Geneva Police say officers responding to a report of a burglary at an address in the city found a fatally injured man. Twenty-three-year-old Jawuan Brumfield was found unresponsive early Sunday morning at the residence on Hallenbeck Avenue. Police say he did not live at the residence. He died Monday at Strong. Geneva police are still […]
A Rochester psychiatrist who pleaded guilty to illegally distributing a controlled substance is facing up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Federal prosecutors say Dr. Clifford Jacobson sold prescriptions for controlled substances like Xanax, to patients who had no medical need for it. Authorities say between 2014 and 2017, he sold the […]
A report from Monroe County Medical Examiner Nadia Granger illustrate rapidly increasing death toll from the use of heroin, opioids, fentanyl and related drugs. In 2011, those drugs were blamed for 11 deaths in the ten-county Rochester region. That number grew annually to 95 in 2014, then shot up to 206 last year. 169 of […]