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WATCH: Reebok Builds $12,000-Shoe For Tallest Man

AP | RODRIQUE NGOWI | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Tallest Man, Reeboks, Video, Weird Minnesota, Canton, Rochester, Guinness World Records, Anatomical Wonders, Tallest Man Wants Sneakers, Igor Vovkovinskiy, Weird News News

CANTON, Mass. — Finding shoes for the nation's tallest man takes more than a trip to the mall; more like a trip across the country. Igor Vovkov...

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College Student Reportedly Threatened With Campus Housing Expulsion After Coming Out

Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Kiah Zabel Rochester College, Rochester College, Coming Out on Facebook, Video, Kiah Zabel, Rochester, LGBT Youth, Coming Out Stories, Coming Out, Lesbians, Facebook, Michigan, LGBT Students, Gay Youth, Gay Voices News

A Michigan-based lesbian student claims to have been threatened to be thrown out of her Christian college's on-campus housing if she doesn't remove re...

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WATCH: Rap Video Aims To Draw More Students To University of Rochester

Posted 03.09.2012

Read More: University of Rochester Admissions, College Admissions, College Recruiting, Video, Hip Hop, College, Rochester, Poll, Hip Hop Video, University of Rochester, Black Voices News

Colleges have ramped up their recruiting efforts in recent years, employing everything from ski weekends to reality TV shows to draw new students in. ...

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Boy Sleeps Through Theft Of Dad's Running Car

AP | Posted 02.21.2012

Read More: No Arrests, Video, New York Crime, Rochester, Thief, Sleep Through Theft, Irondequoit, Boy Sleeps Through Theft of Dad's Running Car, Theft, Sleep, Crime News

ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Police in upstate New York say a 6-year-old boy snoozing in his father's car never woke up while the vehicle was being stolen after...

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Hollywood Theatre Challenges Kodak

AP | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Eastman Kodak Bankruptcy, Eastman Kodak, Kodak Theater, Sponsorship Agreement, Rochester, Hollywood's Kodak Theater, Hollywood, Arts News

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The owner of Hollywood's Kodak Theatre is challenging bankrupt Eastman Kodak Co.'s effort to end its sponsorship agreement and...

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Trulia's Real Estate Crystal Ball for 2012

Jed Kolko | Posted 02.20.2012

Read More: Boston, Foreclosures, Housing Market, San Jose, Rochester, Austin, Fannie Mae, Real Estate, Housing Crisis, Mortgages, Houston, Freddie Mac, Construction, Foreclosure, Harp, Business News

My crystal ball is never as crystal-clear as I'd like, but I do think that we can expect a gradual economic recovery to move the housing market a few steps back toward normal in 2012.

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Pirate Attack Survivor Reunites With Son After 34 Years

AP | BEN DOBBIN | Posted 01.21.2012

Read More: Video, Thailand, Good-News, Rochester, Pirates, Vietnam, Vietnam Refugee, Hao Truong, Charles Schumer, Impact News

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A Vietnamese war refugee who survived a 1977 pirate attack that separated him from his wife and infant child reunited with his...

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Paralyzed College Football Player Stands Up For CBS 'Courage In Sports' Award

Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Iowa, Video, Minnesota, Courage in Sports Award, Rochester, Luther College, Chris Norton, Division Three Football, Spinal Chord Injury, Mayo Clinic, Impact News

Doctors told Chris Norton that he had a 3 percent chance of regaining any movement in his lower body after breaking his neck during a football game. B...

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NY Border Control Raided Buses, Trains

AP | By CAROLYN THOMPSON | Posted 01.10.2012

Read More: Nyu Immigration Rights Clinic, US-Canada-Border-Entry-Requirements, New York Border Control, Rochester, Buffalo, Ny News, New York Immigration, New York News, New York Civil Liberties Union, New York News

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Immigrant rights advocates and the New York Civil Liberties Union on Wednesday accused the Border Patrol in upstate New York of abusi...

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The Indian Mission Kids Only Knew Him As 'Rochester'

Tim Giago | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Catholic Indian Missions, Catholic Church, Native Americans, Nicknames, Rochester, Death, Religion News

His death made me wonder how many more of my classmates had passed away and I never knew it because I only knew them by their nicknames.

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Vet Killed on Coaster: Questions Swirl After Fall at Theme Park

AP | CAROLYN THOMPSON | Posted 09.09.2011

Read More: Army Medical, Catie Marks, Video, Amusement Park, Theme Park, Veteran, Ejected, Rochester, Buffalo, Roller Coaster, James Hackemer, James Thomas Hackemer, Vet Killed, Ride of Steel, Walter Reed, Darien Lake, New York News

BUFFALO, N.Y. — A 208-foot-tall roller coaster in upstate New York remained closed Sunday amid questions about the falling death of an Iraq war ...

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Cops Save Doughnut Shop Owner Who Doused Himself In Gasoline

AP | Posted 09.06.2011

Read More: Donuts, Dunkin Donuts, NY Crime, Gasoline, Dunkin Donuts Gasoline, Rochester, Crime, Donut Burned, New York News

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Two police officers in western New York are credited with saving the distraught owner of a doughnut shop from harm after he do...

