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Police in Rochester released two body-camera videos Sunday of officers restraining a distraught 9-year-old girl who was handcuffed and sprayed with what police called a chemical “irritant.” “I am deeply troubled by the macing and handcuffing of a child who ...

A recent report that most small businesses are pressed for cash comes as no surprise to Jan Pisanczyn, director of the SUNY Brockport Small Business Development Center. “Most small-business owners, like most of us, are not financial wizards so they ...

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Rochester’s airport will get $40 million as the first winner of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s upstate airport competition. The Greater Rochester International Airport plans to combine the money with $23 million in local funds to overhaul the terminal, construct ...

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ROCHESTER — A western New York man is facing a sentence of up to life in prison after admitting he intended to traffic a girl for sex. Federal prosecutors announced Tuesday that Brandon McNeal pleaded guilty in federal court in ...

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The Supreme Court’s decision to conduct an election-year review of President Barack Obama’s executive action to grant legal status to some immigrants living in the U.S. illegally ultimately will affect thousands of immigrant workers in western New York, activists said ...

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The New York Senate has confirmed longtime Westchester County prosecutor Janet DiFiore as New York’s chief judge. The voice vote, with no opposition, followed an hour of praise for the 60-year-old district attorney by both Republicans ...

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New York’s judiciary has adopted new rules for investigating and disciplining attorneys for misconduct in an effort to apply uniform rules statewide. The rules adopted by all four of New York’s appellate divisions, effective July 1, followed proposals by a ...

The Hon. Erin M. Peradotto, an associate justice in the Appellate Division’s Fourth Department, is among seven candidates recommended by a state commission to fill the vacancy on the New York State Court of Appeals that followed Judge Susan P. ...

Mufid Elfgeeh, the local pizza shop owner charged with aiding terrorists, pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to trying to recruit people for the Islamic State. Elfgeeh pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford to attempting to provide ...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has nominated Westchester County District Attorney Janet DiFiore to be New York’s chief judge. DiFiore, Westchester’s top prosecutor for nearly a decade, would replace Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman, who is 70 and who must retire after this ...

Setting herself apart from a national groundswell of opinion against admitting more refugees from the Syrian crisis to the United States, Mayor Lovely A. Warren made the case Tuesday for welcoming those in need. Warren rested her case partly on ...

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Federal authorities say a 43-year-old Texas businessman has been charged with bilking a Rochester-area financing company out of nearly $1 million. The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday that Bradley Boyd of Rhome, Texas was charged with wire fraud and money ...