A few seconds of old home movie film dating to the late 1920s delivers a mystery that needs solving: did Amelia Earhart attend the opening of an airport in LeRoy, Genesee County, almost 90 years ago? The footage was shot, apparently in 1928, by Harold Trott. He was a Livingston County doctor and air enthusiast […]
Police in LeRoy say they’ve arrested a 52-year-old Rochester man on petit larceny charges after a two-month investigation into thefts of over-the-counter drugs from pharmacies in four counties. They say Thomas Gilbert of Rochester stole nearly $400 worth of Alli weight-loss pills from the Walgreen’s store in LeRoy in late January. They found a suspect […]
A Leroy man who shot his neighbor to death, then burned down his own house while firing shots at first responders is headed for a mental institution instead of prison. Kyle Johnson was brought into a Batavia courtroom Monday, where he was “not guilty by reason of mental defect or disease.” Two psychiatrists independently examined […]