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The Monroe County District Attorney’s Office must now decide if will accept a judge’s ruling that overturned a 15-year-old murder conviction…seek a new trial…or just allow Jose Torres of Rochester to go free. A judge’s ruling this week overturned his conviction in the 2001 murder of Miguel Cruz after a new witness gave evidence that […]
A Monroe County Court Jury has found 28-year-old Brian Pressley of Rochester guilty of criminal possession of a weapon and resisting arrest … after police literally caught him in the act of firing gunshots at the corner of Jefferson and Frost Avenues. Police heard the shots from around the corner on March 30th of last […]
A minivan rear-ended a garbage truck in Fairport this morning, pinning a trash collector between the van and his truck. Police say the man was taken to Strong Memorial Hospital with non-life threatening injuries and nobody else was hurt. They say the minivan was driving south of Jefferson Road in Fairport when it hit the […]