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Newly released grand jury transcripts shed more light on why police officers who restrained Daniel Prude avoided criminal charges in his death.

A New York state trooper on Friday shot and wounded a man who authorities say threatened officers with a butcher’s knife as they tried to arrest him in Rochester for allegedly violating his parole

A grand jury investigating the police suffocation death of Daniel Prude last year in Rochester, New York, voted 15-5 not to indict the three officers who restrained him, according to transcripts of the proceedings released Friday. Prosecutors from the state attorney general’s office had asked the grand jury to consider a criminally negligent homicide charge for the officers, who...

A New York state elementary school principal was charged with sexually abusing nine students during school in a case that prosecutors say goes back at least four years.

An upstate New York man has been charged with setting off explosives in another man’s yard and sending letters to neighbors warning that he planned to continue doing it.

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

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.

A federal judge in western New York has rejected a plea for compassionate release by a Rochester mobster who says he’s at risk of death because of the coronavirus

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

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.

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.

Newly released footage shows more details between a 9-year-old girl, her family and police officers in Rochester, New York, on the day the girl was pepper-sprayed while handcuffed in the back of a patrol car. More than one police officer was seen throwing instructions at the girl while she was hysterical and calling for her father.

Rochester’s former police chief said he did not initially see anything “egregious” in body-cam video of officers restraining Daniel Prude, the Black man who died after being held down naked on a city street last winter. La’Ron Singletary, who was fired by the mayor after the video’s public release, answered questions Friday in a live-streamed, hours-long deposition about the city’s handling...

The mother of a 9-year-old girl who was handcuffed and pepper-sprayed by Rochester police said the officers involved should be fired. Public outrage has been high since body camera footage released Sunday showed officers restraining and scolding the girl, who was screaming for her father. The mother, Elba Pope, told CNY Central on Tuesday that the conflict started as an argument between her...

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.

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.”

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.”

The New York National Guard released the identities of three service members killed in a helicopter training accident on Friday, a day after their bodies were recovered and transported by police and fire escort from the crash site. The victims include Chief Warrant Officer Steven Skoda, a 35-year veteran of the Army and the New York Amy National Guard. He…

A National Guard helicopter crash in upstate New York has left an Orange County family devastated. Their 30-year-old son was among three aboard the helicopter when it crashed Wednesday night. NBC New York’s Chris Glorioso reports.

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.