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Commentary & VIDEO: Know the Words to the Anthem!


I'm thinking if you're asked to sing the national anthem before the start of any event, you should really take it seriously and learn the words and music.  Check out the video inside.....
Budget Votes

Budget Vote Extra: Is Your District Cutting Spending? Raising Taxes?



(WBEN)   All but one school district in Erie County will be asking voters on Tuesday, to approve a budget that includes increased spending, and two of them want to go above the state property tax hike limits.

INSIDE: Property Tax and Spending Report Cards
Campaign Starts

Click it or Ticket Campaign Starts Today


Buffalo, NY (WBEN) This week in particular, drivers have two choices, click it or ticket.

Fatal Shooting

Fatal Shooting In Niagara Falls



Niagara Falls, NY (WBEN) Niagara Falls Police are investigating a homicide that happened early Sunday morning.
Vito Lopez
Out

Lopez to Resign


ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- A New York assemblyman accused of sexually harassing young female staffers for years says he will resign before he's expelled from the Legislature. Assemblyman Vito Lopez informed leaders on Saturday he will resign
Andrea Rubello
Hofstra Shooting

Hofstra Shooting


MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) -- In what police are describing as a crime of opportunity, a wanted man with a criminal history dating nearly 15 years entered a front door that had been left open at a New York home near Hofstra University.
Loans

Student Loans


NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is proposing new legislation to ease the burden for students who have borrowed to pay for their education. The New York Democrat will announce Sunday morning new legislation that would allow student borrowers
Fatal

Cambria Fatal


(WBEN) A fatal crash in Cambria -- This past evening just after 6 p-m, a motorcyclist veered off Plank Road and collided with a wooden post and other obstacles before coming to rest.
Brianwa Flores, Katie Cosentino
One Winner

$590M-plus Powerball: 1 winning ticket sold in Fla


DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- It's all about the odds, and one lone ticket in Florida has beaten them all by matching each of the numbers drawn for the highest Powerball jackpot in history at an estimated $590.5 million, lottery officials said Sunday.
Crash
Crash

Probe Begins After Commuter Trains Collide


(AP) -Two commuter trains packed with rush-hour commuters collided in an accident that sent about 70 people to the hospital, severely damaged the tracks and threatened to snarl travel in the congested Northeast Corridor.
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