Rochester NY

Rochester, N.Y. — Police are searching for suspects from a shooting Monday night in the city's 19th Ward. Officers responded around 6 p.m. to Wellington Avenue near Chili Avenue and found the victim, a 17-year-old boy, suffering from at least one gunshot wound to his upper body, according to the Rochester Police...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — From Western New York to the national stage, a Western New York native is turning heads in the hit television show “The Voice.”. “I was sitting in my car,” SUNY Fredonia senior Lucas West said. “I got, in my opinion, the best phone call of my life.”

Hani Ali remembers being on the scene after a multi-alarm house fire on Dewey Avenue displaced more than a dozen refugees. She was present to provide moral support to the victims and to assist with any ongoing care. It was at that moment that Ali said she felt like her...

A 45-year-old man has been arrested after being accused of breaking into a home and killing a “companion animal.”

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Issues at Monroe County DMVs continue to frustrate drivers.  At 10 a.m. on Monday, people signing in at the downtown Rochester location were warned of wait times ranging from 7-8 ½ hours.  The Monroe County DMV put in place a new check-in system at local DMVs a few months ago. Then, the […]

A truck rolled over during a crash on I-590 in Irondequoit on Monday morning, damaging its front.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — The Rochester Police Department is investigating a shooting that left a teen with life-threatening injuries on Monday evening. Around 6 p.m., officers responded to the 100 block of Wellington Avenue in the City of Rochester for a report of a person shot. According to police, when they arrived...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A senior at Churchville-Chili High School is being honored for helping a student who passed out on the way to the bathroom. Kaitlyn Pozzuolo is one of the recipients of the Do the Right Thing award. Kaitlyn was walking in the hall when she saw the student passed out from hitting their head and face....

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — When someone vanishes, the first instinct is urgency — call the police, track the phone, check the bank account. But in adult missing person cases, it’s not always that simple. Jaquan McCoggle, 26, has been missing from Rochester since November. He lived with his...

WEBSTER, N.Y. — More women have been banned from prison visits after body scanners mistakenly identified medical devices as contraband. Mary Kay Hargather demonstrated at her home in Webster how she was asked to turn sideways and lift her arms inside a prison body scanner. The scan showed a mass in her chest. A...