Annual homicides in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston and other big U.S. cities far outnumber those recorded here. But in 2021, Rochester had more murders per capita than any of them. A new ...

“Jingle Bells” is one of the most performed and well-known secular holiday songs ever written, not only in the United States, but around the world. It’s the first song to have been broadcast from ...

After the Great Recession began in December 2007, the number of Rochester-area jobs plummeted. Though the recession—the biggest economic downturn since the Great Depression—officially ended in summer ...

As the three-year mark approaches in a court battle with ex-newspaper carriers claiming to have been sexually abused by a Democrat and Chronicle circulation department district supervisor, Gannett Co.

Lieselle Taylor’s metaphor for the philosophy behind community schools might seem macabre at first, but fitting when discussing children’s futures. “You may have that one young cousin or niece or ...

In the Rochester City School District, Edison is one of 17 locations listed as a community school.(Photo by Travis LaCoss) As Bridgitte Griffin gets on the elevator at Edison Career and Technology ...