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Rochester immigrants share struggles of gaining citizenship 'the right way"
3+ hour, 5+ min ago (1795+ words) ROCHESTER " It's not that Mechwa Meermarew doesn't remember Kenya, the country where he was born. It's just, on so many levels, he has no reason to go back. Mechwa, who became a U. S. citizen about a year ago, loves the U. S. After…...
Rochester senior will fly to South Africa to swim, ride and run in Ironman race
3+ week, 2+ day ago (1041+ words) ROCHESTER " Adam Berg loves to go the distance. In April, he'll go nearly 11, 000 miles, flying from Rochester " with connecting flights from Chicago to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to Johannesburg, South Africa " to Gqeberha (formerly Port Elizabeth), South Africa. Once he arrives,…...
BCA identifies man who was shot, killed by Rochester police officer
4+ week, 4+ hour ago (392+ words) ST. PAUL " The Southern Minnesota Regional Medical Examiner's Office has identified the man who was shot and killed by a Rochester police officer on March 11 as Cleavon White, 47, of Rochester, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said in a Tuesday,…...
Rochester ax killer David Brom to go before the Supervised Release Board next month - In Forum | Fargo, Moorhead and West Fargo news, weather and sports
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (582+ words) ROCHESTER " By all accounts, David Brom has made the transition from prison to work release without a hitch, setting the stage that the Rochester ax killer could be granted parole as early as January. "David Brom is doing well, as…...
Days before he died, Earnest Hemingway gifted a signed book to a Mayo nurse. Now it's headed to a museum
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (1045+ words) ROCHESTER " In 1961, Ernest Hemingway, then considered the world's most famous author, came to Mayo Clinic for treatment for depression. It would form the last, ultimately tragic, chapter of his adventurous life. Six days after being discharged from Saint Marys Hospital,…...
Rochester native travels to Ukraine to document every day reality of war
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (813+ words) ROCHESTER " Rochester native Ben Tiede skipped his college graduation so he could travel to Ukraine to help create a documentary about the war in Ukraine. Tiede, 25, became part of a small film crew that traveled from one end of the…...
Rochester couple fosters 37 dogs, and counting
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (894+ words) ROCHESTER " Tyler Kolander and Izzy Waite love dogs. The husband and wife duo has a pair of cats, too, a fluffy boy named Dusty who lived under a shed near their old townhouse then followed them to their new home,…...
Rochester has the most NIH funding per capita. Budget cuts could spell job losses, analysis finds
7+ mon, 2+ day ago (881+ words) ROCHESTER " For every person in the Rochester area labor market, Mayo Clinic and other researchers receive $1, 237 from the National Institutes of Health. That's the greatest amount of NIH funding per capita in the nation, according to a recent analysis of…...
Woman in viral Rochester video says she moved, intends to fight charges
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (349+ words) ROCHESTER " Shiloh Hendrix, the woman caught in a viral video using a racial slur at a Rochester park, said she plans to fight criminal charges. Earlier this week, the Rochester City Attorney's Office announced it was filing a misdemeanor complaint…...
Acme Tools opening Rochester store
8+ mon, 1+ week ago (155+ words) GRAND FORKS " Acme Tools, a Grand Forks-based seller of tools and equipment announced Friday, Aug. 1, that it is opening a store in Rochester, Minnesota. The location is the company's fifth store in Minnesota and its second new store in the…...