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• April 30 new ‘late registration’ deadline for CDPAP

  24-03-2025 23:07 via wivb.com
  
  ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) – The New York State Department of Health added a “late registration window” for those on the Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program (CDPAP). The deadline to transition care to the new partner was changed from April 1 to April 30. The change aims to register more consumers and personal assistant workers. The department said anyone registered by April 30 would qualify for retroactive pay. Despite that, people who rely on personal assistants
  
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• Tonawanda man charged with distributing child pornography

  24-03-2025 22:16 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- A Tonawanda man was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with distribution of child pornography, the United States District Attorney's Office announced Monday.On Dec. 19, 2024, Shawn Demmick, 33, allegedly uploaded eight files, which included images and photos of child pornography, with another user or group of users on Kik, a messaging application, officials said.Demmick's username was listed in the report as "sirbannedalot." An investigation traced the account to
  
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• Buffalo woman accused of killing pedestrian while drunk driving

  24-03-2025 21:11 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A 23-year-old woman has been accused of hitting and killing a pedestrian while driving drunk on Thanksgiving night last year in Buffalo, the Erie County District Attorney's Office said Monday.Niyonna Cunningham, of Buffalo, is accused of hitting and killing 62-year-old Madonna Bishop around 10 p.m. near the intersection of Boehm Place and Bailey Avenue on Nov. 28.Prosecutors said that Cunningham was under the influence of alcohol and had an infant in the car with her
  
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• Buffalo man sentenced for killing 2, injuring 2 in Lyft crash

  24-03-2025 19:04 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- A Buffalo man was sentenced Monday morning to four to 12 years in prison after he recklessly killed two people and injured two others when he crashed into a Lyft in March of last year, the Erie County District Attorney's Office announced.At 12:15 a.m. on March 21, Devin Ford, 24, was driving northbound on Main Street at a high rate of speed when he hit another vehicle at the intersection of Humboldt Parkway, officials said. He did not have the vehicle's headlights on at t
  
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• 12 displaced by fire at rooming house on Chadduck Avenue

  24-03-2025 18:14 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A dozen people were displaced by a fire on Monday morning at a large home with multiple residences on Chadduck Avenue, according to Buffalo fire officials.Crews responded to 194 Chadduck Ave. just before 9:30 a.m. The fire started at an apartment on the second floor of the house and was confined to that room.Damages are estimated at a total of $70,000. The residents who were displaced are working with the Red Cross.The cause of the fire remains under investigation.La
  
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• Buffalo man charged with selling fentanyl resulting in death

  24-03-2025 17:28 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- A Buffalo man was charged with distribution of fentanyl causing death, money laundering and other drug charges after an individual died in September 2023, the United States Attorney's Office announced Monday.Kenneth Shoemaker, 50, was also charged with distribution of fentanyl, crack cocaine and cocaine, and maintaining a drug-involved premise.Officials said on Sept. 23, Shoemaker had fentanyl, which resulted in the death of the individual, who was identified as E.I. He a
  
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• Hamburg man sentenced for sexually abusing children

  24-03-2025 15:04 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y (WIVB) — A Hamburg man has been sentenced to five years in prison for sexually abusing two children between 2017 and 2022, the Erie County District Attorney's Office said Monday.Tyler Wilkinson, 28, abused two children, both under 17 years of age, over the period of nearly five years between June 2017 and April 2022. One of the children was abused in 2021 and was under 13.Wilkinson was found guilty in January of one count of first-degree sexual abuse and two counts of endanger
  
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• UB Bulls rally to reach WNIT round of 16

  24-03-2025 03:12 via wivb.com
  
  AMHERST, N.Y. (WIVB) — The last of Western New York's college basketball teams still playing extended its postseason run with a captivating comeback.University at Buffalo's women surged from down 14 entering the fourth quarterback and clamped down on defense in the closing minutes of overtime to pull out an 84-82 victory against UMass on Sunday at Alumni Arena.The win advanced the Bulls into the Super 16 round of the WNIT.Chellia Watson scored 26 points, 13 coming in the fourth quarter, an
  
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• Postal workers protest job cuts and privatization plans, seek new contract

  24-03-2025 02:51 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Local letter carriers gathered in large numbers once again Sunday to rally against any efforts to privatize, dismantle, or restructure the United States Postal Service (USPS). The protests came amid concerns over proposed job cuts and the future of the postal service, which they said plays a vital role in communities across the country.The issue intensified earlier this month when Postmaster General Louis DeJoy told Congress that USPS plans to eliminate 10,000 jobs t
  
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