Brush fires on New York's Long Island have picked up quickly amid high winds. They are spewing thick gray smoke into the sky and have closed a major highway. Officials say three of the four fires have ...

That's how long Ryan Corbett of Livingston County was held prisoner by the Taliban in Afghanistan. Corbett returned to U.S. soil in January, and today, a homecoming was held in his honor in his ...

Commissioner James Patterson has filed a complaint against fellow board member Isaiah Santiago, accusing him of using a ...

KANEOHE, Hawaii (AP) — Hawaii’s American colonizers once banned the Hawaiian language in schools. Some Native Hawaiians tried to lighten their skin with lye. Many people believed Polynesian voyagers ...

The victim reported that two people, 19-year-old Zahmir C. Brown from Rochester and 20-year-old Stephanie J. Davis from Greece, threatened him with a firearm before stealing his property.

The prison strikes across New York State have reached day 20, but an end may be in sight.The New York State Department of Corrections announced that the state and the corrections officers union have ...

Rochester Police found a stolen Kia at 7-Eleven on Lake Avenue by Stonewood Avenue in Greece on Saturday at 1:30 p.m.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said he rejects a U.S. push for talks between the two countries because they would be aimed at imposing restrictions on Iranian missile ...

Tensions ran high at the Rochester City School Board meeting Thursday night, after Dr. Eric Jay Rosser was named the new superintendent of schools.

Negotiations between the union representing striking corrections officers and the state broke down early Saturday morning.