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• Shea's announces its 2024-25 season at 710 Theatre

  15-05-2024 22:15 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- Shea's Performing Arts Center has announced the lineup for their 2024-25 season at their 710 Theatre.
  The season will kick off in September with Disney's "Newsies," a high energy, Tony-award winning show about hard working paperboys in the 19th century standing up for what they believe in.
  See the schedule here:
  September 12-29: "Newsies" by D'Youville Kavinoky TheatreFebruary 11-16, 2025: "Forbidden Broadway" by Shea's & Albert NocciolinoMarch 27-April 13, 2025: "Dia
  
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• Complete Buffalo Bills 2024 schedule: Live analysis now

  15-05-2024 21:40 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – The Bills were handed five primetime games for the 2024 season when the NFL announced its schedule at 8 p.m. Wednesday, including four in the first six weeks of the season.Members of the Buffalo Kickoff Live team will share their thoughts on the schedule live on this page at 8:30. WIVB Sports Director Josh Reed will be joined by WROC's Thad Brown and Matt Parrino from Syracuse.com. They'll break down the highlights of the schedule, the games they're looking forward t
  
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• Complete Buffalo Bills 2024 schedule: Live analysis at 8:30 p.m.

  15-05-2024 21:40 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – The 2024 NFL schedule was announced at 8 p.m. Wednesday. Members of the Buffalo Kickoff Live team will share their thoughts live on this page at 8:30.WIVB Sports Director Josh Reed will be joined by WROC's Thad Brown and Matt Parrino from Syracuse.com. They'll break down the highlights of the schedule, the games they're looking forward to the most, and the tough stretches that schedule makers handed the Bills this season.
  The date and time of one Bills game was alrea
  
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• Complete Buffalo Bills 2024 schedule: 5 primetime games, include 4 in first 6 weeks

  15-05-2024 21:40 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – The Bills were handed five primetime games for the 2024 season when the NFL announced its schedule at 8 p.m. Wednesday, including four in the first six weeks of the season.Five primetime games is near the most in Bills history. Last year's team was given six at the schedule release, and added a seventh when the regular-season finale against Miami was flexed to a night game with the division on the line. The Bills also played five primetime games in 2022, not counting
  
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• Buffalo Bills 2024 schedule: Live analysis tonight at 8:30 p.m.

  15-05-2024 21:40 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – The 2024 NFL schedule will be announced at 8 p.m. Wednesday. Once the full slate of Bills games is revealed, members of the Buffalo Kickoff Live team will share their thoughts live on this page at 8:30.WIVB Sports Director Josh Reed will be joined by WROC's Thad Brown and Matt Parrino from Syracuse.com. They'll break down the highlights of the schedule, the games they're looking forward to the most, and the tough stretches that schedule makers handed the Bills this s
  
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• Patient indicted after 3 staff members stabbed at Buffalo Psychiatric Center

  15-05-2024 21:02 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- A patient at the Buffalo Psychiatric Center has been indicted on five felony counts after allegedly stabbing three employees.Police and prosecutors said the incident happened on the morning of April 3. Calvin Haskins, 34, was accused of stabbing the employees while inside a housing unit for outpatient residents of the Forest Avenue facility.
  Police revealed in a conference last month that this area was one that people could access without being screened for weapons.The vi
  
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• Police say van hit bus carrying 5 students in Dunkirk

  15-05-2024 20:41 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- A bus carrying five BOCES students was hit by a vehicle in Dunkirk Wednesday morning.Shortly after 8 a.m., police said a van driver failed to stop at a stop sign at the corner of Deer and E. 6th streets. They then proceeded to hit the back of a school bus en route to a BOCES facility, police said.The students on board were high school age, according to police.No one was injured. The van driver, 22-year-old Amelia Mateo-Garcia, was given traffic tickets for an improper chi
  
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• Construction nearly complete on new affordable housing project in Buffalo

  15-05-2024 20:02 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Construction is almost complete on a new affordable housing project in Buffalo that will feature mixed-use and commercial space.The Monroe, located on the corner of Main Street and Lafayette Avenue, has been in the works for over four years. The $8.4 million project, which is being financed by both local and state groups, is on the site of the former Record Theatre in Buffalo's Hamlin Park neighborhood. The area also once held a historic car dealership.The site will
  
