BANGOR — Members of the Bangor Police Department’s Criminal Investigation Division are investigating the death of a 5-month-old child in Bangor. The child died Wednesday afternoon at Eastern Maine Medical Center, Bangor police Sgt. Cathy Rumsey said Wednesday night in a news release. The state medical examiner’s office will conduct an autopsy to determine the […]
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Class A East Hockey Final: Saints take out Rams; play for 25th title Saturday
LEWISTON — Magical? Not really. Heavenly? OK, if we must go there. It has been a Saintly surge through mid-February into early March for Saint Dominic Academy, one that will end in the same manner as so many winters past: With a quest for Maine schoolboy hockey’s holy grail. Two goals in the final 1:50 […]
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Class A East Hockey Final: Saints seek another reversal of fortune
LEWISTON — March matters most. Saint Dominic Academy hopes that trend continues when it meets Bangor High School for the Class A East hockey championship Tuesday. Game time is 6 p.m. at Androscoggin Bank Colisee. No. 1 Bangor (16-3) has earned consecutive trips to the regional final and defeated No. 3 St. Dom’s (12-7-1) twice […]
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Class A East Hockey Semifinal: Bangor outlasts Brunswick
LEWISTON — It was tougher and rougher than the top-seeded team in Class A East hockey expected, but Bangor earned a return trip to Androscoggin Bank Colisee later this week. Trevor DeLaite had a hat trick and Sam Kenny contributed two goals and two assists Saturday night in a 5-1 semifinal victory over Brunswick. No. […]
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Early chill, spike in fires, storms straining Maine Red Cross resources
BANGOR — Nicole Argraves knew little about the American Red Cross until last month, when her family lost nearly all of their belongings when fire gutted their rented mobile home in Freeport. “I mean, I knew in a vague sense, like everybody does, what the Red Cross does, but (after having) a one-on-one personal experience, […]
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Former Lewiston car dealer owes OSHA fines for Bangor location
BANGOR — The owner of a local used car dealership owes $9,000 in overdue fines to OSHA for workplace safety violations in 2012 and 2013, according to government documents. The release of information by the Occupational Safety & Health Administration about businesses owned by Glenn A. Geiser Jr., 48, of Brewer details another in a […]
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Boys’ hockey: Rams capitalize on chances, down Saints
AUBURN — St. Dom’s head coach Steve Ouellette was looking to get solid effort from his club in its final regular season game, but penalties haunted the Saints in a 6-1 loss to the Bangor Rams on Wednesday night at Norway Savings Bank Arena. The penalty-kill allowed three goals on nine chances, while at the […]
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State delays suspension hearing for Bangor car dealership
BANGOR — A used car dealer accused by Maine’s attorney general of unfair and deceptive trade practices will be able to continue selling vehicles for at least two more weeks while his attorney collects documents from the state to fight a 180-day suspension of the dealer’s business license. Glenn A. Geiser Jr., 48, of Brewer, […]
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Maine panel explores regulating ‘narrow band’ insurance networks
AUGUSTA — A legislative panel is working on how Maine might regulate so-called “narrow band” networks offered by health insurance providers. The Insurance and Financial Services Committee on Thursday again tabled a pair of bills that seek to improve disclosure for patients and health care providers and to determine limits for how far a patient […]
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Paris police seek help finding Paris woman
PARIS — Police are seeking the public’s assistance in finding a Paris Hill Road woman who has been reported missing since being released from Acadia Hospital in Bangor on Jan. 24. Shirley Mills, 44, was released from the hospital with instructions to return home via a taxicab arranged by the hospital, according to news release […]