Irondequoit News

Police have called off the search for a missing Irondequoit woman. She was found in Watertown Saturday night.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is facing increased pressure from good-government and women's groups after two reports this week alleged sought to protect Assemblyman Vito Lopez from sexual harassment complaints made by Lopez's aides.

Irondequoit, N.Y. - The bridge carrying Route 590 over East Ridge Road will close to traffic after morning rush hour Monday, May 13.

You might as well roll out the red carpet in front of the school gymnasium or hotel ballroom and line it with parental paparazzi: Prom season provides many girls a chance to have their moment in the spotlight.

The bridge over East Ridge Road in Irondequoit on Route 590 will close for repairs Monday, May 13 after rush-hour, and will remain closed through October.

Jury deliberations are set to begin Friday morning for the Rochester man accused of killing teenager Larie Butler.

The Rutgers staff has developed a pipeline to the Rochester area, one that Syracuse - the area's most local FBS institution - would be envious of.

Testimony in the murder trial of DeVonte Lively, 21, continued Wednesday with a focus on communication to and from a phone believed to be one Lively was using on March 24, 2012.

Irondequoit, N.Y. - The DEC is trying to figure out what's causing hundreds of fish to die in Irondequoit Bay.

A state senator from Olean is proposing new legislation requiring cameras be mounted on those stop signs you see on school buses.

The Cabot Group has been selected to represent the real estate subsidiary of the Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation in the sale of seven Rochester-area apartment communities, the Pittsford firm said Tuesday.

Economic-development agencies run by local governments doled out $1.5 billion in tax breaks to 4,486 projects in 2011, an increase of 16 percent in net exemptions since 2010, the state Comptroller's Office said Tuesday.

The prosecution will continue to call witnesses Tuesday in the murder trial of DeVonte Lively.

As of Wednesday, May 1, Gitsis officially was no more. It is under new ownership and been replaced by The Avenue Diner.

"I've been coming here my whole life." Over the past several weeks, as I visited some spots in the Rochester area that have been around since long before I was, I heard that phrase a lot.

Well, I used to be, anyway. When my kids were younger, I'd save hundreds of dollars every year by going through garbage cans on locker clean-out day.

Leadership changes in the state Legislature this year have meant higher stipends for some state lawmakers -- and a decrease in pay for others.

Theresa Lou Bowick, a Rochester nurse and the author of Collard Green Curves: A fat girl's journey from childhood obesity to healthy living, will be doing a meet-and-greet book-signing of her self-published memoir.

It was another day of emotional testimony and new evidence in the case against a man accused of murdering a Rochester teen.

A jury on Wednesday heard from the first of about 50 witnesses scheduled to testify in the trial of DeVonte Lively, who is accused of brutally killing Larie Butler and hiding her body in an Irondequoit pool.