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• Discolored tap water found in high-rise Buffalo apartment building

  09-04-2024 22:23 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFLAO, N.Y. (WIVB) - News 4 is taking a look at concerning conditions at a high rise apartment building in Buffalo. One of those concerns has to do with discolored drinking water.Call 4 Action has learned that federal inspectors will soon be going through this same apartment building.News 4 received numerous complaints of living conditions at Riverview Manor, which is a high-rise building on Hertel Avenue along the Niagara River. One woman's brother contacted Call 4 Action with concerns about
  
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• Hunt Art Gallery creates opportunities for emerging WNY artists

  09-04-2024 21:33 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- Nearing completion of a full-building renovation, downtown Buffalo's Brisbane Building includes a street-level art gallery for Western New Yorkers to appreciate, with a mission of continuing the growth of the burgeoning Buffalo art scene.The C. Stuart and Jane H. Hunt Art Gallery opened its doors in April 2022, offering exhibitions and events to the public, as well as studio space to artists in residence.Founded by HUNT Real Estate chairman and CEO Peter Hunt, the gallery
  
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• 30 prospects in 30 days: Florida State's Jared Verse has the hunger to become a better player

  09-04-2024 20:41 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- Jared Verse has been an absolute game-wrecker the last two seasons at Florida State.
  The talented edge rusher racked up nine sacks in 2022 and followed that up with nine more in 2023, but before he was making a name for himself with the Seminoles, he spent one season at the University at Albany. Verse said that experience was important to his journey. "It gave me that hunger, that's something you can't teach," Verse said. "You can't teach the grind, you can't teach t
  
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• Buffalo man charged with attempting to rape woman

  09-04-2024 20:09 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- A Buffalo man has been charged with sexually abusing and attempting to rape a woman on Monday.In addition to those charges, Hunter Saxbury, 22, was also accused of obstruction of breathing."The defendant attempted to force the victim to have sex and subjected the victim to unwanted sexual contact," the Erie County District Attorney's office said.Saxbury was arraigned on Tuesday morning and held on $75,000 bail. Additionally, a temporary order of protection was issued on b
  
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• Buffalo man charged with attempted rape

  09-04-2024 20:09 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- A Buffalo man has been charged with sexually abusing and attempting to rape a woman on Monday.In addition to those charges, Hunter Saxbury, 22, was also accused of obstruction of breathing."The defendant attempted to force the victim to have sex and subjected the victim to unwanted sexual contact," the Erie County District Attorney's office said.Saxbury was arraigned on Tuesday morning and held on $75,000 bail. Additionally, a temporary order of protection was issued on b
  
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• West Seneca police looking for missing teen

  09-04-2024 18:16 via wivb.com
  
  WEST SENECA, N.Y. (WIVB) -- Police in West Seneca are looking for help finding a missing teenager.Isabella Valle, 14, was last seen in the area of Seneca Street and Mill Road this past Saturday around 6 p.m. She is approximately 5'7" and has red hair and brown eyes.When she was last seen, Isabella was wearing a gray top, black leggings and white Crocs. Anyone with information on her whereabouts is asked to call police at (716) 674-2280 and cite report #24-006451.Latest Local News West Seneca pol
  
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• Free rabies vaccine drive-thrus for cats and dogs coming this May

  09-04-2024 17:39 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- Two free rabies vaccine clinics for pets, run by The Erie County Department of Health, are coming to Erie County this May.
  Both drive-thrus will run from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The first event will take place May 11 at the Town of Tonawanda Highway Garage and the second event will be on May 18 at Buffalo Public School 84.
  Pet owners will be able to bring their cats, dogs, and/or ferrets to the clinics without leaving their cars, they only ask that the animals be restrained and
  
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• New resolution calls for release of Livingston County man from the Taliban

  09-04-2024 17:07 via wivb.com
  
  ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — Lawmakers introduced a resolution calling for the Taliban to release a man from Western New York from detainment.Ryan Corbett of Dansville lived in Afghanistan for 11 years until the Taliban returned to power. He went back to Afghanistan in 2022 to pay and hold training at a business he started. He was detained and remains there to this day.Senators Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell introduced legislation to call for his immediate and unconditional release. Schumer
  
