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• 4 takeaways from Bills camp: Sorting receivers, safety shuffle, good health

  25-07-2024 22:25 via wivb.com
  
  PITTSFORD, N.Y. (WIVB) — The Bills continued training camp with their second practice at St. John Fisher University on Thursday. Here are four observations from the session.Wide array of WR optionsOffensive coordinator Joe Brady emphasized the "everybody eats" ethos of his scheme in the spring. Coach Sean McDermott used another culinary metaphor to describe the Bills sorting their options in replacing primary receivers Stefon Diggs and Gabe Davis with an eclectic collection of veteran addi
  
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• Sabres allow dozen goals on 2-game skid

  18-10-2024 03:44 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The Sabres' goals-against average rose sharply with consecutive road losses this week.Buffalo's 6-4 defeat on Thursday night at Columbus followed a 6-5 overtime loss in Pittsburgh the night before. The dozen goals allowed equals what the Sabres let in over four games in starting the season 1-3-0 under returning coach Lindy Ruff.The Sabres' highest goals-against average in a single season was 3.76 in 1986-87, when Ruff was a team captain. Their highest with Ruff as co
  
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• Local breast cancer survivors giving back to cancer patients

  18-10-2024 03:17 via wivb.com
  
  HAMBURG, N.Y. (WIVB) - A mother and daughter from Western New York, both diagnosed with breast cancer, have turned their personal battles into a mission to help others.In November of 2019, Jolene Wilson had her first mammogram at the age of 40. She says she had no concerns heading into her appointment.After that first mammogram, she found out she had stage 0 breast cancer. Testing revealed she had a genetic risk as well."It's CHEK2, which is a fairly new gene mutation that they have found," expl
  
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• Amari Cooper's new teammates excited to have him in Buffalo

  18-10-2024 02:45 via wivb.com
  
  ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (WROC) -- The buzz word around Orchard Park during Amari Cooper's first day on campus wasn't surprising."Excited." Bills have been big fans of new WR Amari Cooper ‘for a very long time’His new teammates described their reaction to Tuesday's trade using that world almost to a man. Khalil Shakir's story about how he found out the trade happened was almost the opposite of exciting.
  "I was actually asleep. My wife woke me up because if I sleep too long, I'll be up all
  
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• Amari Cooper among reasons Josh Allen looks forward to 100th regular season start

  18-10-2024 02:21 via wivb.com
  
  ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Josh Allen had many reasons to wear a beaming grin in opening his weekly news conference in advance of the Bills quarterback's 100th start.Buffalo (4-2) is coming off a win over the New York Jets to snap a two-game skid and expand its AFC East lead. After three straight weeks on the road, the Bills are finally back home to host the Tennessee Titans (1-4) on Sunday. And Allen’s offense just got a boost with receiver Amari Cooper acquired in a trade 
  
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• Road closures, traffic info for Bills-Titans game

  18-10-2024 01:31 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) —Traffic and road closure information for Sunday’s Buffalo Bills game against the Tennessee Titans has been announced by The Erie County Sheriff’s Office.
  Beginning at 8 a.m., the section of Abbott Road in front of the stadium will be closed to north and southbound traffic. This section will remain closed until after the game.Around 3:30 p.m., Route 20A, also known as Big Tree Road, will convert to two-lane, one-way traffic eastbound away from the stadium f
  
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• Foreigner to perform at 2025 Erie County Fair

  18-10-2024 00:46 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- The Erie County Fair has announced their first concert of 2025.
  Iconic 70s and 80s rock band Foreigner will be performing at the fair Aug. 7.
  With hits like "I Want to Know What Love is," "Cold as Ice" and "Feels like the First Time," the band will be officially joining the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame this weekend. Foreigner is considered one of the best-selling bands of all time with over 80 million records sold worldwide.
  Tickets for the show go on sale starting June 6
  
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• Woman was forced by gunpoint from parking lot in abduction at Walden Galleria, police say

