LIVINGSTON COUNTY – Wegmans Food Markets is recalling approximately 12,540 packages of 12 oz. Frozen Organic Spinach due to a possible contamination with Listeria monocytogenes, a bacterium that causes listeriosis infection. The product was sold in the frozen food department of each of the company’s 85 stores in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland, and Massachusetts, between January 27 and March 21, 2015. It is is supplied … [Read more...]
‘Solar Home Companion’ Brings Music and Grassroots Activism to Geneseo
GENESEO – Emmy award-winning and Oscar-nominated director, Josh Fox, brought his variety show "A Solar Home Companion," to SUNY Geneseo on Sunday for an audience of 220. The show celebrated a recently instated ban on hydraulic fracturing gas drilling methods in New York State, and looked to organize new, local renewable energy efforts. Special guests at the presentation included politician and Fordham Law professor Zephyr Teachout, renewable … [Read more...]
Dr. Lewek Admits to Hiding Body in his Backyard
NYLON – A Rochester psychiatrist accused of burying the body of a missing man in the backyard of his Rowley Street home pled guilty to the charge on Friday. According to news partner 13WHAM, Dr. William Lewek, 63, pleaded guilty to Tampering with Evidence and Driving While Ability Impaired by Drugs after prosecutors said he tried to hide Matthew Straton's body behind his home in October 2013. He was also charged with possession of … [Read more...]