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Rich Tyson remembers vividly the conversations that sparked his desire to buy rental property in the city of Rochester. He had been speaking with Tommy Davis, then the chaplain at the Monroe County Jail, about the legal system and what ...

As the Delta variant of COVID-19 continues to spread, some employers are growing frustrated over vaccination rates, labor employment lawyers say.  Companies fear employees that are still hesitant or opposed to vaccination not only create workplace safety concerns, but also ...

A state Appellate Court has upheld a lower court ruling that said WHEC-TV management had the right to fire former chief meteorologist Jeremy Kappell over the utterance of an alleged on-air racial slur in 2019. Jeremy Kappell claimed in a ...

A Rochester man who participated in a 2020 protest that turned violent in downtown Rochester has been sentenced to serve five months in prison. Shankell Sanks, 27, was convicted of rioting and sentenced this week by U.S. District Judge David ...

A heavy highway and civil construction contractor from Geneva says it is owed nearly $500,000 by Monroe County for road work done in 2019 in Webster. Nardozzi Cos. claims in court papers filed Friday in state Supreme Court in Monroe ...

A Monroe County legislator filed suit against Rochester, Monroe County and up to 200 law enforcement officers over injuries from a peaceful protest.

Nearly $3 million in designer watches were seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at the Rochester Airport Port of Entry due to trademark infringement. The watches were found in July when officers inspected a shipment invoiced as “Used ...

Meghan A. Tokash, Assistant U.S. Attorney serving in the Western District of New York, has received the Top Prosecutor Award from Women in Federal Law Enforcement. Tokash joined the Western District office in 2019 and is the supervisor of the ...

Proposed legislation, a late-2020 law change and a possible bump in the corporate tax rate all should turn out to be beneficial for the affordable housing industry as objectives of the Biden administration play out. When the federal corporate tax rate ...

Construction is underway to turn the former Hart's Local Grocers building on Rochester's East End into the new headquarters for RDG+Partners.

The failure of former Gov. Andrew Cuomo to acknowledge he took part in sexual harassment prevention training — regulations that he signed into law — underscores the oversight that is necessary by every business to ensure employee compliance. Annual sexual ...

The Hickey Freeman building in Rochester will be undergoing a $70 million transformation, with two-thirds of it turned into affordable senior housing.