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• 1 hospitalized after East Delavan Avenue morning shooting

  04-07-2024 22:59 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- A male was struck by gunfire while outside on the 1400 block of East Delavan Avenue Thursday morning, Buffalo police officials said.Police responded to the call just after 4 a.m. Officials said a 31-year-old male, of Buffalo, was transported by a civilian vehicle to ECMC where he was taken into surgery.Buffalo police are investigating the incident. Anyone with information is asked to call or text their confidential tip line at (716) 847-2255.Latest Local News 1 hospitaliz
  
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• Save-A-Lot owner asks city for money amid closure, customers voice concerns

  04-07-2024 21:18 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- Customers of Broadway Market's Save-A-Lot were greeted with a locked door and a piece of computer paper signifying the store's closure on Wednesday.Customers and Fillmore District Buffalo Common Councilmember Mitch Nowakowski are fed up, and the owner isn’t confident the open sign will come back unless the city cuts him a check.“They should try to work something out, but if he’s being ridiculous, leave him alone, get somebody else,” said Save-A-Lot
  
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• Poloncarz rep says he'd veto bill on term limits

  04-07-2024 18:55 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – The effort to enact term limits for politicians across Erie County could be short lived.Last month, Democratic legislator John Bargnesi introduced a bill that would limit any new office-holder by 2030 to three terms. The bill would cover the Erie County Legislature, County Executive, Comptroller, Sheriff, Clerk and District Attorney.But a spokesperson for Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz told WIVB News 4 that Poloncarz opposes and would veto any bill calling for
  
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• Fighter pilot recalls mission to take down hijacked flight before it struck DC on 9/11

  04-07-2024 15:19 via wivb.com
  
  WASHINGTON (WTAJ) — Two fighter pilots willing to sacrifice their own lives to save countless others scrambled to stop Flight 93 on September 11, 2001, before hijackers could crash it into the U.S. Capitol.Heather Penney was one of the two Air Force fighter pilots who were tasked with taking down the airliner, an act that would save untold lives but result in their own deaths, as well as those of the 40 passengers aboard."I am just your average ordinary American, I’m a mom, I was a m
  
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• Krabbe screening gets final approval after decades-long push from Kelly's Hunter's Hope Foundation

  04-07-2024 14:30 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – The family of Bills legend Jim Kelly celebrated the news this week that Krabbe Disease was officially added to a panel of recommended tests for newborn babies.The formal approval from Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra marked a long-awaited victory in a battle spearheaded by Kelly and his wife, Jill, who launched the Hunter's Hope Foundation in 1997 after their son was diagnosed with the disease.Krabbe can cause children to lose voluntary and basic fu
  
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• Orchard Park residents voice concerns over gas station proposal near stadium

  04-07-2024 04:57 via wivb.com
  
  ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (WIVB) -- Orchard Park residents voiced their concerns on Wednesday about a proposed gas station down the road from Highmark Stadium.
  At the town's board meeting, board members heard more details about the gas station, but it came with backlash from community members who said it's not prioritizing fans during football season.
  Four residents spoke in opposition of the idea. They said if the gas station gets built at Abbott and Big Tree roads, it will cause tons of traffic issue
  
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• Orchard Park residents voice concerns over gas station proposal

  04-07-2024 04:57 via wivb.com
  
  ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (WIVB) -- Orchard Park residents voiced their concerns on Wednesday about a proposed gas station down the road from Highmark stadium.
  At the town's board meeting, board members heard more details about the gas station, but it came with backlash from community members who said it's not prioritizing fans during football season.
  Four residents spoke in opposition of the idea. They said if the gas station gets built on Abbott and Big Tree Roads, it will cause tons of traffic issue
  
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• Do New York State income taxes hinder the Sabres in signing players?

  04-07-2024 00:35 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — As if the Sabres needed any further challenges in their effort to build a roster capable of ending the longest postseason drought in NHL history.Could New York State's tax code be partly to blame?"If you can get New York state to go tax-free, I’m in," mused Sabres general manager Kevyn Adams, a Clarence native, when asked about the subject following Buffalo's free agent spree this week. "I think it would help our roster. And I'll be up for that, too. I'm good w
  
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• Catholic Diocese to sell Saint Jude Center

  04-07-2024 00:14 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO N.Y. (WIVB) -- The days may be numbered for the Saint Jude Center downtown after the Buffalo Diocese put the property up for sale.
  "It's a bad decision, I can say that," said Father Richard Augustyn, who's the Saint Jude Center director. "It's one of the worst decision they have made."After serving the community for more than four decades at the center, Father Augustyn said he never expected that the property on Ellicott St. would be up for sale.
  "I was shocked and disappointed," he said
  
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• Buffalo man who threatened to blow up VA facility pleads guilty

  04-07-2024 00:04 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- A Buffalo man pleaded guilty to assault upon a federal employee following numerous threats made against the VA in 2023, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced Wednesday.Officials said on Sept. 12, 56-year-old Demont Coston called the U.S. Veterans Affairs Crisis Line and made repeated threats to blow up the Buffalo VA facility. Later that same day, Coston called the crisis line again saying, "I should go blow... I should go burn the building down."According to the Attorney'
  
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