Rochester Institute of Technology graduates beat teams from Belgium and Azerbaijan yesterday in a U.S. State Department competition looking for ways to challenge terrorist groups online. The Islamic State group has been particularly effective in using social media to spread its message and radicalize young Muslims. The State Department challenged teams of researchers to counter […]
A prominent Genesee County lawyer has been arrested on charges of stealing $75,000 from an elderly client. The “Batavian” reports 81-year-old Randolph Zickl is accused of gradually misappropriating the money over several years. A family member discovered the theft and Zickl has been charged with second degree grand larceny. Zickl recently resigned as head of […]
To the south of the Dewey Avenue Corridor, the Lyell-Otis neighborhood has had a series of shootings this month, leading up to a man being shot dead across from School 54 on Otis Street last week as children were arriving in the morning. The neighborhood association met with Rochester’s police chief last night at the […]