Gio Battaglia

1 week ago | localsyr.com | Gio Battaglia

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — Nursing home residents collecting a monthly $50 personal needs allowance as part of their Medicaid check say they want an increase. It’s been the same dollar amount since 1983. Many bills have been introduced to help get more money, but none have reached the necessary step of being signed by the Governor. “Most seniors, they just accept, sometimes what they are given,” nursing home resident Deborah Leary said.

1 week ago | rochesterfirst.com | Gio Battaglia

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — A woman is dead after a crash on Lake Avenue in Rochester Wednesday night, according to the Rochester Police Department. Officers responded to the Riverside Street intersection just before 4:30 p.m. Investigators said one car was traveling southbound on Lake Avenue when it drifted into the northbound lane and crashed into a car driving northbound on Lake Avenue. The driver of the southbound vehicle was a 63-year-old East Rochester female.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Gio Battaglia

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — A woman is dead after a crash on Lake Avenue in Rochester Wednesday night, according to the Rochester Police Department. Officers responded to the Riverside Street intersection just before 4:30 p.m. Investigators said one car was traveling southbound on Lake Avenue when it drifted into the northbound lane and crashed into a car driving northbound on Lake Avenue. The driver of the southbound vehicle was a 63-year-old East Rochester female.

1 week ago | rochesterfirst.com | Gio Battaglia

PITTSFORD, N.Y. (WROC) — It’s been nearly a year and a half since Pittsford native Ryan Realbuto was fatally gunned last January in Washington D.C. when he was walking home from an event with a church group. His mother, Janet, has thought about that night every day since. “It was a phone call that no parent ever, ever wants to receive, nor should receive,” she said, at a Peace Pole Planting ceremony in his honor Wednesday.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Gio Battaglia

PITTSFORD, N.Y. (WROC) — It’s been nearly a year and a half since Pittsford native Ryan Realbuto was fatally gunned last January in Washington D.C. when he was walking home from an event with a church group. His mother, Janet, has thought about that night every day since. “It was a phone call that no parent ever, ever wants to receive, nor should receive,” she said, at a Peace Pole Planting ceremony in his honor Wednesday.