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• Holland school district says threats aren’t credible

  29-03-2018 14:41 via wivb.com
  HOLLAND, N.Y. (WIVB) — The Holland Central School District says threats shared on social media were determined to be not credible.
  Parents received a robo-call around 7:15 a.m.
  Holland Junior/Senior High School administrators and the Erie County Sheriff’s Office investigated the threats, and authorities are monitoring the situation as the school day continues.
  
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• Sheriff’s Office: Deputies witness robbery, arrest suspect

  29-03-2018 14:14 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The Erie County Sheriff’s Office says a couple of deputies witnessed a robbery and caught the suspect.
  On Wednesday afternoon, deputies were walking on Main St., between county building posts, when they say they saw a man grab a victim’s arm and forcibly take something from her hand.
  The suspect, identified as Demetrius Calhoun, 46, was quickly detained by the deputies.
  According to them, the victim’s cell phone was found in Calhoun’s pos
  
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• Dunkirk residents told to boil water

  29-03-2018 13:45 via wivb.com
  DUNKIRK, N.Y. (WIVB) — Residents in the City of Dunkirk are urged to boil and conserve their water until further notice.
  During contractor activity at the high lift pump station, officials say someone hit a supply line, causing a large leak in the system.
  The incident happened between the city’s water treatment plant and a supply tower. Because of the leak, contaminants could have entered the water system.
  Although the leak has been fixed, the water tower reserves were greatly deplet
  
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• Lab takes top spot as America’s favorite dog

  29-03-2018 13:29 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — For the 27th year in a row, the Labrador Retriever was chosen as America’s favorite dog.
  German Shepherds came in second, and the Golden Retriever came in third.
  The French Bulldog came in fourth, and the American Kennel Club says it’s because the “Frenchie” is adaptable to city life.
  The breed’s cousin, the English Bulldog, rounded out the top five.
  
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• AMR workers could strike next week

  29-03-2018 13:15 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — AMR workers could walk off the job next week.
  Union members and the company have a Saturday night deadline to agree on a new labor deal.
  An anonymous letter sent to employees warns about the consequences of a strike. It says employees won’t be eligible for unemployment, health benefits and 401K contributions.
  If a strike does happen, several ambulance services across the state are on standby.
  “We have some agencies that only have one ambulance, and I
  
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• Common Council to change hiring process for firefighters and police officers

  29-03-2018 05:22 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Buffalo’s Common Council is making some major changes to the hiring process for firefighters and police officers. This comes just weeks after the city’s psychologist who gave the psychological exam for applicants stepped down. Now the council says it’s not only searching for a new psychologist, but revamping the process.
  “This is a very, can be a very intimidating process,” said Darius Pridgen, Common Council president.
  That’s why
  
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• 3-year-old girl in medically induced coma after police say she was assaulted by mother’s boyfriend

  29-03-2018 05:22 via wivb.com
  JAMESTOWN, N.Y. (WIVB) – A young girl is fighting for her life Wednesday night after police say she was assaulted by the man taking care of her.
  Autumn Scriverner’s mother says she is in a medically induced coma at Oishei Children’s Hospital after having emergency surgery.
  Jamestown Police were called to a home on Clyde Avenue Tuesday for a report of an unresponsive child.
  They arrested 28-year-old Joshua Berg.Autumn’s mother, Christina, says Berg is her boyfriend, who wa
  
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• Cab drivers on high alert after armed robbery caught on camera

  29-03-2018 05:12 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — It’s not often that an armed robbery inside a taxi cab is caught on camera, but earlier this month cameras inside a Liberty Cab captured the scary moments when a man pulled out a gun on a female driver.
  “I don’t think they (the public) realized what these drivers were really going though, occasionally, but it was happening for a long time, this was the first time it was captured on film,” said Bill Yuhnke, owner of Liberty Cab.
  Officials say 1
  
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• Parents in Utah can no longer be prosecuted for ‘free range’ kids

