FREEPORT — Debera Jean Hill, age 57, of Elm Street, died Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013, at Maine Medical Center in Portland. There are no services at this time. Arrangements are by Stetson’s Funeral Home, 12 Federal St., Brunswick.
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Rita Guerrette
BRUNSWICK — Rita Michaud Stoodley Guerrette, 91, died Friday, Jan. 25, 2013, at Mid Coast Senior Health Center in Brunswick. Visiting hours will be held from 4 to 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 30, at Brackett Funeral Home, 29 Federal St., Brunswick.
Gloria A. Kingsbury
GEORGETOWN — Gloria A. Kingsbury, 66, of Whites Cove Lane and Lynn Haven, Fla., died Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013, at Mid Coast Hospital in Brunswick after a short battle with cancer. Visiting hours will be from 2 to 4 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 30, at Daigle Funeral Home, 819 High […]
Mass-shooting towns chiefs, Obama to meet
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will meet with police chiefs from three communities that have experienced mass shootings, part of his administration’s push to address gun violence. Obama is drawing attention to the worst shootings of 2012, inviting the police chiefs from: Aurora, Colo., where 12 were killed in July; Oak Creek, Wis., where […]
Pa. students must ask for toilet paper
MAHANOY CITY, Pa. (AP) — An eastern Pennsylvania high school says vandalism forced it to create a policy in which toilet paper has been taken out of the boys’ bathrooms. Boys at Mahanoy Area High School now must go to the school office to request toilet paper and sign it out. Principal Thomas Smith says […]
Senators reach immigration deal
WASHINGTON A bipartisan group of leading senators has reached agreement on the principles of sweeping legislation to rewrite the nation’s immigration laws. The deal, which was to be announced at a news conference this afternoon, covers border security, guest workers and employer verification, as well as a path to citizenship for the 11 million illegal […]
Washington casts wary eye at Muslim Brotherhood
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama begins his second term straining to maintain a good relationship with Egypt, an important U.S. ally whose president is a conservative Islamist walking a fine line between acting as a moderate peace broker and keeping his Muslim Brotherhood party happy with anti-American rhetoric. The White House last summer had hoped to […]
Barge with 80,000 gallons of oil hits bridge
A barge laden with 80,000 gallons of oil struck a railroad bridge in Vicksburg, Miss., over the weekend, spilling light crude into the Mississippi River and closing the waterway for miles each way, the Coast Guard said. A second barge was damaged. Although an oily sheen was reported up to three miles downriver from Vicksburg, […]
CORRECTION
The Times Record reserves this space to correct errors appearing in our news columns. We ask readers who are aware of factual errors to telephone Managing Editor Bob Mentzinger at 504-8209. Because of a typographical error, a story on A2 in Friday’s edition about the 2013-14 budget challenges facing School Administrative District 75 should have […]