99 NEWS FOR WEDNESDAY, 5/4/11

RACQUETTE RIVER TO REMAIN HIGH, RAINFALL IN POTSDAM WELL ABOVE AVERAGE--Certified Military Storm Spotter Rick O'Hanlon recorded 5.17 inches last month, almost 2.2 inches above normal. For the past 24 hours as of about 6:00 this morning, O'Hanlon recorded 1.11 inches. The average temperature for April was also well above the 30-year mean, 45.9 degrees.

14-YEAR-OLD DILAN CLARK OF CONSTABLE, ACCUSED OF STABBING HIS ADOPTED MOTHER NUMEROUS TIMES TO HER DEATH EARLY MONDAY MORNING IS HELD AT BERKSHIRE FARM, NEAR ALBANY. PLEA OF 'NOT GUILTY' ENTERED ON HIS BEHALF IN FRANKLIN COUNTY COURT MONDAY.

MASSENA MAN ACCUSED OF STEALING JEEP AND THREATENING TO SHOOT ANOTHER MAN IF HE SQUEALED TO POLICE, 30-YEAR-OLD WENDELL KING IN POLICE CUSTODY AWAITING ARRAIGNMENT ON FELONY COUNTS OF GRAND LARCENY AND WEAPON POSSESSION, PLUS MANY LESSER COUNTS TO INCLUDE MENACING

WADDINGTON WAY AHEAD LATE TUESDAY IN WORLD FISHING NETWORK CONTEST, TOP 20 GOING INTO FINAL ROUND TO BE ANNOUNCED NOON, MAY 10TH

STOCKHOLM MAN CHARGED IN PROPERTY DISPUTE, 54-YEAR-OLD DAVID BLACK ALLEGEDLY LOCKED OUT GRANDMOTHER'S POWER-OF-ATTORNEY. BLACK RELEASED ON COURT TICKETS

SLU SCHOLAR DR. HOWARD EISSENSTAT TOLD 99 NEWS MONDAY HE BELIEVES DEATH OF OSAMA BIN LADEN WILL NOT ESCALATE THREATS, VIOLENCE AGAINST AMERICANS; HE WAS 'OUT OF THE LOOP' FOR A LONG TIME BEFORE HIS ASSASSINATION

ST LAWRENCE CHAPTER OF SWEET ADELINES, 20 ON STAGE TAKE SECOND PLACE IN REGIONAL COMPETION AT SYRACUSE OVER THE WEEKEND; THEY TOOK FIRST LAST YEAR. OVER 15-HUNDRED WOMEN WERE IN SYRACUSE COMPETING.