Rochester School Superintendent Terry Dade says city school employees who face layoffs will find out on December 4th. He made that announcement Tuesday night as he laid out his timeline for the school board to close a $30 million overspending problem left by the district’s previous leadership. Dade plans nearly 170 job cuts and told […]
A Rochester woman has been sentenced to two years in prison for attempting to smother a child at the Golisano Children’s Hospital earlier this year. 29-year-old Jennifer Hodge pleaded guilty last month to second-degree strangulation. She admitted to suffocating the 18-month-old while the child was a patient at the hospital. The child lost consciousness, but […]
Former Rochester City Court Judge Leticia Astacio will spend 180 days in jail after a judge revoked her probation. Astacio was in court Tuesday on a motion by Astacio to vacate her three-year probation sentence for a 2016 drunken driving conviction. Astacio argued the sentence was unlawful in that proper legal procedures weren’t followed when […]