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Panama Man Arrested for DWI, Leaving Scene of Accident, and Resisting Arrest
29Jan By Grace ThompsonNo Comments
Arrests

Panama Man Arrested for DWI, Leaving Scene of Accident, and Resisting Arrest

(WNY News Now) After a hit-and-run incident in Jamestown early Sunday morning, a Panamanian is charged with several offenses, including driving under the influence and resisting arrest. New York's Jamestown Officers from the Jamestown Police Department's Third Platoon arrived at a car accident on West 3rd Street at around 12:00 a.m. on January 26, 2025. Officers found the implicated car had left the area when they arrived. The Jamestown Police K-9 Unit found the suspect car on East 2nd Street at around 1:18 in the morning and started a traffic stop. It was found that the driver, Carlos J. Ruiz, 27, of Panama, New York, was operating the vehicle while drunk. Ruiz allegedly resisted the arresting cops and fought with them physically before being restrained and taken into custody. After mor...
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Falconer Man Arrested for DWI Following Single-Vehicle Accident in Town of Poland
29Jan By Grace ThompsonNo Comments
Arrests

Falconer Man Arrested for DWI Following Single-Vehicle Accident in Town of Poland

(WNY News Now) The Chautauqua County Sheriff's Office has charged a Falconer man with several offenses after a single-car collision on Quaint Road revealed that he was operating a vehicle while intoxicated. Poland, New York. The Chautauqua County Sheriff's Office was called to a single-vehicle collision on Quaint Road in the Town of Poland on Saturday, January 25, 2025, at around 8:50 p.m. The driver was identified by deputies as James D. McGrath, a resident of Falconer, New York, who is 54 years old. At the scene, an investigation revealed that McGrath was driving under the influence. He was also accused by the authorities of failing to stop at a stop sign and driving at an unreasonably fast speed. After the accident, EMS took McGrath to UPMC Jamestown for assessment. He is expected to ...
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University of South Carolina apologizes for playing song of LSU players’s late father at game
29Jan By Grace ThompsonNo Comments
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University of South Carolina apologizes for playing song of LSU players’s late father at game

Shortly after the Gamecocks' decisive victory against the Tigers in women's basketball on Sunday, the University of South Carolina issued an apology for its arena DJ playing a song by the late father of a Louisiana State University player. South Carolina at number twodefeated LSU, then ranked No. 5.Friday night in Columbia, two great programs that have won the last three NCAA titles square off against one another in a hotly contested matchup. Additionally, the late rapper Camoflauge, whose real name was Jason Akeil Johnson, performed "Cut Friends" by the arena DJ, DJ T.O., during the post-horn party. Star LSU guard Flau Jae Johnson, the rapper's daughter, was not happy with the music selection and took it as a crude jab. Johnson, who also raps, was born in 2003, five and a half months afte...
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Earthquake off Maine coast rattles New England
29Jan By Grace ThompsonNo Comments
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Earthquake off Maine coast rattles New England

Light to moderate shaking occurred throughout the state of Maine, as well as in areas of Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Connecticut, on Monday due to an earthquake that was centered off the coast of the state. Just before 10:30 a.m. ET, the U.S. Geological Survey recorded the earthquake as a 3.8-magnitude temblor. About 45 miles southwest of Portland, off the coast of York Harbor, Maine, was the epicenter. As of right now, there have been no reports of fatalities or major damage, and the National Weather Service has not issued any tsunami watches, warnings, or advisories. Within the following week, there is a 15% chance of at least one aftershock of magnitude 3 or higher, according to the USGS estimate. Since a 4.8-magnitude earthquake near Lebanon, New Jersey, in April, t...
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Cigarette Sparks Residential Fire on Pearl Street in Forestville
29Jan By Grace ThompsonNo Comments
Chautauqua County

Cigarette Sparks Residential Fire on Pearl Street in Forestville

(WNY News Now) On Saturday, January 25, 2025, a residence fire on Pearl Street in Forestville was determined to be caused by a cigarette setting off flammable materials on a front porch. The Forestville Fire Department responded to a residence fire on Pearl Street in Forestville on Saturday, January 25, 2025, at around 10:12 a.m. with mutual aid assistance. In order to save more property damage, firefighters moved swiftly to put out the fire. The Chautauqua County Fire Investigation Team responded on the scene to evaluate the incident and identify its cause after the fire was contained. Following a comprehensive investigation, authorities determined that a cigarette coming into touch with flammable materials on the front porch of the house was the cause of the fire. Thankfully, the fire di...
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Brittany Mahomes slams Buffalo Bills fans for hanging Kermit doll dressed as Patrick Mahomes
29Jan By Grace ThompsonNo Comments
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Brittany Mahomes slams Buffalo Bills fans for hanging Kermit doll dressed as Patrick Mahomes

