Rochester

A former Rochester nursing home employee was sentenced Friday to decades behind bars for the rape and sexual assault of an 81-year-old resident suffering from dementia, New York Attorney General Letitia James said. Khadka Pradhan, 52, was sentenced to 25 years in prison to be served concurrently, and 20 years of post-release supervision for the events that took place at…

An off-duty police officer in western New York state shot a woman to death, wounded another woman and then killed herself during a domestic dispute, police said.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester will pay $55 million to survivors of sexual abuse committed by clergy members under a settlement announced by church officials. The diocese, which declared bankruptcy in 2019 after hundreds of lawsuits were filed against it under the state’s Child Victims Act, will create a trust for abuse survivors, Rochester Bishop Salvatore Matano said Thursday. Survivors...

A Rochester couple who a Black firefighter accused of throwing a racist pool party this summer mocking the Juneteenth holiday said Tuesday that the party was intended to ridicule liberal politicians but wasn’t bigoted. The couple, dentist Nicholas Nicosia and real estate agent Mary Znidarsic-Nicosia, said their July 7 party had been mischaracterized, but Znidarsic-Nicosia confessed to running a racist Twitter account. According to...

The firefighter said the party, held at a private home in a wealthy section of the city, featured a display mocking Juneteenth, which celebrates the end of slavery in the 19th century, with the holiday’s flags displayed over buckets of fried chicken

A police officer killed in an ambush as he investigated a murder was eulogized Monday at a funeral attended by hundreds of fellow officers, who recalled his dedication to the job with affection but voiced frustration that some people don’t appreciate the dangers. Rochester Police Officer Anthony Mazurkiewicz, 54, died July 21 when a gunman approached his unmarked vehicle from…

A man has been charged in the shooting death of a police officer in Rochester, New York, authorities said Friday. Another officer was wounded late Thursday in what police described as an ambush. A 15-year-old girl in a nearby house was also shot and wounded. The slain officer, Anthony Mazurkiewicz, a 29-year member of the department, was in a parked…

A police officer was fatally shot and another wounded in Rochester, New York, officials said Friday. The officers were on patrol as part of a plainclothes tactical unit when they were shot around 9:15 p.m. Thursday, authorities said. Police Chief David Smith identified the slain officer as Anthony Mazurkiewicz, a 29-year member of the department. “Last night, Officer Mazurkiewicz and…

A woman in western New York is now receiving mail from the distant past.

A woman in New York is now receiving mail from the distant past — written by relatives who have since passed away.

A doorbell camera captured the moment a police pursuit ended in a roll-over crash in Rochester, New York.

A western New York man was arraigned on a reckless endangerment charge Thursday after a round he fired while target shooting struck a window at the Hill Cumorah complex, leading tourists to take cover and prompting a massive police presence at the religious site, state police said.

On another occasion, the teacher brought in handcuffs and shackles, according to the students, and asked them to put them on.

Rochester school officials are investigating allegations that a white teacher told his class of mostly Black students to pick seeds out of cotton and put on handcuffs during lessons on slavery in a seventh-grade social studies class. The teacher has been put on leave while the school system investigates the allegations. They came to light after an appalled parent posted...

Rochester’s ex-police chief La’Ron Singletary will receive $75,000 from the City of Rochester after he sued the city for wrongful termination last year, alleging that former Mayor Lovely Warren fired him for refusing to lie during an investigation into the death of Daniel Prude

Two young men were fatally shot early Thursday in the halls of an apartment building in Rochester, bringing the number of homicides so far this year in New York’s fourth-largest city to the most since 1993. That year, there were 70 homicides recorded in total, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reported. At least one of the men in Thursday’s crime...

The former Rochester police chief who was fired over his department’s handling of last year’s suffocation death of Daniel Prude announced Thursday he is running for Congress. La’Ron Singletary, who recently changed his registration from Democrat to Republican, is seeking to unseat two-term Democrat Joe Morelle in New York’s 25th Congressional District, which includes Rochester. “I stand before you...

Two men from the Rochester area have been charged in a federal indictment with pepper-spraying police officers during the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. According to court documents unsealed Wednesday, Cody Mattice, 28, and James Mault, 29, each face charges including engaging in physical violence with a deadly or dangerous weapon while in a restricted building. Prosecutors say photos…

Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren agreed to resign shortly before her term ends as part of a deal to settle charges she violated campaign finance rules during her 2017 reelection campaign.

Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren is scheduled to go on trial this week along with two associates on charges they broke campaign finance rules during her 2017 reelection campaign