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Schreier is employed in the Rochester City School District’s IT department.

From a stagehand union leader to downtown businesspeople to convention planners, members of the public on Thursday offered mostly positive reviews of the plans for Renaissance Square.

A 17-year-old high school dropout shot, bludgeoned or stabbed to death four people over the Christmas holidays...

While New York faces its bleakest days ever economically, Governor Paterson says this is a time for hope, courage and most of all action.

Next labyrinth walk will be Jan. 29 Walking a spiraling path into and out of a circle can be calming, joyful and/or healing, says Harriette Royer of Rochester...

Shoppers are getting used to those 75 percent off sale signs, and that's bad news for merchants who worry they will also have to quickly slash prices on spring goods to attract customers.

Watching games on ESPN, WWE Raw wrestling bouts on USA Network or rich-kid antics on MTV's The Hills is about to cost more as Time Warner Cable raises rates for some Rochester-area subscribers...

PENFIELD - Eric Wiegandt, a Penfield High School senior, is one of three students in the state who earned a top score of 36 on the ACT.

Wegmans has announced that starting Wednesday it will fill generic oral antibiotic prescriptions for free.

Just when it looked as if the Rochester homicide rate would plunge significantly for 2008, a rash of recent killings has pushed police into near-crisis mode.

In case you haven't had enough wintry weather in Rochester, another snowstorm is expected to arrive in the region late tonight.

ROCHESTER Mayor Robert Duffy has unveiled the City of Rochester's request for federal economic recovery funding.

If there's an upside to a recession and rising worldwide unemployment, it's that filling up your Ford has gotten a lot cheaper.

Rochester Police are looking for six men, wearing hooded sweatshirts, who entered a Clifford Avenue residence on Sunday morning shortly after midnight, and alegedly robbed a woman of a safe with about $60,000 ...

A woman was seriously injured after being hit by two cars Saturday night on Hudson Avenue.

Amid President-elect Barack Obama's promises to expand health care, years of rising medical costs, heightened by the recession, are stinging Rochester.

The Ektar 100 comes in a little yellow box, like generations of Eastman Kodak Co.

Mixed-use developments such as the proposed $260 million Medley Centre project featuring lofts, retail, office space and a hotel-condo tower are so much the national trend that some Rochester-area projects in ...

City homicides were down 12 percent in 2008 compared with 2007, a decline the Rochester Police Department attributes to its Zero Tolerance crime-fighting initiative.

A man who lived by simple means left a big legacy to the school he served. Monroe Community College locker room attendant John Koch left an $800,000 gift to the MCC Foundation.