Oswego County News

Oswego County property owners will see no increase in the tax rate if the 2010 county budget is approved as proposed.

During jury deliberations in the Alan Jones murder trial, one juror slipped a rope around his neck and kneeled, trying to reenact Erin Maxwell's supposed hanging.

Sentencing of Alan Jones has been postponed. This morning, his defense attorney Sal Lanza made a motion in Oswego County Court to have the jury verdict set aside.

Oswego County residents will get the chance to comment on the proposed county budget for 2010 at a public hearing at 7 p.m. Dec.

Problems reading voting machine printouts led to incomplete and possibly inaccurate numbers being posted from the Oswego County Board of Elections on election night.

Veteran Oswego County legislator Art Gearsbeck lost his bid for reelection in Tuesday's election.

Taxpayers in Oswego County won't see an increase in their county taxes if the proposed 2010 Oswego County budget is adopted.

Jeffrey B. Knudtson, 40, of 20 Birch Lane, Apt. A, Oswego, was arrested shortly after noon Thursday for rape of a child, first degree.

Long-time Oswego County Democratic election commissioner William Scriber is planning to leave his job at the end of the year to join the Port of Oswego Authority staff.

The Oswego County Sheriff's Department is investigating a fire that took place this afternoon at 21 Garden Drive in Scriba.

The misdemeanor charge against Oswego County Legislator Lee B. Walker Jr. was dismissed this morning in Oswego City Court.

OSWEGO Oswego County Clerk George Williams is urging drivers to join him in opposing "Albany's latest boondoggle" a plan to replace every license plate in the state.

Oswego County officials have joined with the state Canal Corporation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for assistance in battling the water chestnut plant, an invasive species which is rapidly spreading in the Oswego River.

It's a new law named after Erin Maxwell, that will help counties hire more caseworkers for child protective services.

OSWEGO The Oswego County Election Commissioners announced that voters in five election districts will report to new locations on Election Day, Nov.

The Oswego County Emergency Management Office announces that the system of emergency notification sirens surrounding the three nuclear power plants at Nine Mile Point will be tested during the week of Nov.

It was 2002, cranberry prices had tanked and Oswego Cranberry Co. and its 27 local investors didn't have enough money to pay its bills.

One person had to be rescued from an overturned vehicle and flown to University Hospital this morning after a rollover crash on Route 104B near county Route 6, according to 911 dispatchers.

St. Lawrence County Clerk Patricia Ritchie In just one week, St. Lawrence County Clerk Patty Ritchie has lined up 3,300 on-line supporters in her fight against new license plates.

When Deanna Candee and her son, Adam, returned from a shopping trip Saturday to their Schroeppel home, they suspected something was wrong when they saw the garage door open.