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Jazz Chisholm Jr. homers against Angels to end 30-inning scoreless streak for the Yankees
The New York Yankees ended their 30-inning scoreless streak Wednesday night when Jazz Chisholm Jr. homered in the second ...
Browns rookie QB Shedeur Sanders ticketed after police say he drove 101 mph in Cleveland suburb
Browns rookie quarterback Shedeur Sanders is accused of driving a pickup truck 101 mph (163 kilometers per hour) on a suburban Cleveland interstate earlier this week. The ...
Coddington Grove intersection in Pittsford
An annual blood drive held in Fairport is honoring 14 years of life-saving outreach on Wednesday. READ MORE, https://www.rochesterfirst.com/news/fairport-angels-blood-drive-held-for-14th-year/ ...
Rochester man sentenced in shooting that killed unborn child
A Rochester man has been sentenced in connection to a May 2024 shooting in Greece that seriously injured two people and ...
Judge says hate crime prosecution in Boulder, Colorado, attack can proceed
A federal judge said Wednesday that prosecutors can proceed with a hate crime charge against a man accused of hurling Molotov cocktails at a group of people demonstrating in Boulder, ...
Whitecaps look to stay hot after clinching playoff spot
The Hilton Central School District is preparing to roll out a new cell phone policy for the 2025-26 academic year, in line with Governor Kathy Hochul’s statewide initiative to create distraction-free ...
Newly opened Play Palace to host ‘Teen Takeover’ nights
With summer around the corner, an often-discussed challenge in our community is where teens can find stuff to do that’s safe. One local business, which recently ...
Scientists warn that greenhouse gas accumulation is accelerating and more extreme weather will come
Humans are on track to release so much greenhouse gas in less than three years that a key threshold for limiting global ...
Fairport Angels Blood Drive held for 14th year
An annual blood drive held in Fairport is honoring 14 years of life-saving outreach on Wednesday. READ MORE, https://www.rochesterfirst.com/news/fairport-angels-blood-drive-held-for-14th-year/ ...
Iran executed at least 975 people last year, the highest number since 2015, UN report says
Iran carried out executions at “an alarming rate” last year with at least 975 people killed, the United Nations chief said in a report that also cited other human rights ...
Utility workers uncover 1,000-year-old pre-Inca mummy in Peru’s capital
Utility workers excavating trenches to expand the network of natural gas pipelines in Peru’s capital have uncovered a pre-Inca mummy approximately 1,000 years old, barely half a ...
The US plans to open a fly factory in Texas as part of its fight against a flesh-eating parasite
The U.S. government plans to open what amounts to a fly factory by the end of the year, announcing its intent Wednesday to breed millions of the insects in Texas near the border with Mexico as ...