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Rochester leaders, Monroe County legislature hope communicating with teens will lead to decrease in violence
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — Of all the violence this past weekend in Rochester spanning across four different scenes, only one arrest has been made. City leaders joined Monday urging community members to stop what they called a pattern of “petty disputes escalating into violence.” Legislators and city leaders say as they continue to canvas these […]
Head Start operator working to avoid summer disruption
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — Monroe County’s Early Head Start program may be forced to close its doors this summer, impacting hundreds of families and staff in Rochester. For nearly 60 years, Action for a Better Community, has been operating the federally funded preschool program for Monroe County families with low incomes. This year, the Health […]
Equal Rights Amendment in NY must be deleted from the ballot due to error: Rochester judge
A Rochester-based judge has ruled that the state's Equal Rights Amendment must be stricken from the November ballot because, he determined, the state Legislature sidestepped a constitutionally mandated process to get the amendment to a vote. State Supreme Court Justice Daniel Doyle agreed with Republican Assemblywoman Marjorie Byrnes, of Livingston County, who contended in a lawsuit along with others that the legislature's process for approval of the proposed amendment violated the state constitution. ...
Marketview Heights: Restoring neighborhood needs one Rochester alley at a time
Hinge Neighbors, an organization that bridges the voices and communities on either side of the Inner Loop, has started its work on an upcoming project in the South Marketview Heights neighborhood. The MarketView Mews Project aims to turn different alleys within the neighborhood into safe and inviting spaces for the community, starting with...
NY AG sues crisis pregnancy centers over 'abortion pill reversal' claims
New York Attorney General Letitia James on Monday sued Heartbeat International and 11 pregnancy centers, including sites in the Rochester area and Hudson Valley, for allegedly making fraudulent claims about abortion pill reversal treatments, court records show. In a state Supreme Court lawsuit, James asserted the anti-abortion group and its affiliated "crisis pregnancy centers" used false and misleading statements to advertise a medically unproven treatment they call abortion pill reversal. ...
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