For two consecutive days, Rochester has seen record-breaking temperatures. It hasn’t been during the heat of the day, despite the mercury rising above 90 degrees. Instead, those record highs have been overnight, setting marks for the highest minimum temperature on June 18 and 19. That high minimum temperature contributed to this June 19 setting the […]
Let’s say you’re putting together a guide titled “How to be a Rochesterian.” Your target audience is people who has moved here recently, drawn by relatively affordable house prices, Abbott’s Ice Cream, garbage plates and friendly people. Right away, you’ve got to train the newcomers on how to pronounce area town names. For that bit […]
If you walk along the Ohio River in Rochester, the riverfront is starting to resemble what it once was. “When you hear the saying a picture is worth a thousand words. I found a box of pictures that showed the size of the crowds, the cheerleading competitions, the bands and there was literally a sea […]
Jun. 18—ROCHESTER — Of the thousands of students in Rochester Public Schools, there were a mere handful who achieved a perfect score on their ACT this year. Only “about one-quarter of 1% of students who take the ACT earn a top score,” according to a press release from the testing organization. Of the 1.34 million […]
Jun. 17—ROCHESTER — Straight-line winds with gusts of more than 60 mph toppled trees and damaged buildings in southeast Minnesota on Monday morning. Severe storms rumbled through the area at around 6:30 a.m. Monday, June 17, 2024. The National Weather Service in La Crosse, Wisconsin, issued a severe thunderstorm warning for eastern Dodge County and […]
Micayla and Eric Coughlin and their young daughters were at the Brooklands Plaza Splash Pad in Rochester Hills on Saturday for less than a minute when a gunman pulled up in a vehicle and fired at least 28 rounds at the families gathered there. They had just gotten ice cream, according to a GoFundMe page […]
A 30-second video of a routine traffic stop that ended with Rochester police smashing in a Black man’s car window was enough to rattle Mike Johnson. The man in the video posted a clip of the May 7 incident to his Facebook page earlier this month. The video was short and left much unseen, but […]
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has issued an Air Quality Health Advisory for Ground Level Ozone from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. on Monday. Air quality levels outdoors are predicted to exceed an Air Quality Index (AQI) value of 101 for Ground Level Ozone. The AQI is a scale designed to correlate […]
An Oakland County Sheriff’s vehicle blocks the Brooklands Plaza Splash Pad in Rochester Hills after police say up to 10 people were injured in a shooting on June 15, 2024 | Anna Liz Nichols Around 5 p.m. Saturday, a man is believed to have pulled up in a vehicle to Brooklands Plaza Splash Pad in […]
A shooting at a Rochester Hills splash pad has left multiple people injured, according to a Facebook post from the Rochester Police Department. “There was just an active shooter situation at Brooklands Plaza Splash Pad, 1585 E. Auburn in Rochester Hills,” according to the post on Facebook. There are multiple people injured. This area is […]
A shooting at a Rochester Hills splash pad has left multiple people injured, according to a Facebook post from the Rochester Police Department. “There was just an active shooter situation at Brooklands Plaza Splash Pad, 1585 E. Auburn in Rochester Hills,” according to the post on Facebook. There are multiple people injured. This area is […]
Jun. 14—GRAND FORKS — A Rochester, Minnesota, man was sentenced Friday, June 14, to serve two years in prison for Class C felony luring a minor by electronic device. Daniel Herman Henke, 28, pleaded guilty to the crime in February. In July of last year, after a 15-year-old girl disclosed that she received inappropriate text […]