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Ontario and Monroe Counties, N.Y. - The deaths of two Ontario County residents from swine flu have contributed to fears about the illness.

If you were on a NYC Transit subway during the rush hour on Nov. 9, 1965, you were among about 800,000 other unlucky riders trapped underground due to a blackout that plunged 80,000 square miles of the U.S. into total darkness.

More than one year since ground was broken on the Academy Place project, the former school that houses it has undergone some big changes inside.

More than $289 million in federal stimulus funds have been paid to Monroe County agencies, institutions and companies in grants, loans and contracts - leading to the creation or retention of 226 reported jobs, according to newly released data.

The combination of a dead body and possibly toxic chemicals found inside a parked car prompted the evacuation of homes in a half-mile radius of a park in Ontario County Monday evening.

With a large blade in hand, Ralph Bushey stood in a bar parking lot and sliced and trimmed a football-sized hunk of uncooked beef.

Share + Oct 30, 2009 12:33 pm US/Central ROCHESTER, N.Y. A newlywed drew a maximum sentence of 25 years to life in prison for bludgeoning and stabbing his Texas-born wife on Thanksgiving Day and burying her body on a rocky Lake Ontario beach.

A Parma resident and two citizen activists collected soil from a Parma sports field Tuesday, marking the third time the dirt has been sampled for harmful arsenic.

You just finished buying a new cell / mobile phone and it's got everything you need in one neat little gadget.

Rochester's Center for Environmental Information has received a $255,000 federal stimulus grant to study the sources of phosphorus, a potentially damaging pollutant, in tributaries of Lake Ontario.

With three best sellers to his credit, Malcolm Gladwell is one of the brightest stars in the media firmament.

Eight years after agreeing to clean up contamination at an old shipyard and military plant on Dewey Avenue in Greece, the property owner has given up, leaving New York state with the task of overseeing remediation of the heavily polluted site.

As three candidates vie for the vacant town supervisor post in Penfield, two Republican Town Board members are staving off Democratic challengers in what has become one of Monroe County's more competitive races.

Wind farms in upstate New York are interfering with National Weather Service Doppler radars, making it more difficult to detect and assess approaching lake effect snow storms.

Monroe County voters would likely be forgiven if they tire of hearing about grand public projects.

Up for the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer 5k walk last Sunday in downtown Rochester.

The public defender office being established in Ontario County won't be noticeable to the public in its basement location next to the county courthouse in Canandaigua But Tom Kidera, who Thursday night was appointed by the county Board of Supervisors to head the new office, is determined that the defendants he will represent get a fair shake.

Agri-tourism is alive and well - as are the imaginations of groups around the area - when it comes to the harvest and Halloween.

An Ontario County man today is facing felony charges following a two-vehicle accident last night in Manchester, Ontario County.

Change at the top I am very concerned as a citizen, since I will be retiring in two years, because of the taxes in New York state.