A passenger jet slid off a taxiway at Bangor International Airport and sections of Interstate 95 were closed by extremely icy conditions Saturday that had emergency responders scrambling statewide. Two people were killed in a two-vehicle crash on Cape Road in Hollis, Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Stephen McCausland said. The accident happened shortly […]
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Bangor man pleads not guilty to killing Edward Little grad
BANGOR — The local man who police say told investigators that he bound and raped, then killed his ex-girlfriend in November pleaded not guilty Monday at the Penobscot Judicial Center to one count each of kidnapping, gross sexual assault and intentional or knowing murder. Zackery Mailloux, 21, of Bangor was indicted Nov. 27 by a […]
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Bangor Airport lays off 15 workers; more coming
BANGOR (AP) — Bangor International Airport has let go 15 part-time employees and more job cuts are on the way. Airport Director Tony Caruso said he met with the affected employees Thursday and about half were given the chance to stay with the airport on an on-call basis. Caruso told WABI-TV (http://bit.ly/1kfaOH5 ) that the […]
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Judge continues hearing despite plea
BANGOR — An emotional David Coon pleaded guilty Thursday at the Penobscot Judicial Center to manslaughter in the May asphyxiation death of his girlfriend, Sherry Clifford, but the judge declined to accept his plea and continued the hearing after Coon denied touching Clifford’s throat. Dr. Mark Flomenbaum, deputy chief medical examiner, determined that Clifford’s death […]
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Faulty furnace likely cause of fire that destroyed Bangor mobile home
BANGOR — A faulty furnace was likely the main culprit in a fire that gutted a trailer at a local mobile home park on Thursday afternoon. Bangor Assistant Fire Chief Tom Higgins said crews were dispatched to Lot 13 at Pray’s Mobile Home Park off Finson Road shortly after noon. Higgins said fire was spewing […]
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Bangor International Airport lays off 15 employees
BANGOR — Bangor International Airport laid off 15 employees Thursday and more layoffs are expected over the next two weeks, airport Director Tony Caruso said Thursday morning. Caruso said more layoffs will be announced through next week. At that point, the airport will re-evaluate and determine what other changes might be needed to solidify its […]
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Florida woman arrested at BIA after weather delay and tantrum
BANGOR — An allegedly drunken Florida woman who wasn’t too pleased with her flight from Bangor International Airport to the Sunshine State being delayed wound up cooling off in jail on Sunday, police said. Janet Dinardi, 54, of Nokomis, Fla., was agitated because her Allegiant Air flight had been delayed due to Sunday’s snowstorm, and […]
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$10,000 bail ordered for man accused of Christmas stabbing
BANGOR — A local transient charged early Christmas morning with aggravated assault after police say he stabbed a Brewer woman in the wrist had his bail set at $10,000 Friday by District Court Judge Bruce Jordan. “He can’t come up with anywhere near that amount,” Ben Fowler, lawyer for the day, said of Steven Mathis, […]
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Friends, veterans reflect on legacy of troop greeter Bill Knight
BANGOR — Bill Knight was at Bangor International Airport at 2 a.m. one day in 2004 when filmmakers Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly first met him. He was standing in the hallway, shaking hands with troops. Just hours earlier, doctors told Knight he had prostate cancer, Gaudet and Pullapilly said. That didn’t matter much. He […]
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Well-known Bangor troop greeter Bill Knight, 91, dies Christmas Day
BANGOR — Well-known Maine troop greeter Bill Knight died Christmas Day at the Maine Veterans Home at the age of 91. Funeral arrangements are pending. Knight, along with Jerry Mundy and Joan Gaudet, was featured in the documentary “The Way We Get By,” produced by Gita Pullapilly and her husband, Aron Gaudet. Knight and the […]