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• 3 year-old girl plays Santa Claus for patients at Oishei children’s hospital

  23-12-2017 22:35 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A little girl hopes to make it a very merry Christmas for patients at Oishei Children’s Hospital after she was once a patient there.
  ‘Twas three days before Christmas, and outside of Oishei’s
  There’s little 3-year-old Peyton Cerasani — all smiles and bright eyed…
  With a teddy bear in hand, she’s making a special delivery…
  Toys, toys and more toys stacked on a hospital gurney…
  With a big smile and bag, Peyton ho
  
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• Miss America leadership resigns in email shaming scandal

  23-12-2017 22:33 via wivb.com
  ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The top leadership of the Miss America Organization, implicated in an email scandal that targeted past pageant winners for abuse based on their appearance, intellect and sex lives, resigned on Saturday, with the outgoing president apologizing to a winner whose weight he ridiculed.The president, Josh Randle, told The Associated Press his comment responding to an email to his private account about the physical appearance of 2013 winner Mallory Hagan
  
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• Buffalo police investigating overnight two-car crash on Broadway

  23-12-2017 21:58 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)- Buffalo police are investigating a two-car accident that injured two overnight at Broadway and Spruce.
  A Ford 4-door was traveling on Spruce when the driver apparently failed to stop at a blinking red signal and struck another vehicle, that was eastbound on Broadway.
  Two females in the Ford, the driver and a passenger, were transported to ECMC to be treated for non-life threatening injuries.
  No charges have been filed at this time.
  
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• Free Christmas tree hand out to those in need on Sunday

  23-12-2017 20:20 via wivb.com
  TOWN OF TONAWANDA, N.Y. (WIVB)- Free Christmas trees will be available to those in need on Sunday, December 24.
  Former Erie County legislator Charles Swanick, Arida Tree Farm and Northtown Garden Center will continue their Christmas Eve tree handout tradition from 9-1 p.m. this year.
  Those in need of a tree can pick up a tree in the back parking lot of the Philip Sheridan School at 3200 Elmwood Ave. in the Town of Tonawanda.
  Volunteers will assist with loading the trees into vehicles from 9
  
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• Capitol Watch: Wage hike, tax cut, Cuomo’s 2018 agenda

  23-12-2017 20:01 via wivb.com
  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — In New York state government news, the new year is bringing a minimum wage increase and a middle class tax cut.Meanwhile, Gov. Andrew Cuomo is slowly revealing his wish-list for 2018.
  A look at stories making news:
  MINIMUM WAGE HIKE
  Thousands of New Yorkers are poised to get a raise on New Year’s Eve.
  The minimum wage will go up statewide Dec. 31 as part of Cuomo’s plan to gradually raise the wage to $15 statewide over several years.
  The
  
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• Local ice skaters heading to National Championships

  23-12-2017 19:12 via wivb.com
  AMHERST, N.Y. (WIVB) – The Winter Olympics are just months away and some local ice skaters are will be competing alongside Olympic hopefuls at the U.S. Figure Skating National Championships in San Jose, California.
  Noah Lafornara and Macy Halim, both 13 years old, earned their spot in the national competition when they took second place in the juvenile dance event at the Eastern Sectional Figure Skating Championships in Boston last month.
  The pair from the Amherst Skating Club has been pra
  
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• West Seneca woman spreads holiday cheer

  23-12-2017 17:58 via wivb.com
  WEST SENECA, N.Y. (WIVB) – Holiday cheer is easy to find around buffalo this time of year but one woman in West Seneca takes it to an extreme.
  “I love everything about Christmas. I love the giving part, I love the cookies, I love the shopping, and i love the decorating.”
  Roxanne Gaghich loves Christmas. Every year she spends 365 days planning what she’ll do for the December 25th holiday.
  Roxanne said, “I have 2 large trees and 5 small trees. I have them in all
  
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• Bonnies use OT to top Orange in historic win

  23-12-2017 05:50 via wivb.com
  SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WIVB) – Since the start of this season, there has been a special feeling around the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team, and the Bonnies capitalized on those good vibes pulling off a historic 60-57 overtime win on Friday night.
  The Bonnies were entering their final non-conference game of the season when the traveled to Syracuse, a place they have never picked up a victory in program history.
  St. Bonaventure dominated the first half, getting 21 points from Atlantic-1
  
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• Buffalo VA is investigating one of its top leaders

  23-12-2017 05:27 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – The Buffalo VA is investigating one of its top leaders.
  Royce Calhoun, assistant medical center director for the Buffalo VA, is being investigated on allegations of harassment.
  The VA released the following statement Friday night: ““We are aware of the allegations and the matter is being investigated.”
  We’ll have more information as it becomes available.
   
