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• What to know: prepaying your 2018 property taxes

  26-12-2017 23:58 via wivb.com
  WILLIAMSVILLE, N.Y. (WIVB) – Homeowners in Western New York are rushing to soften the anticipated blow from The President’s federal tax bill.
  Friday, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order that suspends any law that could block New York residents from next year’s property taxes early.
  But the deadline is fast approaching.
  Now, taxpayers will need to do some quick math to find out if making the advanced payments is a wise move for them.
  They also would have to have
  
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• Rapper T.I. helps single moms buy Christmas presents

  26-12-2017 23:54 via wivb.com
  (CBS) – Rapper T.I. surprised single moms at an Atlanta-area Target store when he announced that he would take care of their Christmas shopping lists on Sunday. The artist posted a video on Instagram that showed him brightening up shoppers’ holiday weekend.
  In the clip, T.I. enters the store and calls, “All single moms … meet me in the back,” as shoppers follow him with their carts.The rapper proceeded to spend $20,000 in 30 minutes, he wrote on Instagram. In the v
  
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• Niagara Falls residents growing tired of water problems

  26-12-2017 23:42 via wivb.com
  NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (WIVB) – With each passing day, people living in Niagara Falls get more and more tired of the water situation there. A massive water main break has been sending water into the streets for 11 days now. But that’s not all residents are frustrated with.
  We now have a better idea of how long it will take to fix the water main break, just as we’re hearing about issues with another water main break earlier this year. The first one happened near the corner of Pine
  
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• Former Channel 7 news anchor Irv Weinstein dies

  26-12-2017 22:37 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Former Channel 7 news anchor Irv Weinstein has died at the age of 87, following a long battle with ALS (also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease).
  WKBW released the following statement Tuesday afternoon:
  The entire 7 Eyewitness News family mourns the loss of our beloved Irv Weinstein. He was truly a legend in Buffalo Broadcasting who also touched so many other through his incredible generosity to The Variety Club and countless other charities here in Western New York
  
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• 2 kids, woman killed, cop hurt in Christmas standoff in Phoenix

  26-12-2017 21:53 via wivb.com
  (CBS) –  A suspect is in custody after, police say, he shot and killed a woman and their two children before getting into a shootout with police at a central Phoenix apartment complex on Christmas, reports CBS Phoenix affiliate KPHO-TV.
  Officers were called to the Highland Apartments at approximately 3:45 p.m.
  When they arrived, they found a woman shot to death in the parking lot, according to Sgt. Jonathan Howard.
  He said officers tracked the suspect to a specific apartment
  
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• Minnesota couple delivers Christmas Day baby on side of road

  26-12-2017 21:49 via wivb.com
  HISAGO CITY, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota couple delivered their baby on the side of a road while rushing to the hospital on Christmas Day, just two minutes after the mother’s water broke.
  Taylor and Hannah Lindeman told the Star Tribune that they were forced to pull over along Highway 8 at the edge of Chisago City and Wyoming to wait for an ambulance.
  Taylor Lindeman says they were on the way to a St. Paul hospital in minus-2 degree (minus-19 Celsius) weather, but the baby &ld
  
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• Bitter cold expected until New Year in parts of U.S.

  26-12-2017 21:33 via wivb.com
  (CBS NEWS) – A white Christmas for much of the Northeast and Midwest has given way to bitter cold until the New Year. Meteorologists are warning of sub-zero arctic air and dangerously cold wind chills.
  Frigid conditions are expected in many parts of the country this week.
  National Weather Service meteorologist Amy Seeley said Chicago residents can expect colder-than-normal temperatures. Temperatures hovered around zero degrees in Chicago on Tuesday.
  Wind chill advisories or warnings are in
  
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• Man behind horse manure delivery for Steven Mnuchin says he’s proud of his prank

  26-12-2017 21:07 via wivb.com
  LOS ANGELES — A clinical psychologist who made headlines for sending a gift-wrapped box containing horse manure to the Bel Air home of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says he’s proud of his prank. CBS Los Angeles reports the incident caused the LAPD’s bomb squad to shut down the residential street, and it warranted a surprise visit from the Secret Service.
  “One thing leads to another. You’re having a couple of drinks and you’re like
  
