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• Applications now open for annual 43North startup competition

  01-05-2024 19:17 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- Those looking for a boost to their startup business or endeavor can now apply for 43North's annual startup competition.The state-funded accelerator seeks to attract entrepreneurs who will grow their startups in Buffalo. The five winners of the competition will receive a $1 million investment, get the opportunity to join 43North's program and secure office space at Seneca One Tower.“The 43North accelerator program has been a collaboration amongst government agencies
  
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• Shea's announces its 2024-25 season at 710 Theatre

  15-05-2024 22:15 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- Shea's Performing Arts Center has announced the lineup for their 2024-25 season at their 710 Theatre.
  The season will kick off in September with Disney's "Newsies," a high energy, Tony-award winning show about hard working paperboys in the 19th century standing up for what they believe in.
  See the schedule here:
  September 12-29: "Newsies" by D'Youville Kavinoky TheatreFebruary 11-16, 2025: "Forbidden Broadway" by Shea's & Albert NocciolinoMarch 27-April 13, 2025: "Dia
  
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• Patient indicted after 3 staff members stabbed at Buffalo Psychiatric Center

  15-05-2024 21:02 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- A patient at the Buffalo Psychiatric Center has been indicted on five felony counts after allegedly stabbing three employees.Police and prosecutors said the incident happened on the morning of April 3. Calvin Haskins, 34, was accused of stabbing the employees while inside a housing unit for outpatient residents of the Forest Avenue facility.
  Police revealed in a conference last month that this area was one that people could access without being screened for weapons.The vi
  
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• Police say van hit bus carrying 5 students in Dunkirk

  15-05-2024 20:41 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- A bus carrying five BOCES students was hit by a vehicle in Dunkirk Wednesday morning.Shortly after 8 a.m., police said a van driver failed to stop at a stop sign at the corner of Deer and E. 6th streets. They then proceeded to hit the back of a school bus en route to a BOCES facility, police said.The students on board were high school age, according to police.No one was injured. The van driver, 22-year-old Amelia Mateo-Garcia, was given traffic tickets for an improper chi
  
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• Construction nearly complete on new affordable housing project in Buffalo

  15-05-2024 20:02 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Construction is almost complete on a new affordable housing project in Buffalo that will feature mixed-use and commercial space.The Monroe, located on the corner of Main Street and Lafayette Avenue, has been in the works for over four years. The $8.4 million project, which is being financed by both local and state groups, is on the site of the former Record Theatre in Buffalo's Hamlin Park neighborhood. The area also once held a historic car dealership.The site will
  
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• Cheektowaga man receives indeterminate sentence for 14 vehicle thefts

  15-05-2024 18:59 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- A Cheektowaga man has received an indeterminate sentence in relation to multiple suspected high-end vehicle thefts, according to the Erie County District Attorney's Office.
  Between December 2022 and September 2023, Richard E. Lucas III, 21, stole 14 vehicles from dealerships in Amherst, Tonawanda, Orchard Park, Grand Island, and Clarence.
  The vehicles ranged in value from $22,388 to $135,000.
  Lucas pled guilty in March to the following:
  second degree criminal possession o
  
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• Former Erie County DA talks prosecuting Tops shooter 2 years later

  15-05-2024 18:43 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- John Flynn has since left the public sector, but when the Tops mass shooting took place on May 14, 2022, he was the District Attorney of Erie County.Flynn joined News 4 on Tuesday evening to reflect on the process of prosecuting the shooter, what the victims' families wanted to see, and the impact the incident had on Buffalo as a whole."That sadness and that day is never going to leave," Flynn said.The mass shooting, which resulted in 10 people being killed and three othe
  
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• Buffalo woman remains free on bail after admitting to killing boyfriend