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• Cheektowaga man receives indeterminate sentence for 14 vehicle thefts

  15-05-2024 18:59 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- A Cheektowaga man has received an indeterminate sentence in relation to multiple suspected high-end vehicle thefts, according to the Erie County District Attorney's Office.
  Between December 2022 and September 2023, Richard E. Lucas III, 21, stole 14 vehicles from dealerships in Amherst, Tonawanda, Orchard Park, Grand Island, and Clarence.
  The vehicles ranged in value from $22,388 to $135,000.
  Lucas pled guilty in March to the following:
  second degree criminal possession o
  
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• Former Erie County DA talks prosecuting Tops shooter 2 years later

  15-05-2024 18:43 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- John Flynn has since left the public sector, but when the Tops mass shooting took place on May 14, 2022, he was the District Attorney of Erie County.Flynn joined News 4 on Tuesday evening to reflect on the process of prosecuting the shooter, what the victims' families wanted to see, and the impact the incident had on Buffalo as a whole."That sadness and that day is never going to leave," Flynn said.The mass shooting, which resulted in 10 people being killed and three othe
  
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• Buffalo woman remains free on bail after admitting to killing boyfriend

  15-05-2024 18:35 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- A Buffalo woman pleaded guilty Tuesday morning to second-degree manslaughter after fatally stabbing her boyfriend in 2023, according to the Erie County District Attorney's Office.
  Officials said Teiyahna Bivens, 22, stabbed her boyfriend, Micqueal Rogers, 23, in the chest with a knife on July 23, 2023. Rogers later died from the injury at ECMC.
  Bivens faces a maximum of 15 years in prison when she is sentenced in July. She was offered a plea to a reduced charge with the c
  
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• 19-year-old incarcerated at Wyoming County Jail dies

  15-05-2024 17:21 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A 19-year-old who was incarcerated at the Wyoming County Jail died on Tuesday, the Wyoming County Sheriff's Office said.The 19-year-old was found unresponsive in his cell around 6 p.m. Tuesday. Jail personnel conducted life-saving measures and EMS was called, but the person was pronounced dead.The name of the individual is not being released until all family notifications have been completed.The death is still under investigation and was referred to the New York Stat
  
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• Permit-free chicken ownership up for discussion in Lockport

  15-05-2024 16:25 via wivb.com
  
  LOCKPORT, N.Y. (WIVB) -- Wednesday night in Lockport, a public hearing on the ownership of chickens is set to take place.Typically, the Lockport Common Council meets on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month. This particular night, residents will have the opportunity to voice their opinions on a potential zoning code change.The proposed revision up for discussion would allow six chickens to be kept by single-family homeowners without a special use permit.The public hearing will begin at
  
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• Wanted man accused of dragging deputy in Newstead

  15-05-2024 15:43 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- The Erie County Sheriff's office says a wanted man was accused of dragging a deputy as authorities tried to execute a warrant for his arrest.Tuesday around 4:30 p.m., officials said a patrol deputy saw Michael Trybuskiewicz, 40, sitting in a vehicle near the intersection of Routes 93 and 5 in Newstead.According to the Sheriff's office, a deputy approached the vehicle, but Trybuskiewicz put it in drive and sped through a rocky culvert while dragging the deputy.The Sheriff'
  
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• More Tesla layoffs coming to South Park Avenue in August

  15-05-2024 14:22 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- According to a WARN notice posted on New York State's Department of Labor website, more than two dozen other Buffalo Tesla employees will be out of a job starting Aug. 11.The notice, which impacts 27 more employees, was posted on Tuesday.This follows four other WARN notices posted within the last month. Like the other notices, the reason for the layoffs was cited as "economic."According to an April report from The Associated Press, Tesla is planning to get rid of ten
  
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• Two Hamburg teachers, whose jobs were cut in proposed budget, leave before end of year

  15-05-2024 04:22 via wivb.com
  
  HAMBURG, N.Y. (WIVB) — Hamburg residents are a week away from voting on a school budget that calls to cut 20 district employees, including 13 teachers. Tuesday was the final budget hearing and public input period before the vote next Tuesday, May 21.“We have thousands of kids in this district who have been impacted by these cuts and will continue to be impacted by these cuts, and that should be at the forefront when we are talking about this and making decisions,” PTSA Presiden
  
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