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• Code Blue in effect in Lockport through Friday

  26-12-2017 20:52 via wivb.com
  LOCKPORT, N.Y. (WIVB) –  The Code Blue warming shelter for the City of Lockport will be open 8 p.m. to 8 a.m. Tuesday through Friday this week due to extreme cold temperatures.
  The warming shelter is located at the Salvation Army, 50 Cottage St.
  Any homeless individual or individual without heat may spend the evening. Light refreshments and cots/blankets will be available.
  Entry ends at 12 a.m.
   
   
  
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• Power restored to most of BMHA’s Kenfield Homes

  26-12-2017 19:17 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Power has been restored to most of the buildings at the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority’s Kenfield Homes Tuesday afternoon.
  According to a spokesperson for the BMHA, 75 of the 80 buildings that were without power Tuesday morning have had their power restored. The rest are expected to be restored by 5:30 p.m.
  If the BMHA is unable to restore power to the remaining buildings Tuesday night, the BMHA’s third party contractor, ESI Electrical Cont
  
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• BMHA’s Kenfield Homes without power

  26-12-2017 19:17 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – About 80 housing units at the The Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority’s Kenfield Homes lost power Tuesday morning.
  About 600 residents are affected.
  The outage occurred around 9 a.m. Tuesday, disrupting power to the entire housing development.
  Crews from National Grid and the BMHA’s outside electrical contractor, ESI Electrical Contractors, have been on the scene since shortly after the outage occurred, the BMHA said in a statement.
  The BMHA has establish
  
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• What is Boxing Day and how did it get its name?

  26-12-2017 19:04 via wivb.com
  LONDON (AP) — In Britain and other countries like Australia and Canada, the day after Christmas is a secular national holiday known as Boxing Day. Here’s a brief look at some theories about how the holiday got its name and how people celebrate it:
  NO NEED FOR BOXING GLOVES
  While no one seems to know for sure how it came to be called Boxing Day, it definitely has nothing to do with the sport of boxing. Perhaps the most widely held understanding of its origins comes from the tradition
  
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• Even for a place that gets a ton of snow, this was a record-breaking two days for Erie

  26-12-2017 18:43 via wivb.com
  (CNN) – There’s White Christmas. And then there’s Whiteout Christmas.Erie, Pennsylvania, experienced the second one Monday when a total of 34 inches of snow fell on Christmas Day, blanketing the city and shattering the city’s previous records for snowfall in a single day.The snowfall total was more than four times the city’s previous all-time Christmas record of 8.1 inches, and it also broke the record for most snowfall in one day in the city’s history,
  
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• Jamestown man charged with assaulting two-month-old infant

  26-12-2017 18:36 via wivb.com
  JAMESTOWN, N.Y. (WIVB) – A Jamestown man has been charged with assaulting a two-month-old child.
  Rory S. Davis Jr., 30, of Jamestown, was charged early Tuesday morning with second degree assault and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child.
  According to Jamestown Police reports, police responded to a Myrtle Street residence around 5 a.m. Monday morning regarding a possible child abuse complaint. Polce discovered that the infant had been taken to UPMC with serious injuries and trans
  
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• Several feet of snow dumped on Springville

  26-12-2017 18:13 via wivb.com
  SPRINGVILLE, N.Y. (WIVB) — It is a winter wonderland in Springville. It was one of the hardest hit areas and snow continues to come down.
  “A lot of snow. Just keeps coming, won’t stop,” said Kevin Mesch, plow driver.
  Plow drivers have been working around the clock in Springville to clear snow out of the road and parking lots.
  “Today we’ll be out probably 10, 15 hours easily. We’ve been out since 2 in the morning,” said Mark Mallick, plow driver.
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• Crowds flock to Fashion Outlets for Boxing Day deals

