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RG&E putting its customers on alert about scammers acting as employees to steal personal information. Scammers are threatening customers that their power will be shut off unless they make a payment. Make sure you don’t give out any personal information. RG&E & NYSEG warn customers of scammers posing as employees (rochesterfirst.com)

A new film inspired by HBCUs, currently in production at 20th Century Studios and, H.E.R. teaming up with Oprah Winfrey for this project. H.E.R, who made her acting debut as “Squeak” in “The Color Purple” last year, will be involved in developing, producing, and starring in this new film. The story follows a ballet dancer […]

Alicia Keys’ musical “Hell’s Kitchen,” a tribute to her upbringing in New York City, has achieved significant recognition at the 2024 Tony Awards with 13 nominations, tying with another musical, “Stereophonic.” The play has been nominated across several major categories, including Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical, Best Direction, and Best Choreography. Notably, Maleah […]

The U.S. government has announced that all new passenger vehicles will be required to include automatic emergency braking (AEB) systems as standard equipment within the next five years. This new regulation, described by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) as the most significant safety rule in two decades, aims to reduce the nearly 40,000 […]

The University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) has been granted $27 million to conduct a comprehensive study evaluating the necessity of Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators (ICDs) in heart failure patients. ICDs are devices used to prevent cardiac arrest by correcting deadly arrhythmias, yet current data show that only about 1% of these patients receive lifesaving shocks […]

The Greater Rochester Martin Luther King Jr. Commission announces they are celebrating Juneteenth with the annual Juneteenth Festival. The festival will take place on June 15, 2024, at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park, 353 Court Street Rochester, NY. The parade will start at 10:00 a.m. and the festival will begin immediately after […]

The Rochester school board intends to rename School 33 on Webster Avenue for the late Iris Banister, it announced Saturday during Banister’s memorial service at the school. Banister, who died in March at age 77, spent more than 30 years working in the Rochester City School District, part of a career of service in education. She and […]

New York State Police announced the arrest of 2 people in Ontario County for a murder for hire hit on a prosecutor, judge and witness after a 21-year-old man was convicted for rape. The man in jail Alexander Kise was linked to being the brain behind the plot from jail that involves his girlfriend identified […]

A Florida couple was arrested after trying to fake lottery officials with a bogus million dollar winning scratch off ticket. Reports say the couple tried to piece together two different scratch-off tickets that police say was a horrible job and tried to pass it off as a million-dollar winner only problem the back of both […]