The Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester has filed for bankruptcy. It’s one of the “difficult decisions” Bishop Salvatore Matano warned last month would have to be made following the New York Child Victims Act. The act is unleashing a wave of lawsuits filed by people who say they were sexually abused as children by clergy […]
After nearly two years of discussion and surveying students. St. John Fisher College in Pittsford says it will van vaping on its campus. Smoking and use of other tobacco products is banned as well. The idea was first proposed by the Student Nurses Association in 2017. After studying whether some smoking areas should be designated, […]
Wayne County officials say a farm worker accused of killing his girlfriend and their 14-month-old son has pleaded guilty to causing their deaths. The attorney representing Alberto Gutierre-Reyes says his client pleaded guilt on two counts of first-degree manslaughter in the deaths of Selena Hidalgo-Calderon and Owen Hidalgo-Calderon. A judge in Wayne County accepted the […]