  26-12-2017 18:13 via wivb.com
  NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (WIVB) – The mad rush to finish your Christmas shopping may be over, but shoppers are still heading out to the Fashion Outlets of Niagara Falls. Boxing Day is always a huge day for sales there.
  “It’s the busiest day of December,” said Mall Manager John Doran. “We expect more foot traffic today than any other day of the month, and the sales will reward those who come out to the Fashion Outlets.”
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• Got tips in unsolved art heist? Deadline looms for $10M reward

  26-12-2017 16:01 via wivb.com
  BOSTON — A hot tip could still earn you a cool $10 million from a Boston museum desperate to recover a trove of missing masterpieces. But you’d better hurry.
  Midnight Dec. 31 is the deadline to collect a doubled reward being offered for information leading to the recovery of 13 works worth an estimated $500 million – including paintings by Degas, Manet, Rembrandt and Vermeer – stolen in 1990 from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
  So far, no takers.
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• Over $6.6 million in contraband tobacco seized in New York State in 2017

  26-12-2017 15:57 via wivb.com
  NEW YORK, N.Y. (WIVB) – New York State’s Cigarette Strike Force seized $6.6 million worth of contraband tobacco over the past year, according to a report from Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office.
  Untaxed cigars made up a bulk of the confiscations, with investigators seizing more than 1.5 million illegal cigars in 2017.
  The task force also seized more than 47,000 cartons of untaxed cigarettes, 134,000 counterfeit tax stamps and nearly $445,000 in cash.
  “This illicit activity not on
  
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• Man charged with DWI following early morning crash in Elma

  26-12-2017 15:30 via wivb.com
  ELMA, N.Y. (WIVB) – An East Aurora man was charged early Tuesday morning with DWI and other charges after his vehicle was spotted off the roadway along Girdle Road.
  According to Erie County Sheriff’s reports, dispatchers received calls about the vehicle just after midnight Tuesday. When deputies arrived, the operator had fled the crash scene but they received a description from a witness.
  The deputies located the driver, Dillon Ward, 25, of East Aurora, and transported him to the Elm
  
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• Power restored after nearly 12 hours at Perry Housing Projects

  26-12-2017 01:13 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Power was restored at the Perry Housing Projects in Buffalo around 2:30 p.m. Monday, after being off for almost 12 hours. The outage left dozens of people in the cold for hours on Christmas.
  A spokesperson for the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority tells News 4 a National Grid power outage affected not only their housing, but homes in the surrounding neighborhood that are also a part of the same section of the grid.
  Linda Abernathy is one of the Commodore Perry Resi
  
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• Kaleida patient gets free trip home for the holidays

  26-12-2017 00:28 via wivb.com
  Kaleida Health and AMR Ambulance came together to make Christmas brighter for a 92-year-old woman Monday. It came as a surprise for everyone.
  Mary Carpenter lives at HighPointe Skilled Nursing Facility on Michigan Avenue. Ambulance crews wanted to make sure she could spend this Christmas with her family.
  They picked her up, free of charge, from HighPointe this afternoon, and drove her to her brother’s home in Buffalo’s Blackrock neighborhood. Her brother said he thought it was a joke
  
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• Riders relying on NFTA to get to holiday celebrations

  26-12-2017 00:17 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — On Christmas morning, Joile Rodriguez bundles up and brings his backpack filled with a few small treasures to the NFTA bus depot. The Buffalonian waits inside, away from the snow and cold. He’s there every morning, including Christmas, to catch a ride to Niagara Falls.
  “It’s really a blessing that the buses are running on holidays like Christmas because we want to visit family,” said the regular rider.
  He’s among the many who will b
  
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• Family displaced by Hurricane Maria spending first Christmas in Buffalo

  26-12-2017 00:01 via wivb.com
  A Puerto Rican family displaced by Hurricane Maria is creating new traditions in the Queen City. On Monday, they spent their first Christmas in Buffalo. As it turns out, it won’t be their last.
  We first introduced you to the Robles family on Thanksgiving. They had just arrived here from Puerto Rico weeks earlier, and weren’t too sure what the future would hold. Between then and now, they made a big decision. Now, Buffalo is their permanent home.
  Christmas 2017 was the first “Wh
  
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