Heidi Macpherson, president of The College at Brockport, was presented with the 34th annual ATHENA International Award on Thursday night. Julie Camardo, owner and CEO of Zweigle’s Inc., received the sixth annual ATHENA Young Professional Award. And Butler/Till Media Services ...
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Water Authority sued over property damage 
The Monroe County Water Authority is being sued by an insurance company that paid for damage caused to a real estate business in Perinton by a water main break. The company, Secway Realty LLC, 2815 Baird Road, Perinton, was insured ...
Read More »MLK event highlights contributions of women 
The focus was on women at this year’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration at the Eastman Theatre Monday. “This is a momentous year,” Simeon Banister, chair of the Greater Rochester Martin Luther King Jr. Commission, told an audience of ...
Read More »New Rochester housing court created 
Tenants in the city of Rochester now have a new option to deal with code enforcement violations their landlord has failed to address. State Supreme Court Justice Craig J. Doran, chief administrative judge for the Seventh Judicial District, on Tuesday ...
Read More »Ontario County company sued for discrimination 
An Ontario County company is being sued by a former worker who claims she was not rehired after being injured because of her age. In 2010, Linda Lu DiMarco, a Monroe County resident, started working for G.W. Lisk, located in ...
Read More »Chief lawyer at UR returns to private practice at the top of her game 
Gail M. Norris, former vice president and general counsel at the University of Rochester, is entering a new phase of her career. In November, Norris, 61, retired from her position at the region’s largest employer and moved to the law ...
Read More »Bank foreclosing on 5LINX defendant’s home 
Canandaigua National Bank and Trust Co. is foreclosing on the home of a man convicted in the 5LINX federal fraud case. According to documents filed Thursday in state Supreme Court in Ontario County, Jason Guck, who was sentenced to seven ...
Read More »Ex-Harris Beach partners start new law firm 
Attorneys Karlee Bolaños and William Lowe had reached a level of success that many lawyers would consider the pinnacle of a career, yet they have taken a major risk to fulfill a personal dream. Although both had achieved partner status ...
Read More »Jail suicide triggers lawsuit 
The mother of a woman who committed suicide while being held in the Monroe County Jail has filed a lawsuit against the county. On Sept. 4, 2018, Sitarah Daniels hanged herself with a blanket tied to the bars of her ...
Read More »California data security law to have widespread impact 
Two new laws designed to secure personal information collected by businesses will take effect next year. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) goes into effect Jan. 1. And New York’s Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security (SHIELD) Act starts March ...
Read More »State seeks to enforce discrimination ruling 
State officials have gone to court to collect fines imposed against an Ontario County company and force the defunct business to pay money awarded to a Wayne County woman who won a discrimination claim against the firm. The New York ...
Read More »Wilbern convicted of fatal Xerox credit union robbery 
A federal jury on Friday convicted Richard Leon Wilbern for the fatal robbery of the Xerox Federal Credit Union in Webster in 2003. Wilbern, 59, fatally shot Raymond Batzel during the crime and wounded another customer, Joseph Doud. The jury ...
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Read More »Property owner wins Ontario County tax case 
An Ontario County property owner has won a judgment that could approach $300,000 in a 12-year-old property tax case. State Supreme Court Justice John J. Ark wrote in a decision released last week that Ontario County officials failed to properly ...
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Read More »Bello unseats Dinolfo 
Democrat challenger Adam Bello unseated incumbent Republican Monroe County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo in Tuesday’s election. Bello, the current Monroe County Clerk, received 90,035 votes, according to unofficial results from the Monroe County Board of Elections, while Dinolfo got 84,569. Incumbent Republican Monroe County District Attorney Sandra Doorley easily defeated Democrat challenger Shani Curry Mitchell. The unofficial vote count was 95,525 for Doorley and 76,241 for Mitchell. In the city of Rochester, voters passed a referendum to create a police accountability board by a wide margin —with 19,781 in favor and 6,583 opposed.
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Read More »RIPLA awards set for Dec. 12 
The Rochester Intellectual Property Law Association will recognize leaders in creativity at the Inventor of the Year awards on Dec. 12 at Casa Larga Vineyards. Since 1976, RIPLA has recognized as Distinguished Inventor of the Year an individual or team ...
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