  15-05-2024 18:35 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- A Buffalo woman pleaded guilty Tuesday morning to second-degree manslaughter after fatally stabbing her boyfriend in 2023, according to the Erie County District Attorney's Office.
  Officials said Teiyahna Bivens, 22, stabbed her boyfriend, Micqueal Rogers, 23, in the chest with a knife on July 23, 2023. Rogers later died from the injury at ECMC.
  Bivens faces a maximum of 15 years in prison when she is sentenced in July. She was offered a plea to a reduced charge with the c
  
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• 19-year-old incarcerated at Wyoming County Jail dies

  15-05-2024 17:21 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A 19-year-old who was incarcerated at the Wyoming County Jail died on Tuesday, the Wyoming County Sheriff's Office said.The 19-year-old was found unresponsive in his cell around 6 p.m. Tuesday. Jail personnel conducted life-saving measures and EMS was called, but the person was pronounced dead.The name of the individual is not being released until all family notifications have been completed.The death is still under investigation and was referred to the New York Stat
  
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• Permit-free chicken ownership up for discussion in Lockport

  15-05-2024 16:25 via wivb.com
  
  LOCKPORT, N.Y. (WIVB) -- Wednesday night in Lockport, a public hearing on the ownership of chickens is set to take place.Typically, the Lockport Common Council meets on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month. This particular night, residents will have the opportunity to voice their opinions on a potential zoning code change.The proposed revision up for discussion would allow six chickens to be kept by single-family homeowners without a special use permit.The public hearing will begin at
  
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• Wanted man accused of dragging deputy in Newstead

  15-05-2024 15:43 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- The Erie County Sheriff's office says a wanted man was accused of dragging a deputy as authorities tried to execute a warrant for his arrest.Tuesday around 4:30 p.m., officials said a patrol deputy saw Michael Trybuskiewicz, 40, sitting in a vehicle near the intersection of Routes 93 and 5 in Newstead.According to the Sheriff's office, a deputy approached the vehicle, but Trybuskiewicz put it in drive and sped through a rocky culvert while dragging the deputy.The Sheriff'
  
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• More Tesla layoffs coming to South Park Avenue in August

  15-05-2024 14:22 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- According to a WARN notice posted on New York State's Department of Labor website, more than two dozen other Buffalo Tesla employees will be out of a job starting Aug. 11.The notice, which impacts 27 more employees, was posted on Tuesday.This follows four other WARN notices posted within the last month. Like the other notices, the reason for the layoffs was cited as "economic."According to an April report from The Associated Press, Tesla is planning to get rid of ten
  
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• Two Hamburg teachers, whose jobs were cut in proposed budget, leave before end of year

  15-05-2024 04:22 via wivb.com
  
  HAMBURG, N.Y. (WIVB) — Hamburg residents are a week away from voting on a school budget that calls to cut 20 district employees, including 13 teachers. Tuesday was the final budget hearing and public input period before the vote next Tuesday, May 21.“We have thousands of kids in this district who have been impacted by these cuts and will continue to be impacted by these cuts, and that should be at the forefront when we are talking about this and making decisions,” PTSA Presiden
  
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• Rosie's Handcrafted Ice Cream opening second location in Buffalo

  14-05-2024 22:12 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- A new spot to grab a sweet treat is coming to the City of Buffalo this summer.Rosie's Handcrafted Ice Cream announced they will be opening a new location at 488 West Utica St., which is expected to open in June. It will be Rosie's second shop, joining their popular original location in East Aurora.To open the new shop on West Utica near Richmond Avenue, Rosie's is renovating a "once broken-down building" and giving it new life."The renovated space is well on its way to be
  
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• Amherst Town Board rescinds $11M bond for theater

  14-05-2024 21:13 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- After the Amherst Town Board approved an $11 million bond to build a community theater in Amherst Central Park, plans are now up in the air.The board decided Monday night it would rescind the bond action.This comes following the board's March approval of the bond, which would be used toward building a facility to be used by MusicalFare Theatre.A special election had been planned for late July or early August after a petition with more than 4,300 verified signatures was tu
  
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• Niagara Falls man sentenced to 70 years for series of crimes in 2022

