WASHINGTON (AP) — Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court faced a crucial Senate vote Friday as key Republican senators remained undeclared amid the allegations of sexual misconduct followed by intense disagreements that have divided the nation. The 53-year-old judge made what was in effect his closing argument by acknowledging he became “very emotional” when […]
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Nobel Peace Prize honors the fight against sexual violence
OSLO, Norway (AP) — A Congolese doctor who treats rape victims and an Iraqi woman who speaks out for those — like herself — who were raped and tortured by the Islamic State group won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their work to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of […]
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Police: Mother who stepped in front of truck with toddler had left suicide notes
The mother who stepped in front of a tractor-trailer on Interstate 95 while holding her 2-year-old son had left suicide notes at her home, Maine State Police said. Police are investigating the death of 26-year-old Heidi McGovern, of Lee, as a suicide. McGovern was holding her son, Enoch, when she stepped in front of an Irving […]
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Lewiston man killed in Ferry Road car wreck
LEWISTON — Police said excessive speed appeared to be a factor in a single-car crash on Ferry Road just before midnight Thursday that claimed the life of a 22-year-old man. Police said Dakota Paige of Lewiston was ejected from his 2002 Chevy Cavalier and came to rest in a nearby yard after losing control of […]
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Lucia P.C. Sheaffer
TURNER — Lucia P.C. Sheaffer, 96, of Turner passed away Tuesday, Oct. 2, following a brief illness. She was born in Vienna, Austria, July 13, 1922, a daughter of the late Baron Sisinio and Baroness Elisabeth (Sommaruga) Pretis-Cagnodo. She grew up at Schwarzenberg Palais, Vienna, Schloss Muhlhof, Austria, and Schloss Bodok, Slovakia. She was educated at […]
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Looking Back on Oct. 5
100 Years Ago: 1918 (Two ads in the Journal, re: the Spanish Flu): On account of Influenza, the Field Day of the New Lake Auburn Boat Club is postponed. The Topsham Fair is canceled for this season. 50 Years Ago: 1968 More than 1,000 U.S. Infantrymen and scores of warplanes attacked a Viet Cong base […]
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Ford's story has inconsistencies
On Sept. 30, Rachel Mitchell, who was hired by Senate Republicans to lead the questioning of Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh last week, published a memorandum. That document details why Mitchell, a prosecutor from Arizona with 25 years of experience dealing with sex crimes, does not believe that any reasonable prosecutor would bring the […]
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Capricorn: Time to collect your reward
CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Jesse Eisenberg, 35; Scott Weinger, 43; Kate Winslet, 43; Guy Pearce, 51. Happy Birthday: Explore the future instead of living in the past. Start to purge and evaluate your life and your next move. Change is within reach, but it will take effort on your part to ensure that whatever […]
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Prosecutor expertly picks apart the case against Kavanaugh
WASHINGTON — The decision by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley to have Arizona sex crimes prosecutor Rachel Mitchell question Christine Blasey Ford may well be remembered as a brilliant — and quite possibly pivotal — choice. No doubt, allowing Mitchell to ask questions instead of Republican senators served a defensive purpose, avoiding the spectacle […]
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Tactile hypersensitivity is aversion to scratchy clothes on skin
DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 75-year-old man with an arthritic back, urinary tract problems and, worst of all, highly sensitive skin! There are few items of clothing that I can tolerate. I turn tank top shirts inside out, preventing seams from irritating my skin. This has been a progressive problem since birth, worsening significantly […]