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• Pharaoh's owner's attorneys argue he has right to jailhouse interviews

  21-02-2025 23:29 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- Attorneys for the convicted owner of Pharaoh's Gentlemen's Club, Peter Gerace, said the government's effort to block him from doing jailhouse interviews would be an "unwarranted restraint" on his First Amendment rights.On Feb. 3, federal prosecutors requested a gag order on Gerace after learning he requested interviews with reporters at the Chautauqua County Jail, where he remains in custody.
  Their government's concerns focused on three issues: Gerace could violate a prot
  
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• A New Jersey man is convicted of attempted murder in the stabbing of Salman Rushdie

  21-02-2025 20:31 via wivb.com
  
  MAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — A New Jersey man was convicted Friday of attempted murder for stabbing author Salman Rushdie multiple times on a New York lecture stage in 2022.
  Jurors, who deliberated for less than two hours, also found Hadi Matar, 27, guilty of assault for wounding a man who was on stage with Rushdie at the time.Matar ran onto the stage at the Chautauqua Institution where Rushdie was about to speak on Aug. 12, 2022, and stabbed him more than a dozen times before a live audience. Th
  
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• The man accused of trying to kill author Salman Rushdie is found guilty of attempted murder

  21-02-2025 20:22 via wivb.com
  
  MAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — A New Jersey man was convicted Friday of attempted murder for stabbing author Salman Rushdie multiple times on a New York lecture stage in 2022.
  Jurors, who deliberated for less than two hours, also found Hadi Matar, 27, guilty of assault for wounding a man who was on stage with Rushdie at the time.Matar ran onto the stage at the Chautauqua Institution where Rushdie was about to speak on Aug. 12, 2022, and stabbed him more than a dozen times before a live audience. Th
  
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• Lawyers deliver closing remarks in Salman Rushdie stabbing trial

  21-02-2025 17:59 via wivb.com
  
  MAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — Lawyers delivered their closing arguments Friday in the trial of a New Jersey man charged with trying to kill Salman Rushdie on a Chautauqua County lecture stage in a knife attack that left the author blind in one eye and with other serious injuries.Hadi Matar, 27, is charged with attempted murder and assault in the August 2022 attack at the Chautauqua Institution. He faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted.District Attorney Jason Schmidt played a slow-m
  
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• Independent mediator being brought in as correction officer strike reaches fifth day

  21-02-2025 17:09 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — An independent mediator is now being brought in to assist in bringing a resolution to resolve the correction officer strike, which has now extended to a fifth day.Thousands of correction officers across New York State, including officers at four Western New York prisons: Attica Correctional Facility, Collins Correctional Facility, Wende Correctional Facility and Lake View Correctional Facility, have been on strike since Monday.The New York State Department of Correct
  
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• Connor McDavid scores in OT to give Canada 3-2 win over United States in 4 Nations Face-Off final

  21-02-2025 15:22 via wivb.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — When they played “O Canada” for the second time, there were no American fans left in the arena to boo.Instead, the Canadian team stood at the blue line, arm in arm, player and coach, wearing their championship hats while the maple leaf flag was lowered behind the 4 Nations Face-Off trophy and the national anthem reverberated across the Americans' home ice. The fans who remained, many of them in their red Team Canada jerseys, sang along. Singer of Canadian anthem a
  
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• Local organizations plan 'Peace Parade' to protest plan to use Niagara Falls air base as deportation center

  21-02-2025 14:38 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- Two local grassroots organizations are partnering to protest Congressman Nick Langworthy's and Congresswoman Claudia Tenney's recent request to U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to use the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station (NFARS) as an Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deportation center.WNY Peace Center and RootsAction said in a release from organizers Victory Ross and India Walton that they will take a stand and "vehemently protest" against the request with
  
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• Former WNY inmate turned counselor weighs in on strikes

  21-02-2025 04:30 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — As correction officers remain on strike across New York State, it's also important to understand the impact inside of prisons.WIVB News 4 spoke with Chris Harzynski, a former inmate at various facilities in Western New York for seven years. He is now the president of Creative Restorations, Inc., working at times with The Department of Corrections and Community Supervision to help turn the lives of prisoners around.Having experienced both sides of this issue, he provi
  
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• Jamestown man sentenced to 7 years for selling narcotics

  21-02-2025 04:12 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- A Jamestown man was sentenced to seven years in prison for narcotics conspiracy on Thursday, the Acting U.S. District Attorney's Office announced.Kyle Lewis, 33, had previously pleaded guilty to narcotics conspiracy. The Acting U.S. District Attorney's Office said Lewis sold heroin and fentanyl through Facebook and CashApp. In 2022, investigators made five purchases of narcotics from Lewis.Three other co-defendants -- Holly Berenguer, Richard Philbrick and Joseph Zaso --
  
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• Ask the Mayor: Scanlon responds to endorsement news by quoting 'The Godfather'

  21-02-2025 01:03 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- Following the announcement that Sean Ryan is expected to receive the Democratic Committee's endorsement for mayor, Acting Buffalo Mayor Chris Scanlon responded in an interview with WIVB News 4.Scanlon said that he was "fine" with the development -- and that it doesn't change anything with his campaign.
  "Oh, I’m fine," Scanlon said. "A little confused, a little confused by the timing of it. This was pegged as an open, transparent process where the zone chairs and the
  
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