A controversial law making it a crime to harass a police officer or first responder was repealed Tuesday night by the Monroe County Legislature. The law was approved last fall, but it drew immediate opposition from the people it was supposed to protect: law enforcement. The 12 departments of the Monroe County Police Chiefs Association […]

An amended budget given by Rochester School Superintendent Terry Dade to the city schools’ Finance Committee Tuesday night calls for eliminating more than 340 positions, 280 of them teachers. The district needs to close an $85 million budget gap for the next school year. That comes on top of a budget gap this year that […]

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says if President Trump wants a fight with the nation’s governors, “he’s not gonna get it from me.” At his daily briefing, Cuomo said he’s extending a hand to President Trump and New York and the federal government will have to solve the problems of COVID-19 together. At the same […]