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Irondequoit Supervisor Adam Bello has been appointed Monroe County Clerk. Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order Friday naming Bello to fill the position left vacant after Cheryl Dinolfo was elected Monroe County Executive in November 2015. Bello will start ...

If one of your employees shows up for work drunk, you can fire them. But if they tell you they’re an alcoholic, you’ll probably have to offer them a chance to get help for their addiction because alcoholism is a ...

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Mufid Elfgeeh, 32, of Rochester, who pleaded guilty to attempting to provide material support and resources to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), was sentenced Thursday to 22 1/2 years in prison and 27 years supervised release ...

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Rochester city officials have issued a request for proposals (RFP) seeking development projects on five parcels of land that will be available after a portion of the Inner Loop is filled in. The $22 million Inner Loop East Transformation project, ...

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A Yates County man, originally arrested about a year ago by Penn Yan police in Yates County, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on several drug charges and accused of threatening a witness. A 13-count indictment charges James ...

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Harter Secrest & Emery partner R. Clinton Emery died Sunday. He was 86. Emery joined the firm in 1954 when it was known as Strang, Wright, Combs, Wiser & Shaw. After spending his first year of practice closing numerous real ...

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Governor Andrew Cuomo was in town Wednesday to announce the first two companies lured to Rochester by the establishment of the Integrated Photonics Institute for Manufacturing Innovation last year. The companies, Avogy and Photonica, will invest $1.6 billion over five ...

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Would-be terrorist Mufid A. Elfgeeh is expected to get 22 ½ years in prison when he’s sentenced in federal court on Thursday. According to a plea agreement reached in December 2015, Elfgeeh, a former shop owner in Rochester, pleaded guilty ...

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The most significant news in the Monroe County Public Defender’s 2015 annual report is the implementation of a program to provide around-the-clock representation to indigent clients in all courts. But it’s unclear whether the new New York state budget, due ...

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The East Avenue bridge over the Inner Loop will be closed, starting Monday, March 14, as work continues on filling in a portion of the sunken expressway. Traffic will be detoured around the bridge that runs from Union Street to ...

BUFFALO — Three men have been indicted in the first money laundering case in the Western District of New York involving the use of bitcoin digital currency. A federal grand jury has charged Richard Petix, 30, of Rochester, with operating ...

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Rochester City Court Judge Leticia Astacio was chatty, insulting, profane and uncooperative the morning of Feb. 13, when she was charged with driving while intoxicated, according to police reports. Astacio pleaded not guilty Friday at her arraignment. Because of potential ...

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