NEW YORK (AP) — Deloris Gillespie was a fun- loving, fast-talking mother of four who helped anyone she could in her Brooklyn neighborhood and at the post office where she worked for years. Suddenly, in a few fiery moments in an elevator — her life was snuffed out. On Monday, with a suspect behind bars […]
2011
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BRIEFS
Kim Jong Il body displayed in palace PYONGYANG, North Korea ( AP) — The body of North Korea’s longtime ruler Kim Jong Il was laid out in a memorial palace today as weeping mourners filled public plazas and state media fed a budding personality cult around his third son, hailing him as “born of heaven.” […]
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Winn-Dixie stores sold
GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — The supermarket chain Winn- Dixie is being sold in a deal valued at $560 million to Bi-Lo LLC, the companies said Monday, creating a huge grocery operator in the South. Shares of Winn-Dixie, which has more than twice the number of stores of its buyer, jumped more than 70 percent Monday. […]
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CALENDAR
Tue/20 BLOOD DRIVE AMERICAN RED CROSS DONOR CENTER, noon-7 p.m., 524 Forest Ave., Portland; www.RedCrossBlood.org or 1-800-RED-CROSS. MISCELLANEOUS FREE GAME DAY, noon-3 p.m., Richmond Senior Citizen’s Group, 164 Pleasant St.; starts with lunch, followed by variety of games; transportation or more info, Barbara Barter 737-2190. TOPSHAM MERRY MEETERS monthly meeting, noon, Westrum House; gift exchange, […]
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Dear Abby
DEAR ABBY: I have been married for 13 years to a good guy who is a great dad. We have two boys, ages 9 and 11. The problem is, we don’t communicate. We hardly have sex and we don’t get along at all. I feel like I have sacrificed physical and emotional intimacy so my […]
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Will China break?
Consider the following picture: Recent growth has relied on a huge construction boom fueled by surging real estate prices, and exhibiting all the classic signs of a bubble. There was rapid growth in credit — with much of that growth taking place not through traditional banking but rather through unregulated “shadow banking” neither subject to […]
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Don’t forget working class in America
Both Republicans and Democrats have discovered that the middle class in this country is hurting and has been in slow decline for decades since the post-World War II boom era. President Obama, after being urged by liberal Democrats throughout his term to focus on those at the bottom of the economic pile, now is channeling […]
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Devastation looms
To the editor: These are desperate economic times. The status of state government finances is dire as evidenced by the news about proposed state budget cuts that are nothing short of devastating. Through the Medicare Savings Program, more than 12 million could be cut from the Fund for Healthy Maine, eliminating the wrap benefit and […]
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Unacceptable cuts
To the editor: Gov. Paul LePage’s budget cuts to minimize health benefits to Maine residents are going to affect a large population that depends on these benefits to stay alive. The stress that’s going to be on the Department of Health and Human Services and social service agencies in this state will be paramount. This […]