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• Sweet Home School District's bus shortage solution receives failing grade from parents

  17-03-2025 23:32 via wivb.com
  
  AMHERST, N.Y. (WIVB) -- The Sweet Home Central School District's solution to a bus driver shortage is facing backlash from parents. Starting in the fall, the district will require students to walk if they live within a quarter mile from their school.Parent Kim Perini questions the decision.
  "Is this really fixing the transportation issue? Currently, my elementary student is coming home 40, 50 minutes after release," Perini told WIVB News 4.Parents and guardians against the change are worried abo
  
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• Silver alert issued for Cheektowaga man

  17-03-2025 22:12 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- A silver alert has been issued for a 63-year-old Cheektowaga man suffering from Alzheimer's, dementia, or a related disorder, who was last seen Monday morning.
  Paris A. Cotton is missing from 28 Eggert Rd. in Cheektowaga. He is a black male standing at 5-foot-6 with a gray beard and brown eyes. He weighs 190 pounds and was possibly wearing a black leather jacket at the time of his disappearance.Cotton was last seen at 8:30 a.m. Monday morning waiting for a ride to an unkn
  
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• Victim of fatal Lancaster house fire identified

  17-03-2025 21:55 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- The person who was killed in a house fire in Lancaster on Monday has been identified.
  Crews on Monday battled a house fire on Central Avenue in Lancaster just north of Walden Avenue for at least three hours before the house was demolished due to fire damage.On Tuesday, Lancaster police confirmed to WIVB that 41-year-old Kimberly Kloc, a resident of the home, died in the fire.
  Before cranes arrived, a vehicle was towed from the driveway. Lancaster Police's investigation un
  
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• One dead in Lancaster fire, house demolished

  17-03-2025 21:55 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- Crews on Monday battled a house fire on Central Avenue in Lancaster just north of Walden Avenue for at least three hours before the house was demolished due to fire damage.On Tuesday, Lancaster police confirmed to WIVB that one person died in the fire. They did not confirm, however, whether the person was a resident.Before cranes arrived, a vehicle was towed from the driveway. Lancaster Police's investigation unit and Emergency Medical Services were also on the scene. Cen
  
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• Lancaster house demolished following fire

  17-03-2025 21:55 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- Crews battled a house fire on Central Avenue in Lancaster just north of Walden Avenue for at least three hours on Monday before the house was demolished due to fire damage.Before the cranes arrived, a vehicle was towed from the driveway. Lancaster Police's investigation unit and Emergency Medical Services were also on the scene. Central Avenue was closed beginning around 4 p.m. between Walden Avenue and Columbia Avenue.This is a developing story, and we will update as mor
  
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• Crews battling house fire in Lancaster

  17-03-2025 21:55 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- Crews are at the scene of a house fire on Central Avenue in Lancaster just north of Walden Avenue.
  Central Avenue was closed beginning around 4 p.m. between Walden Avenue and Columbia Avenue.
  This is a developing story, and we will update as soon as more information becomes available. Latest Local News Crews battling house fire in Lancaster Police, DA investigating fraud complaint of former North Tonawanda DPW worker NFTA truck crashes into Bethel AME Church in Buffalo 'F
  
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• Police, DA investigating fraud complaint of former North Tonawanda DPW worker

  17-03-2025 21:23 via wivb.com
  
  NORTH TONAWANDA, N.Y. (WIVB) -- Police in North Tonawanda and the Niagara County District Attorney's Office are investigating allegations of fraud in connection with a former longtime worker in the city's Department of Public Works.North Tonawanda Police Chief Keith Glass said the investigation is ongoing and currently in the hands of the district attorney's office. Niagara County District Attorney Brian Seaman would not confirm or deny the existence of an investigation.Sources told News 4 that
  
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• NFTA truck crashes into Bethel AME Church in Buffalo

