Rochester NY

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized counterfeit designer items valued at more than $125,000 during inspections at two Upstate New York ports over the past month. Officers and import specialists at the Port of Rochester and Port of Buffalo discovered the fake merchandise in multiple shipments during...

A motorist was seriously injured Wednesday night after a car driven by a Rochester man wanted on a felony warrant in Missouri crashed into another vehicle during a brief police pursuit. Capt. Greg Bello of the Rochester Police Department said the incident injured two men and nearly struck several officers who were...

Rochester, N.Y. (WHAM) — At the PGA Championship, held at Pittsford's Oak Hill Country Club in May 2023, Monroe County Sheriff Todd Baxter said nine unauthorized drones were taken out of the sky - and Federal authorities charged one pilot with a felony. "He was up there literally buzzing...

693 customers in Rochester are currently without electricity. RG&E says power would be restored by 9:15 a.m.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — Community members in Rochester are honoring the life and legacy of a Benjamin Franklin High School alumnus, Rodney Griffin. Friends and family honored Griffin Friday night at the Trent Jackson Memorial Athletic Complex to release balloons in his memory. Griffin graduated from the school in...

The trial date for two brothers accused of a quadruple murder in Irondequoit has been moved to August instead of May.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — Rochester’s neighborhood of the arts has a brand new cannabis dispensary. FlynnStoned Cannabis Company held a grand opening in the Village Gate Plaza on Friday. It’s celebrating with a daylong event called ‘The Art of Elevation.’ There was music, comedy, live painting, and glassblowing, among...

Some lines are worth standing in, and some aren’t. But the line at Jines Restaurant in Rochester, New York on a Sunday morning?. Absolutely, positively, without question worth every single minute. Rochester has always been one of those cities that flies under the radar, content to let New York...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — March is in full ‘lion mode’ and wind gusts of more than 50 mph are causing power outages around Rochester and western New York. According to RG&E outages, there are currently 213 customers without power in Monroe County, all in Greece. National Grid reports 48 outages in Genesee County, with...

I was shocked when syracuse.com | The Post-Standard reporter Marnie Eisenstadt first mentioned working on a story about kids with behavioral problems being abandoned at Upstate Golisano Children’s Hospital. It was hard to believe that was really happening, but Marnie started hearing rumblings of such cases six years...