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Woman Gets Postcard Her Late Mom Sent on 1960s Honeymoon, Then More Mail From the Dead
A woman in New York is now receiving mail from the distant past — written by relatives who have since passed away.
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WATCH: Doorbell Cam Captures Police Pursuit Ending in Roll-Over Crash
A doorbell camera captured the moment a police pursuit ended in a roll-over crash in Rochester, New York.
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NY Teacher Under Fire for Asking Black Students to Pick Cotton in Class on Slavery
On another occasion, the teacher brought in handcuffs and shackles, according to the students, and asked them to put them on.
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NY Woman Accuses Fertility Doctor of Secretly Using Own Sperm
A woman is suing a New York fertility doctor, claiming he used his own sperm to secretly impregnate multiple patients — something she said she discovered when DNA genealogy tests revealed she had at least nine half-siblings.
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No Charges, But Consequences Still Possible From Prude Death
Newly released grand jury transcripts shed more light on why police officers who restrained Daniel Prude avoided criminal charges in his death.
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Probe Faults Mayor, Officials for Keeping Prude Death Secret
An investigation into the official response to Daniel Prude’s police suffocation death last year in Rochester, New York, is faulting the city’s mayor and former police chief for keeping critical details of the case secret for months and lying to the public about what they knew
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Wrongful Death Suit Filed on Behalf of Daniel Prude's Kids
Attorneys for the five children of Chicago resident Daniel Prude have announced a federal lawsuit against the city of Rochester, New York, alleging wrongful death and civil rights violations.
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Bodycam Footage Shows Police Pepper-Spray Woman With Her 3-Year-Old Child Nearby
A Rochester, New York police officer has been placed on administrative duty after using pepper spray on a shoplifting suspect who tried to escape with her 3-year-old child in her arms
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Bodycam Video Shows Woman with Child Being Pepper-Sprayed
The Rochester Police Department released the body cam footage from a February arrest in which a woman is pepper-sprayed in the presence of her child. It was the latest of several incidents with Black residents that have prompted calls for changes to the department.
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New Video Captures Pepper-Sprayed Girl's Wait for EMTs
Newly released police body camera video captured a 9-year-old girl’s distressing wait for an ambulance after she is pepper-sprayed by police while handcuffed in a police cruiser.
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Rochester Officers Who Pepper-Sprayed 9-Year-Old Suspended
The city of Rochester has removed three police officers seen in body-camera videos spraying a chemical “irritant” in the face of a distraught and handcuffed 9-year-old girl, officials announced Monday.
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Videos Show Rochester Officers Handcuff, Pepper-Spray 9-Year-Old
Police in Rochester have released two body-camera videos of officers restraining a distraught 9-year-old girl who was handcuffed and sprayed with what police called a chemical “irritant.”
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Remains of Troops Killed in Upstate Military Training Helicopter Crash Recovered
Three National Guard members on a routine training flight were killed Wednesday when their helicopter crashed in a western New York town, an official said.
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NY Neighborhood Gets Original 1929 Race Restrictions Removed From Home Deeds
The deeds in the town outside Rochester were originally written close to a century ago with the line, “No lot or dwelling shall be sold to or occupied by a colored person” — a common restrictive covenant at the time
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Ex-Rochester Police Chief Says City's Mayor Told Him to Lie About Daniel Prude's Death
Rochester, New York’s former police chief alleges the city’s mayor pressured him to lie about her handling of the police killing of Daniel Prude, which was kept from the public for six months, and that she fired him because he refused to do so.
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Deadly Party Shooting Adds New Layer to Rochester's Grief
The city of Rochester, New York, is dealing with more trauma after a shooting at a backyard party killed two teenagers and injured 14 others
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Rochester Mayor Removes Chief, Calls for Sweeping Investigations of City's Role in Daniel Prude's Death
Mayor Lovely Warren delivered a brief press conference on Monday where she made major staffing changes within several city departments and called on the U.S. Attorney’s Office to investigate Rochester’s role in the death of Daniel Prude.
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Top Rochester Cops Retire After Protests Following Daniel Prude's Death
The chief and deputy chief of the Rochester, NY Police Department retired abruptly Tuesday after days of demonstrations over the March death of Daniel Prude, who lost consciousness after police held him down with a hood over his head.
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Naked With ‘Spit Hoods' on, Protesters Decry Prude's Death
Protesters demonstrated outside Rochester’s police headquarters naked except for “spit hoods” in reference to the killing of Daniel Prude.
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Mayor Promises Police Reforms Following Daniel Prude's Death
The mayor of Rochester says reforms are coming to the police department as community elders seek to bring calmer minds to a fifth night of demonstrations over the March death of Daniel Prude, who lost consciousness after police held a hood over his head