LEWISTON — Six months after reopening to the delight of its fans, Rails restaurant is closing, effective Friday night. Owner Ileshea Stowe made the announcement Friday afternoon in a Facebook post. The reaction was immediate, with dozens of Rails patrons weighing in to bemoan the loss of their favorite eatery. Stowe says she feels their […]
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Congressional race may hinge on how voters view Donald Trump
Throughout American history, the political party of the president has almost always taken a hit during midterm elections. “It’s one of the most ironclad things in American politics,” University of Maine at Farmington political science professor James Melcher said Friday. If it happens again this time around, one of the casualties could be U.S. Rep. […]
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Men jump into Pettingil Pond to save 2 year old in sinking car
WINDHAM (AP) – Police say two men jumped into a pond to save a 2-year-old who was strapped in a vehicle that rolled into the water. Police say Edward Hallett was outside his Subaru Outback when it began moving. They say he and another man jumped into Pettingil Pond to get the child out and […]
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Albion man arrested on arson, explosives charges
An Albion man is facing an arson charge related to a flash fire at his home last January that occurred when he reportedly was mixing rocket fuel. Joseph Forest Tilly, 36, was arrested Wednesday and taken to the Kennebec County jail on charges with arson and criminal use of explosives. At Tilly’s initial court appearance […]
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State police arrest 10 people after finding 33 1-pot meth labs
Police responding to a reported drug overdose at a house in Hollis on Thursday wound up arresting 10 people for their connection to a methamphetamine operation. Maine State Police entered a house on Killick Pond Road and found what they described as “several active one-pot style methamphetamine labs.” Officers secured the scene to get a […]
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Bruce Poliquin issues the first attack ad of the campaign
And so it begins. U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin’s campaign issued its first television advertisement Friday assailing his chief opponent, Democrat Jared Golden, as “too radical” and “too risky.” The move drew a quick denunciation from Golden’s camp. “Today’s desperate attack by Bruce Poliquin comes as no surprise and validates everything the polls show: The two-term […]
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Maine bus with children crashes off I-95 in New Hampshire
Children aboard a bus heading from Kittery on a summer field trip were injured when the driver suffered a medical emergency and the bus crashed off Interstate 95 southbound in New Hampshire Friday morning. One of the 11 children onboard the bus was transferred to a hospital in Boston with serious injuries, said Lt. John […]
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Car catches fire at Auburn gas station
A car burns Friday morning at the Irving gas station on Washington Street in Auburn. The local woman who owns the car reported she was able to get out of the vehicle after it went up in flames at about 11 a.m. After police and fire crews came to douse the flames, Heather Elliott Hill […]
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Man suffers head injury overnight on Knox Street in Lewiston
LEWISTON — A young man was seriously injured early Friday morning on Knox Street. Police responded to an area in front of 94 Knox St. where a man was lying on his back in the street, unresponsive, with an apparent head injury. The incident was reported around 1 a.m. By the end of the day […]
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New Brunswick shooting: Two of four dead are police officers
TORONTO (AP) — A shooting in a small Canadian city early Friday left four people dead, including two police officers, under circumstances that were not yet explained but struck a nerve in a country that has been roiled in recent months by several incidents of mass violence. People in Fredericton, the capital of News Brunswick […]