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• Williamsville man arraigned after allegedly stealing Hurricane Helene donations

  21-01-2025 23:14 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- A Williamsville man was arraigned Tuesday morning on one count of third-degree grand larceny after he allegedly stole over $5,000 in donations from a local group's Hurricane Helene relief efforts, the Erie County District Attorney's Office announced.Officials said an investigation started in October after members of the group contacted law enforcement reporting alleged fraud committed by another member.Between around Sept. 27 and Oct. 4, 2024, 35-year-old Timothy Berry kn
  
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• Tonawanda woman pleads guilty to embezzling over $440K from employer

  21-01-2025 22:19 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- A Tonawanda woman pleaded guilty to wire fraud after embezzling over $440,000 from her Amherst-based employer, the United States Attorney's Office announced Tuesday.Officials said between April 2022 and June 2024, Erin Martin, 52, defrauded a business where she worked as a senior staff accountant. Martin's duties included reporting to the chief financial officer and paying the business's invoices.Martin made unauthorized electronic fund transfers from the business's bank
  
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• Man arrested after crashing into Lewiston house while on drugs

  21-01-2025 21:56 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- A Lewiston man was arrested on a driving while ability impaired charge after he crashed into a house on Kenwood Drive with a vehicle Tuesday morning, the Niagara County Sheriff's Office announced.Officers received a 911 call just after 8:40 a.m. Tuesday for reports of a motor vehicle that had crashed into a house on the 400 block of Kenwood Drive.John Jourdain, 57, was allegedly operating a vehicle on North Fifth Street when it left the roadway and crossed through the sou
  
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• White House cheers release of two Americans freed in a swap with Taliban brokered by Biden, Qatar

  21-01-2025 21:31 via wivb.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A prisoner swap between the United States and Afghanistan's Taliban freed two Americans in exchange for a Taliban figure imprisoned for life in California on drug trafficking and terrorism charges, officials said Tuesday.
  The two Americans freed in the swap, Ryan Corbett and William McKenty, was brokered before President Joe Biden left office Monday, according to a Trump administration official who was not authorized to comment publicly and requested anonymity.
  The Taliba
  
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• Street salting limited in Town of Tonawanda due to supply shortage

  21-01-2025 20:04 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- The Town of Tonawanda is cutting back on street salting following a supply shortage, as announced on social media.
  The town says they will only be salting the main roads, intersections, and stop sign locations.The shortage is due to a "distribution and supply problem" by the town's major salt supplier. A recent street salt order was supposed to arrive last week, but never did, the town said.
  Drivers are urged to use caution.A salt shortage is affecting almost all area mun
  
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• Judge extends halt on media interviews for convicted strip club owner Peter Gerace Jr.

  21-01-2025 18:54 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Convicted strip club owner Peter Gerace Jr. will have the final say on whether he will commit to an in-person interview with News 4 Investigates.But the answer may be at least a month away.
  On Tuesday morning, U.S. District Court Judge Lawrence Vilardo extended a temporary stay at the behest of the government to prohibit Gerace from conducting in-person interviews at the Chautauqua County jail. Judge temporarily blocks media interviews with convicted Pharaoh’s
  
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• Trump White House celebrates release of two Americans freed in a swap with Taliban brokered by Biden

  21-01-2025 18:11 via wivb.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A prisoner swap between the United States and Afghanistan's Taliban freed two Americans in exchange for a Taliban figure imprisoned for life in California on drug trafficking and terrorism charges, officials said Tuesday.The two Americans freed in the swap, Ryan Corbett, of Western New York, and William McKenty, was brokered before President Joe Biden left office Monday, according to a Trump administration official who was not authorized to comment publicly and requested
  
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• Woman gets 6 months in jail in connection with Sergeant death at Batavia Downs

  21-01-2025 18:05 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A woman has been sentenced to six months in jail and five years of probation for her role in the death of a Genesee County Sheriff’s Sergeant at the Batavia Downs Gaming & Hotel last year.Lyndsey Jean Wilcox, 39, was sentenced on a second-degree assault charge.
  Wilcox and Michael Elmore, 33, were escorted out of the Batavia Downs facility on March 10, 2024 when Elmore became combative with Genesee County Sheriff's Sergeant Thomas Sanfratello, who was on spe
  
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• State of emergencies, travel advisories in effect Wednesday

