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Jack Kreuzer talks with Buffalo Bills' now full-time play-by-play voice Chris Brown. Jay Moran in conversation with Peter Johnson, Harry Lipsitz, and Kyle Mecca head of the Casting Buffalo Actors Expo.
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A torrential downpour hit Toronto causing the city to experience a month's rain in a few hours.
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Tornado updates and aftermath.
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Savannah Bananas were in town this weekend. Jack Kreuzer reports.
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The Buffalo Sabres get busy with free agency. Efforts to grow the semi conductor industry in Buffalo and across WNY will be getting a boost from federal funding. Healthcare workers across the state continue to unionize.
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Today is Canada Day, but a strike by mechanics at the country's second-largest airline has disrupted travel plans for passengers across North America.
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The NFTA will not run trains in the downtown area on certain days in July to allow for crews to safely complete maintenance work.
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The City of Buffalo splash pads open with extended hours. An Uzbekistan man was arraigned on wire fraud and other charges for an alleged crypto currency scam that targeted a local individual. The City of Tonawanda calls on artists to create and submit a new city flag design. Two development projects in Niagara Falls are one step closer to construct…
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The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) is investigating the fire in the Cobblestone district alongside the Buffalo Fire Department. A Canadian shipping company in St. Catharines will pay the US government a $100k fine for continuing to pollute American waters, violating the Clean Water Act. A 16-year-old boy and a 14-year-old boy are ea…
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Republicans in the Erie County Legislature are calling on the head of Erie County's assigned counsel program to resign for allegedly misusing her position to help local Democrats.
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Researchers at UB and the Department of Veterans Affairs identified 17 distinct clinical subtypes of long COVID.
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Erie County officials give themselves a pay raise.
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