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• Police arrest owner of SUV tagged with racist graffiti

  26-01-2018 23:32 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Buffalo Police have arrested a man for falsely reporting an incident and tampering with evidence after they say he vandalized his own vehicle with a misspelled racial slur and reporting it.
  Donald Graham, 43, was arrested Friday evening after telling police and News 4 that he found the graffiti Friday morning on his SUV, and that he didn’t know who did it.
  “If you have any dignity and compassion for a human being, I don’t know how you could do
  
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• Family of Officer Craig Lehner files notice of claim against city, police department

  26-01-2018 23:15 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) –  Sources tell News 4 the family of Craig Lehner earlier this week filed a claim against the city for wrongful death.
  The filing is not a lawsuit — but it’s the first step to eventually suing the city and the police department over the former dive team member’s death in the Niagara River last fall.
  Lehner and other members of the Buffalo Police dive team were conducting a training exercise in the Niagara River on Oct. 13.
  Lehner dove into about
  
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• He’d bake muffins for the homeless and now it’s turning into a national movement

  26-01-2018 22:56 via wivb.com
  (CNN) – When Jacob Kaufman first stumbled upon the art of muffin baking, he never imagined he’d turn into the “Muffin Man.”“I was just looking for a easy breakfast for my mornings before work,” Kaufman told CNN.It was sundown after Yom Kippur, and Kaufman was standing in his uncle’s kitchen watching him whip up a creamy, muffin batter. Kaufman had never made muffins before, so he decided to give it a try. He found a recipe online, and voila. A doze
  
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• Buffalo Police investigating “carjacking” incident at Hertel Avenue and Sunnyside Drive

  26-01-2018 22:27 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Buffalo Police are investigating a robbery that occurred at about 8:25 p.m. Thursday night at the corner of Sunnyside Drive and Hertel Avenue.
  The suspects, who were unknown to the victim, forcibly removed him from his vehicle and drove away with the vehicle, which contained many personal items.
  The stolen vehicle is a black 2005 Nissan Altima.
  Anyone with information on this incident is asked to call the Buffalo Police confidential tip line at (716)847-2255.
   
  
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• Alfred Angelo store in Greece will hold closing sale, 60 to 75 percent off dresses this weekend

  26-01-2018 22:15 via wivb.com
  GREECE, N.Y. (WIVB) – The Alfred Angelo store in Greece will be closing its doors, one of several closing across the country.
  The owner is looking to give brides a deal, and give money to a good cause.
  Hundreds of wedding gowns have been discounted, 60 to 75 percent off.
  The sale is happening Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Alfred Angelo Greece store, 2544 Ridgeway Ave.
  Checks are not accepted.
  All of the money will go to the “Fairy Godmothers of Greater Rochester&r
  
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• Fourth-grade student in Lockport City School District dies

  26-01-2018 20:17 via wivb.com
  LOCKPORT, N.Y. (WIVB) — A fourth-grade student at Anna Merritt Elementary School in Lockport has died.
  “Our thoughts and condolences are with her family during this terribly difficult time,” the school wrote.
  It is not clear how the student died. The Lockport City School District says support is being offered to the student’s friends, classmates and teachers.
  “The district has also been in contact with our school physician and county health authorities,”
  
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• Kenmore woman facing more than 100 years in prison if convicted

  26-01-2018 19:00 via wivb.com
  KENMORE, N.Y. (WIVB) — A Kenmore woman was accused of making and using fake money to buy things at Walmart, The Home Depot and CVS.
  According to prosecutors, Krystal Rains, 33, forged $20 bills that she used at the stores.
  Her home was searched, and officials say templates and tools to make counterfeit bills were found.
  Rains pleaded not guilty to 12 counts of criminal possession of a forged instrument and two counts of criminal possession of a forged device, as well as charges of gra
  
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• Chautauqua County man facing child porn, endangerment charges

