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• 'This has the potential to impact us in a huge way:' Some primary care facilities footing the bill after healthcare cyberattack

  11-03-2024 23:23
  
  TONAWANDA, N.Y. (WIVB) — Some local healthcare providers are running into financial trouble, after last month's cyberattack on a large insurance company that handles payments.
  Molly Rose-Lindquist is the practice manager at Sheridan Medical Group in the town of Tonawanda. She goes over the private practice's finances and makes sure there's enough to cover expenses. Lately, this has become a challenging task.
  The facility is dealing with a cashflow problem after United Health's Change Healt
  
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• T-Mobile billing snafu for local family gets resolved

  11-03-2024 23:07
  
  CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. (WIVB) - News 4's Call 4 Action team is getting help for a local family with their cell phone bill.
  When this family overpaid for their bill, but T-Mobile wasn't crediting their account, there was only place for them to call.This is an issue that the Schuler family of Cheektowaga has been dealing with for the past five months.Mark Schuler and his wife have been with T-Mobile for the past six months. He was set up for bi-weekly payments to cover his and his wife's cell phone bil
  
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• Serial car dealer thief pleads guilty to 15 felony counts

  11-03-2024 21:37
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A serial car dealer thief has pleaded guilty to 15 felony counts as well as three more misdemeanor counts in connection to stealing cars at several different dealerships across Erie County in 2023, the Erie County District Attorney's Office announced Monday.21-year-old Richard E. Lucas, III, of Cheektowaga, admitted to stealing cars from dealerships in Orchard Park, Amherst, Tonawanda, Grand Island, Clarence as well as Rochester between March 1 and Sep. 3, 2023.All o
  
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• Man in critical condition following shooting on William Street

  11-03-2024 20:31
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A man is in critical condition following a shooting on William Street Sunday night, according to Buffalo police.Police responded to the 1200 block of William, near Depot Street and Lewis Street, just after 5 p.m. Sunday. Police found the man in a yard near the railroad tracks.
  The man, 55, was transported to ECMC and is listed in critical condition.The shooting is still under investigation. Anyone with information is asked to call or text the confidential TIPCALL lin
  
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• Where to watch the 2024 eclipse in WNY: list

  11-03-2024 19:06
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- On April 8 at 3:18 p.m., Western New York will experience its first total solar eclipse in nearly 100 years. With the 2024 Great American Eclipse less than a month away, News 4 is compiling a list of locations around the area that will be hosting events to witness the eclipse.
  To have your event added to the list, please email [email protected] with “Solar Eclipse event” as the subject.City of BuffaloBuffalo Bisons: The Bisons will be welcoming four NASA scien
  
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• Defendants plead guilty to attempted robbery of elder

  11-03-2024 18:59
  
  WEST SENECA, N.Y. (WIVB) -- Two men have plead guilty to second-degree attempted robbery today, according to the Erie County district attorney's office.
  Six people, including 22-year-old Andre A. Washington, Jr. of Buffalo and 20-year-old Makeigh A. Brown of Cheektowaga, approached a 75-year-old man last July 18 in a Wegmans parking lot. According to West Seneca police, the man was walking to his Kia when the group approached him. The people attempted to carjack him by gunpoint as he placed his
  
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• Buffalo mayor appoints new city historian and poet laureate

  11-03-2024 17:08
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- Mayor Byron Brown appointed Lindsey Lauren Visser as City of Buffalo historian and Aitina Fareed-Cooke as the city's new poet laureate Monday.
  Lauren Visser is a graduate of the University of Oxford and a historian specializing in the Western New York region. She serves as the executive director of the Niagara Aerospace Museum and has recently been featured on the American History Hit podcast with Don Wildman. Lauren Visser is the vice president of membership and outreach
  
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• Sweden’s flag is raised at NATO headquarters to cement its place as the 32nd member of the alliance

  11-03-2024 15:51
  
  BRUSSELS (AP) — Sweden’s flag was raised at NATO headquarters on Monday, cementing the Nordic country’s place as the 32nd member two years after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine persuaded its reluctant public to seek safety under the alliance’s security umbrella.
  Under a steady rain, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, Crown Princess Victoria and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg looked on as two soldiers raised the blue banner emblazoned with a yel
  
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• Buffalo's East Side receives $102 million for new bus rapid transit line

  11-03-2024 13:30
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- A new bus rapid transit line is coming to Bailey Avenue on Buffalo's East Side, thanks to over $100 million in federal funding, announced today by U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.The funding -- $102,692,562, to be exact -- will be received through the U.S. Department of Transportation's Neighborhood Access and Equity Program to provide affordable transportation to the East Side.According to a release from the senators, the goal o
  
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• Sweden’s flag raised at NATO headquarters, cementing its place as the 32nd alliance member

  11-03-2024 13:03
  
  BRUSSELS (AP) — Sweden’s national flag was raised at NATO headquarters on Monday, cementing the Nordic country’s place as the 32nd member two years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine persuaded its reluctant public to seek safety under the alliance’s security umbrella.
  Under a steady rain, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, Crown Princess Victoria and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg looked on as two soldiers raised the blue banner emblazoned with a yello
  
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• Disney seeks major expansion of California theme park to add more immersive attractions

  11-03-2024 12:08
  
  Walking through the frosty, snow-covered hamlet of Arendelle from “Frozen,” or the bustling, critter-filled metropolis of “Zootopia” might be possible one day for visitors to Disney's California theme parks.
  That's only if Disney wins approval from local officials to expand its Anaheim resort over the next four decades.
  The proposed expansion wouldn't increase Disney's 490-acre (488-hectare) footprint in Southern California or change what the company already has permissio
  
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• Daemen basketball teams dance into NCAA tournament

  11-03-2024 04:21
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Daemen University is sending both its men's and women's basketball teams to the NCAA Division II championship tournament.The Wildcat women are dancing for the fifth consecutive March, having cut down the nets in their home gym Sunday after winning the East Coast Conference for the fourth time in that span with a 55-50 victory against Mercy. Daemen (20-7) received the No. 6 seed in the East Region and will open against No. 3 St. Rose on Friday at Bentley University in
  
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