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ILLUSTRATION BY RYAN WILLIAMSON Can Rochesters new Food Policy Council drain the citys "food swamp"? On the anniversary of Daniel Prude’s fatal encounter with Rochester police, scores of demonstrators marched east from downtown to take over the parking lot at the East Avenue Wegmans, eventually prompting the store to close for the day. “Wegmans exemplifie...

Grand jury transcripts in the Daniel Prude case were released on Friday Prude was the black man who died after restraint in a spit hood in Rochester Grand jury voted 15-5 not to charge the three officers involved in his restraint New York AG Letitia James had pushed a court to release the secret transcripts This nation has a long and painful history of injustice James said of the case 

Credit Thomas ONeil-White “The micro-cluster zones are down all across the state," he said. "You look at where they where Erie County was: 7.8. They’re down to 5.1. So you see a drop in both the Orange and the Yellow zones. Given the progress they’ve made, the restrictions are lifted in those zones.” Cuomo said the lifting of restrictions is due, in some part, to the way the state rebounded in the week after what he called the “holiday surge” from Thanksgiving through the New Year. ...