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• Over 100 employers attend job fair for former Sumitomo workers

  03-12-2024 23:36 via wivb.com
  
  TOWN OF TONAWANDA, NY (WIVB) -- After Sumitomo Rubber announced the closure of its Tonawanda tire manufacturing facility last month, more than 1,500 employees are now without jobs."I left a good job thinking I had a career here," said Shanika Wilcox, a former machine operator with Sumitomo. "I don't know how I'm going to get back and I have a family to take care of, the holiday season. I have bills to pay, it's hard, it's a struggle."Wilcox is now one of many workers searching for new opportunit
  
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• Four 14-year-olds arrested for stealing car in Lockport

  03-12-2024 19:29 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Four 14-year-olds have been arrested and charged in connection with the alleged theft of a car in Lockport earlier this week, New York State Police said Tuesday.Police said they saw the car, a 2002 Toyota Camry, fail to stop at a stop sign at the intersection of Ohio Street and West Ave. just after 3 a.m. on Sunday.Police tried to stop the car and the teens allegedly took off, stopping when the car hit a fence on Vine Street. All four of the teens fled on foot and we
  
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• WATCH: Tractor trailer strikes thruway truck on I-90 in Buffalo

  03-12-2024 18:21 via wivb.com
  
  ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) – The New York State Thruway Authority is asking drivers to slow down and move over after another tractor trailer struck a thruway truck that was pulled over onto the side of I-90 in Buffalo.
  According to the NYSTA, the accident happened two weeks ago despite passing two vehicles and signs warning of the work zone and lane closure ahead. New York expands Move Over law for driversThere are no injuries reported as a result of this accident, but the NYSTA continues to e
  
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• How to watch, stream and listen to Buffalo Bills vs. Los Angeles Rams on Sunday

  03-12-2024 16:55 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Fresh off clinching the AFC East for a fifth straight season, the Bills will head to the west coast for the second time this year to take on the Los Angeles Rams at SoFi Stadium at 4:25 p.m. this Sunday.Here's how you can watch, stream and listen to the game.TelevisionThe game will air on FOX. Kevin Burkhardt will handle the play-by-play with former New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady doing color commentary. Erin Andrews and Tom Rinaldi will be the sideline re
  
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• Buffalo man sentenced for murder of girlfriend

  03-12-2024 16:50 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- A Buffalo man was sentenced Monday morning for murdering his girlfriend in her apartment last summer, the Erie County District Attorney's Office announced.
  Savon Stewart, 30, received 25 years to life in prison for fatally beating and stabbing 37-year-old Jena MacDiarmid Beal.
  On Aug. 7, 2023, police responded to a 911 call and found Beal deceased inside her apartment on the 3400 block of Main Street. Stewart had intentionally caused her death by beating and stabbing her.
  
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• Holiday Valley opening for season on Friday

  03-12-2024 13:59 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — After this past weekend's snow, Holiday Valley will open for the season on Friday.As long as the weather forecast holds, ski and snowboard season will begin at 9 a.m. with four lifts open: Mardi Gras 6, Yodeler, Tannenbaum and Creekside. The number of slopes is still to be determined.Night skiing will also begin on Friday so lifts will run until 10 p.m.Holiday Valley had initially planned to open for the season in November, but delayed the opening due to the warmer t
  
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• Young cancer survivor pushed down stands at Sunday’s Bills game

  03-12-2024 04:20 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- An 8-year-old 49ers fan, who is a cancer survivor, was shoved by a Bills fan at Sunday's game, causing her to fall from her seat.Mia DeCamilla's family said she was not physically hurt during the altercation, but was emotionally shaken, causing them to leave her first-ever NFL game early.Mia currently lives in Rochester, N.Y., however, she became a big 49ers fan because of her father.“Me and my dad in the hospital, we'll watch football together, and then when I come
  
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• Changes coming to long-delayed Elmwood Village project

  03-12-2024 01:01 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) - The Buffalo Planning Board set a date for a public hearing at its meeting Monday for the long-stalled $15 million project in the heart of the Elmwood Village, which would bring new apartments to the area.The project is headed by well-known developer Douglas Jemal and has been in the planning stages for well over three years as residents question what will end up on the corner of Elmwood Avenue and Bidwell Parkway.
  Douglas Development is proposing to build a five-floor buil
  
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