Jan 8, 2025 · The U.S. stock market defied analysts’ downbeat outlook for 2024, producing another banner year for investors. The benchmark S&P 500 rose more than 23 percent—roughly matching its performance the year before and marking the first time in a quarter-century with back-to-back annual gains of more than 20 percent.

Jan 2, 2025 · On that rainy Monday night outside the county jail in Rochester, the words spoken by Brooks’ father rang more like a sermon than a speech. He invoked gospel—and ideas of good and evil, sin and duty—while speaking about his son’s death and his desire for justice and systemic change.

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Jan 10, 2025 · Rochester Mayor Malik Evans announced plans to sign Good Cause legislation after a public hearing Friday. It marks the culmination of efforts from housing advocates to secure eviction protections for the city’s tenants.

5 days ago · The over-consumption of social media dramatically affects Americans’ ability to have meaningful human interactions. Using platforms like TikTok and Instagram encourages harmful habits towards productivity levels, information retention, mental health, and attention span.

Jan 9, 2025 · Rochester experienced a significant drop in crime last year—30 percent overall—that spanned every reported category, with the second half of 2024 continuing the midyear trend. “I am not satisfied with these numbers, but I am gratified,” Mayor Malik Evans said, repeating an oft-used phrase in his year-end public safety update.. “(They represent) the work we are doing to continue to ...

Oct 14, 2024 · In the first step toward a settlement since the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester’s bankruptcy case was upended by the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Harrington v Purdue Pharma LP, Bankruptcy Judge Paul Warren has sent the parties back to the drawing board.. In an Oct. 7 order, Warren named Shelley Chapman, a retired bankruptcy judge, and Paul Finn, a professional mediator, to oversee a ...

5 days ago · With its nearly $1 billion Rochester Hub project on a construction pause as the company works on financing, Li-Cycle Holdings Corp.’s support for aspects of a presidential executive order that may end electric vehicle subsidies and federal climate regulation could be a harbinger of even more challenges for the project.

6 days ago · Astor was a cancer survivor for nearly 20 years. In 2021, he wrote a story that described how many patients with serious illnesses also are victimized by exorbitant out-of-pocket costs for needed drugs. The article, he later noted, “blended my personal experience and the dysfunctional dynamics of the U.S. health care market, giving life and immediacy to a topic many find yawn-inducing.”

Jan 6, 2025 · Simmons was elected over Elliott, while Maloy won against Commissioner Isaiah Santiago. The votes were split 4-3 each time with Simmons, Maloy, Jaqueline Griffin, and James Patterson voting as one group and Elliott, LeBron, and Santiago as the other.