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High School Teens Win National Theater Awards

AP/The Huffington Post | By MARK KENNEDY | Posted 08.28.2011

Read More: Video, Minnesota, Tommy Tune, Rochester, Winning, Tony Awards, Broadway, Theater, Catch Me if You Can, Book of Mormon, The Addams Family, New York City, New York, Arts News

NEW YORK -- A teenager from Minnesota and one from New York won top honors at the National High School Musical Theater Awards on Monday night, sweepin...

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Charge Dropped Against Woman Who Videotaped Rochester Traffic Stop

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 08.28.2011

Read More: Emily-Good, Ryan Moats Traffic Stop, Video, Recording-Police, Videotaping Police, Rochester, Rochester-Police, New York News

A Rochester, N.Y., woman who was arrested after videotaping police at a traffic stop had the charge against her dismissed Monday after the county pros...

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Rochester Woman Arrested After Videotaping Police From Her Own Front Yard

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 08.22.2011

Read More: Videotaping-Police, Emily Good, Video, New York Crime, Crime, Rochester, Police Misconduct, Ryan Acuff, Rochester-Police, New York News

NEW YORK -- In May, the Rochester Police Department arrested a woman on a charge of obstructing governmental administration after she videotaped sever...

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Finally, the Real Jane Eyre Stands Up

Stephanie Green | Posted 07.03.2011

Read More: Victorian Novel, Jane Eyre Review, Mia Wasikowska, Jane Eyre, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Orson Welles, Rochester, Charlotte Bronte, Books News

As a stridently confident Bronte fan, I can say without equivocation that our dear friend Charlotte would be most pleased with the new Jane Eyre, starring Mia Wasikowska.

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Convicted Rapist Turns Down Heart Transplant

AP | Posted 06.26.2011

Read More: Organ Donors, Heart Transplant, Prison, Rochester, Ny News, Prisoners, Coxsackie, Kenneth Pike, New York News

ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- The sister of a New York state prison inmate serving time for raping a 12-year-old female relative in 1996 says her brother has tur...

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Ask Customers to Use Less of Your Product: The Big Heresy

Andrew Winston | Posted 05.25.2011

Xerox and Waste Management are doing something mostly unheard of: they're working with customers to use less of their traditional product or service. That's a big shift in business as usual.

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The 13 Cities Where Home Prices Will Rise In 2011

The Huffington Post | Yepoka Yeebo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Birmingham, Boston, New Orleans, Columbus, Rochester, Real Estate, House Prices, New York, Houston, Memphis, Washington, Slidepollajax, St Louis, Pittsburgh, Dallas, Business News

Foreclosure sales and tax incentives are boosting real estate parts in parts of the country. House prices nationally fell 4 percent last year, acco...

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A Citizen's Reflections on Race, Violence and Power

Cynthia Boaz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Citizenship, East Timor, Atlanta, Morocco, Crime, Chicago, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Violence, Washington DC, Legacy of Slavery, Democracy, Power, Race, Los Angeles, Interracial, South Africa, Peru, Segregation, Civil Rights Movement, Intraracial, Institutional Racism, Truth and Reconciliation, Slavery, Rochester, Racism, Quality of Democracy, Discrimination, Detroit, Baltimore, Trc, Politics News

Originally published on December 16, 2007 at Truthout.org. In recognition of International Human Rights Day, upcoming on December 10th. Three ye...

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50 Cent Memoir On Rochester School District Reading List

Democrat and Chronicle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Drug Trade, School District, From Pieces to Weight, Rochester, 50 Cent Memoir, High School, Reading List, 50 Cent, Books News

Getting teens to pick up a book can be tough, especially during the summer months when school isn't in session. So in an attempt to get more students...

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The Perfect 1-2 punch

Room Eight | Room Eight | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jamestown, Syracuse, Rochester, New York City-New York, Home News

If State Republicans were not already facing enough of an uphill battle, what in the world are they going to do to combat the Andrew Cuomo-Rochester M...

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Ellner Defeats Truman!

Gay City News | Gay City News | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rochester, Home News

Two nights ahead of its annual spring dinner in Rochester on May 22, most New Yorkers attuned to the doings of the Empire State Pride Agenda, the stat...

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Cuomo's Lieutenant: Leaving the City for the State

Harry Moroz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York Gubernatorial Race, Rochester, Mayor Bob Duffy, Andrew Cuomo, Cities, New York News

Back when the Great Recession was just beginning, Rochester Mayor Bob Duffy, AG Cuomo's pick for lieutenant governor, expressed concern about the federal government's treatment of cities.

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Cuomo Picks Rochester Mayor Robert Duffy for Lt. Governor

David A. Singer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ny, Robert Duffy, New York Democrats, Eric-Dinallo, Sean Coffey, Celeste Katz, Liz-Benjamin, Andrew Cuomo, Kathleen-Rice, NY State Democratic Convention, Eric Schneiderman, Rochester, New York Attorney General, Richard Brodsky, Tom-Dinapoli, Jimmy Vielkind, New York News

The presumptive gubernatorial candidate, Andrew Cuomo, has tapped Rochester Mayor Robert Duffy as his choice for Lt. Goverrnor.

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