There’s one fewer candidate running for Rochester City Council as of the weekend. Rochester LGBTQ activist Scotty Ginett has dropped out of the race for a Democratic council nomination and thrown his support to Matt Juda. Ginett says there’s been a gay member of City Council since the 1980s when Rochester elected the first openly […]
There’s a fifth candidate who wants to be mayor of Rochester. Retired city school teacher Lori Thomas announced over the weekend that she’s running as an independent, saying “Democrats control the poverty in the city and Republicans control wealth in the suburbs.” She says city voters need to control themselves. Thomas says she wants to […]
State Police have arrested a Southern Tier man on a second count of conspiracy to commit murder. Thirty-year-old Brandon McPherson of Horseheads in Steuben County was previously arrested on a first count of the same charge in December, for conspiring with another person in a murder-for-hire plot. Troopers say their investigation found he also talked […]