Mark Bechard, 58, who had been diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease, died Sunday at a nursing home in Freeport.

Peter Alfond, the son of Harold and Dorothy ‘Bibby’ Alfond and a key board member of their philanthropic foundation, died Monday after contracting the disease in Africa.

The Love on a Leash chapter is forced to put at least three sites on a waiting list for visits.

An older man is taken to the hospital after the mower he was riding topples, sending him into the brush at the bottom of an embankment.

The fire caused significant damage Thursday to an apartment building on High Street.