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Rochester is using the courts — and the threat of possible jail time for contempt — to hold landlords accountable for residential rental property code violations.

A New York appeals court has affirmed a lower court ruling to suppress evidence in a gun case because of an illegal police search.

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The Supreme Court said Thursday it has not determined who leaked a draft of the court’s opinion overturning abortion rights, but that the investigation continues. Eight months after Politico published its explosive leak detailing the draft of Justice Samuel Alito’s ...

The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate fell this week to its lowest level since September, a potential boost to the housing market which has been in decline for nearly a year. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac reported Thursday that the average ...

A former deputy chief in the Rochester Police Department and his wife are suing a lawyer who claims they attended and helped organize a party with an allegedly racist theme.

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Anti-abortion activists will have multiple reasons to celebrate — and some reasons for unease — when they gather Friday in Washington for the annual March for Life. The march, which includes a rally drawing abortion opponents from across the nation, ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed sympathetic to the arguments of a deaf student who sued his public school system for providing an inadequate education, a legal challenge important for other disabled students and their families. The question for the ...

The federal government says it will begin a targeted crackdown on nursing homes’ abuse of antipsychotic drugs and misdiagnoses of schizophrenia in patients. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is launching investigations this month into select nursing homes, aimed ...

Three attorneys and five law firms, including honorees in Rochester and Buffalo, will be recognized during the New York State Bar Association’s annual meeting.

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A man made off with $300,000 cash in a bizarre Brink’s truck robbery outside a Brooklyn bank last week, police say. According to police, the thief swiped an unattended money bag from the armored truck’s bumper while two other men ...

The Buffalo-based full-service law firm of Lippes Mathias has combined with Cleveland-based Fay Sharpe LLP.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s company was fined $1.6 million Friday as punishment for a scheme in which the former president’s top executives dodged personal income taxes on lavish job perks — a symbolic, hardly crippling blow for an ...