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• Elmwood gift shop collecting eclipse glasses to donate

  09-04-2024 15:08 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- Not sure what to do with those eclipse glasses? Instead of the trash, you could give them to a good cause.Thin Ice, a gift shop on Elmwood Avenue, is collecting them for schools in Latin America. There, they'll be given to children to view the October 2024 annular eclipse.Thin Ice is located at 719 Elmwood, between Cleveland Avenue and W. Ferry Street. They are open 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday and Monday and 10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.Watch the clip below,
  
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• Happy Together Tour to feature The Turtles, Badfinger, more at Erie County Fair

  09-04-2024 14:00 via wivb.com
  
  HAMBURG, N.Y. (WIVB) -- The start of the Channel 4 Concert Series at the Erie County Fair will be packed with classics.The Happy Together Tour will include The Turtles, Jay and the Americans, The Association, Badfinger, The Vogues and The Cowsills. They're coming to The Buffalo News Grandstand at the fair on August 7.Tickets for the show will go on sale June 7 at 10 a.m. Interested concertgoers can get them at ECFair.org.Other concerts happening at the fair this year include Travis Tritt with Aa
  
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• Winner comes forward to claim $1.3B Powerball jackpot in Oregon

  09-04-2024 12:09 via wivb.com
  
  PORTLAND, Ore. (NEXSTAR) — A person with a ticket matching all six Powerball numbers in Saturday’s $1.3 billion jackpot came forward Monday to claim the prize, Oregon officials said.The lottery ticket was purchased at a Plaid Pantry convenience store in the northeast part of the city, Oregon Lottery said in a statement.The Plaid Pantry convenience store that sold a $1.3 billion Powerball jackpot, the eighth-largest lottery prize in U.S. history, is seen in Portland, Ore., o
  
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• Broken record: March is 10th straight month to be hottest on record, scientists say

  09-04-2024 07:34 via wivb.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — For the 10th consecutive month, Earth in March set a new monthly record for global heat — with both air temperatures and the world’s oceans hitting an all-time high for the month, the European Union climate agency Copernicus said.
  March 2024 averaged 14.14 degrees Celsius (57.9 degrees Fahrenheit), exceeding the previous record from 2016 by a tenth of a degree, according to Copernicus data. And it was 1.68 degrees C (3 degrees F) warmer than in the late 1800s,
  
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• Astronaut set to head to the moon experiences eclipse in Niagara Falls

  09-04-2024 02:07 via wivb.com
  
  NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (WIVB) — An astronaut who is set to circle the moon next year experienced the eclipse in Niagara Falls on Monday afternoon.Colonel Jeremy Hansen, who is one of four astronauts heading to the moon on Artemis II next year, will be the first Canadian to travel to the moon.He is an astronaut for the Canadian Space Agency, but due to his close ties with NASA, he will be traveling with Americans. Gallery: Photos and videos of the total solar eclipse in Western New York“
  
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• 2 arrested after stolen car hits police vehicle, injures officers

  09-04-2024 01:48 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Two people are facing charges for hitting a police vehicle with a car they allegedly stole, the Buffalo Police Department said Monday.Police said they observed the stolen Jeep Commander on Niagara Street at Forest Avenue around 10:30 p.m. Sunday. Officers alerted Erie County Sheriff's Air 1, which monitored it. The Jeep was then found in a parking lot on Breckenridge Avenue and then fled while traveling east on Auchinvole Avenue.The car finally crashed into a police
  
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• Buffalo Zoo creates a unique experience for eclipse watchers

  09-04-2024 00:31 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- Thousands of people flocked to Western New York on Monday to be within the path of totality for the total solar eclipse, with a chunk of the population ending up at the Buffalo Zoo.The lion enclosure, which was quiet most of the afternoon, filled with roars just minutes before totality, leaving people running towards the noise. In what was one of the more interactive viewing sights in Buffalo, visitors from as far as Maryland and Wisconsin took in the sight at the zoo. Ga
  
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