  26-01-2018 18:39 via wivb.com
  JAMESTOWN, N.Y. (WIVB) — A Chautauqua County man was charged with possessing a sexual performance by a child and endangering the welfare of a child.
  New York State police say they received a complaint from a mother. According to the complaint, the woman’s 10-year-old daughter said Peter Baker, 65, lured her to his apartment by offering her $20.
  State police say that instead of giving the girl money, Baker showed her an inappropriate picture on his phone, according to the complaint.
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• Former UB Administrator who stole $320,000 from school gets probation

  26-01-2018 18:16 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — “I know I can’t fully undo what I’ve done, I can only say that I’m sorry,” said Dennis Black, former University at Buffalo Vice President.
  Friday, the 62-year-old Black was sentenced to five years probation for stealing more than $320,000 from the university.
  Black pleaded guilty to Grand Larceny in September. Beginning in 2007, the former VP of Student Life Services stole from the Student Faculty Association.
  The investigation found Bla
  
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• Former UB Administrator accused of stealing $320,000 from school gets probation

  26-01-2018 18:16 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — “I know I can’t fully undo what I’ve done, I can only say that I’m sorry,” said Dennis Black, former University at Buffalo Vice President.
  Dennis Black expressed remorse for a conviction that put an end to his 40 year career with the University at Buffalo.
  “I’m sorry for the impacts that my actions have had on people and organizations who deserved far better from me,” said Black.
  The former Vice President of UB admitted
  
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• Buffalo’s Best Taco: Mighty Taco

  26-01-2018 18:00 via wivb.com
  TOWN OF TONAWANDA, N.Y. (WIVB) – Buffalo is known for being a food-city and Buffalonians are known for having strong opinions about who serves up the best dishes.
  This week, we asked Western New York who has Buffalo’s Best tacos. Thousands of you submitted nominations and voted on the finalists, and Mighty Taco came out on top.
  “It’s exciting,” said Bounlome Dara, the General Manager of the Mighty Taco on Sheridan Drive in the Town of Tonawanda. “It’s so
  
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• 3 Northeast states to sue feds over GOP’s tax overhaul plan

  26-01-2018 17:48 via wivb.com
  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York, New Jersey and Connecticut say they plan to join together to sue the federal government over the Republican-led federal tax overhaul.
  Democratic Govs. Andrew Cuomo of New York, Dannel Malloy of Connecticut and Phil Murphy of New Jersey announced Friday that they will team up to take the Trump administration to court over the federal tax plan that’s expected to cost taxpayers in their states billions of dollars.
  Malloy says he expects other stat
  
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• Mark Hollis resigns as MSU athletic director

  26-01-2018 17:37 via wivb.com
  EAST LANSING, Mich (WLNS) – Michigan State University athletic director Mark Hollis has resigned.
  He is the second high-profile MSU official to step down this week in the wake of the Larry Nassar sentencing Wednesday.
  Lou Anna K. Simon resigned as president Wednesday night.
  Hollis officially became MSU’s athletics director on Jan. 1, 2008, succeeding Ron Mason.
  He was the 18th athletic director at Michigan State University.
  The Larry Nassar sexual assaults were not the only incidents
  
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• Report: Bills C Eric Wood suffered career-ending neck injury

  26-01-2018 17:01 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WROC) – Eric Wood has suffered a career-ending injury, Scout.com reports.
  In a tweet Friday morning, Scout Fantasy said sources tell them the Buffalo Bills center suffered a neck injury.
  At this time, Scout.com is the only outlet that has confirmed Wood was injured. Others have confirmed a Buffalo Bills player suffered a serious injury. The Bills have not confirmed the report.
  According to reports, the Bills are expected to announced the injury on Monday.
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• Bills’ Eric Wood suffers career-ending injury

