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When she was a freshman in high school nearly 60 years ago, Kathrine Switzer made the dinner-table proclamation that she wanted to be a cheerleader. Her father, however, told her that wasn't the best choice. Cheerleaders watch what others do, he explained...

The faculty and administration of Monroe Community College could have a new labor contract on Monday. The MCC board of trustees may ratify the contract when it meets on Monday and takes up the tentative agreement between the faculty association ...

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With the foreclosure sale of the Monarch 716 apartment complex in Buffalo less than two weeks away, another student housing community developed by DHD Ventures’ partners Thomas Masaschi and Jason Teller was repossessed in February and is headed to market ...

You could argue that telemedicine has been around as long as the telephone. Just as dialing a rotary phone has changed to telling Alexa to make the call, telemedicine has morphed from the doctor simply instructing you to “take two aspirin and call me in the morning” to the use of photos, videos, smartphones..

Three-D printers make artificial limbs, “organs” so lifelike they appear to bleed and replacements for parts of jaw bones. And, the technology continues to advance. In a nutshell, a 3-D printer creates solid objects from digital representations of those objects. ...

Roberts Wesleyan College will offer an online graduate degree in literary education starting with the fall semester. The program is structured so working teachers will be able to add to their credentials while maintaining their jobs. They may attend full ...

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A Florida-based mortgage lending firm has filed suit against Robert Morgan, his nephew Kevin Morgan and a limited liability company they created, alleging fraudulent filings with regard to a mortgage-backed apartment community in Watertown. The suit seeks $2.5 million in ...

The Greater Rochester International Airport terminal entrance canopy project has earned a nod from the New York State Chapter of the American Public Works Association. The Project of the Year Award recognized the “Gateway to Monroe County” project and the ...

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A year after U.S. Rep. Louise Slaughter’s death, the congresswoman is being honored by state and local elected officials with the renaming of Rochester’s train station as the Louise M. Slaughter Rochester Station...

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In the first two months of 2019, 116 opioid overdoses were reported in Monroe County, with 18 proving fatal, according to the Monroe County Heroin Task Force. It’s a continuation of the growing opioid epidemic sweeping the nation that left ...

Monroe County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo and officials from Seneca Park Zoo announced on Friday that the zoo has teamed up with the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden’s Center for Conservation and Research of Endangered Wildlife (CREW) for a project involving ...

Like most industries in the world of health care, medical imaging is one that is constantly changing in response to a more connected planet. The field seeks to provide a convenient, intuitive patient experience through instantly transferrable documents and more ...

Your vision is your reality. That’s not a fortune cookie quote, but rather a fact of how people live their lives. What your eyes do, how you see, is your norm, you become accepting of it, and even if your ...

Small business employment rose by 9.2 percent in New York State between 2011 and 2016, slightly outpacing the national increase of 8.9 percent, a new report from state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli shows. Using U.S. Census Bureau data, the report shows ...

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A 1,000-pound painting pig from South Africa will have artwork in Rochester Contemporary Art Center’s annual 6×6 exhibit. Pigcasso was saved from a slaughterhouse as a four-week-old piglet by the Farm Sanctuary SA near Cape Town. The sow’s love of ...

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