Patterson News

PATTERSON - Assemblyman Greg Ball, R-Patterson, announced Saturday his decision not to run for Congress in 2010.

Assemblyman Greg Ball, R-Carmel, has decided to run for the state Senate 40th District in the 2010 election, challenging incumbent Sen.

BREWSTER - Nicole Prezzano, a Brewster High School senior, will spend her pre-Thanksgiving Day weekend helping others prepare for the holiday.

Bird Library's plan to move books to an off-campus storage facility has become a "lightning rod" issue on campus.

Interstate 684: Adrian Horner, 38, of Yonkers was charged at 2:05 a.m. Friday with third-degree aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle and driving while intoxicated, misdemeanors, after a trooper stopped him in the northbound lanes, police said.

Quite the uproar in Syracuse. From the Article: The Syracuse University Library system is facing the classic book-lovera s dilemma: too many volumes, not enough shelves.

Editor's note: This story was written by staff writers Dave Tobin and John O'Brien More on New York's new license plates >> Read the letter from the 11 Upstate senators to Gov.

Police in Putnam County charged three women with driving while intoxicated during recent traffic stops in Kent and Patterson, one of whom had a blood-alcohol level more than four times the legal limit, police said.

Interstate 684: Rumolo T. Vieira, 25, of Harrison was charged with driving while intoxicated, a misdemeanor, at 11 p.m. Oct.

A Advocates for same-sex marriage are hitting New York's state capital hard, trying to sway the few votes needed for final legislative approval of the bill in a special session Tuesday.

CARMEL - Former town Councilman Norman Marino is facing misdemeanor charges for allegedly violating an order of protection, part of an ongoing battle between him and town assessor Paul Jonke.

Kevin McConville, the Democratic challenger for Putnam County sheriff, has raised and spent considerably more money than two-term incumbent Republican Donald B. Smith in what has been Smith's first real re-election challenge.

The chairman of the Assembly's Committee on Corporations is investigating IBM's financial dealings with the state.

PATTERSON - Only voters in Putnam County Legislature District 4 - which includes most of Patterson and part of Southeast - will find a contested race next week when they go to the polls.

A 23-year-old man accused of inducing his friend's fatal drug overdose was arrested by Putnam County sheriff's deputies early Thursday and returned to Bergen County, N.J., where he faces homicide charges, officials said.

Doesn't surprise me that the states population is reported to drop by 8% in the last years.

SOUTHEAST - A 17-year-old town youth accused of slashing another teen in the face with a knife at a party was arrested on a felony assault charge, the Putnam County Sheriff's Office said Monday night.

Rita Paniagua , chair of the Upstate Latino Summit at the Oncenter, Syracuse, NY, escorts Gov.

The state has suspended a controversial emergency regulation mandating flu vaccinations for health care workers because of a vaccine shortage.

More than 80 world-class artisans from Maine to Virginia will display their works here on Halloween weekend Sat, Oct.