99 NEWS HEADLINES FOR THURSDAY, 8/4/11

CUOMO: "NOPLACE HAS ANYTHING OVER THE STATE OF NEW YORK.."--That's what Governor Andrew Cuomo said last week before an audience of hundreds at SUNY Potsdam. He told the crowd as he unveiled his North Country Economic Development Initiative "The concept that anyone would leave New York State to go anywhere else is a bizarre and foreign concept to me," because New York "has it all". High taxes, an unfriendly business and job climate, and the overall economy are seen as factors in a mass migration out of the state despite an overall population increase caused by immigration--that Cuomo is trying to relieve through a tax cap and other initiatives. Cuomo says the North Country in particular has assets "second to none," to include its natural beauty "unlike anything on the globe".

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UPSTATE NEW YORK TEA PARTY CHAIR MARC BARIE BLASTS CONGRESSMAN OWENS FOR HIS VOTE IN FAVOR OF THE DEBT CEILING PACKAGE, SAYING HE SHOULD HAVE VOTED FOR 'DEEPER, MEANINGFUL' CUTS

MASSENA POLICE ARRESTED 34-YEAR-OLD STEVENSON 'CHEETAH' DESHANE THIS WEEK IN CONNECTION WITH FIGHT WHERE HE ALLEGEDLY BROKE ANOTHER MAN'S FINGER. DESHANE CHARGED WITH MISDEMEANOR AND RELEASED ON COURT TICKET

A COLTON WOMAN ARRESTED THIS WEEK ON A FELONY DRUG CHARGE, 22-YEAR-OLD SHERRI VAISEY WAS ARRESTED LAST YEAR BY STATE POLICE ON OTHER FELONIES, ACCORDING TO NORTHCOUNTRYNOW-DOT-COM.

OBITUARIES:

Raymond Austin--St. Regis Falls. Services at graveside with minitary honors Friday afternoon at 1 at Forest Cemetery, St.Regis Falls. Arrangements with Hammill Funeral Home, St.Regis Falls.