  29-03-2018 04:24 via wivb.com
  (CNN) – Gov. Gary Herbert signed a bill earlier this month that makes it OK for parents to let their children “free range.”It’s believed to be the first state in the nation to pass such a law.The measure essentially changes the state’s legal definition of neglect, meaning parents won’t be prosecuted for letting their children (of appropriate age) do things like walk to school by themselves, go to the store alone, play outside unsupervised, sit
  
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• Erie County Clerk wants to make it easier to opt out of having information sold by state DMV

  29-03-2018 04:19 via wivb.com
  ERIE COUNTY, N.Y. (WIVB) – Erie County Clerk Mickey Kearns wants to make it easier for people to opt out of having their information sold by the Department of Motor Vehicles.
  State law allows the DMV sell information like your name and address and even license number to companies contracted by the state.
  The Clerk’s Office surveyed about 1,500 people and found that most don’t want that information shared.
  Clerk Mickey Kearns is now trying to find out who these third-party vendo
  
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• Darien Lake to expand operating season to six months

  29-03-2018 03:57 via wivb.com
  DARIEN CENTER, N.Y. (WIVB) – Darien Lake will extend its operating season to six months starting this year, the theme park announced Wednesday.
  The park will be open from May 5 to the end of its new fall event, the Jack-O-Lantern Jamboree on Oct. 29.
  The Jack-O-Lantern Jamboree will kick off Sept. 28 for five weekends of pumpkin-themed entertainment.
  Park guests will have an opportunity to bring a carved pumpkin to help Darien Lake attempt to break the Guiness World Record for most carved
  
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• Jim Kelly out of surgery, headed into recovery

  29-03-2018 03:41 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) –  Jim Kelly’s wife Jill has confirmed that the Bills great is out of surgery and headed into recovery.“During pre-op the computer in our section wasn’t working so they had to get a new one. Then Jim says to me, “Did you see the computer? You should take a picture.” And so I did! As silly as it sounds, God gave us the #12computer. And almost 12 hours of surgery later….#12 is now on the road to recovery,” Jill wr
  
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• 30 in 30: Baker Mayfield

  29-03-2018 03:16 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)-  Baker Mayfield talks a big game, “I don’t think I’m cocky, it’s not cocky it’s just confident,” but to his credit he was able to back it up at Oklahoma.
  Mayfield started 40 games for the Sooners, throwing for over 12,000 yards, 119 touchdowns, and just 21 interceptions. His doubters will say he’s too small but Mayfield is quick to dismiss that notion, “Height doesn’t matter. You see guys like Tyrod Taylor, Bre
  
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• Feds launch manhunt for prisoner who escaped airport just before deportation

  29-03-2018 03:07 via wivb.com
  NEW YORK — Federal agents are hunting a prisoner who slipped through their fingers in New York Tuesday. Mohamadou Mbacke, 31, was last seen at terminal 4 at John F. Kennedy International Airport. He escaped from immigration officials just before they were going to place him on a connecting flight back to Senegal.
  Officials say Mcbacke bolted from three U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents after they removed his handcuffs at the security checkpoint. The Trans
  
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• Sheriff: 6 kids believed to be in SUV that plunged off cliff in Northern California

  29-03-2018 02:51 via wivb.com
  (KOIN) – Authorities have identified the children who were killed when their vehicle plunged off a cliff in Northern California.
  County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Brent Waddell told KOIN they have been informed by the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office there are 3 children are missing. They are searching the area around the crash scene, including the ocean for the children.The children who are missing are 15-year-old Devonte, 16-year-old Hannah and 12-year-old Sierra Hart.
  
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• Thousands rally in Paris to protest slaying of Holocaust survivor

  29-03-2018 02:32 via wivb.com
  Paris (CNN) – Two people have been arrested over the murder of an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor in Paris that is being investigated as a suspected anti-Semitic attack, a French judicial source told CNN on Tuesday.Mireille Knoll was stabbed 11 times in her apartment in the 11th arrondissement of Paris before her home was set on fire, according to government spokesman Benjamin Griveaux, who recounted the attack on Twitter. Her body was discovered in her apartment on Friday.
  Two men ar
  
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• VIDEO: Easter Weekend at the Broadway Market preview

  29-03-2018 01:14 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – The Broadway Market is booming this week- heading into Good Friday and Easter weekend.
  Hundreds of people will pack into the market getting goodies before Easter Sunday and Dyngus Day.
  Kathy Peterson, manager of the Broadway Market, stopped by News 4 Wednesday to talk about events happening this weekend.
  For Broadway Market hours, click here. 
  