  14-05-2024 19:52 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A Niagara Falls man was sentenced to a total of 70 years in prison for a series of violent crimes that took place in 2022, the Niagara County District Attorney's Office said Tuesday.Curtis Griggs, 38, was sentenced for the crimes. The first case was from April 9, 2022, when Griggs attempted to murder two people with a high-powered rifle. In the second case, he was sentenced for a different attempted murder and assault against a different person on July 9, 2022.In tot
  
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• Watch: 5/14 memorial ceremony 2 years after Tops mass shooting

  14-05-2024 19:28 via wivb.com
  
  You can watch live coverage of the 5/14 memorial ceremony in this article starting at 1:55 p.m., or on WIVB.BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Tuesday marks two years since the racist mass shooting at the Tops on Jefferson Avenue that left 10 people dead.News 4 WIVB will have live coverage of a 5/14 memorial ceremony starting at 1:55 p.m., which is being held outside Tops. The ceremony will include the ringing of bells and a moment of silence at 2:28 p.m., the time the attack occurred. Biden addresses
  
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• 5/14 victims honored at ceremony on 2 year mark of shooting

  14-05-2024 19:28 via wivb.com
  
  You can watch a full replay of WIVB's special report in the video player above.BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Tuesday marks two years since the racist mass shooting at the Tops on Jefferson Avenue that left 10 people dead.News 4 WIVB will have live coverage of a 5/14 memorial ceremony starting at 1:55 p.m., which is being held outside Tops. The ceremony will include the ringing of bells and a moment of silence at 2:28 p.m., the time the attack occurred. Biden addresses Buffalo in letter two years
  
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• 5/14 victims honored at ceremony 2 years after shooting

  14-05-2024 19:28 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Tuesday marks two years since the racist mass shooting at the Tops on Jefferson Avenue that left 10 people dead, and the Buffalo community paid its respects to those lost.
  A ceremony held Tuesday outside Tops included various speakers and a tribute to the victims, during which the names of those who died were read aloud and a bell was tolled.Biden addresses Buffalo in letter two years after 5/14 tragedyEarlier in the day Tuesday, the store unveiled its new 5/14 Honor
  
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• 5/14 Blue Flag Initiative honors victims of mass shooting

  14-05-2024 18:35 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- Community leaders including Mayor Byron Brown and members of the city's common council came together Tuesday morning to remember the victims of the Tops mass shooting.Together, the group unveiled blue flags outside the Johnnie B. Wiley Amateur Sports Pavilion. According to the city, the 5/14 Blue Flag Initiative is a way to honor the lives lost on May 14, 2022."The flags were made during recent therapeutic workshops that took place throughout the community," according to
  
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• Buffalo man admits to production of child pornography

  14-05-2024 17:23 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- A Buffalo man has pled guilty to production of child pornography, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
  Officials say 36-year-old Michael Bevill engaged in sexual conduct with a minor child under 12 years old between June 2022 and August 2023.
  He admitted to giving the child sedatives before taking photos and video of himself sexually abusing them on multiple occasions. Bevill then allegedly used the Telegram messaging app to send the pornography to another individual.
  
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• Bills to play at Miami on Thursday Night Football in Week 2

  14-05-2024 17:22 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- The Buffalo Bills will travel to Miami to face the Dolphins in a Week 2 Thursday Night Football matchup on Sept. 12, the team announced.The game will stream on Amazon Prime Video, with kickoff slated for 8:15 p.m. It is the first Thursday Night Football game on Prime of the season.The Sept. 12 matchup is the first date to be confirmed on Buffalo's 2024 schedule, as the team's season opener and total number of primetime games remain a mystery. The full NFL schedule will be
  
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• Office manager admits to stealing over $700K from employer