  26-01-2018 17:01 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Eric Wood’s career is over.
  The Buffalo Bills center suffered a neck injury, ending his time playing in the NFL.
  Wood released a statement on Twitter Friday. He said “I was diagnosed with a neck injury as part of my season-ending physical with the Bills. After consultation with Dr. Cappuccino and other physicians, I was informed that I was no longer cleared to play football, even with surgery or further treatment. I appreciate and thank everyone for
  
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• Former UB VP sentenced to probation after stealing from school

  26-01-2018 15:53 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Former UB vice president Dennis Black was sentenced to five years of probation.
  He and UB’s former Director of Campus Living, Andrea Costantino, were suspected in the theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars from a school bank account.
  Officials say Black took more than $320,000 from the university. The money has been paid back.
  Black admitted to grand larceny, and offering a false instrument for filing related to his 2014 tax returns.
  In court, Black sai
  
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• Treating contaminated household water costly for cities – and consumers

  26-01-2018 15:07 via wivb.com
  (CBS) — A glass of water may seem harmless enough, but communities around the country are increasingly faced with a concerning reality: contaminants are turning up in their drinking water – and getting them out may be a lot harder than you think. A report by the non-profit Environmental Working Group (EWG) found that water supplied by at least some utilities in all 50 states contained a known carcinogen called radium, reports CBS News correspondent Anna Werner.
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• Ice Palace back in Minnesota

  26-01-2018 14:41 via wivb.com
  ST. PAUL, Minn. (WIVB) — Just in time for the big game, Minnesota brought back the Ice Palace.
  It took 4,000 blocks of ice to build and is 70 feet tall. There’s also ice skating and sledding around the sculpture.
  The palace is now open for visitors until February 10.
  
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• VIDEO: Huge flocks of birds seen in Israel

  26-01-2018 14:24 via wivb.com
  ISRAEL (WIVB) — Huge groups of birds filled the skies in southern Israel.
  The starlings group together, as shown in the video above, for safety. Their changing movements and shape shifting confuses any attackers.
  Over the past years, the numbers of birds have dropped. Now, they’ve made a comeback in flocks of thousands.
  
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• Crews investigating early morning house fire in Buffalo

  26-01-2018 14:12 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Investigators wants to know what caused an early morning house fire in the Broadway-Fillmore area.
  Around 3:30 a.m., firefighters rushed to the house on Oberlin Ave. Part of the building collapsed.
  It appears the home was vacant at the time.
  
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• Nutella discounts spark hysteria in French supermarkets

  26-01-2018 13:13 via wivb.com
  PARIS (AP) — Brawls have broken out in French supermarkets as shoppers scrambled to get their hands on discounted pots of chocolate and hazelnut spread.
  Hysterical scenes were filmed in several supermarkets across the country operated by the Intermarche chain, which offered massive discounts on pots of Nutella.
  The promotion, launched on Thursday, reduced the price of more than a million 950-gram pots from 4.70 euros to 1.41.
  In one video posted on Twitter, customers are see
  
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• Who makes Buffalo’s best burger?

  26-01-2018 12:11 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — We want to know who you think makes Buffalo’s best burger!
  Nominate your choice below:
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• New York State removing dangerous type of guardrail from state roads

  26-01-2018 05:21 via wivb.com
  ALBANY, N.Y. (WIVB) — New York State is the latest state to remove a dangerous type of guardrail, named “X-Lite guardrail systems” from roads. This comes more than a year after a Western New York teen was killed by one of those guardrails in Tennessee. Her father has been urging leaders across the country to get rid of the dangerous rails.
  X- lite guardrails will no longer be on state roads in New York State, state officials announced Thursday.
  “They are so dangerous on c
  
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• Investigation underway into whether Buffalo School District principal misused $22,000 in school funds

  26-01-2018 05:01 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – The Buffalo School District is looking into whether a high school principal has anything to do with the misuse of $22,000.
  McKinley High School principal Crystal Boiling-Barton has been on leave since a lawsuit accused her of discriminating against gay students.
  The New York Civil Liberties Union filed the suit against the district and Barton last spring. The lawsuit accuses Barton of trying to stand in the way of students forming a gay-straight alliance.
  She was put
  
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• Former Otis Bed Company in East Side is now home to 34 loft-style apartments

  26-01-2018 04:38 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – The former Otis Bed Company on Buffalo’s East Side has been transformed into new apartments and office space.
  Leaders cut the ribbon on the $6.5 million project dubbed “The Mattress Factory” on Florida Street Thursday afternoon.
  The building features 34 loft-style apartments. 
  