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• 1 dead, 4 injured in San Francisco hit-and-run after dispute, police say

  29-03-2018 01:02 via wivb.com
  SAN FRANCISCO — Five people have been struck by a car in San Francisco in a hit-and-run incident, police say. One victim has since died, according to a hospital spokesman. CBS San Francisco reports that police spokeswoman Giselle Linnane said the incident happened at around 10:24 a.m. in the city’s Dogpatch neighborhood.
  The driver of a vehicle got into a physical altercation with five people and struck all five with his car, Linnane said.
  The Associated Press reports
  
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• Hot air balloon crashes and catches fire near Phoenix, no one injured

  29-03-2018 00:48 via wivb.com
  PHOENIX (AP) — Authorities say a hot air balloon carrying 13 people crashed and caught fire Wednesday morning in the desert outside Phoenix, igniting a small brush fire but causing no injuries.
  Phoenix fire Capt. Jake Van Hook says it started “only a small amount of fire,” which crews quickly extinguished.
  A witness video shows flames and a large plume of black smoke in an area of dry brush as several people on a dirt path look on.
  The crash occurred just before 8:30 a.m. just
  
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• Lineup for Kerfuffle 2018 at Canalside announced

  29-03-2018 00:30 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Alternative Buffalo has announced the lineup for this year’s Kerfuffle at Canalside, June 16.
  The bands include Awolnation, Matt and Kim, Manchester Orchestra, Family of the Year, Mansionair, Mainland, and Robert Delong.
  The event is 18 and up, 16 with parent or guardian.
  For more information and tickets, click here.  
   
  
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• Local dairy farms battle low milk prices

  29-03-2018 00:24 via wivb.com
  PAVILION, N.Y. (WIVB)- Noblehurst Farms is a larger dairy farm in Upstate New York.
  The 1,500 milking cows there churn out nearly 14,000 gallons of milk daily.
  The farm’s business manager Thomas Matthews says despite being a larger operation, Noblehurst isn’t immune to some of the challenges facing the American dairy industry.
  Around the country, dairy farmers are up against less consumption, fewer exports, and declining prices.
  “The things that are contributing to th
  
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• WNY rallies around Jim Kelly as he undergoes surgery

  29-03-2018 00:18 via wivb.com
  Western New Yorkers are rallying around Jim and Jill Kelly as the Hall of Fame quarterback undergoes major surgery, after cancer in his jaw returned.
  Kelly’s operation began around 9 a.m. Wednesday morning at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. The hospital tells News 4, it’s expected to go until 8 p.m.
  As the Bills great is in surgery, thousands have shown their support for Jim.
  New York’s Governor Cuomo, Buffalo’s Major Brown, current and former Bills players alike a
  
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• DMX faces the music: serenaded by judge, gets year in prison

  29-03-2018 00:09 via wivb.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — A judge heard a DMX rap song before adding his own lyrics to a court proceeding on Wednesday, ordering the rapper imprisoned for a year in a tax fraud case.
  Federal Judge Jed Rakoff took requests Wednesday, accommodating DMX’s desire to hear his hit “Slippin’” before DMX faced the music over his admission of guilt. The judge called DMX’s fraud a “brazen and blatant” crime that could not go unpunished.
  The 47-year-old rapper, known t
  
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• Wegmans recalls yogurt-covered raisins that could contain undeclared peanuts

  29-03-2018 00:07 via wivb.com
  (WIVB) – Wegmans is voluntarily recalling Wegmans-brand yogurt-covered raisins after it was discovered they may contain undeclared peanuts.
  The affected products have a UPC of  07789031832 and a Best By date of Jan. 5, 2019.
  All products may be returned to customer service for a full refund.
  For more information, contact Wegmans Consumer Affairs at 1-855-934-3663 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.
  
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