AUGUSTA (AP) — A nationally backed pro-marijuana group is out-fundraising its local competitor in the early stages of two Maine campaigns to legalize recreational use of the drug. The Committee to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol has raised more than $50,000 between January and the end of March. The group is an effort of the national […]
2015
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Man arrested for bird sanctuary fire
ELLSWORTH (AP) — Police have arrested a man they allege set a fire at a building at an Ellsworth bird sanctuary. State police announced Monday that 31-year-old Christopher Kidder has been charged with arson, burglary and other offenses in connection with the fire in March 2014 that damaged the museum at the Stanwood Wildlife Sanctuary […]
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Police probe crash that hospitalized man
PORTLAND (AP) — Police are investigating a Portland car crash that left a 75-year-old pedestrian hospitalized. City officials say Mikhail Slussky remains at Maine Medical Center for treatment of serious injuries sustained in the crash Friday. Mary Rinehart was driving the vehicle that struck Slussky. The 74-year-old Rinehart was not injured in the crash. Police […]
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Janice E. Connors
TOPSHAM — Janice E. (Carlson) Connors, age 63, died at a local hospital on Saturday, April 4, 2015. She was born in Portland, ME on May 30, 1951, a daughter of Robert and Madeline Bryant Rowley. She attended Brunswick High School. Following over 40 years of companionship, she married Keith Connors in 2012. She started […]
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Kirk G. Favreau
TOPSHAM — Kirk G. Favreau, of Topsham, passed away at home on Saturday, April 4, 2015, from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease. He was 44. Kirk was born in Portland on March 1, 1971, the son of Felix J. and Ruth H. Favreau. He graduated from Mt. Ararat High School […]
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DEATH NOTICE
Muriel E. Knowles BRUNSWICK — Muriel E. Knowles, 91, of 22 Cedar Street, died Tuesday, April 7, 2015, at her home. Friends are invited to visit from 3 to 5 p.m. on Thursday at Brackett Funeral Home, 29 Federal St., Brunswick. A funeral service will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at Berean Baptist Church, […]
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White officer charged with murder in black man’s death
CHARLESTON, S.C. Dramatic video that shows a white South Carolina police officer shooting a fleeing black man after a traffic stop has led authorities to file a murder charge against the officer amid public outrage over a series of deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of law enforcement agents. The video, provided to […]
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Funeral for a former slave takes stage
APPOMATTOX, Va. (AP) — A Civil War cannonball that ripped through Hannah Reynolds’ master’s cabin made her a footnote of misfortune, the lone civilian death at the Battle of Appomattox Court House. She died a slave at 60, hours before the war to end slavery unofficially came to a close. A century and a half […]
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Death raises doubts on drug informer use
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — It’s been nearly a year since the body of 20-year-old North Dakota college student Andrew Sadek was found in a river, a bullet in the head. But his death is raising questions about the use of young, low-level drug offenders as confidential informants. Sadek had been working for a regional drug […]
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Afghan soldier shoots, wounds 3 U.S. troops in insider attack
KABUL, Afghanistan An Afghan soldier opened fire on U.S. troops in Afghanistan on Wednesday, wounding three before he was shot dead by American troops, an official and an eyewitness said. The incident happened after a meeting between Afghan provincial leaders and a U.S. Embassy official in the compound of the provincial governor in the city […]