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• Teen in stable condition after being struck at Military Road and Sheridan Drive Wednesday

  26-01-2018 04:32 via wivb.com
  TONAWANDA, N.Y. (WIVB) – Town of Tonawanda Police say a 15-year-old is in stable condition in the hospital after being struck by a car Wednesday afternoon at Military Road and Sheridan Drive.
  Police sat the teen started to cross the street when he realized he shouldn’t have and attempted to turn back, when he ran into the side of a car.
  The boy has head injuries but is in stable condition.
  Police say he was using the crosswalk but that sidewalks can become covered in snow and be rend
  
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• Former classmate: Eldest Turpin sibling was teased as “cootie kid”

  26-01-2018 04:21 via wivb.com
  LOS ANGELES – In a heart-wrenching Facebook post, a former classmate of one of the 13 siblings police believe were starved and tortured for years recalled that she was picked on as a grade school student in Texas.
  Taha Muntajibuddin, who attended kindergarten through third grade with the oldest Turpin sibling in Fort Worth, Texas, described her as “a frail girl, had pin-straight hair with bangs, and often wore the same purple outfit.” After learning of the case,
  
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• Trump reportedly ordered firing of Robert Mueller in June 2017

  26-01-2018 04:15 via wivb.com
  (CBS NEWS) – President Trump ordered the firing of special counsel Robert Mueller in June 2017 but eventually backed down in a confrontation with the White House lawyer, the New York Times reported Thursday evening.
  Citing four sources who were told about the incident, the Times reports Mueller ended up keeping his job at the helm of the Russia probe because White House counsel Don McGahn refused to comply with Mr. Trump’s request that he order the Justice Department to fir
  
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• VIDEO: Q&A with Dr. Gale Burstein about the flu

  26-01-2018 04:04 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – The flu is widespread this year, and in some cases deadly.
  Erie County Commissioner of Health Dr. Gale Burstein sat down with News 4 on Thursday to talk about the flu- and how to avoid it this season.
   
  
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• Official: Missile alert employee not cooperating in probe

  26-01-2018 02:16 via wivb.com
  HONOLULU (AP) — The Hawaii state employee who mistakenly sent an alert warning of a ballistic missile attack has refused to cooperate with federal and state investigators, a U.S. official said Thursday.
  Lisa Fowlkes, head of the Federal Communications Commission Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau, said the agency was disappointed by the refusal.
  “We hope that person will reconsider,” she told members of a U.S. Senate commerce committee in Washington during a hearing on
  
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• Bailey Green progress is slow but steady

  26-01-2018 00:40 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)- Henry White has lived in the Bailey Green neighborhood on Buffalo’s east side for decades.
  “When I first moved out here, all the lots out here had houses on them,” he told News 4.
  The number of houses was one of the things that drew White to the neighborhood; he said it was booming.
  Over the years, he witnessed his block on Wende street deteriorate; so did John Somers, who runs Harmac Medical Products just across the street.
  “Back in 2008, we st
  
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• Confirmed influenza cases increasing

  26-01-2018 00:06 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — There’s an increase in influenza this year, more people are falling ill with the flu this season than in the last few.
  The health commissioner says, if you’re a healthy person, there isn’t reason to be overly concerned.
  “This is typical of the flu season this time of year,” said Dr. Gale Burstein, the Erie county Health Commissioner. “We don’t really know, for sure, why we’re seeing more this year than the last two
  
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