It’s another important day in the race to replace John McHugh as Congressman in the North Country.
Democratic party leaders meet today at Syracuse University’s meeting center in Blue Mountain Lake. They intend to choose from among 11 people who want the party’s endorsement for Congress.
As Lynn and Lindsey Maxwell walked out of Palermo Town Court Saturday night to the State Police vehicles that would take them to jail, a pack of reporters moved with them while townspeople who had attended court faithfully for the last two weeks formed a gauntlet of eyes.
“What’s your reaction?” asked one reporter. “How you feeling right now, Lynn?” asked another. The Maxwells had spoken often with reporters on breaks in the trial. Tonight, they said nothing.
They’re going back in to continue deliberating.
5:30 PM SATURDAY: The fate of Lynn and Lindsey Maxwell is in the care of a jury in the town of Palermo at this hour.
Lawyers for both sides summed up their cases Saturday afternoon. Town Justice Robert Wood instructed the six person jury on the law and sent them off to make their decision at about 5:15p.m. Saturday.
The Maxwells are accused of endangering the welfare of their 11 year old daughter, Erin, last August. Erin died in what police claim is a sexual assault and murder at the hands of stepbrother Alan Jones, The Maxwells are not charged with her death, but instead with providing living conditions that endangered her welfare. Each is charged with four misdemeanors, for which the maximum punishment is 1 year in jail.
Belrad’s claim is nearly identical to the claim of Lynn Maxwell. Both said there were things in the statements given to police that were not true or were exaggerations.
It’s been a few years, but an old friend is back in town.
Fulton’s Jazz Fest opens tonight, renewing the festival that ran for years in downtown Fulton. The event has a new home — behind the War Memorial. Bring your own lawn chairs to enjoy two days of great music.
Below is tonight’s prime time entertainment, The Critics honr section with the Cortini Brothers rhythm section, seen here at Fulton’s Rock The Block event.
The full schedule:
Friday:
5:30 p.m.: The Do Good Swing Band
8:00 p.m.: The Critics with the Cortini Bros.
Saturday:
3:00 p.m.: Melvin Sparks
6:00 p.m.: Nancy Kelly
8:00 p.m.: Classified
Can’t make Jazz Fest? How about the Fort Ontario Festival of the Arts on Saturday in Oswego or the annual Minetto Canal Splash fun canoe and kayak race at the Magic in Minetto festival.
Hey, do ’em all!
A waterspout is, essentially, a water tornado.
Read the whole story to get a visual explanation of what waterspouts are.
Both of Kansas’s US Senators say they’ve put a hold on McHugh’s nomination and 9 others because they want their state’s military prison taken off the list of prisons to be used to house prisoners moved from the military detention camp at Guantanamo Bay when it closes next year.
Maxwell was pressed about the statements she gave to police on August 30, the day after Erin died, and on September 11.
Maxwell has said in court that Erin “could have pushed on the hinge side of the door and it would have come right off.” Prosecutor Mark Moody asked her why that wasn’t in the statement she gave to police, which she reviewed and then signed.
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