  21-01-2025 18:00 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- As the snow falls and windchills dip to dangerously low levels, officials encourage Western New Yorkers to keep an eye on the forecast and be safe.
  See what to look out for when hitting the streets below. See the latest 4Warn ForecastState of EmergencyGovernor Kathy Hochul declared a State of Emergency Monday for the storm that is expected to continue through Wednesday.
  Travel will be difficult with poor visibility through Wednesday night. Wind gusts will reach 30 mph wit
  
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• State of emergencies, travel advisories in effect Tuesday

  21-01-2025 18:00 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- As the snow falls and windchills dip to dangerously low levels, officials encourage Western New Yorkers to keep an eye on the forecast and be safe.
  See what to look out for when hitting the streets below.
  State of EmergencyGovernor Kathy Hochul declared a State of Emergency Monday for the storm that is expected to continue through Wednesday.
  Travel will be difficult with poor visibility through Wednesday night. Wind gusts will reach 30 mph with a snowfall rate of 1-2" per
  
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• All travel advisories lifted, state of emergency still in effect Wednesday

  21-01-2025 18:00 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- As the snow falls and windchills dip to dangerously low levels, officials encourage Western New Yorkers to keep an eye on the forecast and be safe.
  See what to look out for when hitting the streets below. See the latest 4Warn ForecastState of EmergencyGovernor Kathy Hochul declared a State of Emergency Monday for the storm that is expected to continue through Wednesday.
  Travel will be difficult with poor visibility through Wednesday night. Wind gusts will reach 30 mph wit
  
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• How to watch, stream and listen to the AFC championship game between the Bills and Chiefs

  21-01-2025 17:21 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The Bills are one win away from the Super Bowl.First, they will have to travel to Kansas City to take on the Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday in the AFC championship game.Here's how you can watch, stream and listen to Sunday's game.TelevisionThe game's on 4. The AFC championship game will air on WIVB in the Buffalo market and your local CBS station nationally. Jim Nantz and Tony Romo will be on the call, with Tracy Wolfson and Evan Washburn as the s
  
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• Could Patrick Mahomes' actions bring an NFL flopping rule?

  21-01-2025 13:23 via wivb.com
  
  NFL officials were heavily scrutinized for some of the flags they threw in the four divisional round games that saw the Chiefs, Bills, Eagles and Commanders advance to next weekend's conference championships.Yet, it was one play that didn't draw a flag could prove a most consequential non-call if the NFL decides to join the NBA and NHL in seriously cracking down on floppers, as ESPN broadcaster Troy Aikman suggested during the Texans-Chiefs game. How to watch, strea
  
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• 2 missing girls located at Langfield Drive apartment, found in good health

  21-01-2025 12:47 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Buffalo Police and New York State have located two missing girls after they were reported missing on Monday night.A 12-year-old and a 7-year-old were found at an apartment on Langfield Drive. They had last been seen traveling eastbound on foot from Main Street and Utica Street between 6:30 and 6:45 p.m.The girls were found to be in good health. Two people were brought in to speak to detectives about the incident, but were cleared of any wrongdoing. Police said they w
  
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• 2 missing girls located at Langfield Drive apartment

  21-01-2025 12:47 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Buffalo Police and New York State have located two missing girls after they were reported missing on Monday night.Ariyah Brown, 12, and Nova Rayne Lilley, 7, were found at an apartment on Langfield Drive. They had last been seen traveling eastbound on foot from Main Street and Utica Street between 6:30 and 6:45 p.m.The girls are currently being assessed for injuries.In a press conference on Tuesday morning, police said that the girls were living at Child & Family
  
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• 2 missing girls believed to be in danger, last seen on Delaware Avenue

  21-01-2025 12:47 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Buffalo Police and New York State are asking for public assistance in locating two young girls.Ariyah Brown, 13, and Nova Rayne Lilley, 7, were last seen on Delaware Avenue around 6:45 p.m. on Monday night.
  Brown, who is 5 feet tall and 120 pounds with black hair and brown eyes, was last seen wearing a black jacket and black jeans. Lilley, approximately 4'4" and 78 pounds with blonde hair and blue eyes, was last seen wearing a white shirt under a pink jacket and blue
  
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• Local warming shelters overflowing amid frigid weather

  21-01-2025 04:26 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- As bone-chilling cold sweeps across the region, the Western New York Coalition for the Homeless is calling on county and city leaders for a bigger space to shelter those less fortunate. This request comes after the secretary for the coalition claims shelters have reached capacity.With wind chills in the negatives, it’s dangerous standing outside for just minutes -- so imagine not having a roof over your head this week. While local warming shelters are at capacity, l
  
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• Trump signed slew of executive orders on Day 1. What are his priorities?

