The gift of a rifle to Monroe County Sheriff Todd Baxter has County Legislator Rachel Barnhart raising ethics concerns. She’s asking the county’s Office of Public Integrity to review the situation. In a Facebook post, the sheriff says he asked for and got a legal opinion from the county attorney before accepting the gift, which […]
The Monroe County Heroin Task Force says it’s seen a reduction in opioid drug overdose deaths in the Rochester area over the past four months, and August had the lowest number of fatalities so far this year. The August stats released today show 92 heroin or opioid drug overdoses in August, with seven of them […]
In its first six months, the Monroe County Heroin Task Force created by Sheriff Todd Baxter has made some headway in its fight against opioid drug abuse in the Rochester area. But despite those efforts, there were 566 overdoses in Monroe County in the first six months of the year, and 85 of them […]