  18-10-2024 00:31 via wivb.com
  
  CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. (WIVB) -- It's been a little over three weeks since a woman was abducted from the Walden Galleria parking lot. There have still been no arrests, but police tell us that a vehicle believed to have been involved is in custody. Woman safe as police investigate abduction outside Walden GalleriaCheektowaga Police confirmed to WIVB News 4 that a woman was forced into her vehicle at gunpoint after leaving the Galleria from the lower level JCPenney.
  A police spokesperson says on the ev
  
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• 'Haunted Hollow' returns for a final chapter in Clarence

  17-10-2024 23:56 via wivb.com
  
  CLARENCE CENTER, N.Y. (WIVB) -- The sights and sounds of 'Haunted Hollow' in Clarence Center are back for their final chapter after six years."My grandchildren have encouraged us to please do one more, so we're glad to do it, we're having a lot of fun," said Gary Server, aka "Scary Gary," the host of Haunted Hollow.For years, they were known for their walk through graveyard, lights show, haunted scenes in their garage, and Victor the talking skeleton."It's a lot of work, but it's a lot of fun,"
  
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• Teen to be sentenced as adult for hitting and critically injuring Cheektowaga police officer

  17-10-2024 23:44 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- The teen accused of severely injuring a Cheektowaga police officer during a 2023 pursuit will now be charged as an adult, according to theErie County District Attorney's Office.A judge will allow the teen to withdraw a previous guilty plea because he will no longer be offered youthful offender status, officials said. The teen can now spend anywhere between five to 25 years behind bars.Officials say the teen, who was 17 at the time, is accused of stealing a car and hitting
  
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• Tensions boil over at Cheektowaga budget meeting

  17-10-2024 23:15 via wivb.com
  
  CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. (WIVB) - Tensions were high at a town budget meeting Thursday in Cheektowaga -- with the town supervisor and another board member getting into a shouting match.The proposed budget raises taxes in Cheektowaga for next year. The shouting match erupted over spending and how to cut costs."You lied to the people," claimed Republican council member Michael Jasinski as he got into a heated back and forth with Democratic town supervisor Brian Nowak. Jasinski then agreed that he would l
  
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• Tonawanda's Pine Pharmaceuticals lays off quarter of workforce

  17-10-2024 21:47 via wivb.com
  
  TONAWANDA, N.Y. (WIVB) – Pine Pharmaceuticals of Tonawanda confirmed Thursday that it has laid off 58 employees, or about 25% of its workforce, due to "unforeseen business circumstances."The company had no further comment. The announcement comes just two years after the state celebrated an $8.6 million expansion of Pine's operation. Hochul announces completion of Tonawanda pharmaceutical plant expansion"The drug outsourcing company tripled the size of its facility at Riverview Solar Techno
  
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• 13-foot Harriet Tubman monument on display in Niagara Falls at Underground Railroad Heritage Center

  17-10-2024 21:17 via wivb.com
  
  NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (WIVB) – A traveling monument of the famed abolitionist Harriet Tubman was installed at the Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center on Wednesday.The monument, “Beacon of Hope,” is on temporary exhibit until Jan. 2. It is on loan from Wofford Sculpture Studio and will be located in the Heritage Center’s Harriet Tubman Plaza, on Depot Avenue near the Whirlpool Rapids Bridge.The exhibit commemorates Tubman’s journeys to freedom through Ni
  
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• Amherst man admits to killing mother in 2022

  17-10-2024 20:29 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — An Amherst man has admitted to killing his mother in 2022, the Erie County District Attorney's Office said Thursday.Om Samant, 36, pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in connection. He had initially been charged with second-degree murder.Samant beat and stabbed his mother, 58-year-old Jagruti Samant, to death at their home on Thistle Lea on the morning of Dec. 26, 2022. Jagruti Samant was pronounced dead at the scene.He faces a maximum of 25 years in prison w
  
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• Independent Health eliminates 66 jobs, citing rising drug costs

