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- The first woman to work as a patrol officer for the Fairport Police Department has filed a federal discrimination lawsuit against the department and the village of Fairport.

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Lawyers for Exxon Mobil Corp. have filed a notice that they will appeal a state Supreme Court Justice decision forcing the company to clean up contamination at a former oil refinery site in Rochester. The one-page notice of of the ...

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Run, hide, fight. Those three words sum up the instructions law enforcement experts gave to about 300 people Wednesday at a two-hour presentation on what to do if someone starts shooting at people where you work, or shop or go ...

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A Hell’s Angels leader from California pleaded guilty to drug charges Monday in U.S. District Court in Rochester. Richard W. Mar, 64, of Monterey, Calif., known as “Chief,” “The Professor,” or “Hoki Jamoki,” pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with ...

The number of complaints filed with the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct reached 1,959 last year, the most since 2010. But staff and funding are not keeping pace with the workload, according to the Commission’s 2015 annual report, ...

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Kenneth Harper, of Rochester, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 28 grams or more of crack cocaine, and possession of firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, was sentenced to 15 years prison by ...

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BUFFALO — A federal grand jury has handed up a 41-count indictment against Alan Ceccarelli, 30, of Buffalo, including charges of wire fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and distribution of alprazolam and buprenorphine. The charges carry ...

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Charles A. Benincasa, 59, Rochester’s finance director, was charged Thursday with driving while intoxicated. About 8:40 p.m., State Police monitoring police radio heard a report of a hit and run collision at the McDonald’s Restaurant on Culver Road in Rochester. ...

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State Supreme Court Justice Ann Marie Taddeo has cleared the way for a new development in southwest Rochester with a decision forcing Exxon Mobil Corp. to clean up petroleum contamination at its former Vacuum Oil Refinery on the west bank ...

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BUFFALO  — A Canadian citizen has been arrested on an attempted smuggling charge. According to the office of U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr, Leszek Budzyna, 50, was charged with attempted alien smuggling and making false statements. In addition, Monika ...

Commercial real estate expert Joe Rowley laid out his analysis of the local market at a luncheon Wednesday. The upshot is that downtown is hot, the new Photonics Institute has the potential to significantly boost the local economy, and it’s ...

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Lawyers at the Empire Justice Center have filed a lawsuit challenging the Medicaid-funded long-term care system in New York state that is preventing recipients from receiving services at home and forcing them to move to nursing facilities. The system, approved ...