Rochester police have identified the man shot on Blakeslee Street early Sunday morning as 23-year-old Raashid Taggart. Taggart was taken to Rochester General Hospital in a private car for help. He told police he’d been walking down the street not long after midnight on Sunday morning when he heard gunshots and realized he’d been hit […]
Greece Olympia High School was briefly evacuated this morning after an unknown smell was detected near the school auditorium. Students and staff were sent out of the building just in case while firefighters looked for the problem. The staff of WGMC radio, located in the opposite end of the school, was also affected. District security […]
Widespread cases of the flu across the Rochester area have led Rochester Regional Health to join UR Medicine in imposing visitor restrictions at its Rochester hospitals. In order to limit possible spread of influenza to patients or staff, Rochester General and the other RRH hospitals say nobody under 14 should visit. Visitors will be limited […]