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The Rochester Institute of Technology has broken into an elite 100: U.S. News & World Report’s top 100 universities in the nation. The magazine bumped RIT up ten places in its National Universities category because of its rapid increase in research and PhD graduates. RIT ties for 39th place among national universities in a survey […]
Textiles spontaneously combusting triggered a fire at a factory on St. Paul Street Monday evening. The Rochester Fire Department says an automatic alarm brought crews to the Alsco Plant at 548 St. Paul at 5:45 p.m. They found smoke coming from the building and tracked down the fire, which was contained by the building’s sprinkler […]
The price of gasoline in the Rochester area has risen by ten cents a gallon over the last week, up to an average of $2.77 a gallon for the five-county region around Rochester. In the meantime, the AAA says unleaded gas is up 30 cents a gallon over the past two weeks since Hurricane Harvey […]