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A New York cop is on desk duty after arresting an EMT who hit his police car with an ambulance door while bringing a patient into a hospital: report
Video of the incident appears to show the investigator pulling the EMT from a patient's side and sl…
Katie Balevic
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New York teacher investigated over allegations he made Black students pick cotton and wear shackles during slavery lessons, say reports
Parents at the Rochester, New York, school, where half the students are Black, are calling for the …
Alia Shoaib
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Lisa Blunt Rochester eyes chance to break barriers as Delaware's first Black female senator
Senator Tom Carper is retiring, urging protege Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester to run for his seat. She w…
Nicole Gaudiano
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Deadly Covid variants still transmissible between species, finds study
Scientists believe bats first transmitted Covid virus to humans in December 2019, and while the vir…
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Rochester police charged one of their officers with excessive force and unprofessional conduct over the death of Daniel Prude
Officer Mark Vaughn was charged by his department with unnecessary and excessive force and unprofes…
Jake Epstein
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Rochester mayor's husband arrested as part of a months-long narcotics ring investigation, prosecutors say
Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren's husband Timothy Granison has been charged with criminal possession …
Kelly McLaughlin
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Daniel Prude's children filed a lawsuit against Rochester, alleging that the city has a history of ignoring police misconduct
Daniel Prude died last March, a week after police responded to a call for a mental health crisis an…
Haven Orecchio-Egresitz
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Rochester police criticized by accountability board after a Black mom was pepper-sprayed in front of her 3-year-old child
Body camera footage from the woman's arrest on February 22 raised concerns as the latest incident i…
Bre'Anna Grant
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The Rochester police officers involved in the death of Daniel Prude won't face charges, NY AG says
Daniel Prude died a week after officers put a "spit hood" over his head while he was in a mental cr…
Haven Orecchio-Egresitz
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Rochester cops tried to remove 9-year-old from a violent family crisis before pepper-spraying her, video shows
The video shows an officer trying to remove the girl from her home, where she was sobbing and accus…
Ashley Collman
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A fertility doctor accused of impregnating patients with his sperm died in a plane crash when the hand-built aircraft fell apart in mid-air
Morris Wortman, 72, was one of two men killed in an experimental aircraft crash in Yates, New York,…
Rebecca Cohen
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Rochester officials tried for months to stall the release of body camera footage showing Daniel Prude's fatal encounter with police, documents show
Documents show law-enforcement leaders saying they feared "blow back" if they released the footage …
Kelly McLaughlin
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A Rochester police officer wrote 'make him a suspect' on an incident report about Daniel Prude's death as city officials tried to delay the release of body camera footage, documents show
Daniel Prude, a Black man, died from died in March, one week after police put him in a "spit hood" …
Kelly McLaughlin
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Rochester Police department's entire command staff, including its chief, have resigned over the death of Daniel Prude
Rochester, New York, Mayor Lovely Warren announced that the police department's command staff was r…
Kelly McLaughlin
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Video shows a driver spraying Rochester Black Lives Matter demonstrators with a yellow substance, then hitting a protester with their car
The incident happened in the early hours of Saturday, as protesters in the city marched for Daniel …
Ashley Collman
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New York's attorney general is forming a grand jury for the death of Daniel Prude, who suffocated after police put him in a 'spit hood'
Daniel Prude, a 41-year-old Black man, died days after Rochester police placed him in a "spit hood"…
Michelle Mark,Associated Press
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Daniel Prude's family called the police to help with his mental health crisis: 'I didn't call them to come help my brother die'
Joe Prude said he told police that his brother, who died after officers held a "spit hood" over his…
Haven Orecchio-Egresitz
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Video shows an off-duty Rochester, New York, firefighter putting out a boat fire using his jet ski
"Sometimes off duty, but always a firefighter," the Rochester Fire Fighters Association said on Twi…
Azmi Haroun
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Woman who survived deadly stampede at GloRilla show said it was 'chaos' inside: 'You couldn't move your body'
"If you would've fell, it would've been impossible to get up because there's no space," a concertgo…
Taylor Ardrey
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Her father allegedly raped her developmentally disabled mother. She tracked him down through Ancestry.com.
Maggie Cruz is suing the New York agency that ran the facility where her mother lived and her fathe…