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A Brooklyn man has been arrested on charges related to hacking into the accounts of Wegmans customers on the grocer’s website and ordering approximately $10,000 worth of food and goods. Maurice Sheftall, 23, was charged with fraud and related activity ...

The owner of a bar shut down under the city of Rochester’s new gun-violence state of emergency order has filed suit, claiming the business was denied due process and that the nuisance point system used by authorities is flawed. Black ...

Three students at the Isabella Graham Hart School of Practical Nursing of Rochester Regional Health have received scholarships from the Greece Chamber Charitable Foundation’s Daniel E. Richardson Memorial Fund. Deanna Rodriguez, Christina Torres, and Amanda Vaccarelli were recipients of the ...

Small businesses that had budgeted for employee retention tax credits for the fourth quarter may either be in for a surprise or face a payback burden now that the program has ended, payroll and accounting advisors say.

  Marketing, advertising and public relations agency Mower won the top award in The Drum Awards for B2B, an international contest recognizing the most creative work in business campaigns. Mower’s Caring Gene: Caring Is Your Calling, developed for Iroquois Healthcare ...

The South West Area Neighborhood Association received a $7,500 Federal Home Loan Bank of New York grant from the Ukrainian Federal Credit Union (UFCU). “We have been making real strides in renovating our space and adding programming to focus on ...

An already limited supply of homes on the market became even more strained in October. The number of houses for sale in Monroe County dropped to 494 last month, down 25.9 percent from the 667 available in October of 2020, ...

A Rochester Institute of Technology alumnus is providing scholarships to two students — as well as the advanced tools to conduct research projects — in hopes of driving more interest in utility and electrical engineering.   Michael Oshetski, CEO and ...

A New York City developer will be transforming a vacant property on State Street across from the Eastman Kodak Co. headquarters into market-rate apartments.

Fairport Brewing Co. is the now the state’s newest farm meadery, with today’s release of just-bottled Beekeeper’s Secret. The addition of meads — often called honey wine — adds to an already diverse beverage lineup that includes Fairport beer, Timbucha ...

CVS Health announced it will close 900 stores — approximately 300 in each of the next three years — as it revamps operations across the country. The Woonsocket, R.I.,-based company operates 28 CVS Pharmacy locations in the Greater Rochester area. ...

DraughtLab of Webster was awarded $250,000 in the third annual Grow-NY competition. DraughtLab was founded in 2016 by sensory experts and problem-solving software designers and produces tools for every level of sensory expertise, providing practical and approachable sensory analysis solutions ...

Lukas Amalfi remembers college life well, including the off-campus living aspect. Along the way to earning a bachelor's degree in real estate development from the Martin J. Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University, he shared a house not far from campus with six other students.

Upgrades are underway on Rochester Gas and Electric’s aging substation 43 in the North Winton Village area. The facility at 101 Wyand Crescent near Farmington Park is being rebuilt to increase capacity and provide a more reliable energy grid for ...

  CPL will be leaving its disjointed downtown Rochester headquarters for office space at Woodcliff in Perinton within the first quarter of 2022. The architecture, engineering and planning firm will move into the former offices of First American Equipment Finance, ...