ROCHESTER — A total of 170 employees were paid more than $100,000 in 2024, with 145 on the city side and 25 for the schools. This look at Rochester’s city salaries and school salaries comes as city leaders are about the enter budget season, when they will determine how much money they will bill taxpayers for the upcoming fiscal…
The first time Benji, a 5-year-old Maltese mix, checked into the NH Collection New York Madison Avenue with her owner, something seemed a bit off: The metal food and water bowls just would not do. So the staff scrambled, offering the little dog 10 different options until she found a porcelain one she liked. And…
NEW YORK — It’s the most fashionable time of the year for New York City! New York Fashion Week is underway in the Big Apple after officially kicking off Thursday. It’s already been a star-studded affair, with celebrities from Whoopi Goldberg to Keke Palmer turning up to see the latest looks from designers like Brandon…
Amtrak is the best way for Olivia Peloquin to travel from New York City to see family in Boston. It’s also the perfect mode of transportation for her dog, Betty. The 2-year-old Chihuahua-Jack Russell mix makes the round-trip journey four times a year in a stylish olive-green bag carrier. “She’s a Velcro dog, she is…
A Rochester man was stabbed during a fight as he left an urgent care center in Greece on Thursday afternoon, according to police. The encounter occurred at the University of Rochester Medical Center Urgent Care, 2047 West Ridge Road, just before 1 p.m., officers said. A 27-year-old Rochester man had just walked out of the…
Runway festivities in New York may be a few weeks off, but in Europe, men’s fashion week is in full swing. In Milan and Paris, designers showed off new haute couture in runway shows that stretched the boundaries of menswear. Patterned and overly puffy coats were featured heavily in this winter’s tableau — along with…
A whole floor of a building in New York City was once functioning as an “illegal police station” for the government of the People’s Republic of China, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. New York City resident Chen Jinping, 60, on Wednesday pleaded guilty in connection with the secret police station in Lower Manhattan’s…
WASHINGTON ― The White House on Tuesday condemned violence targeting “corporate greed” following the arrest of Luigi Mangione, the suspect accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last week in New York City. “We condemn violence in the strongest term,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said at a press briefing. “Violence to combat any sort of…
New York – Wall Street is quiet on Tuesday, and U.S. stock indexes are drifting in the runup to the highlight of the week for the market, the latest update on inflation that’s coming on Wednesday. The S&P 500 was virtually unchanged, a day after pulling back from its latest all-time high. The Dow Jones…
NEW YORK/LONDON, Dec 3 (Reuters) – The Korean won was one of the biggest movers on Tuesday, plunging against the U.S. dollar after South Korea’s president declared martial law in an unannounced late-night address on television. The euro, meanwhile, which has hogged the headlines of late, recovered versus the greenback as political turmoil in France sent traders…