A lawsuit claiming the owner of a Wayne County farm did not pay a worker as required by state and federal law has been settled for $15,000. The defendants in the case are Smith Family Farms LLC, Smith Family Acres ...

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Mark W. Pedersen has been appointed U.S. Magistrate Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York. Pedersen currently serves as principal law clerk to Sr. District Court Judge Charles J. Siragusa. Pederson fills the vacancy ...

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Three people have been sentenced for their roles in several Rochester-area armed robberies. Jonathan Middlebrooks, 22, Nasir Perez, 20, and Deborah Siegel-Edelman, 22, all of Rochester, were convicted of aiding and abetting Hobbs Act robbery and sentenced by U.S. District ...

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A Rochester man has been convicted of federal charges that he escaped from custody. Abdul Rasheed, 36, is facing a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. On March 27, 2016, Rasheed was sentenced to 12 ...

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Former Irondequoit police officer William R. Rosica admitted to stalking his girlfriend Thursday in federal court. Rosica, 51, pleaded guilty to cyberstalking and computer intrusion before Chief U.S. District Court Judge Frank P. Geraci Jr. Rosica is facing a maximum penalty ...

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A man from Shanghai, China, has admitted to mailing several snakes from the United States to China. Chaoyi Le, 28, pleaded guilty to Lacey Act False Labeling. He faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. ...

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Settlement talks started Monday in the Rickey L. Bryant Jr. police brutality case. City attorneys requested a meeting with Bryant’s attorney Charles F. Burkwit and U.S. Magistrate Judge Jonathan Feldman. Burkwit said the city made a settlement offer, but it ...

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A plea agreement has apparently been reached in the case of William R. Rosica, the former Irondequoit police officer facing federal charges of cyber stalking an ex-girlfriend. Rosica is scheduled to be in court Thursday for a plea agreement hearing ...

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A federal judge has dismissed most claims in a lawsuit against Hobart and William Smith Colleges filed by a former student who was accused of sexual misconduct with a co-ed and expelled. The plaintiff, Matthew Rolph, also filed a defamation ...

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A 15-year-old federal suit, schedule to go to trial Tuesday, has been settled. Albert Lopez Victory filed the complaint in January 2002 because state officials reversed a decision to grant him parole in 1999. “It was in my client’s best ...

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Rudolph Dwight Hanchard, 40, a Jamaican national living in Buffalo, who was convicted of bribery of a public official and attempt to possess with intent to distribute marijuana, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison by U.S. District Court ...

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Charles Novak, 29, of Queens, on Thursday pleaded guilty to theft of government money before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth Wolford. The charge carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Novak is accused, along with ...

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