Autumn Savoy of New Hampshire will start serving a second sentence May 14 in connection with a violent 2009 crime.
March 2012
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World/Nation Dispatches
BEIRUT Syria’s deputy oil minister defects from Assad regime Syria’s deputy oil minister announced in a video Thursday that he has defected from President Bashar Assad’s regime, acknowledging that he expects government forces to “burn my home” and “persecute my family.” Abdo Husameddine, a 58-year-old father of four, became the highest-ranking civilian official to join […]
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Titanic endeavor
A South Portland company is contributing to a History channel documentary about a sophisticated new map of the ship’s debris field – and the secrets it reveals.
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Activist video documents atrocities
The video is part of the San Diego-based Invisible Children’s campaign to stop Joseph Kony
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Jones remembered as ‘daydream believer’
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Monkees singer Davy Jones was remembered in a small private Florida funeral as a laid-back daydreamer who brought fans into a world blissfully free of worries. The service was held behind locked doors Wednesday at Holy Cross Catholic Church in Indiantown, close to Jones’ home and next to Hope Rural […]
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Pink underwear unjustified punishment?
A U.S. appeals court throws out a 2010 verdict that sided with the Arizona sheriff who ordered inmates to wear the garments.
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Briefcase
Stocks stay on upward path as Greece situation stabilizes SAN FRANCISCO – U.S. stocks extended gains into a second session Thursday as a deadline for private bondholders to exchange Greece-issued debt passed with what looked to be adequate participation, removing an obstacle to Greece’s second bailout. The Dow Jones industrial average closed up 70.61 points, […]
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Women’s Day in Turkey: shooting, laws and protest
Turkey is struggling to discard cultural practices as it seeks membership in the European Union.
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Kids living in filth on bus ‘shocking’
Officials try to determine how two children, 5 and 11, were cared for after their parents went to prison.
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Feature Obituary: Carole Petrin, 77, devoted mother who lived life to its fullest
BIDDEFORD – One spring-like day in the late 1970s, Carole Petrin picked up her kids from school early and drove them to Cranmore Mountain in North Conway, N.H., to go skiing. “I remember it being a beautiful spring skiing day,” said her daughter, Joannah Lapham of Kennebunk. “When you’re given a gift like (that), you […]