All Over Albany

Momentive merging with Ohio company, relative few tickets for texting while driving, Albany native commands rescue of ship from pirates

Momentive Performance Materials, the big silicones manufacturer with a plant that employees 1000 people in Waterford and another 100 in Colonie, announced today that it's merging with an Ohio-based company. The company says it will maintain a "significant presence" in in the Capital Region. [TU] [Momentive]

Albany police radio broadcasts indicate at least one person was shot last night in West Hill (map). [TU]

Albany police say they've arrested two men who allegedly were involved in recent acts of public lewdness. They say one man was picked after exposing himself to a woman on Washington Ave Friday (map). And they allege the other man was exposed himself in two separate incidents in Arbor Hill at the end of August (map). [TU] [Fox23] [WTEN]

A Schenectady man convicted of almost strangling his then-12-year-old son to death was released on Friday -- after serving a little more than a year, as opposed to the eight year minimum he was facing -- because a judge reduced the charges against him from felonies to misdemeanors. [Daily Gazette]

The Albany County district attorney's office has filed a motion that seeks to uphold the Signature Pharmacy steroids indictment -- and responds to the recent criticism of the case from a federal judge. [TU] [earlier NYT]

New York law enforcement agencies have given out relatively few tickets for texting while driving -- and say the law is very hard to enforce. [Daily Gazette]

GE says it wants to follow the plan laid out in the final version phase 1 peer review report of the Hudson River PCB dredging project and continue dredging next year. [EPA] [Saratogian]

Kirsten Gillibrand is pushing for legislation that would require supermarkets to notify consumers about food recalls within 24 hours. [NYDN]

Albany County has decided to not replace the county Route 53 bridge over the train tracks in Bethlehem -- "Ben's Bridge" -- because it says the span's usage isn't enough to justify the cost (map). [TU]

Albany police say a 42-year-old woman stabbed a 34-year-old woman Saturday night near Hoffman Park (map). [CBS6]

Saratoga Springs police say a recent rash of vandalism now includes the Spirit of Life monument in Congress Park. [Saratogian]

An attorney for the church reportedly trying evict an 88-year-old woman from her home in Sand Lake says eviction is "the last thing" the church wants to do. [CBS6]

An Albany native was the commander of the Marine mission that rescued a ship by hijacked by pirates off the coast of Yemen Thursday. [TU]

The East Greenbush fire department still uses sirens to summon its volunteers. [Troy Record]

A 60something Delmar couple is planning to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro in December. With Martina Navratilova. [TU]