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A physical therapist in New Hampshire is accused of sexually assaulting one of his patients. Rochester police say Patrick O’Donnell, 55, was arrested on Friday, Feb. 12, and charged with three counts of sexual assault, unauthorized practice and contempt. Authorities allege O’Donnell inappropriately touched a patient while working as a physical therapist at Orthopedic and Sport Therapy Services in Rochester….

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.

One man is in a Boston hospital after he was rescued from an apartment fire in Rochester, New Hampshire early Saturday morning, local firefighters said. Around 3 a.m., the Rochester Fire Department received a 911 call about a fire at 50 Hansonville Road. Firefighters rescued a man from the building and provided medical care while the fire was extinguished, Chief…

A car slammed into a New Hampshire toll booth on Sunday after the Maine woman who was driving lost control of her vehicle, state police said. Joann McCollum-Hubbard, 73, of Acton, Maine, was traveling northbound on Route 16 approaching the Rochester Toll Plaza when she lost control of her Subaru Outback around 4:10 p.m., according to police. The car struck…

Two people have died following a car crash in Rochester, New Hampshire on Saturday night.  The crash took place on Washington Street near the Rochester Crossing Mall around 9:15 p.m., according to police.  A portion of Washington Street was shut down for several hours and traffic was rerouted.  Officials are investigating what caused the crash. Identities of the victims...

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.

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

New York’s attorney general has moved to form a grand jury to investigate the death of Daniel Prude.

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

Seven Rochester, New York, police officers have been suspended with pay while authorities investigate their role in the death of 41-year-old Daniel Prude, who died in March after he was restrained by the police while experiencing an apparent mental breakdown. Video released by Prude’s family this week raised questions about what led to his death.

The man who suffocated after police in New York’s third-largest city put a “spit hood” over his head was the loving father of five adult children, had some mental health issues but was harmless, and had just arrived in Rochester for a visit with his brother, his aunt said. Daniel Prude, 41, known to his big Chicago-based family by the…

A Rochester, New York, family is demanding justice after their brother, Daniel Prude, died as he was restrained by police during a mental health call. Footage released by Rochester police and provided to NBC by Prude’s family showed a part of what happened to Prude on March 30 before he died.