  14-05-2024 16:43 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A former office manager has pleaded guilty to stealing over $700,000 from her employer over a span of more than seven years, the Erie County District Attorney's Office said Tuesday.59-year-old Camille Pirrone-Hess, of Depew, admitted to making more than 2,000 unauthorized transactions between July 2016 and August 2023 while working as an office manager for a business in Buffalo. She used a company credit card on the purchases for personal use, including vacations, ev
  
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• Niagara Falls multi-vehicle incident results in assault, DWI charges

  14-05-2024 16:33 via wivb.com
  
  NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (WIVB) -- A Niagara Falls woman is facing DWI and assault charges following a multi-vehicle incident on 17th Street.Shortly before 3 a.m. Monday morning, an officer responded to a report of a hit and run. According to the officer's report, he arrived and saw at least four to five cars with heavy passenger side damage, along with "a debris field of at least 100 feet."There, the officer said he was met by "multiple frustrated owners and family members.""Everyone on scene was ye
  
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• Elma woman pleads guilty in fatal January hit-and-run

  14-05-2024 15:19 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — An Elma woman has pleaded guilty to a fatal hit-and-run on Transit Road in Elma in January, the Erie County District Attorney's Office said Tuesday.37-year-old Stephanie Kollatz admitted to hitting and killing a pedestrian while she was driving northbound on Transit Road between French Road and Clinton Street on the evening of Jan. 8. The man, who has not been identified, died at the scene. Kollatz drove away without reporting the incident to police.It was also found
  
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• Tops unveils 5/14 Honor Space two years after mass shooting

  14-05-2024 15:07 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- Tuesday morning, two years after the Tops mass shooting, the store revealed its new 5/14 Honor Space at the corner of Jefferson and Landon."Built and designed in collaboration with local partners and community members, it will serve as a place of honor, solace, and reflection as the community continues its healing process," Tops said.The newly-unveiled space was built by local construction firm 34 Group. At the center of it is a sculpture created by Buffalo-based artist V
  
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• Tops unveils 5/14 Honor Space on anniversary of mass shooting

  14-05-2024 15:07 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- Tuesday morning, on the second anniversary of the Tops mass shooting, the store revealed its new 5/14 Honor Space at the corner of Jefferson and Landon."Built and designed in collaboration with local partners and community members, it will serve as a place of honor, solace, and reflection as the community continues its healing process," Tops said.The newly-unveiled space was built by local construction firm 34 Group. At the center of it is a sculpture created by Buffalo-b
  
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• Tops unveils 5/14 Honor Space 2 years after of mass shooting

  14-05-2024 15:07 via wivb.com
  
  (Live Coverage: City officials remember victims of Tops mass shooting, unveiling blue flags outside the Johnnie B. Wiley Amateur Sports Pavilion)BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- Tuesday morning, two years after the Tops mass shooting, the store revealed its new 5/14 Honor Space at the corner of Jefferson and Landon."Built and designed in collaboration with local partners and community members, it will serve as a place of honor, solace, and reflection as the community continues its healing process," Tops
  
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• Bills signing WR Marquez Valdes-Scantling, per reports

  14-05-2024 14:53 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The Bills might no longer have an MVP-caliber receiver on the roster, but they are reportedly bringing in an MVS.Veteran wideout Marquez Valdes-Scantling plans to sign a one-year contract with Buffalo, according to ESPN's Adam Schefter.The 29-year-old Valdes-Scantling spent the past two seasons playing for the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs. He made 63 receptions for 1,002 yards and three touchdowns in 33 games, with 21 starts for the Chiefs. In five postseas
  
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• Bills sign WR Marquez Valdes-Scantling

  14-05-2024 14:53 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The Bills might no longer have an MVP-caliber receiver on the roster, but they have brought in an MVS.Veteran wideout Marquez Valdes-Scantling has signed a one-year contract with Buffalo, the team announced Tuesday.The 29-year-old Valdes-Scantling spent the past two seasons playing for the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs. He made 63 receptions for 1,002 yards and three touchdowns in 33 games, with 21 starts for the Chiefs. In five postseason games, he had 15 c
  
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