2012
Working-class, female voters get campaign wooing
Republican candidate Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama are making hard sells to working-class and female voters while raising the volume on their criticism to fire up the party base and cast the other as an extremist. Romney’s team thrust welfare into the campaign with an ad claiming that Obama planned to dole out taxpayer […]
HCA probe shines light on chest pain overtreatment
An investigation into one of the nation’s biggest hospital chains is refocusing attention on concerns about overtreatment for chest pain. Many doctors are unclogging arteries to treat the pain, providing quick relief. However, studies have shown medicine is a safer and cheaper alternative for patients whose heart disease isn’t life-threatening. That research has changed thinking […]
Jamaican DJ Ranking Trevor dies in crash
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Ranking Trevor, a pioneer of rap reggae during the 1970s, has died in a traffic accident in Jamaica. He was 60. The musician’s brother, Robert Grant, says he was crushed by a car Tuesday after being knocked off his motorcycle. Police did not respond to calls about the fatality. Born Maxwell […]
Dora Jean (Miller) Queior
PORTLAND — Dora Jean (Miller) Queior died on Sunday August 5, 2012 at the Cedars in Portland, Maine. Born on March 9, 1926 in Watertown, NY, she was the daughter of the late Marshall M. and Agnes L. (Nicol) Miller. After graduating from Watertown High School in 1944, she was employed as an operator for […]
Stephaine Marie Card
AUBURN — Stephaine Marie Card, 26 of Bowdoinham Road, Lisbon Falls, died on Thursday, August 2 with family and friends by her side at Hospice House following a courageous battle with cancer. She was born in Lewiston, August 31, 1985 daughter of Nancy Carville and Tom Card. Stephaine graduated June 8, 2003 from Mt. Ararat […]
Anthony “Tony” F. Gagne
BRUNSWICK — Anthony “Tony” F. Gagne, 88, of Brunswick passed away peacefully on Monday, August 6th, 2012. He was born in Brunswick, Maine on September 4th, 1923 the son of Arthur J Sr & Marianne (Thibeault) Gagne. He grew up in Brunswick, graduated from Saint John’s Catholic School in 1939 and attended Brunswick High School. […]
Payton M. Perry
HARPSWELL — Payton M. Perry, 10 months old, daughter of Richard and Molly Perry, sister of Griffin R. Perry, died on August 5, 2012 after battling S.M.A. A funeral service will be on Thursday, August 9, at 4:30 p.m. at Life Church, 8 Elkins Rd. (off the New Portland Rd.), Gorham, ME. 04038. Arrangements by […]
Beverly Andersen
WOOLWICH — Beverly Andersen, passed away Friday, Aug. 3, 2012. Service information to follow.
Affordable Care Act not perfect, but …
There was a brief kerfuffle recently when CBS reported that some of the Aurora shooting victims had no health care insurance and could be bankrupted by medical bills. One young man, who was shot in the eye when gunman James Holmes inexplicably opened fire in a theater full of people, could face $2 million in […]