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1 day ago | rochesterfirst.com | Damon Fletcher

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) – Rochester police have made an arrest related to a Saturday shooting inside of a home on Ward Street that fatally injured a 19-year-old. According to police, 19-year-old Delwin Aponte-Charbonier arrived at Rochester General Hospital in a private vehicle on May 31, and was suffering from at least one gunshot wound to his upper body. Aponte-Charbonier was later pronounced dead despite medical efforts.

1 day ago | rochesterfirst.com | Amanda Seitz |Mike Stobbe

WASHINGTON (AP) — There was a notable absence last week when U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced in a 58-second video that the government would no longer endorse the COVID-19 vaccine for healthy children or pregnant women. The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — the person who typically signs off on federal vaccine recommendations — was nowhere to be seen.

1 day ago | rochesterfirst.com | Damon Fletcher

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) – A Rochester area teacher has been arrested on child pornography charges. According to prosecutors, New York State Police received a report from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that a person living in Rochester uploaded an image of child pornography from the internet. Prosecutors said an investigation traced the images to Kevin Burns, 45, who was a teacher employed by a school in Monroe County.

3 days ago | rochesterfirst.com | Theresa Marsenburg

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — James Jim Allen taught himself how to take photographs, and it became a second career. For decades, Allen could be found front and center at the concerts of some of the world’s most recognizable jazz artists or up-and-coming musicians. “I like this one he took right here of Al Jarreau. It was coming out of the darkness. It’s my favorite,” said Johnny Allen, Jim’s brother. “I always looked up to him, ” he said.

3 days ago | rochesterfirst.com | Natalie Kucko

OGDEN, N.Y. (WROC) – There are renewed calls from public officials in Ogden and Spencerport seeking to reopen the Gillett Road bridge, which is owned by CSX Corporation. Leaders say they are ready to take the company to court if they fail to respond to needed repairs on the bridge, which connects the town of Ogden to the village of Spencerport.