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AFGHANISTAN TOTALS - 1,967 US servicemen and servicewomen and 1,031 Coalition servicemen and servicewomen have been killed in Afghanistan from the beginning of the war and occupation to May 11. Statistics for Afghan civilian casualties are not available. American casualties from May 1 to 7: -- Staff Sgt. Zachary H. Hargrove,
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Republican State Senator Jim Alesi's announcement that he won't seek re-election has created a wide-open race in the 55th District. Democrats have announced Monroe County Legislator Ted O'Brien's candidacy, and Republican leaders have chosen State Assembly member Sean Hanna to run for Alesi's seat. Alesi was facing a
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The City of Rochester will auction off more than 500 tax foreclosure properties this week to the highest bidder. In the future, some of these types of properties - most likely the worst ones in the most troubled areas - may have a different fate. City Council is looking into
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AFGHANISTAN TOTALS - 1,958 US servicemen and servicewomen and 1,031 Coalition servicemen and servicewomen have been killed in Afghanistan from the beginning of the war and occupation to May 4. Statistics for Afghan civilian casualties are not available. American casualties from April 26 to May 1: -- Master Sgt. Scott E.
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Maggie Brooks' Congressional campaign office is located at 1501 East Avenue in Rochester: a building otherwise filled with medical and professional offices. Brooks announced the location this morning. She also announced her campaign staff. Noah Lebowitz, who was the county's communications director, will be her campaign manager.
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The still-developing master plan for Powder Mills Park should be back in front of the public in late spring. The plan will list needed and desired park projects, and will serve as a guide for potential uses of the park. It's been more than a year since county officials held a
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The Erie-Lackawanna bike-pedestrian bridge should open in June, connecting the University of Rochester campus with both sides of the Genesee River. The bridge will provide a convenient way to cross the river, but it's significant in another way, too: it's another step toward creating a cohesive bikeway between some of
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AFGHANISTAN TOTALS - 1,952 US servicemen and servicewomen and 1,026 Coalition servicemen and servicewomen have been killed in Afghanistan from the beginning of the war and occupation to April 23. Statistics for Afghan civilian casualties are not available. American casualties from April 18 to 26: -- Staff Sgt. Joseph H. Fankhauser,
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IRAQ TOTALS - 4,485 US servicemen and servicewomen, 318 Coalition servicemen and servicewomen, and approximately 106,342 to 116,170 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq from the beginning of the war and occupation to April 23. No American casualties were reported after November 14. AFGHANISTAN TOTALS - 1,943 US servicemen and
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In a two-week span, Republican Maggie Brooks' congressional campaign raised roughly $250,000. But that still left Brooks with less than half of the $529,800 that Democratic incumbent Louise Slaughter had on hand. Brooks and Slaughter are opponents for the 25th congressional seat this year. Slaughter had a healthy war chest
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James Olson is something of a hero to many people involved in protecting and preserving the Great Lakes or other water bodies. Olson was the attorney for a group of citizens that took Nestle to court: challenging the company's ability to bottle and sell Michigan ground water. The case
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This is the first of an occasional series on climate change. It focuses on the effects that changing temperature and precipitation trends will have on ecosystems. Nature is about balance and climate change is already knocking finely tuned systems out of whack. Future installments will look at the
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IRAQ TOTALS - 4,485 US servicemen and servicewomen, 318 Coalition servicemen and servicewomen, and approximately 106,247 to 116,068 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq from the beginning of the war and occupation to April 13. No American casualties were reported after November 14. AFGHANISTAN TOTALS - 1,933 US servicemen and servicewomen
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Democrats in the Monroe County Legislature have introduced legislation to change how the county pays its Medicaid costs. In 2007, the county opted into a state program that lets the state take 41 percent of the county's sales-tax revenue, which the state counted as the county's share of Medicaid
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IRAQ TOTALS - 4,485 US servicemen and servicewomen, 318 Coalition servicemen and servicewomen, and approximately 106,024 to 115,833 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq from the beginning of the war and occupation to April 6. No American casualties were reported after November 14. AFGHANISTAN TOTALS - 1,929 US servicemen and
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A lawsuit filed by the Brockport police chief essentially pits two Monroe County communities against each other over the chief's health-insurance. It's a strange case that hinges on whether Brockport Police Chief Dan Varrenti is technically eligible for health insurance through the village. At issue is a clause in the
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IRAQ TOTALS - 4,485 US servicemen and servicewomen, 318 Coalition servicemen and servicewomen, and approximately 105,890 to 115,694 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq from the beginning of the war and occupation to March 30. No American casualties were reported after November 14. AFGHANISTAN TOTALS - 1,920 US servicemen and
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The mild winter could mean a spring and summer where algae blooms are a bigger problem than usual in Lake Ontario and other local waterways. Last week, Color Brighton Green held a presentation on local water quality issues. Charles Knauf, the department's chief water quality analyst, told the crowd that algae
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[UPDATED 4:06 p.m.] A source at the Democrat and Chronicle says 11 of the employees who took the retirement offer were from the newsroom. Original story: Three veteran columnists are among the 18 Democrat and Chronicle employees that have taken early retirement offers, says a D and C article. News columnists
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[UPDATED 11:40 a.m.] Posts on Occupy Rochester's Facebook pages say the city is giving the group until 5 p.m. today (Friday, March 30) to get its things out of the park. The city will remove anything that's left at that point, they say. We're trying to reach a
