2015
Jeffrey A. Randall
FREEPORT — Jeffrey A. Randall, 46, died on June 3, 2015, unexpectedly. He was born on Aug. 23, 1968, son of Raymond L. Randall of Freeport and Donna B. Jordan of Lisbon. Jeff attended Pownal and Freeport schools and graduated from Freeport in 1986. He started working at a young age as a farmhand at […]
Joseph Madore
WEST BATH — Joseph Leopold Jaffrey Madore, 94, of Richmond, Maine, died at home on Friday, June 5, 2015, after a long illness. His family was by his side. Joseph was born in Biddeford, Maine, on Sept. 14, 1920, to Telesphore and Blanche (Kelly) Madore. After graduating high school he enrolled in the Army/Air Force […]
Texas braces for another round of heavy rainfall
DALLAS The eastern half of Texas was preparing for renewed flooding as Tropical Storm Bill approached the state’s Gulf Coast. The National Hurricane Center predicted the storm would make landfall this morning somewhere between Baffin Bay, south of Corpus Christi, and High Island, just up the coast from Galveston. Galveston County officials already have directed […]
Maria C. Hilton
WEST BATH — Maria C. Hilton, 82, of Campbell’s Pond Road, died on Thursday, June 11, 2015, at her residence. She was born in Georgetown on April 13, 1933, a daughter of Sumner F. and Arlene M. (Hinkley) Mains. She attended local schools and was a homemaker as well as a foster parent. She cherished […]
Bradford H. Strout
POWNAL — Bradford Harris Strout, 66, died on Wednesday, June 3, 2015, after a long battle with cancer. He was born in Portland on Sept. 20, 1948, a son of Merlin and Priscilla Ferguson Strout. Brad and his family enjoyed life on the farm, growing much of the family’s food in their gardens. He attended […]
Rita J. Fielding
BRUNSWICK — Rita Julia (Duggan) Fielding, age 91, formerly of Malden, Mass., and Scottsdale, Arizona, died peacefully at Dionne Commons on Friday, June 12, 2015. A memorial service will be held on Saturday, June 20 at 3 p.m. at Brackett Funeral Home, 29 Federal St., Brunswick, Maine. A burial will follow in Growstown Cemetery in […]
Prosecutors, defense mull options after conviction reversed
ATLANTA Prosecutors and defense lawyers must now chart a new course through a sea of legal questions after Georgia’s highest court reversed the murder conviction of a man accused of killing a father who had just dropped off his son at preschool. Monday’s 6-1 ruling by the Georgia Supreme Court renews a complicated criminal case […]
Escapees continue to elude capture
DANNEMORA, N.Y. Two escaped murderers remained at large as a woman charged with helping the killers flee from a maximum-security prison by providing them hacksaw blades, chisels and other tools made a second appearance in a New York court. More than 800 law enforcement officers on Monday kept up a methodical search for Richard Matt […]
Rachel Dolezal says she identifies as black
NEW YORK The woman who resigned as head of a local NAACP branch after her parents said she was white said Tuesday that she started identifying as black around the age of 5, when she drew self-portraits with a brown crayon, and “takes exception” to the contention that she tried to deceive people. Rachel Dolezal […]