  17-03-2025 17:22 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- An NFTA box truck crashed into Buffalo's Historic Bethel AME Church on Monday morning.The incident occurred at 1525 Michigan Ave. A News 4 photographer was on the scene at 8 a.m. and saw one person being taken away in an ambulance.News 4 reached out to Buffalo police for more information and is waiting to hear back.Latest Local News NFTA truck crashes into Bethel AME Church in Buffalo 'Fáilte': St. Patrick's Day or not, Buffalo Irish Center welcomes everyone Buffal
  
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• 'Fáilte': St. Patrick's Day or not, Buffalo Irish Center welcomes everyone

  17-03-2025 17:18 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- The music, the food and of course, the dancing. St. Patrick's Day is a chance to celebrate the Irish roots in Western New York's history."Everybody loves to put on green and we're proud of that, everybody likes to celebrate with us," said Tim Flanagan, the Buffalo Irish Center Board of Directors chairman. "At the end of the day too, we want them to remember that the Irish came here for a better way of life like many people, and with them they brought their customs and tra
  
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• Buffalo man pleads guilty for killing 2 in Riverside shooting

  17-03-2025 16:07 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- A Buffalo man pleaded guilty on Friday to murder and weapons charges after he killed two people and injured another in a July 2023 shooting in the city's Riverside Neighborhood, the Erie County District Attorney's Office announced.Officials said Clarence Thomas, 22, intentionally fired multiple shots into an occupied vehicle around 11:30 p.m. on July 30 on the the 100 block of Isabelle Street. Five people were in the vehicle at the time of the shooting.Treyvon Flood, 20,
  
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• What Western New York locations are participating in Maple Weekend?

  17-03-2025 15:52 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- Western New York's sweetest weekends of the year are right around the corner as the annual Maple Weekend is set to kick off this Saturday.Over 50 local maple makers will offer tours of their facilities and samples of their products for free, except museums. This year's festivities will take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 22, 23, 29 and 30.Maple Weekend, co-founded by Wyoming County maple producer Greg Zimpfer, first began in 1995 as a one-day event called Maple Sunday
  
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• Western New York connections to this year's NCAA tournament

  17-03-2025 13:36 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Western New York might not have any teams playing in March Madness this year, but there are still come local connections you can root for.
  Here are some players, coaches and staffers who have ties to Western New York involved in both the men's and women's tournament this year:Men's NCAA tournamentOne of the biggest connections is Alabama head coach Nate Oats, who was previously the head coach at Buffalo from 2015-2019. Alabama reached the Final Four for the first tim
  
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• St. Bonaventure basketball to play in NIT

  17-03-2025 11:51 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — St. Bonaventure's basketball season isn't over just yet.The Bonnies accepted an invitation to play in the National Invitation Tournament (NIT).
  St. Bonaventure earned the No. 3 seed in the San Francisco region of the 32-year tournament and will host Kent State on Tuesday night at the Reilly Center. The game will air on ESPNU at 7 p.m. Mark Schmidt's team finished the season with a 22-11 record and made it to the Atlantic 10 quarterfinals.
  The bid to this year's NIT c
  
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• Local residents sound alarm as CDPAP changes loom

  17-03-2025 03:19 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — New Yorkers with disabilities and the people who support them are on the clock as the April 1 deadline to apply for continued benefits under a revamped $9 billion Medicaid home care program arrives soon.The Consumer Direct Personal Assistance Program (CDPAP) allows New Yorkers to hire family or friends as paid caregivers for those with disabilities. While the service isn't going away, Gov. Kathy Hochul's recently announced overhaul on how caregivers get paid is causi
  
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• March Madness bracket anything but sleepy as Auburn, Tar Heels picks highlight wild Selection Sunday

  17-03-2025 01:33 via wivb.com
  
  A sleepy Selection Sunday this was not.North Carolina barely slid into this year’s version of March Madness, a development that led its athletic director to remind everyone that he had nothing to do with that choice even though he’s the head of the group that sets the bracket.Texas also made it in – barely -- giving the Southeastern Conference a record 14 teams in the tournament, including overall top seed Auburn. The Tigers received higher billing than Duke even though they've
  
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