Massena News

Three Norfolk-area teens face obscenity charges after they allegedly transmitted nude photos via mobile phone messages, state police at Massena said Friday.

Secretary of Transportation Raymond H. 'Ray' LaHood visited the Eisenhower Lock Thursday to commend seaway employees for their contribution to commerce and transportation.

The St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation announced Thursday that the traditional Memorial Day weekend opening of the visitors' center at the U.S. Eisenhower lock will not open this weekend.

Village police charged Richard L. Schwartfigure, 19, of 20 Parker Ave., Massena, and Jamie Michael Patterson, 18, of 16 Parker Ave., Massena, with disorderly conduct after responding at 5:35 p.m. Wednesday to a reported altercation on the north side of the footbridge that had attracted a large crowd.

Massena-based state police charged a 14-year-old female from Norwood and a 15-year-old male from Norfolk with misdemeanor counts of third-degree obscenity Tuesday following an incident reported to troopers April 26 from the town of Norfolk.

A 26-year-old Massena man charged in June 2012 with threatening a neighbor in his apartment building with a steak knife has been sentenced to serve 75 days in the St.

Change is in the air at the United Way of Northern New York - and it has left bad feelings with at least one longtime United Way partner.

A 27-year-old Massena-area man will be sentenced in July after he admitted he had falsely told a mental health provider that his ex-girlfriend was selling him her elementary school-aged son's prescription medication.

The Renewal House 20th annual Mother's Day 5K Fun Run and Walk was recently held at the Remington Recreation Trail, Partridge Run Golf Course.

The Alcoa East smelter modernization project will be kicked off next month with the relocation of a transmission line necessary to accommodate a new substation and aluminum production equipment, Gov.

Mohawk tribal chiefs joined Governor Cuomo in Albany yesterday to announce a new deal on casino exclusivity.

Two Massena men have been jailed after allegedly stealing a credit card, and one was charged with escape after briefly slipping out of police custody.

Mihael Delamontagnes, 40, of Willington, formerly of Brasher, admitted to one count of attempting to promote a sexual performance by a child, a class E felony.

Village police ticketed Matthew C. Malu, 24, of 1841 Central Park Ave., Yonkers, on his front and rear windows at 8:24 p.m. Friday following a traffic stop on Woodlawn Avenue.

Canton-based state police charged Debra L. Ormsbee, 48, of Canton with a felony count of aggravated driving while intoxicated and endangering the welfare of a child and ticketed her for operation of a vehicle with inadequate stop lamps following a stop at 9:42 p.m. Saturday on Pollock Road in the town of Canton.

Village police charged David S. MacDonald, 30, of 54 Perkins Road, Massena, and Donald T. Dow, 24, of 498 South Main St., Massena, with grand larceny and conspiracy counts late Saturday afternoon.

A preliminary hearing for a Massena man facing two sex charges has been scheduled for Friday after two mental health professionals ruled he was competent to assist in his own defense.

A 25-year-old Massena man who has been charged with a number of felonies in recent months will have one of those reduced to a misdemeanor when he makes his next appearance in Massena Village Court.

The town board has agreed to sell four and a half acres of riverfront property on Old River Road to neighborhood resident David Osier for $100,000. The Massena Town Council voted 3-1 to sell the property to Mr.

Attempted-kidnapping suspect Miranda M. Green stood quietly in St. Lawrence County Court on Thursday afternoon as Judge Jerome J. Richards described how she allegedly defied pretrial release conditions requiring her to undergo substance-abuse counseling.