99 NEWS HEADLINES FOR FRIDAY, 8/26/11

SUNY POTSDAM-SUNY CANTON CONSOLIDATION BENEFITS STUDENTS MOST, POTSDAM PRESIDENT SAYS--Dr. John Schwaller told a campus-wide audience Thursday in his annual "State of The College" address that the money saved by merging the two colleges' administrative functions will go back into academics. He says jt will open up course opportunities students at both institutions have never had before.

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NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAYS EYE OF HURRICANE IRENE WILL MOVE EAST OF VERMONT, MEANING THERE WILL BE JUST RAIN, WIND IN ST.LAWRENCE COUNTY..HITTING LATER ON SUNDAY

FORT COVINGTON MAN ACCUSED OF SEX WITH TEEN WHILE A TEACHER IN LEWIS COUNTY, 34-YEAR-OLD BRYAN BARNEY FOUND DECEASED AT HIS HOME IN FORT COVINGTON THURSDAY, CAUSE BELIEVED TO BE SELF-INFLICTED

17-YEAR-OLD BENJAMIN MEUTEN OF OGDENSBURG, ACCUSED OF POSSESSING STOLEN TRUCK AND JAILED LAST MONTH, NOW ACCUSED OF PROVIDING MATERIALS USED BY 18-YEAR-OLD ALLEGED GUN THIEF ALBERT BEVINS TO VANDALIZE SPRINKLER SYSTEM AT THE ST.LAWRENCE COUNTY JAIL LAST WEEK

THERESA WOMAN ACCUSED OF WELFARE FRAUD IN ST.LAWRENCE COUNTY...38-YEAR-OLD YVONNE COLBY ALLEGEDLY RIPPED OFF SOCIAL SERVICES TO THE TUNE OF MORE THAN 28-THOUSAND-DOLLARS IN FOOD STAMPS AND HEAP BY FAILING TO DISCLOSE EMPLOYMENT INCOME...COLBY CHARGED WITH FOUR FELONIES AND RELEASED ON COURT TICKETS

MOTROCYCLE ACCIDENT ON NEEDHAM ROAD IN STOCKHOLM INJURED A POTSDAM MAN WEDNESDAY....23-YEAR-OLD MELVON LASHOMB OF PICKLE STREET WAS FOUND SEMI-CONSCIOUS ON THE ROADSIDE AND TREATED FOR A CONCUSSION. LASHOMB WAS RELEASED ON A TICKET FOR SPEED NOT REASONABLE OR PRUDENT