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Over the weekend, Special Olympics of New York surprised athlete Jordan Root with a game of a lifetime. Jordan Root was told he has been selected to compete in the 2022 USA Games at Disney World in Orlando, Florida. Special Olympics organizers, along with family and friends, went to surprise him at his place of […]

Please go to www.osc.state.ny.us/unclaimed-funds and check for the possibility of unclaimed funds. You can also go to the Boys and Girls Club on Tuesday, June 29, 2021 at 2 pm – 4 pm.  

This Fall, “The Harder They Fall” will be making its debut on Netflix. This highly anticipated film has an all-star cast of Black gunslingers. The cast includes Idris Elba, Regina King, Jonathan Majors, Lakeith Stanfield, Delroy Lindo, Zazie Beetz, Danielle Deadwyler, Edi Gathegi, and RJ Cyler. Jeymes Samuel, also known as The Bullits, directs a […]

Judge Peter Cahill has sentenced Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was sentenced Friday to 270 months — 22.5 years— in prison for killing George Floyd. Judge Cahill stated the sentence was based solely on legal facts only. Judge Cahill agreed with prosecutors that Derek Chauvin acted with cruelty when he killed George Floyd, abused […]

Yesterday, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the Gender Recognition Act into law, after the state Legislature approved it earlier this month. This new law cleared the way for the DMV to offer the “X” designation to those who do not identify as strictly male or female. The Gender Recognition Act also makes it easier for transgender […]

A Georgia man woke up to the feeling of being a trillionaire for a short time. The man identified as Chris Williamson from Georgia purchased a $20  cryptocurrency via coinbase last week. The Georgia man woke up the next day and saw that his crypto tokens has skyrocketed in value to over $1.1 trillion dollars. […]

In an interview with People, 41-year-old r&b singer Ne-Yo revealed that he will be releasing his eighth studio album ‘The Escape’ this fall, sometime in September or October. Ne-Yo shared his excitement for this album and that his four children have given their stamp of approval on the majority of the songs. Ne-Yo stated; “My […]

After four terms and serving since 2005, Mayor Byron Brown, former state senator, was defeated Tuesday night in the primaries. The candidate to defeat the mayor is India Walton, the first woman and first socialist to lead New York’s second-largest city. Walton defeated Brown by 1,507 votes with all in-person votes counted, and only a […]

Yesterday, nearly two dozen people took to Rochester’s southwest side to denounce violence following recent shootings, some of those being fatal. The group had started at the Boys & Girls Club on Genesee Street, which is supposed to be a safe spot for kids to gather. It is now the site of one of Rochester’s […]