  17-10-2024 19:54 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Independent Health eliminated 66 jobs on Thursday amid what it calls "growing challenges within the healthcare industry."The cuts impacted about 4% of its total workforce. The health insurance company is among the largest public sector employers in Western New York.“The changes will be invisible to members and will not compromise the award-winning customer service they have come to expect," spokesperson Frank Sava said in a statement. "Independent Health will c
  
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• Bills sign kicker amid Tyler Bass struggles

  17-10-2024 17:47 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – The Bills signed kicker Lucas Havrisik to the practice squad Thursday, giving them an in-house option should they decide to make a change from veteran Tyler Bass.Havrisik, 25, was undrafted out of Arizona. He played in nine games last season for the Rams, converting just 75.0% of field goals and 86.4% of extra points in his only NFL experience.Bills general manager Brandon Beane confirmed the team was working out a number of kickers after Wednesday's practice and ack
  
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• Weinberg Campus nursing home workers say paychecks bounced

  17-10-2024 04:22 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- Some nursing home workers at the Weinberg Campus in Getzville said Wednesday that their paychecks issued last Friday have since bounced back, 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East said in a release.The announcement follows the workers' protest last week at the facility over their reports of unpaid wage increases and benefits, poor leadership and more.
  An agreed upon 18-month contract voted in by the workers just months ago included the wage and pension increases along w
  
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• Sabres give up lead twice in high-scoring overtime loss to Penguins

  17-10-2024 04:19 via wivb.com
  
  PITTSBURGH (AP) — Sidney Crosby scored a power-play goal at 1:38 of overtime and the Pittsburgh Penguins rallied to beat the Buffalo Sabres 6-5 on Wednesday night.J.J. Peterka, back after missing the last two games with a concussion, scored twice for Buffalo. Ryan McLeod, Tage Thompson and Jordan Greenway also scored for the Sabres and Alex Tuch had two assists. Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen stopped 36 shots.The Sabres nearly won consecutive games for the first time this season. Buffalo lost its fi
  
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• 3 arrested by Erie County Sheriff’s Office in separate drug, gun busts

  17-10-2024 04:13 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- Three men were arrested after authorities found over a dozen guns and pounds of drugs in separate busts, the Erie County Sheriff's Office announced Wednesday.Two of the men are behind bars as of Wednesday and the other is back in the community after posting bail. Authorities said the arrests have no relation to one another.“That is the ultimate goal of law enforcement is to prevent crime and save lives before this poison hits the streets,” said Erie County She
  
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• Bills have been big fans of new WR Amari Cooper 'for a very long time'

  17-10-2024 00:58 via wivb.com
  
  ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (WIVB) — Upon first impression, Amari Cooper's understated personality made Brandon Beane suspect, "he doesn't like us." That didn't deter the director of football operations for the Carolina Panthers from catching feelings for the top wide receiver prospect in the 2014 draft.
  "Man, I'm sold," Beane recalled telling Panthers receivers coach Ricky Proehl after they watched Cooper run routes and break down Xs and Os during their visit to Tuscaloosa, Alabama. "We just didn'
  
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• Liam Payne, former One Direction member, dies at 31 in Argentina hotel fall

  17-10-2024 00:12 via wivb.com
  
  BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Former One Direction singer Liam Payne, 31, was found dead after falling from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires on Wednesday, local officials said.
  Buenos Aires police said in a statement that Payne fell form the third floor of the Casa Sur Hotel in the trendy Palermo neighborhood of Argentina's capital, resulting in “extremely serious injuries.” Medics confirmed his death on the spot, the statement said.
  Alberto Crescenti, head of the state emergen
  
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• Immigration advocates sue for ICE records

  16-10-2024 23:51 via wivb.com
  
  This is the second story in a series about Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Western New York. View part one here.BATAVIA, N.Y. (WIVB) -- Organizations that serve and advocate for migrant families have waited almost two years for federal data they believe will shed light on the treatment of detainees at the Batavia detention center.U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's refusal to release documents or respond to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request within the legally mandated t
  
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• Buffalo Sewer Authority unveils $1B "Queen City Clean Waters" initiative