  21-01-2025 04:05 via wivb.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has begun his promised flurry of executive action on Day 1.
  With his opening rounds of memoranda and executive orders, Trump repealed dozens of former President Joe Biden's actions, began his immigration crackdown, withdrew the U.S. from the Paris climate accords and sought to keep TikTok open in the U.S., among other actions. He pardoned hundreds of people for their roles in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.Here's a look at some of Trum
  
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• MLK Day of Service returns in Buffalo

  21-01-2025 03:47 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said: "Everybody can be great because anybody can serve."That's how 300 volunteers honored his legacy in Buffalo on Monday."There's an African proverb that says, 'You want to go fast, go alone. But if you want to go far, go together,' and that is what's moving about this, people are coming together," said Faustenia L. Morrow, who started the MLK Day of Service in Buffalo five years ago with Monarch of Infinite Possibilities. "They don't eve
  
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• Trump issues sweeping pardon of supporters charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack

  21-01-2025 02:20 via wivb.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday said he was pardoning about 1,500 of his supporters who have been charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack, using his sweeping clemency powers on his first day back in office to dismantle the largest investigation and prosecution in Justice Department history.
  The pardons were expected after Trump’s yearslong campaign to rewrite the history of the Jan. 6 attack that left more than 100 police officers injured and threatened th
  
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• Trump signs executive order directing US withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement — again

  21-01-2025 01:33 via wivb.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday directing the United States to again withdraw from the landmark Paris climate agreement, dealing a blow to worldwide efforts to combat global warming and once again distancing the U.S. from its closest allies.
  Trump's action, hours after he was sworn in to a second term, echoed his directive in 2017, when he announced that the U.S. would abandon the global Paris accord. The pact is aimed at limiting long-term global
  
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• Trump has begun signing slew of executive orders on Day 1. What are his priorities?

  21-01-2025 01:33 via wivb.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has begun his promised flurry of executive action on Day 1. With his first batch of memoranda and orders, Trump repealed dozens of former President Joe Biden's actions, withdrew the U.S. from the Paris climate accords, put a temporary freeze on new federal regulations and commanded federal law enforcement to end all cases and investigations of any Trump supporters, among other actions. Trump, meanwhile, has additional executive orders awaiting his s
  
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• Trump signs executive order directing US withdrawal the Paris climate agreement — again

  21-01-2025 01:29 via wivb.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday directing the United States to again withdraw from the landmark Paris climate agreement, dealing a blow to worldwide efforts to combat global warming and once again distancing the U.S. from its closest allies.
  Trump's action, hours after he was sworn in to a second term, echoed his directive in 2017, when he announced that the U.S. would abandon the global Paris accord. The pact is aimed at limiting long-term global
  
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• Kraken score 6 on Sabres again, this time with Devon Levi in goal to start road trip

  21-01-2025 01:12 via wivb.com
  
  SEATTLE (AP) — Jamie Oleksiak scored the go-ahead goal in the second period, and Adam Larsson and Jared McCann added scores in the third as the Seattle Kraken beat the Buffalo Sabres 6-4 on Monday.Oleksiak's goal at the 16:34 mark snapped a 3-all tie and came less than a minute after Buffalo's Tage Thompson scored to erase a two-goal deficit.Jack Quinn's goal just over 5 minutes into the game gave Buffalo an early lead. Seattle assumed the lead after goals by John Hayden, Chandler Stephens
  
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• Traveling to Kansas City for the game? AAA has some tips

  21-01-2025 00:52 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- Thinking of traveling to Kansas City for the AFC championship game on Sunday? AAA has some travel tips to consider. Our Dave Greber spoke with Elizabeth Carey, Director of Public Relations and Corporate Communications for AAA of Western and Central New York, on Monday about what Bills fans should know about making the trip to Kansas City.Last-minute flights from Buffalo to Kansas City are very expensive, so Carey recommends making the 1,000-mile trip by car. That will tak
  
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