One woman is dead and three people — including one firefighter — were hospitalized after a house fire early Friday morning on Hancock Street.

In Albion Thursday, a roundtable moderated by Congresswoman Claudia Tenney invited local law enforcement leaders and elected officials to address some of the issues law enforcement faces every day.

From border patrol, to Sheriff's deputies, to district attorneys, Congresswoman Tenney and Senate Republican Leader Rob Ortt say the biggest takeaway is that a lot of issues exist.

READ MORE: https://www.rochesterfirst.com/news/taking-the-tools-away-congresswoman-tenney-moderates-roundtable-regarding-law-enforcement-concerns/

Dr. Jeff Liles started his career teaching an 8th grade social studies class in Oklahoma. 45 years later, he gave his last lecture Thursday as an associate professor at St. John Fisher University.

READ MORE: https://www.rochesterfirst.com/news/local-news/st-john-fisher-university-professor-gets-retirement-surprise/

Since the 1980s Braddock Bay Raptor Research has been tracking the migration of raptors at Braddock Bay. This is one of hundreds of stations all across North America tracking the migration of these birds of prey in order to better study them and track changes in the environment. 

New York Secretary of state Robert Rodriguez visited Rochester Thursday to join city and county leaders to discuss the benefits of New York's downtown revitalization initiatives, or 'DRI.'

According to investigators, police were called to a home along Monroe-Orleans County Line Road shortly before 2:30 p.m. They found a female dead from an apparent gunshot wound.

READ MORE: https://www.rochesterfirst.com/monroe-county/police-investigation-under-way-on-monroe-orleans-county-line-road-in-hamlin/

The Bright Star Women's Shelter got the chance to visit the Memorial Art Gallery on Thursday thanks to a local nonprofit.

The delivery driver who admitted to killing a Rochester man with his car near Highmark Stadium and leaving the scene was sentenced Thursday.

READ MORE: https://www.rochesterfirst.com/crime/delivery-driver-who-killed-rochester-man-in-hit-and-run-near-bills-stadium-sentenced-to-120-days/

New funding was secured for the Flower City as part of the state budget with a total of 30 million on its way to Monroe County.

The City of Rochester released the 2024 Party in the Park lineup Thursday. The annual summer event, now in its 27th year, brings live music to Martin Luther King Jr. Park in downtown Rochester every Thursday from July 11 through August 15.

Flower City Challenge 2019

From a project that uses AI to read your hand motions to light up the Burj Khalifa, to a solar vehicle— RIT students are just days away from showing off projects they’ve been working on since the beginning of the school year.

It's time for spring cleaning in the home and in the medicine cabinet.