Aaron Shamo was arrested on drug charges, but the value of the di
  
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• An inside look at the USS Little Rock

  15-12-2017 04:18 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – The Navy’s newest combat ship will be commissioned alongside its namesake this Saturday.
  The USS Little Rock glided into the Buffalo Harbor earlier this month ahead of its Dec. 16 commissioning in Buffalo and Erie County Naval Park, and people from all over waited as it docked next to the original USS Little Rock, a World War II era ship.
  News 4 got an inside look Thursday at the 389-foot vessel.
  From the outside- structurally- the USS Little Rock is similar to
  
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• Former Lockport bus driver accused of driving drunk pleads guilty to DWAI

  15-12-2017 04:02 via wivb.com
  LOCKPORT, N.Y. (WIVB) – A former Lockport City School District bus driver who was arrested last year for allegedly driving drunk while working has pleaded guilty to a reduced charge.
  Diane Nelson, 58, of Lockport pleaded guilty to driving while ability impaired.
  She was arrested in Nov. 2016. after taking 32 students from Anna Merritt Elementary School to Lincoln Avenue bowling alley for a field trip. At the time she was charged with felony DWI and child endangerment.
  Nelson faces up to 15
  
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• Former pharmacist escapes jail time over sexual misconduct allegations

  15-12-2017 03:47 via wivb.com
  NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (WIVB) — The former neighborhood pharmacist accused of forcing women to disrobe in exchange for their prescriptions will walk away from his crimes in June. That is, as long as he can stay out of trouble.
  Robert Kendzia is a former pharmacist and part owner of MacLeod’s Pharmacy in Niagara Falls.
  He was arrested in August, after Niagara Falls police said at least one woman came forward to say the 81-year-old Kendzia refused to fill her prescription unless she remov
  
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• Buffalo Police searching for missing teen

  15-12-2017 02:54 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Buffalo Police are looking for the public’s help to locate a missing 16-year-old.
  Tammy Covell is described as 5’3″, 120 lbs., with red hair.
  Anyone with information on her whereabouts is asked to call 911.
   
  
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• WNY cousin of Sandy Hook victim reflects

  15-12-2017 00:47 via wivb.com
   
  HAMBURG, N.Y. (WIVB) – It was through her students that Melanie Bunch realized what am impact her cousin had on Sandy Hook Elementary.
  “After she had passed, I asked them what was their favorite memory of Mrs. Hochsprung and they immediately said simultaneously ‘she used to dress up as the Sandy Hook Book Fairy and she would twinkle and sparkle and come into our classroom and tap us on the head and give us extra reading time,” Bunch, a Hamburg resident told News 4.
  
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• California firefighter dies battling massive wildfire

  15-12-2017 00:29 via wivb.com
  SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — A firefighter died Thursday while working a colossal wildfire burning in coastal mountains northwest of Los Angeles that has become the fourth largest in California history.
  CBS Los Angeles reports the victim was a Cal Fire engineer who worked for the department’s San Diego unit. The death, but no details of the circumstances, was confirmed in a statement from Chief Ken Pimlott of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. A news conf
  
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• Holy cow! Wandering bovine returned to Philly nativity scene

  15-12-2017 00:19 via wivb.com
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A cow in Philadelphia apparently wanted to be away from the manger, as it escaped twice Thursday morning from a church’s live nativity scene.
  Stormy, a 7-year-old brown and white Hereford, was back munching hay at Old First Reformed Church of Christ by 7:15 a.m. after two sets of adventures on snowy downtown streets.
  Police first got reports of a cow near an Interstate 95 on-ramp around 2 a.m. Thursday.
  One of the state police troopers who responded has a cattle r
  
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