New York's Senate Republicans promise to push legislation that would allow police to stop and ticket motorists for texting while driving. Using a portable electronic device while at the wheel of a moving vehicle in New York is currently a secondary offense, which means that a person can't be pulled Full story
April was the rainiest on record in six of the cities monitored by climatologists at Cornell University. The Northeast Regional Climate Center says the oldest record broken was in Huntington, W.Va., where 9.98 inches of rain easily topped the 8.53 inches recorded in 1901. Williamsport, Pa., had 10.0 Full story
More than 1,600 customers were without power Tuesday morning. RG&E says 1,656 customers in Brighton, Penfield, Pittsford and Rochester have now had their power restored. We are still waiting on the cause of the outage. Full story
A local radio host held a benefit Tuesday morning in honor of a Macedon teenager killed in a fire. Michael Hall Jr. was a student at Pal-Mac High School and an accomplished piano player. Brother Wease's show broadcasted live from the Dunkin Donuts on Penfield Road this morning. Hall's father, who Mi Full story
County Executive Maggie Brooks is headed to the White House today. Brooks will meet with senior administration officials to talk about pressing matters that currently face county governments across the nation. The meeting, which came at the request of Brooks through her position as president of the Full story
Lawyers are still holding out hope of reaching a pre-trial deal for a Greece man charged with threatening to kill, kidnap or harm former President George W. Bush. If the case isn't settled, Ian Rotunno's preliminary hearing in U.S. District Court in Rochester on Tuesday could trigger a grand jury in Full story
Finding bright spots in a beaten down housing sector, with Delores Conway, Univ. of Rochester, and Bob Stein, First Trust Advisors.
In a Jan. 20, 2011 photo, Tommie Cray smokes a cigarette in his studio apartment in Rochester, N.Y. After a 38-year hiatus, twice-convicted sexual predator Willie James Kimble, 78, is headed to trial on March 3 on charges of bludgeoning to death Cray's stepmother at her home on Oct. 29, 1972 _ the w
An unidentified woman uses a Kodak camera and film vending machine in this undated handout photo in Rochester, N.Y. Photography icon Eastman Kodak Co. is teaming up with Maytag Corp. to roll out thousands of camera-and-film vending machines over the next three years. They want to satisfy instant cra
