99 NEWS HEADLINES FOR TUESDAY, 4/12/11...WEATHER STATS FROM MONDAY BY STORM SPOTTER RICK O'HANLON ON SISSON STREET...HIGH TEMP 76, SHORT OF RECORD 80 SET IN 1945, .55" RAIN, PEAK WIND GUST 42 MPH

GRIFFO BILL PASSES 60-0 IN SENATE, MAKING CRIMINAL INTERFERENCE OF A FUNERAL SERVICE A MISDEMEANOR, FELONY--The 47th District State Senator says the bill gives people the same protections that already exists for protests at family planning centers. The legislation would make undue harassment at a funeral service a misdemeanor on the first conviction, the second a felony. The bill was written in response to the US Supreme Court ruling that protests by Westboro Baptist Church at military funerals are protected free speech under the First Amendment.

SYRACUSE RESIDENTS CAUGHT WITH MORE THAN A POUND OF POT IN MASSENA JAILED-State Police pulled over a vehicle Sunday afternoon on Trippany Road contaning the marijuana, 40-year-old Murphy Phillips and 43-year-old Judy Delano. they were charged with felony possession and committed to the county lockup in Canton...Phillips on 5-thousand dollars cash and Delano on 1000 dollars bail

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SHERIFF'S DEPUTIES MAKE NUMEROUS ARRESTS AFTER POTSDAM VILLAGE POLICE ROUND UP FOUR FOR SHOPLIFTING INCIDENT AT POTSDAM PRICE CHOPPER

MALONE PRISON SUBSTANCE ABUSE COUNSELOR ACCUSED OF HAVING SEXUAL RELATIONS WITH INMATE, 31-YEAR-OLD MARGO FISH OF FORT COVINGTON CHARGED WITH FELONY SEX CHARGE AND MISDEMEANOR OFFICIAL MISCONDUCT, ARRAIGNED AND RELEASED ON COURT TICKETS. FISH SUSPENDED FROM JOB WITHOUT PAY

POTSDAM MAN CHARGED WITH AGGRAVATED DWI AFTER 2AM SATURDAY PULLOVER, 26-YEAR-OLD CHRISTOPHER STREBENDT FOUND TO HAVE ALLEGED BAC OF .25%, RELEASED ON TICKETS

STATE SENATOR PATTY RITCHIE ON THIS WEEK'S NEW YORK FARM BUREAU REPORT

TOM PLASTINO, RETIRED HEAD OF CITEC BASED IN POTSDAM, TAKES INTERIM EXECUTIVE POST AT ADIRONDACK ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION IN SARANAC LAKE

OBITUARIES

Ruth Murcray--75--Nowood. Services 11am Thursday at Buck Funeral Home, Norwood. Calling hours 2-4, 6-8pm Wednesday