FARMINGTON — A Hermon man faces charges after a Franklin County sheriff’s deputy tried to stop a vehicle he was driving on Sunday for a traffic violation on Farmington Falls Road. The driver, Kyle Goehringer, 32, of Hermon refused to stop at about 7 p.m. and sped off with Deputy Andrew Morgan in pursuit, according […]
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Farmington man charged after ex-girlfriend’s SUV rammed several times in Walmart parking lot
FARMINGTON — A local man is accused of ramming his ex-girlfriend’s vehicle on Sunday, while it was stopped to exit Walmart at the traffic lights, after a verbal confrontation in the parking lot. Police met with the victim at about 9 p.m. in the lot of an adjacent restaurant. Based on officers Michael Lyman and […]
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Forget drones. Amazon's Jeff Bezos needs lots of delivery guys
Jeff Bezos captured the world’s imagination when he appeared on CBS’s “60 Minutes” and pledged to fill the skies with package delivery drones. Five years on, Amazon.com Inc.’s chief executive officer is betting on decidedly more terrestrial technology: drivers. As in real people. Tens of thousands of them. High-tailing it through town in gas-slurping vans […]
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White House, Democrats dig in as shutdown fears intensify
Both sides appear unwilling to budge from their positions on President Trump’s proposed border wall.
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Sen. Susan Collins on GOP primary in 2020: ‘I see nothing wrong with challengers’
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said Sunday she welcomes potential Republican primary challengers to President Donald Trump while also declining to endorse the president’s 2020 re-election bid. Collins, who helped defeat Republican attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act through Congress in 2017, argued that primaries help shape policy by allowing “a lot of viewpoints to […]
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Southern Maine traffic has trouble navigating on Monday morning snow
Heavy, wet snow blanketing Southern Maine, complicating the morning commute, causing slide-offs and spin-outs all over the region. Traffic is slow across the region as police and tow trucks help motorists who have lost control or got stuck. “Nothing major, just lots of vehicles off the road,” a Cumberland County dispatcher said. About 4.2 to […]
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Looking Back on Dec. 17
100 years ago: 1918 A committee from the Auburn Chamber of Commerce discussed the proposed sites for the YMCA building at a meeting Friday evening. The proposed sites given much thought were on North Main Street, the old Webster Grammer School, the lot on the so-called clay bank and the Conant property on Turner Street. […]
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Libra: Walk away from indulgent situations
CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Milla Jovovich, 43; Bill Pullman, 65; Eugene Levy, 72; Ernie Hudson, 73. Happy Birthday: Home, family and taking care of loved ones should be your priorities. Understand what’s expected of you and find new ways to use your skills and creativity to enhance what you have to offer the world. […]
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Auditions for “The Vagina Monologues” AUBURN — V-Day aUbUrn 2019 will hold auditions for “The Vagina Monologues” from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 6, and from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 8. Audition material will be provided. Monologues will be read in the show, and need not be memorized. Dress rehearsal will be […]
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Does too much vitamin D cause reduction in bone mass?
DEAR DR. ROACH: I’m 70, Caucasian and slim. I was diagnosed with osteoporosis five years ago. Before that, I took Fosamax for five years. The only things I take are 1,000 mg calcium citrate, 3 mg boron and a multivitamin containing 2,000 IU vitamin D. An X-ray showed three compression fractured vertebra. I read that […]