A growing crowd of Central American migrants in southern Mexico resumed its advance toward the U.S. border on Sunday. The advances have overwhelmed Mexican officials' attempts to stop them at the border. The Associated Press reports that the number of migrants swelled to about 5,000 overnight. On Saturday, President Trump told reporters the migrants were " hardened criminals." With the November midterms less than three weeks away, Trump has become more vocal about the mass migration. At an...
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) New York state lawmakers want to review the current state of physical education, mental health and health instruction in the state's schools.
The Assembly's Education Committee has scheduled a public hearing Tuesday in Albany to review the current programs in place related to student health and fitness.
Under a new state law that took effect this year schools are required to teach mental health in traditional physical education and health classes.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Andrew Luck threw four touchdown passes and Marlon Mack had his first rushing scores of the season as the Indianapolis Colts blew out Buffalo 37-5 on Sunday.
The Colts (2-5) snapped a four-game losing streak and finally won their 300th game since moving to Indianapolis from Baltimore in 1984. Adam Vinatieri scored five points to move within five of breaking Morten Andersen's NFL career record (2,544).
The Bills (2-5) lost their second straight, playing this one without injured starting quarterback Josh Allen.
A growing crowd of Central American migrants in southern Mexico resumed its advance toward the U.S. border on Sunday. The advances have overwhelmed Mexican officials' attempts to stop them at the border.
The Associated Press reports that the number of migrants swelled to about 5,000 overnight.
On Saturday, President Trump told reporters the migrants were "hardened criminals."
The origin of the opioid epidemic can be traced back to a number of causes including increased marketing of opioids by pharmaceutical companies and overprescribing by physicians, to name a few. Regardless of how it started, we are now in the middle of a public health crisis, affecting people of all races, cultures, socioeconomic backgrounds, and ages. The last being the focus of this edition of Need to Know.
So often we hear about people between the ages of 18 to 25 or 35-years-old battling addiction. But the opioid epidemic has almost doubled for Americans over the age of 50. That’s according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
Bringing this hidden problem into the light is one of the reasons Angela Lana of Irondequoit shared her story with us. Angela says addiction does not discriminate and that those dealing with this struggle are not junkies as they’re often labeled, but someone’s child, or someone’s husband, wife, mother, or father.
People over the age of 50 in Monroe County are the fastest-growing age group for opioid-related deaths - up almost 400 percent between 2014 and 2017. That being said, why is geriatric addiction so often kept behind closed doors? What do we need to understand about this problem in an effort to help and meet the needs of our friends, family members, and loved ones battling this issue?
President Trump said the U.S. will withdraw from a decades-old treaty with Russia that eliminated a class of nuclear weapons after he accused Russia of violating the treaty.
"We're the ones that have stayed in the agreement and we've honored the agreement, but Russia has not unfortunately honored the agreement," Trump told reporters in Nevada, "so we're going to terminate the agreement, we're going to pull out."
The Los Angeles Dodgers outlasted the Milwaukee Brewers 5-1 in the deciding Game 7 of the National League Championship Series Saturday night.
With the win, the Dodgers will return to the World Series for the second year in a row, to face off against the Boston Red Sox — and look to rewrite last year's fate, after losing Game 7 of the World Series to the Houston Astros.
Guatemala's president says 2,000 migrants have returned to Honduras following a tense standoff on Friday between the mass caravan they had been traveling in and officers on Mexico's border with Guatemala.
The president of Honduras said another 486 members of the convoy were also en route back to Honduras, according to Reuters. The migrants were part of a group of thousands that attempted to cross a border bridge over the Suchiate River along the border between Guatemala and Mexico.
Anticipation is growing along with the zeros in the Mega Millions lottery winnings. The prize hit $1.6 billion after no one won the jackpot in a drawing on Friday night.
That's the largest lottery jackpot in history, surpassing the $1.586 billion Powerball prize in January 2016.
Mega Millions lead director Gordon Medenica called it "uncharted territory."
A winner who wants the money in a lump sum can opt for the cash option of about $905 million.
The next drawing will be on Tuesday at 11 p.m. ET.
The Little Theatre's main Theater 1 will soon be showing movies again, as phase one of its renovation project wraps up.
The theater expects to be showing movies there in the next week.
Chris Brandt is the project architect with Bero Architecture.
"Everything inside the auditorium itself, floor to ceiling ... no surface was untouched. All finishes have been replaced; all the seating has been replaced."
He says these renovations are a generational investment.
A growing crowd of Central American migrants in southern Mexico resumed its advance toward the U.S. border on Sunday. The advances have overwhelmed Mexican officials' attempts to stop them at the border.
The Associated Press reports that the number of migrants swelled to about 5,000 overnight.
On Saturday, President Trump told reporters the migrants were "hardened criminals."
Congolese rebels killed 15 civilians and abducted a dozen children in an attack at the center of the latest deadly Ebola outbreak, Congo's military said Sunday. The violence has threatened to again force the suspension of crucial virus contamination efforts.
The Allied Democratic Forces rebels, a Ugandan Islamist militant group active in the area since the 1990s, attacked Congolese army positions and several neighborhoods of Beni on Saturday and into Sunday, Capt. Mak Hazukay Mongha told The Associated Press.
In celebration of National Disability Employment Awareness Month, a local nonprofit is recognizing a long-time employee.
Young Kim is 37 years old. She's been working at Unistel Industries on Blossom Road in Rochester since 2002.
Unistel is a nonprofit that provides job training and placement for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Young and her colleagues work on assembly lines at the company, which is the country's number one supplier of spices for the U.S. military.
You may have seen pictures of two local men go viral: a barber giving a man a haircut on the sidewalk because the shop wasn’t accessible by wheelchair.
But since the story went national, it’s raised questions about how people with disabilities are covered in the media.
Devin Hamilton is 30 years old. He's an engineer working in Webster, and he has cerebral palsy. He says one day, he decided to get a haircut at Joe's Upscale Barbershop, a few blocks from where he works. But when he rode his wheelchair over there, he didn't see a ramp.
Former Senator Tom Harkin and the ROC EmployABILITY Conference
We're joined by former Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa, who authored the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Research shows that among similarly sized cities, Rochester is the single worst in the country when it comes to employment and poverty for people with disabilities.
Harkin is the keynote speaker for the upcoming ROC EmployABILITY conference, which is focused on increasing employment opportunities and reducing poverty among people with disabilities. We preview that conference. In studio:
In Rochester, the graduation rate for students with disabilities is 22 percent* compared to 40 percent nationally. The median individual earnings for those with disabilities is $14,450. This is $4,000 below the national median. That means Rochester’s disabled community is the poorest in the nation when compared to the 75 largest metropolitan areas.
Despite the systemic challenges of educational segregation and stereotypes, adults with intellectual disabilities are challenging the perceptions of intelligence as they navigate high school, college, and the workforce.
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