PHIPPSBURG — Milton Wesley Yeaton Sr. of Phippsburg passed away peacefully at Maine Medical Center March 18, 2018 at the age of 65. He was the son of the late Herbert Yeaton Sr. and Abbie Aileen Yeaton and was raised in the Nazarene faith. Milton’s childhood was an idyllic one of playing with cousins and […]
March 2018
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Spring nor’easter targets Northeast with heavy snow
PHILADELPHIA A spring nor’easter targeted the Northeast today with strong winds and a foot or more of snow expected in some parts of the region. Airlines canceled flights and schools canceled classes ahead of the fourth major storm in three weeks. “It’s ridiculous,” Bob Burkhard of Toms River, New Jersey, said on Tuesday near the […]
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Evacuees exit Calif. towns ahead of storm
LOS ANGELES When sheriff ’s deputies told Kristine Sperling and her family they should evacuate their Southern California home because of an approaching storm in January, they didn’t listen. Sperling thought she, her husband and their 11-year-old daughter would be perfectly safe. But the storm unleashed mudslides that inundated hundreds of homes in their community […]
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Mary J. Waddle
Mary Joan (Duffy) Waddle, beloved spouse of Robert E. Waddle and adored mother of four, died peacefully March 19, 2018 at the age of 87. Married in 1949, Joan moved with her husband to Minnesott Beach, North Carolina. Following Bob’s service in the United States Marine Corps, the couple settled permanently in Harpswell, where her […]
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Catherine H. Field
BRUNSWICK — Catherine H. Field, age 79, of N. Anson, formerly of Brunswick, passed away on Friday, February 23, 2018 at Maine Medical Center in Portland. Catherine was born in Lewiston on October 5, 1938, the daughter of Charles and Dorothy (Otis) Berry, Sr. She worked in local shoe manufacturing and paper mills. She had […]
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Ax throwing gains in popularity as pastime, sport
NEW YORK Leave it to the hipsters of Brooklyn to combine craft beer and sharp objects. Kick Axe Throwing is the first bar in New York City to pick up on a nationwide trend of ax throwing, a growing sport that some enthusiasts hope will take off the way bowling did in the last century. […]
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Homeland officials to talk election security
WASHINGTON Senators are expected to press Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on the department’s efforts to secure state election systems as the Senate Intelligence Committee launches an effort to safeguard against foreign meddling in this year’s elections. Nielsen will testify today along with Jeh Johnson, who was President Barack Obama’s head of Homeland Security when […]
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Allegations from women in his past shadow Trump
WASHINGTON The chorus of women from President Donald Trump’s past is getting louder. Accusations about Trump’s past sexual exploits bubbled up on three fronts Tuesday, with two women pressing court cases and a porn actress publicly needling the president. Trump has so far weathered the rising #MeToo movement, but the latest developments served as a […]
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Suicide bomber kills 26 as Afghans celebrate new year
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A suicide bomber struck on the road to a Shiite shrine in Afghanistan’s capital today, killing at least 26 people as Afghans celebrated the Persian new year, an official said. Nasrat Rahimi, the deputy spokesman for the Interior Ministry, said another 18 people were wounded in the attack. He said the […]
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Iraq holds more than 19,000 on Islamic State, militant links
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq has detained or imprisoned at least 19,000 people accused of connections to the Islamic State group or other terror-related offenses, and sentenced more than 3,000 of them to death, according to an analysis by The Associated Press. The mass incarceration and speed of guilty verdicts raise concerns over potential miscarriages of […]