  
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• Fight breaks out in Walden Galleria Sephora

  23-12-2017 05:21 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – A fight broke out in the Sephora store in the Walden Galleria this week.
  A video of the fight was posted to Facebook on Wednesday. It shows two men fist-fighting in the Sephora check out line.
  A woman is heard yelling “stop” several times. Several people end up getting involved and things get thrown around the store.
  Cheektowaga Police say no arrests have been made because the suspects were gone by the time police got there.
  No one was hurt.
  Police say Se
  
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• Buffalo Police help kids “Shop with a Cop”

  23-12-2017 05:01 via wivb.com
  CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. (WIVB) – Some kids in Cheektowaga spent Friday night making big decisions with big smiles.
  Members of the Buffalo Police Department took kids on a shopping spree at the Walden Avenue WalMart.
  Kids were able to pick out any toy they wanted.
  Officers say they were surprised at how many kids picked up gifts for other people.
  Police say the goal is to help bridge the gap between law enforcement and the community.
   
  
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• “Suspicious package” turns out to be stocking full of coal for U.S. Rep. Tom Reed

  23-12-2017 01:59 via wivb.com
  OLEAN, N.Y. (WIVB) – A “suspicious package” left outside of U.S. Rep. Tom Reed’s Olean office on Thursday turned out to be a stocking full of coal, the Oleans Time Herald reports.
  The Olean Police Department responded to the office Thursday afternoon for a report of a suspicious red stocking leaning up against the door of Reed’s office.
  A note attached to the package read: “To the Grinch who voted 13 million to lose their health care, including kids. Bank
  
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• Mariah Carey to return to ‘New Year’s Rockin’ Eve’

  23-12-2017 01:37 via wivb.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — Mariah Carey is determined to have a better New Year’s Eve than in 2016 — she is returning to “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest” after last year’s debacle.
  The Grammy-winning singer’s live performance in Times Square on New Year’s Eve 2016 was marked by problems. She was visibly upset and at points stopped singing, despite a pre-recorded track playing in the background. The performance went vi
  
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• Hurricane Maria survivor, 13, is giving back this Christmas

  23-12-2017 00:58 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – A teenager who left Puerto Rico for Buffalo after Hurricane Maria struck earlier this year is helping to brighten the Christmas of another boy.
  Thirteen-year-old Ezequiel Ortiz was living in Puerto Rico with his mother when Hurricane Maria struck.
  “It was bad- it was like houses falling, people dying, no food, nothing,” Ezequiel said. “It was bad.
  Ezequiel’s father, Juan Ortiz, lives in Buffalo and was able to bring him to the city in mid-Nove
  
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• Artist paints picture of Officer Lehner to comfort his family for the holiday

  23-12-2017 00:29 via wivb.com
  HAMBURG, N.Y. (WIVB) — Kathy Lehner’s eyes filled with tears as looked at a special painting of her son for the first time.
  “The blue eyes, cause his eyes were so blue and they’re so noticeable. It’s all in the eyes,” said Kathy Lehner, Officer Craig Lehner’s mother.
  In the painting Officer Lehner is in heaven. Jesus has a hand on his shoulder and his arm around him, hand on his heart, as K9 Shield watches.
  “Shield has to be included. They were, wh
  
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• Deadline nears for pistol permit recertification in NYS

  23-12-2017 00:20 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – The clock is ticking for many gun owners who need to recertify their pistol permits in the Empire State.
  January 31, 2018, just over a month away, is the deadline to recertify under New York’s SAFE Act, if your permit was issued before January 15, 2013.If not, Erie County Clerk Michael Kearns says there could be consequences.“If I were you and I had a pistol permit, I would recertify,” said Kearns.“As it is now, it is immediate revocation. Th
  
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