2013
Legislators triumph over recklessness
Last week, lawmakers in Augusta came together to again support a bipartisan budget carefully crafted to ensure that Maine continues to operate and serve the people. By a vote of 114-34, in the House and 26-9 in the Senate, lawmakers prevented a massive property tax hike and a shutdown of state government by overriding the […]
No defense for Bath vandals
To the Editor: These names Delano Jr., Crocker, Price, Avery, Bobson Jr., and Cyr are not names in the phone book. These are the names of young boys, as you are now who plied the streets of Bath, played on her playgrounds and attended her schools. These young men gave the full measure to protect […]
Town mourns 19 firefighters
PRESCOTT, Ariz. The firefighters walked down the bleachers in a silent gymnasium full of mourners, their heavy work boots drumming a march on the wooden steps. They bowed their heads for moments of silence at the front of an auditorium that was so packed organizers had to send people outside for fear of violating the […]
Snowden hits hurdles in search for asylum
MOSCOW NSA leaker Edward Snowden’s best chance of finding refuge outside the United States may hinge on the president of Venezuela, who was in Moscow today meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela told Russian reporters today that his country has not received an application for asylum from Snowden and dodged […]
S. Africa: 2 past presidents suffering
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Two former South African presidents bound together in the country’s struggle to exit apartheid are both suffering ill health. Nelson Mandela today spent his 25th day in the hospital, while officials announced that that F.W. de Klerk will be fitted with a pacemaker. De Klerk is the last leader of South Africa’s […]
Egypt: Morsi’s 2 spokesmen quit
CAIRO (AP) — A foreign ministry official says two spokesmen for President Mohammed Morsi have quit in the latest defections from his embattled administration as protesters and the military challenge his authority. The official says career diplomats Omar Amer and Ihab Fahmy have stepped down after nearly five months speaking on behalf of Morsi. The […]
Prosecution winding down in WikiLeaks trial
FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — Prosecutors say they are close to the end of their case in the court-martial of an Army private who leaked mountains of classified information to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks. They called what they said was their last witness Monday. The court-martial will resume today. Prosecutors have presented testimony from 79 […]
Girl who got new lungs set for surgery
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A 10-year-old girl who got adult lungs after her parents sued to change national transplant rules is set for more surgery to repair her diaphragm. Sarah Murnaghan was scheduled to have the latest procedure at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia at 10 a.m. today. That’s according to a post on the Facebook page […]