SPRINGVALE — Norman H. LeMote, 79, of Springvale, died on Monday, Dec. 21, 2015, at the Gosnell Memorial Hospice House. Visitation will be held from 2-5 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 27, at the Lafrance-Lambert & Black Funeral Home, 29 Winter St., Sanford. A graveside service will be held at 11 a.m. Monday, Dec. 28, at the […]
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Daisy Elliott, 98
DETROIT (AP) — Civil rights activist and Michigan’s Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act co-author Daisy Elliott has died. The James H. Cole Home for Funerals in Detroit says on its website that Elliott died Tuesday at age 98. The Detroit Democrat spent nearly two decades in the state House and cosponsored the 1976 law that banned […]
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Lindsey Graham: Truth teller
Most Americans had no idea Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina was running for president. When he quit the race this week, he was in 12th place out of 13 Republican candidates, with less than 1 percent of the vote in national polls. But Graham has made a major contribution this election season. He’s been […]
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The big holiday comedown
This is always one of the strangest weeks of the year. All this build-up – the lights, the mistletoe, the endless rounds of rum-laced eggnog – and then it ends, not with a grand symphonic crescendo but with a whimpering note from a lonely trumpet. Pauly Shore movies have had less disappointing climaxes. Sometimes you […]
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8th US death due to Takata air bag explosion identified
WASHINGTON — A teen driver who died a few days after a July car crash near Pittsburgh has been tentatively identified by the government as the eighth death in the U.S. due to an explosive air bag inflator made by auto parts maker Takata, federal transportation officials said Wednesday. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration […]
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Letters to Santa Claus
These Letters to Santa are the last of a three-part series. The first batch appeared in Tuesday’s Journal Tribune. Fairfield School Mrs. Mercier’s Kindergarten Dear Santa, Can I pleas have a zebra Lev, Lance Dear Santa, Can I ples hav a stuf zebra. Love, Allison Dear Santa, I wat a pupe. Love, Halle Dear Santa, […]
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Demers’ hat trick leads Tigers over Cheverus
BIDDEFORD — Thanks to a third period hat trick by Biddeford defenseman Dylan Demers, the Tigers came back from a two-goal deficit to beat visiting Cheverus 5-3 on Wednesday afternoon. Senior captain Kerry Crepeau scored the other two goals for Biddeford, which improved to 3-3 on the season. Cheverus’ goals came from Michael Hatch, Matthew […]
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Michigan schools try out gold standard of concussion tests
BEVERLY HILLS, Mich. — Details of the block that knocked Ian Rice to the turf are fuzzy for him now. He remembers falling over. He remembers he couldn’t walk. That was the first sign something was seriously wrong. His father, watching his son and his Birmingham Groves High School football team from the stands, remembers […]
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Vikings sue Wells Fargo, cite U.S. Bank Stadium ‘photo bomb’
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Vikings sued Wells Fargo, saying the bank is using illuminated rooftop signs on two buildings near the team’s new stadium to “photo bomb” the facility, which is named for competitor U.S. Bank. Minnesota Public Radio News reported that the Vikings claim the mounted and illuminated rooftop signs Wells Fargo is […]