Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb, R-Canandaigua, today lent his support to a measure announced by U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer to rescind the Unemployment Insurance Interest Assessment Surcharge imposed on businesses and refund any businesses that have paid this assessment.
A Finger Lakes wine won the Winery of the Year award at the New York Wine & Food Classic competition held on August 15 and 16 at the Watkins Glen Harbor Hotel in Watkins Glen.
State Health Commissioner Dr. Nirav R. Shah today urged all New Yorkers to take precautions to prevent mosquito bites after mosquitoes carrying West Nile virus and Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) virus have been identified in areas of the state. A 4-year-old child from Oswego County died of EEE on Sunday.
A 24-year-old camp counselor died in a snorkeling accident.
Common Cause New York, a nonprofit, nonpartisan citizens’ advocacy organization, today called on Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state Department of Environmental Commissioner Joe Martens to “hold no less than a 180-day comment period and statewide public hearings on the state's proposed fracking guidelines.”
U.S. Rep. Tom Reed is in Israel this week with a group of about 20 mostly freshman GOP congress members. Reed said today the trip is privately sponsored and funded by the American Israel Education Foundation,
The Washington Post reports that the U.S. Army suffered a record 32 suicides in July, the most since it began releasing monthly figures in 2009.
Dean Hiler, 75, of Churchville, was attempting to land his 1946 single-prop plane at the Seneca Falls airport Friday morning.
Minnesota rivals Tim Pawlenty and Michele Bachmann sparred bitterly Thursday night, during an eight-candidate Republican debate, trying to break out of the GOP presidential pack ahead of an Iowa test vote with huge consequences. Each seeks to become the main challenger to Republican front-runner Mitt Romney.
Hazel Robeson, Verona Mack and Ron Davis of Middlesex will be honored at this year’s eighth annual Middlesex Citizen Appreciation Day.
Darien Lake’s Ride Of Steel is closed again due to a mechanical malfunction.
He knew the words to many an Irish ballad, raised 14 children in his Brooklyn home and considered Frank Sinatra a friend.
The Fairport community will come together this evening to remember five Fairport graduates who died in a car crash in 2007.
When David Poulton saw Mark J. Christie enter a courtroom in the Monroe County Hall of Justice yesterday, he felt a wave of emotion flood his body from the feet up. His fists clenched. He held back angry tears. He wanted to jump over the courtroom’s dividing wall between the public audience and the staging area.
The 27th annual Cheshire Union Antique Show is returning Saturday, Aug. 13, to the Cheshire Union Grounds, 4244 Route 21.
New York Farm Bureau Thursday applauded the announcement that no new federal regulations governing transport of agricultural products will be imposed.
Greece police have made an arrest in the shooting of a 25-year-old Rochester man who was left in the median on Mount Read Boulevard.
Brittanee Drexel’s family is unveiling a new tool in the search for the missing Chili teenager.
