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  • 1 week ago | rochesterfirst.com | Isabel Garcia

    ROCHESTER, N.Y (WROC) — In April, the staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) within the agency’s ‘Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program’ were all fired as part of reductions in force. Now, a local coalition which does community work to help prevent lead poisonings in children is left with uncertainty amid federal budget negotiations. The ‘Coalition to Prevent Lead Poisoning’ is sounding the alarm after recently being revived thanks to support from a program in the CDC.

  • 1 week ago | rochesterfirst.com | Isabel Garcia

    ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — There are going to be calls to address a chaotic situation that unfolded last week in Rochester with a local non-profit at the heart of the controversy.

  • 2 weeks ago | rochesterfirst.com | George Gandy |Isabel Garcia

    ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — Housing services for multiple residents in the Danforth and Hudson-Ridge Towers are being terminated, which is reportedly leading to evictions. The Rochester Housing Authority released a statement saying this was due to the termination of the Enriched Housing Program services to residents living there. They clarified that they are not evicting residents, but the New York State Department of Health is coordinating this action.

  • 2 weeks ago | rochesterfirst.com | Isabel Garcia |Gio Battaglia

    ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — A number of the victims families in the 2022 Buffalo Tops Market mass shooting are taking on social media giants. This, in two civil lawsuits filed in 2023. Which brings us to Tuesday, oral arguments took place all afternoon at the New York Court of Appeals, Dept. 4 in Downtown Rochester. The companies are trying to dismiss wrong death lawsuits filed on behalf of some of the families in the 2022 racially motivated mass shooting at Tops in Buffalo.

  • 3 weeks ago | rochesterfirst.com | Isabel Garcia

    ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — Members from the Rochester Union and Allied Professionals (RUNAP) gathered Tuesday morning outside of Rochester General Hospital on Portland Ave., claiming the hospital administration is not doing its part to ensure adequate staffing levels are maintained. RUNAP is backing this claim with data, which it says is provided directly by hospital administration, as negotiated in the 2023-2027 contract.

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11 May 25

A Mother’s Love: Local #Roc birthing doula holds on to hope as daughter fights for chance amid #heterotaxy @URMed_GCH @News_8 @HeterotaxyOrg https://t.co/O8z6qtrnb1

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7 May 25

#DEVELOPING Former @CityofGenevaPD officer, a 13-year-veteran of the force & former D.A.R.E. officer, Michael Tapscott - accused of selling drugs while on duty; charged with 5th degree criminal sale of controlled substance @News_8 Details here ➡️ https://t.co/az866hxhWU