Monroe County’s two Board of Elections Commissioners say it was a “connectivity issue” that prevented them from reporting election results in a timely manner Tuesday night. Republican Lisa Nicolay and Democrat Jackie Ortiz said in a news conference that the computer network which receives and processes the votes essentially lost its ability to communicate with […]
Rochester Fire Investigators have charged a so-far unnamed suspect with setting a series of fires last week, one of them at an abandoned downtown hotel. The first fire happened November 2 at a vacant commercial building on Mortimer Street. The second came hours later at the shuttered Riverside Hotel on East Main Street, causing damage […]
A Monroe County sheriff’s deputy is on administrative duty while the department and the New York State Attorney General’s Office each run investigations on the deputy’s possible involvement in a fatal car crash in East Rochester last weekend. The sheriff’s office says a community member called Sheriff Baxter’s office on Monday after the Saturday morning […]