Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi To Speak At Cong. Slaughter Funeral

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.

Senator Schumer pushes VA to complete land acquisition, begin national cemetery construction

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.

Prominent suffragist grave sites anticipating surge in visitors

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.

Feds say a lick of the envelope helped them nab bank robber

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.