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Newly released grand jury transcripts shed more light on why police officers who restrained Daniel Prude avoided criminal charges in his death.

An investigation into the official response to Daniel Prude’s police suffocation death last year in Rochester, New York, is faulting the city’s mayor and former police chief for keeping critical details of the case secret for months and lying to the public about what they knew

Attorneys for the five children of Chicago resident Daniel Prude have announced a federal lawsuit against the city of Rochester, New York, alleging wrongful death and civil rights violations.

A Rochester, New York police officer has been placed on administrative duty after using pepper spray on a shoplifting suspect who tried to escape with her 3-year-old child in her arms

The Rochester Police Department released the body cam footage from a February arrest in which a woman is pepper-sprayed in the presence of her child. It was the latest of several incidents with Black residents that have prompted calls for changes to the department.

Newly released police body camera video captured a 9-year-old girl’s distressing wait for an ambulance after she is pepper-sprayed by police while handcuffed in a police cruiser.

The city of Rochester has removed three police officers seen in body-camera videos spraying a chemical “irritant” in the face of a distraught and handcuffed 9-year-old girl, officials announced Monday.

Police in Rochester have released two body-camera videos of officers restraining a distraught 9-year-old girl who was handcuffed and sprayed with what police called a chemical “irritant.”

Three National Guard members on a routine training flight were killed Wednesday when their helicopter crashed in a western New York town, an official said.

The deeds in the town outside Rochester were originally written close to a century ago with the line, “No lot or dwelling shall be sold to or occupied by a colored person” — a common restrictive covenant at the time

Rochester, New York’s former police chief alleges the city’s mayor pressured him to lie about her handling of the police killing of Daniel Prude, which was kept from the public for six months, and that she fired him because he refused to do so.

The city of Rochester, New York, is dealing with more trauma after a shooting at a backyard party killed two teenagers and injured 14 others

Mayor Lovely Warren delivered a brief press conference on Monday where she made major staffing changes within several city departments and called on the U.S. Attorney’s Office to investigate Rochester’s role in the death of Daniel Prude.

 Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren fired the police chief and suspended her top lawyer and communications director Monday in the continuing upheaval over the suffocation death of Daniel Prude, a Chicago man who died after being taken into custody by Rochester police in March. Chief Le’Ron Singletary announced his retirement last week as part of a major shakeup of the...

An Indiana woman who plowed her pickup truck into four children, killing three of them as they crossed a two-lane highway to board their school bus was denied an appeal Monday, NBC affiliate WNDU reported. In December, Alyssa Shepherd, 25, of Rochester, Indiana, was sentenced to four years in prison as well as one year of house arrest and one…

The chief and deputy chief of the Rochester, NY Police Department retired abruptly Tuesday after days of demonstrations over the March death of Daniel Prude, who lost consciousness after police held him down with a hood over his head.

Protesters demonstrated outside Rochester’s police headquarters naked except for “spit hoods” in reference to the killing of Daniel Prude.

The mayor of Rochester says reforms are coming to the police department as community elders seek to bring calmer minds to a fifth night of demonstrations over the March death of Daniel Prude, who lost consciousness after police held a hood over his head

The mayor of Rochester promised reforms are coming to the city’s police department as community elders sought to bring calmer minds to a fifth night of demonstrations Sunday over the March death of Daniel Prude, a Chicago man who lost consciousness after police held him down with a hood over his head. Mayor Lovely Warren announced at a news...

Seven police officers involved in the suffocation death of Daniel Prude last spring in Rochester, New York, have been suspended by the city’s mayor, who said she was misled for months about the circumstances of the fatal encounter