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On Thursday, the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office announced the end of phase one of Operation Guardian.  Rochester First reported: “The operation began May 17 and resulted in 60 arrests. Five of those arrests were for homicides. Officials say the number of homcide arrests by the Task Force in the first half of 2021 already is the […]

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 […]

City Councilman Malik Evans won the Democratic Party primary election for Rochester mayor. Evans won by approximately 6,000 votes over Mayor Lovely Warren. He addressed supporters declaring his plan to put Rochester into the top echelon of American cities where it belongs. And, right out of the gate, he talked about the urgent need to address […]

At just 35 years old, Staff Sgt. Wesley Black is about to die. Black is currently struggling with colon cancer that has spread through his body. Black told CNN: “I could be dead tomorrow. I could live another six months … It really all just depends on how my body responds to the oral chemotherapy, […]

2020 was a terrible year for just about everybody………… but not for scammers! Senior citizens lost almost $1 billion in scams last year.  According to an FBI report released this week. A total of 105,301 people over the age of 65 were scammed, with an average loss of $9,175, and almost 2,000 older Americans lost more […]

This weekend, there was a multi-vehicle crash on an Alabama highway killing 10 people, 9 of whom were children. Among the 10 there was a father and his infant daughter. Sunday, the father and his 9 month old daughter were identified in a press release. The press release was issued by the Alabama Law Enforcement […]

Yesterday, Desiree Lindstrom celebrated the memory of her fiancée DMX for Father’s Day. Desiree Lindstorm took to Instagram to share a heartwarming message and video of the late rapper with their son Exodus. Desiree wrote: “SCREAMING HAPPY FATHERS DAY ALL THE WAY TO THE HEAVENS ABOVE…! Earl you were such an amazing, protective, loving, inspiring, […]

In a video from May 30th, 2020, Atlanta officers are found shouting at Taniyah Pilgrim and Messiah Young, students at historically Black colleges in Atlanta, firing Tasers at them and dragging them from the car. The students can be heard screaming and asking what they did wrong. Fast forward one year later, Pilgrim and Young […]

At 12:40 a.m. on Sunday, RPD responded to a report of a break in at a local business, Nick Tahou Hots, by an unidentified male. Surveillance photos show the unidentified man arriving at the back door of the business on West Main Street on his bike, and can be seen in other photos searching under […]