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It was a near-record crowd and near-perfect weather for the annual J.P.Morgan Chase Corporate Challenge on Tuesday night in Rochester.

A total of  10,921 runners and walkers  in teams representing 460 companies and other organizations competed in the three and a half mile race.

The weather started out muggy, but a cool breeze greeted the participants by race time at the RIT course, and then toward the end, thunderstorms drenched  whoever wasn’t  under the many tents set up at the campus.

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One day after the state’s powerful Assembly Speaker admitted “glaring failures” in his handling of a sexual abuse case, the Albany establishment seemed to be moving on, with the usual round of press conferences, bill passage, and leaders meetings.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver attended a top level  meeting with Governor Cuomo and Senate leaders on casino gambling ,  and oversaw passage of a one house bill on the Dream Act, to help children of undocumented immigrants get funding for college.

There were a handful of people protesting outside of the Internal Revenue Service office building in downtown Rochester on Tuesday.

The rally is part of a series of protests nationwide in response to the IRS admitting that the agency targeted tea party and conservative organizations for additional scrutiny. That included audits and invasive reviews of their tax-exempt applications.

  (AP)  Emergency crews searched the broken remnants of an Oklahoma City suburb Tuesday for survivors of a massive tornado that flattened homes and demolished an elementary school. At least 24 people were killed, including at least nine children, and those numbers were expected to climb. 

The state medical examiner's office cut the estimated death toll by more than half but warned that the number was likely to climb again. Gov. Mary Fallin said authorities did not know how many people were still missing, but vowed to account for every resident. 

The Greater Rochester Chapter of the American Red Cross says it can help reconnect Rochesterians with displaced family members and friends in Moore, Oklahoma. 

Click here to register for the online service.  

The East End Festival returns this year, although it's just a one-day event instead of three.
Organizer John Hutchins says they were unable to secure a permit for a second day -- he says an amendment to a city ordinance prevents an event from charging admission to access a city street more than once a year.
Previous East End Festivals ran for three days.
Hutchins says they've worked hard on the other requirements that were put in place.
One of those was to create open access to all sidewalks so business owners and residents could get to their businesses and homes.

MOORE, Okla. (AP)  The state medical examiner's office has revised the death toll from a tornado in an Oklahoma City suburb to 24 people, including seven children. 

Spokeswoman Amy Elliot said Tuesday morning that she believes some victims were counted twice in the early chaos of the storm. Authorities said initially that as many as 51 people were dead, including 20 children.

Teams are continuing to search the rubble in Moore, 10 miles south of Oklahoma City, after the Monday afternoon tornado.

(CNN, NPR & AP ) Clinging to the hope of finding more survivors, rescue workers scoured mountains of rubble Tuesday where houses and schools once stood.

But as they searched through the night and Tuesday morning, the sobering death toll continued to climb in this city far too familiar with nature's wrath.

RIT officials are providing a few more details about an incident Monday night where Haz-Mat crews responded to the Colony Manor apartments. Initially, it was reported one student was taken to the hospital.

Now, RIT officials say that nothing was found in the unoccupied apartment that would have caused someone to become ill.

That apartment will remain closed until all personal belongings are removed and the apartment is cleaned.

The Colony Manor apartment complex is open to residents.