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• Town employee accuses Cheektowaga councilman of threatening him

  21-05-2025 22:29 via wivb.com
  
  CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. (WIVB) — A Cheektowaga town employee is speaking out after he said he was threatened by Councilman Michael Jasinski, which Jasinski denies.Robert Hupkowicz, a town employee with the highway department, filed a Freedom of Information request with the Maryvale School District for the surveillance video and shared it with WIVB News 4. It showed Jasinski approaching him on April 10 in the cafeteria of the Maryvale Primary School, where the meeting took place.The two then went
  
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• School board elections, budget results around Western New York

  21-05-2025 02:25 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- School board elections and budget votes took place on Tuesday in Western New York. The results will be listed on this page as they come in.Click here to view the complete budget results.The names in bold indicate the winners.Erie CountyAkronAldenAmherstClarenceCheektowaga CentralCheektowaga-MaryvaleCheektowaga-SloanCleveland Hill
  Budget passes, 142-42Paul Kunkel (162 votes)Robert Polino (154 votes)
  DepewEast AuroraEdenFrontierGowanda
  Budget passes, 77%-23%Prop 2 passes, 8
  
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• Attorneys argue social media not legally responsible for Tops shooting

  21-05-2025 00:11 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Attorneys representing social media companies argued in a Rochester courtroom Tuesday that the sites should not be held legally responsible for the racist mass shooting at Tops that killed 10 Black people on May 14, 2022.The argument was made to the New York Court of Appeals as they seek to dismiss the wrongful death lawsuit that was filed by some of the shooting victims’ families who say social media is partly to blame for the deaths of their loved ones. Lawsu
  
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