North Country Gazette

NASSAU COUNTY—A new unit has been created in the Nassau County district attorney’s office to handle cases involving animal cruelty, abuse, and neglect in an effort to better protect vulnerable pets and animals. (Read more…)

COMMENTARY

© By June Maxam

ALBANY—-Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the scummiest of them all?

In Albany, that is. (Read more…)

VALHALLA—More than 100 people from the region attended Saturday’s Kickoff Breakfast for Go the Distance, the walk and family fun day supporting Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital at Westchester Medical Center. (Read more…)

LAKE LUZERNE—A 18-year-old student at the Hadley-Luzerne High School is facing assault charges after she allegedly struck another female in the head with her shoes during an argument at a school dance Saturday night. (Read more…)

The seven-day forecast for northern Warren County area of upstate New York indicates that the ever present bitter wind will remain, creating  below zero wind chills for the next several days but with no major storms in sight. (Read more…)

COMMENTARY

© By June Maxam

Henry Skinner is on death row but unlike Terri Schindler Schiavo, the brain injured Florida woman who was dehydrated to death by judicial decree, he was present in court when the judge imposed his death sentence. (Read more…)

CHESTERTOWN –Robert Edward Eagan Jr. passed away peacefully after a long and courageous battle with cancer, on Feb. 5, 2010, surrounded by his loving family and his childhood sweetheart and wife of 26 years, Marion Seitz-Eagan. At his bedside were his closest and dearest friends. (Read more…)

COMMENTARY

© By June Maxam

Most people have heard of the proverbial “smoking gun” involved in a crime, a reference to an item or fact that serves as conclusive evidence of a crime or wrongdoing. (Read more…)

COPAKE—A Copake man was airlifted to Albany Medical Center Thursday night following a snowmobile accident on Copake Lake. (Read more…)

THURMAN—A Thurman woman is behind bars at the Warren County Jail after she allegedly assaulted her boyfriend with a knife and then led police in a car chase from Thurman to Queensbury. (Read more…)

CHESTERTOWN – William “Bill” Barrett, 74, passed away Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010, at his home surrounded by his loving wife and friends. (Read more…)

BRANT LAKE – Joan H. Bauer, 80, of Brant Lake, went into the arms of her loving Lord on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010, surrounded by her loving family members. (Read more…)

NEW YORK—The Bank of America, its former CEO Kenneth D. Lewis, and its former CFO Joseph L. Price are the subjects of a lawsuit filed by the state Attorney General’s office for duping shareholders and the federal government in order to complete a merger with Merrill Lynch. (Read more…)

WASHINGTON—In recent ads, Coca-Cola cheerfully congratulated itself for introducing a new, 7.5-ounce can of soda. While calorie counters may appreciate the convenience of a 90-calorie can, dollar counters may be in for sticker shock: On an ounce-for-ounce basis, the new cans cost 50 to 140 percent more than 12-ounce cans. (Read more…)

QUEENS—-The owner of a nursing agency in Jamaica, Queens, has been charged with third degree grand larceny, among other charges, for illegally deducting $1 per hour from the payroll checks of more than 200 employees and fraudulently telling them that the Workers’ Compensation Board authorized the deductions for their workers’ compensation insurance. (Read more…)

QUEENS—A New Jersey man has been charged with stealing more than $11,000 from an 86-year-old female motorist who he flagged down in Forest Hills and told that her car – a 1976 Dodge Aspen – was in dangerous and immediate need of repair. (Read more…)

ALBANY—A Watervliet man who admitted to participating in a conspiracy to manufacture and deal explosive materials has been sentenced to serve 31 months in federal prison, after which he must serve three years of supervised release. (Read more…)

NEW YORK—A veteran detective with the New York City Police Department who says he was fired for flunking a drug test because his wife had served him marijuana-spiked meatballs has lost his court challenge to win his job back. (Read more…)

HOOSICK FALLS—The former animal control officer for the Town of Hoosick has escaped serious jail time after pleading guilty to shooting and killing dogs that he picked up and  then burying them in a manure pile on his farm. (Read more…)

BROOKLYN—A Brooklyn man has admitted spray painting swastikas on numerous locations in his neighborhood and possessing a secret cache of weapons, including explosives, in his Brooklyn Heights apartment. (Read more…)

ORLEANS COUNTY—The father of an 8-year girl who died last September in an automobile accident and his cousin have been charged with criminally negligent homicide. (Read more…)

OTEGO—State Police have arrested an Otego man for impersonating a police officer. (Read more…)

QUEENSBURY—The Warren County Sheriff’s Office is warning senior citizens to be alert after a Queensbury elder was scammed of $700. (Read more…)

NEW YORK—Aetna Health Inc., a health maintenance organization (HMO), has paid a fine of $750,000 as part of a settlement with the New York State Insurance Department.  The settlement resolved infractions relating to the administration of the Healthy NY program from April 2007 through January 2009. (Read more…)

ROCKLAND COUNTY— Charles Wurf, part-owner of D.E.C. Copiers, Inc., located at 6 North Route 9W, West Haverstraw was recently charged, along with the company, with filing fraudulent New York State sales tax returns and stealing over $286,000 in state sales tax for a five year period. (Read more…)

CUYAHOGA COUNTY, OHIO—A second defendant has been sentenced in relation to the Cuyahoga County corruption probe. (Read more…)

HOOSICK FALLS—A Hoosick Falls man has been sentenced to serve 3 ½ to seven years in state prison for stabbing a horse to death. (Read more…)

QUEENSBURY—A man who police said was the victim of a robbery was arrested himself for allegedly head-butting the wall at the Queensbury State Police station while he was being interviewed. (Read more…)

QUEENS—A former Queens assemblyman was sentenced Thursday to six years in prison for defrauding the people of New York of his honest services as an Assemblyman in the New York State legislature. (Read more…)