  16-10-2024 23:16 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- On just his second day in office, Acting Mayor Chris Scanlon, alongside the Buffalo Sewer Authority (BSA), elected officials and community stakeholders, introduced the $1 billion Queen City Clean Waters initiative."How often on your second day as mayor do you have the opportunity to introduce to city residents and Buffalo Sewer Authority customers a historic $1 billion investment in our critical wastewater infrastructure?" Scanlon said.Members of the BSA said they have be
  
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• Buffalo Bills sue Rachel's Mediterranean Grill over unpaid sponsorship fees

  16-10-2024 22:10 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- The Buffalo Bills filed an official complaint against Rachel's Mediterranean Grill on Tuesday that accuses the chain of failing to pay over $228,000 in sponsorship fees and late fees to the team.According to the new filing in state supreme court, the Bills and Rachel's entered into a nearly three-year sponsorship agreement on Aug. 26, 2020 that made Rachel's an official sponsor of the team.The agreement allegedly required Rachel's to pay a $480,000 sponsorship fee as well
  
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• Toronto man pleads guilty, attempted to use officer in Buffalo to smuggle guns into Canada

  16-10-2024 20:00 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- A Toronto man with citizenship in Canada, the U.S. and the Bahamas pleaded guilty after meeting up with an officer in Buffalo whom he believed could smuggle firearms into Canada, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced Wednesday.
  29-year-old Jeshua Lion Myers, also known as Dually, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit firearms trafficking.
  In December 2023, Myers arranged to bring firearms to an undercover officer in Western New York with the belief that the officer could
  
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• Three people injured after getting hit by vehicle in Albion

  16-10-2024 19:48 via wivb.com
  
  ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — Three people were injured after they were hit by a vehicle in Albion on Monday, according to the Village of Albion Police Department.Officers said the pedestrians were walking along the crosswalk near King Street just after 8 p.m. when the driver, who was heading west on West Avenue, hit all three of them.The victims were taken to Strong Memorial Hospital. Two of them were released with minor injuries, but the third remains hospitalized. That individual's condition
  
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• Cattaraugus County Board of Elections extends hours ahead of Nov. 5

  16-10-2024 19:12 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- The Cattaraugus County Board of Elections announced Wednesday that their hours will be extended in the two weeks leading up to the presidential election, including during two weekends.The following extended hours are intended to assist those who may need to apply for an absentee ballot:9 a.m. - 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 249 a.m. - 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 269 a.m. - 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 309 a.m. - 12 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2
  If a voter wishes to apply for and receive an absentee
  
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• Charges dismissed against man who fell into Bills stadium pit, other trespassers

  16-10-2024 18:41 via wivb.com
  
  ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (WIVB) – The criminal charge has been dismissed against a Buffalo Bills fan who made international headlines last year for entering the construction pit at the new stadium while allegedly under the influence of LSD and other drugs.Adam McPherson of Cheektowaga was arraigned in January for the misdemeanor that carried a maximum sentence of 60 days in jail if convicted. But like others who were arrested for trespassing at the construction site last season, he was
  
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• Donation locations in WNY to help hurricane relief

  16-10-2024 18:30 via wivb.com
  
  GRAND ISLAND, N.Y. (WIVB) – As clean up work continues from the damage left by Hurricanes Helene and Milton, Western New Yorkers are stepping up in big ways.That includes Justin Karcher and Joe Manzella, who are hosting a second donation drive in Grand Island through this Saturday. Their first effort resulted in four truckloads of goods heading to the South.There are drop off locations across Grand Island and throughout Buffalo and Western New York. See the full list below and watch their
  
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• Local flower market helping pay it forward during 'National Petal it Forward Day'

  16-10-2024 18:16 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Though the weather may be gloomy, one local flower market is helping brighten up the day for strangers in the city of good neighbors."Whether your pushing somebody that's stuck in the snow out of their parking spot from the night before, or you're giving away flowers, it kind of rounds out Buffalo," said Robert Booth, a manager with Maureen's Buffalo Wholesale Flower Market.Their market has been helping grow happiness in Buffalo for more than 27 years. They've become
  
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