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Congresswoman Louise Slaughter's funeral in Rochester today will include speeches from Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton Friday, when the long serving Buffalo and Rochester area representative is laid to rest with a public service in the Eastman Theater Congressman John Lewis, the Georgia congressman and civil rights leader will also speak and more than 40 members of Congress are expected to attend d Slaughter was serving her 16th term in the House, and her 31 years in the chamber were the third longest, according to the official House website. She chaired the Rules committee from 2007 through 2010.
U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer on Thursday called on the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs to complete final acquisitions for two 60-acre and 77-acre parcels in Pembroke and then swiftly act to begin construction of the New Western New York National Veterans Cemetery. Currently, the VA parcel is 132 acres devoted to a veterans' cemetery.
Several insurance companies now using drones to inspect storm damage and speed up the claims process. But know that they may not be the right tool for every type of claim.
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Just a few steps into the Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester, N.Y., up the curve of a cobblestone walkway on a low hill, is the grave of Susan B. Anthony, a leader of the movement for women's suffrage who lived about three miles away. On Tuesday, her gravestone was nearly invisible beneath a coating of "I Voted" stickers and behind a line of hundreds of people who came here to pay their respects.
One hundred and forty-four years ago, a woman named Susan B. Anthony was arrested for voting in a presidential election. On Tuesday, millions of women will vote for the first woman to run as the nominee of a major political party.
A man charged in a fatal bank robbery 13 years ago was captured with the help of a tipster and DNA secretly collected from an envelope when he coincidentally filed a fraud complaint, authorities said Wednesday. Richard Leon Wilbern was arrested Tuesday when he went to meet with FBI agents in Rochester, New York, for what he thought was a meeting about his complaint.
A man pleaded guilty Thursday to plotting a New Year's Eve terror attack in upstate New York, the Department of Justice said. Emanuel Lutchman, 26, pleaded guilty in a federal court to conspiring to provide material support for the Islamic State .