2012
Confident Romney calls for unity, looks to Ill.
VERNON HILLS, Ill. — Mitt Romney’s increasingly confident campaign is intensifying calls — publicly and privately — for his Republican opponents to concede defeat in the presidential nomination battle, even before Illinois voters have their say Tuesday in the campaign’s next big contest. Romney extended his delegate lead Sunday in Puerto Rico, where he trounced rival […]
Wildfire nearly contained, town evacuation lifted
WRAY, Colo. (AP) — Evacuated residents of the small Colorado town of Eckley have been allowed to return home after firefighters contained most of a wildfire on the state’s northeastern plains. Three firefighters were injured battling Sunday’s blaze, and two of them remained hospitalized late at night, fire spokeswoman Deanna Herbert said. The town’s 300 […]
Lawyer prepares to meet Afghan killings suspect
SEATTLE — A Seattle defense attorney prepared to meet today with Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, who is facing formal charges in an attack on two slumbering Afghan villages that left 16 people dead, including nine children. John Henry Browne flew to Kansas Sunday ahead of his first face-to-face meeting with the 10- year Army veteran, […]
Mets owners settle in Madoff-related case
NEW YORK ( AP) — The New York Mets owners and a trustee for Bernard Madoff ’s fraud victims have settled for $162 million. The Mets owners will not pay anything for three years. Jury selection had been set to begin in a civil trial to determine how much the team owners will owe other […]
Joanne H. Couture
BRUNSWICK — Joanne H. Couture, 82, of Bowdoin, died Friday afternoon at Mid Coast Hospital. She was born in Lisbon Falls on December 25th 1929, a daughter of Andrew & Helen Cummings Byras. She was educated in local schools married George F. Couture, Sr. on November 3rd 1945, and later raised her family. Of the […]
Elizabeth L.M. Hedgpeth
BRUNSWICK — Elizabeth L.M. Hedgpeth, 75, died Sunday, March 11, 2012. A Mass of Christian burial was celebrated today, March 19, at 9:30 a.m. at St. John the Baptist Church, 39 Pleasant St., in Brunswick. Arrangements under the care of Direct Cremation of Maine. [email protected]
Monday Meter
Thumbs Up — Heroism: all in a day’s work The call went out Wednesday night: A 12-year-old Dresden boy disappeared after he got off the school bus. People who can only be described as Maine’s “search and rescue community” responded immediately. Wardens, law enforcement officers, firefighters and others converged on Dresden to search for Micah […]
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
“There is only one word for this product: gross. It’s a highly processed substance that is made from beef scraps, spun in a centrifuge and treated with ammonia. McDonald’s and Burger King won’t serve it in their restaurants and it doesn’t belong in school cafeterias either.” — U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, in urging the […]