BATH Bath attorney Carolyn A. Bird has been appointed by Gov. Paul LePage to fill the vacant position of Register of Probate for Sagadahoc County. Her appointment was effective March 17, according to a press release issued Thursday by Sagadahoc County. Bird, 57, of Bath, is a 1985 graduate of Northwestern University School of Law. […]

BOWDOIN — The Town of Bowdoin Volunteer Fire Department Women’s Auxiliary will be conducting its annual garage and bake sale, and raffle from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, April 25, at the Fire Department Garage on Cornish Drive, off Main Street in Bowdoin (next to the town office). Table rentals are $10 per table; […]

BATH — The Friends of Patten Free Library in Bath will hold their annual Children’s Book Sale in honor of National Children’s Book Week from Tuesday, May 5, through Saturday, May 9, during regular library hours. Books looking for new families will be available in the Children’s Room. For any questions or to volunteer, call […]

BY JUDY HARRISON Bangor Daily News BANGOR Helen Lyon of Brooklin was born on a Sunday in August 1944 to a Polish freedom fighter. It is not when but where she was born that makes her birth and survival to adulthood unusual. Lyon was born in Auschwitz-Birkenau, a Nazi concentration and extermination camp in Poland, […]

AUGUSTA The creator of powdered alcohol is furiously trying to fend off efforts to ban the product in Maine and across the country before it even hits stores. After winning federal approval last month, Palcohol founder Mark Phillips is preparing to soon begin selling the powder, which makes vodka and rum drinks or cocktails when […]

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Appellate judges today will consider whether to lift a temporary hold imposed by a federal judge in Texas on President Barack Obama’s executive action seeking to shield millions of immigrants from deportation. A three-judge panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments in a closely watched case that […]

PHOENIX (AP) — Five adults were found dead inside a Phoenix home after a shooting in a suspected dispute over the family’s business, police said. Police said Thursday the three men were brothers and the dead women apparently were the men’s mother and a spouse of one of the brothers. Two other women and two […]

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Colorado man is scheduled to be sentenced today for the murder of a Montana teacher whose death highlighted the downsides of an oil boom that has brought thousands of newcomers to the remote Northern Plains. Prosecutors have recommended 100 years in prison for 25-year-old Michael Keith Spell of Parachute, Colorado, […]

CHICAGO She was born to a young Chicago couple, named Jennifer, and grew into a beautiful long-lashed child with wavy dark hair, big brown eyes and a yearning, youthful desire to be just like all the other girls. Only she wasn’t. Doctors first noticed her slightly enlarged genitals, and then discovered she had testes inside […]

NEW DELHI Every morning just before dawn, hundreds of trucks loaded with buffaloes trundle into New Delhi’s sprawling slaughterhouse complex where young men rush to unload the bellowing cargo. Skidding on heaps of fresh dung, they pull the animals out of the trucks, herding them for the daily auction and eventual slaughter. The work is […]