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  • 1 week ago | dcnewsnow.com | Isabel Garcia |Isabel García

    ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — One Rochester family is navigating an emotional journey after learning their sister, whom officials declared dead in February of 2024, is actually alive and living out of state. Shanita Hopkins reached out to News 8 with a very unusual situation. Her family filed a missing person’s report for her sister, Shanice Crews, in July of 2021. They were concerned because she left two children behind and cut off all communication.

  • 1 week ago | rochesterfirst.com | Isabel Garcia

    ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — New details are emerging regarding the local, renowned neurosurgeon who tragically died in a plane crash in Columbia County this past weekend, along with several of his immediate family members. Dr. Michael Groff was widely known throughout the northeast for his impact in neuroscience. It was a private plane which crashed just before noon on Saturday in Copake, New York right by the Massachusetts state line.

  • 2 weeks ago | rochesterfirst.com | Isabel Garcia

    ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — Movie lovers have a range of options to soak in the silver screen in the Rochester area, after all motion pictures wouldn’t be where they are today without the influence and technology of Kodak. But even for non-movie lovers – there are new and exciting experiences to explore film history and impact. When iconic filmmaker David Lynch passed away in January, two historic art houses teamed up to give way to an expansive tribute, ergo, A Lyttle Lynch Series.

  • 3 weeks ago | rochesterfirst.com | Isabel Garcia

    ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — Monroe County health leaders are providing greater insight into the recent trends of the state of youth mental health following a recent tragedy at the School of the Arts where a student died following a fall from the roof of a building. Leaders note it is crucial to keep the conversation about mental health, in particular suicide, open and secure so that young people have greater access to adults willing to listen.

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

    ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — One week ago, several Rochester Police officers called to assist Homeland Security reportedly went too far when an RPD supervisor made an arrest. The Mayor and Chief of Police called them out for their actions and ordered more training. Leaders, including Rochester City Councilmember Stanley Martin calling for the firing of the officers.

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Isabel Garcia @IsabelG_WROC
9 Apr 25

WATCH LIVE @News_8: @Sheriff_Baxter @monroesheriffny & Sgt. Bolton provide an update to a recent M&T Bank armed robbery. Sheriff says this was “like something out of a movie” Employees were ordered into women’s bathroom during incident. $452,600 stolen: https://t.co/Y6nvMEJHGh

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