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Laurie Fine To Sue ESPN
Geneva, N.Y. - Laurie Fine filed a federal libel lawsuit against ESPN because she claims the network destroyed her reputation. Laurie Fine said at the news conference that ESPN's Mark Schwarz and Arthur Berko should apologize and retract the horrible lies about me. Her lawyer said that "it is impossible for Laurie Fine to go out in the community with any sense
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Teen In Guarded Condition After Shooting
Rochester, N.Y. - Rochester Police say a teen shot on Denver Street Tuesday is in guarded condition at Strong Memorial Hospital. Officers found Devin Singleton with several gunshot wounds to his upper torso just after noon on Tuesday on Rosewood Terrace. Investigators believe he was shot near the intersection of Hazelwood Terrace and Denver Street, and made his way onto Rosewood Terrace
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Should We Say Goodbye to Stick-Shift Driving?
"No one appreciates manual transmissions anymore." That's what a Rochester-based mechanic told me last week when I was out shooting a separate story. The comment stayed in my head; I drive automatic, and my brothers often chide me for doing so. But is the stick shift really an endangered species? Yes. DailyTech.com reports that 91 percent of all 2009-model cars
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New Details Released In Smith Street Homicide
Rochester, N.Y. -- Rochester police say a 26-year-old man who was fatally wounded Tuesday night. It happened around just after 6 p.m. on Smith Street, near the intersection of West Broad Street. Police expected to release the identity of the victim on Wednesday. The man was found in the yard of the home at 560 Smith Street, with a bullet wound to the chest. Police
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New Information about George Zimmerman's Injuries After Shooting
A medical report compiled by the family physician of Trayvon Martin shooter George Zimmerman and obtained exclusively by ABC News found that Zimmerman was diagnosed with a "closed fracture" of his nose, a pair of black eyes, two lacerations to the back of his head and a minor back injury the day after he fatally shot Martin during an alleged
13WHAM Blogs
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Fighting For Derrick
I remember getting the call like it was yesterday. A little boy was missing in Savona, Steuben County. Though I have lived here all my life, I had no idea where that was. But I would end up spending many days in this tiny town. When we arrived, neighbors were outside their homes. It was a warm, humid August night.
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Moms Making a Difference
Mother’s Day will be special to Vickie Durfee and Lisa Miller because they’ve helped thousands of moms like them. 5 years ago, they started Full Circle Home, an effort to give gifts at the holidays to the mothers and wives of service members in Iraq and Afghanistan. These aren't just any gifts. Each one is sponsored by a donor, hand-packaged
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The Ideal Athlete Idol
He may not be able to thumb through play books, or run any drills but you can bet that when JV football coach Brian Weber returns to Gates-Chili’s gridiron this upcoming season, he will still have a major impact on his players. Weber, who is 28, was paralyzed in July in a swimming accident. In a 13WHAM interview I learned
Your Stories
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Your Stories: A Marine’s Family Challenging Post Office Policy
Hornell / Rochester, N.Y. --- It is a federal policy that just doesn’t make sense to many folks. Especially to those who knew Marine Lance Corporal Zach Smith of Hornell. In August 2010, about eight months after he was killed in Afghanistan, the Hornell Post Office was renamed the “Zachary Smith Post Office Building” after an act of Congress and
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Your Stories: Farmer Wants To Build Wind Turbine In Victor
Victor , N.Y. - A farmer in the town of Victor wants to erect a 140 ft. tall wind turbine on his 142 acre apple orchard but some of his neighbors aren't too thrilled with the plan. "It's good for the environment, it's (the electricity) going back into to the grid some of it," says Munir Bahai who own Pick
State News
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"Shoot Me, Please"
Stockholm, N.Y. (AP) - Authorities say a northern New York man had his friend shoot him in the leg with a rifle because he wanted to know what it feels like to be shot. State police in St. Lawrence County say the shooting occurred around 5 p.m. Sunday in the rural town of Stockholm when 25-year-old Shawn Mossow of neighboring
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Minimum Wage Increase Expected To Fail In New York
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Officials say a months-old proposal to raise the minimum wage for millions of New Yorkers is dead. The Assembly's Democratic majority plans to pass its version of the bill Tuesday. It's sponsored by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver. But Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who supports raising the wage, didn't include it last week on a list
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NY Bill Quickly Follows Court Ruling On Child Porn
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - A day after New York's highest court ruled that simply viewing child pornography online wasn't against state law, some shocked lawmakers acted within 24 hours to introduce a bill to address it. The bill introduced Wednesday seeks to update the law to recognize advances in computer technology. The law would cover video streaming and other
National News
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Romney inches closer to clinching GOP nomination
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has won most of the delegates in the Oregon primary, leaving him 155 delegates shy of the number of delegates needed to win the Republican nomination for president. He should get there by the end of the month. Romney won at least 16 of the 25 delegates at stake in Oregon, with
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John Edwards will not testify
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Attorneys for John Edwards say they will not call the former presidential candidate or his mistress Rielle Hunter to testify at his campaign corruption trial. Defense attorneys also told a federal judge they expect to rest their case later Wednesday. Hunter could have echoed Edwards' position that he didn't have direct knowledge of the secret effort
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Crews try to stop AZ blaze from crossing fire line
CROWN KING, Ariz. (AP) — Firefighters have been working to prevent a wildfire near the historic mining town of Crown King from spreading to an area where it could quickly grow. Fire incident spokeswoman Loretta Benavidez said Tuesday night that authorities are worried that flames from the Gladiator Fire will get past a fire line that's about a mile west
World News
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Assad: Ready to show foreign mercenaries to world
MOSCOW (AP) — Syrian President Bashar Assad says his country has captured foreign mercenaries who were fighting for the opposition and is ready to show them to the world. Assad made the claim in an interview on Russian state television's news channel Rossiya-24. In the interview broadcast Wednesday, he also complained that Western countries voice protests against violence by his
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Merkel fires minister after election defeat
BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel fired her environment minister on Wednesday after he led her conservative party to an embarrassingly heavy state election defeat. Merkel said she had asked Germany's president to dismiss Norbert Roettgen and replace him with Peter Altmaier, a trusted senior lawmaker who has been her party's chief whip since 2009 and helped organize parliamentary
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UN experts say Syria snubs demands on torture
GENEVA (AP) — A U.N. committee says the Syrian government has snubbed its demand for a report on torture. The Committee Against Torture said the Syrians skipped a meeting Wednesday and failed to report on whether it is complying with a 1987 U.N. convention against torture. The committee's 10 independent experts monitor nations' compliance with the convention Syria joined in
Consumer News & Recalls
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Wegmans Launches Gluten-Free Food Line
Rochester, N.Y. - You will be able to buy Wegmans brand gluten-free pastas and baking mixes in stores starting this month. Wegmans said it spent a year testing recipes for gluten-free pasta, cookie mixes, cake mixes, and brownie mixes. They are the first gluten-free products in the line sold under the Wegmans name. The products will be in the Nature's
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If Reusable Grocery Bag Makes You Sick, It's Probably Your Fault
When researchers in Oregon finally blamed a norovirus outbreak on a reusable grocery bag, shoppers across the country might have stopped to rethink their habits. After all, doctors say that reusable bags can be a great source for germs. Wegmans would prefer that shoppers keep an open mind -- and that they keep washing their reusable bags. "I t would