Brittany Mahomes is reminding Buffalo Bills fans of the value of sportsmanship as the Kansas City Chiefs celebrate their AFC Championship victory on Sunday. Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes' wife addressed a November incident involving Bills supporters at a tailgate on her Instagram Story. Chiefs fans were incensed when a Kermit the Frog doll wearing a curly wig and a #15 Chiefs jersey was displayed at the event and hanged on a pole. A persistent joke about the star quarterback's voice being like the Muppet was referenced by the puppet's likeness to him. Many fans claimed that the stunt, which staged a mock lynching of the Black quarterback, was racist and in bad taste. Buffalo, do we remember this? In her Sunday post, Brittany Mahomes included a picture of the incident and the words, "A...
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A new AI assistant from China has Silicon Valley talking
29Jan By Grace ThompsonNo Comments
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A new AI assistant from China has Silicon Valley talking

Silicon Valley has been rocked by a little lab in China. The U.S. tech industry has been discussing and debating what the abrupt arrival of an advanced AI helper from DeepSeek, a little-known firm in the Chinese city of Hangzhou, implies about the larger AI development race. The AI models that drive DeepSeek's assistant are already outperforming the best models in the United States, despite the fact that they were created with a fraction of the resources, according to the business. The assistant recently ranked number one in the Apple App Store. A week ago, DeepSeek released R1, their most recent large language model. R1 is already outperforming a number of other models, including as Google's Gemini 2.0 Flash, Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Meta's Llama 3.3-70B, and OpenAI's GPT-4o. It is ...
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Gillibrand Champions Bipartisan Bill to Combat Child Care Crisis with $100 Million Federal Investment
29Jan By Grace ThompsonNo Comments
Congress

Gillibrand Champions Bipartisan Bill to Combat Child Care Crisis with $100 Million Federal Investment

(WNY News Now) Senator Kirsten Gillibrand proposes legislation to contribute $100 million in federal funds to strengthen the workforce and expand facilities in order to address the growing lack of affordable child care. Washington, D.C. To present her bipartisan legislation to address the national lack of affordable child care, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand hosted a virtual press conference. Compared to all but four states, nearly two-thirds of New Yorkers reside in areas with inadequate access to child care. Under Gillibrand's measure, states would get $100 million in federal cash over five years to construct or expand child care centers and assist in developing a skilled workforce. Working parents must have access to high-quality, reasonably priced child care, but millions of New Yorke...
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DeepSeek hit with large-scale cyberattack, says it’s limiting registrations
29Jan By Grace ThompsonNo Comments
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DeepSeek hit with large-scale cyberattack, says it’s limiting registrations

Due to widespread malicious attacks on its services, DeepSeek said on Monday that it would temporarily restrict user registrations. However, current users will still be able to log in normally. As a rapidly expanding competitor to OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini, and other top AI tools, the Chinese AI firm has created a lot of excitement in recent weeks. Earlier Monday, DeepSeek overtook rival OpenAI as the most downloaded free software in the United States on the Apple software Store, unseating ChatGPT in favor of DeepSeek's AI Assistant. It contributed to a major sell-off in international tech equities. Tech analysts, investors, and developers have heard about the company, which was created in 2023 and debuted its R1 model last week. They believe that the buzz and the resulting fear of...
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Trump seeks to circumvent laws on California’s water amid wildfire response
29Jan By Grace ThompsonNo Comments
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Trump seeks to circumvent laws on California’s water amid wildfire response

Washington In an attempt to give the southern portion of California the water resources it needs to combat wildfires, President Donald Trump signed an executive order attempting to get around federal and state rules pertaining to the state's water system. "Firefighters were unable to fight the blaze due to dry hydrants, empty reservoirs, and inadequate water infrastructure," the executive order stated, shortly after the start of the recent wave of wildfires in Los Angeles. According to Trump's directive, the country as a whole has been impacted by the wildfire tragedy, and it is in the country's "interest to ensure that California has what it needs to prevent and fight these fires and others in the future." "Therefore, it is the policy of the United States to provide Southern California ...
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