OLD TOWN (AP) — State police said the Old Town woman fatally stabbed by her boyfriend this week was pregnant. Police said 35-year-old April Haskell was killed by her boyfriend on Wednesday night before a state trooper responding to the couple’s apartment shot and killed the boyfriend, identified as 28-year-old Christopher Ouellette. An autopsy Thursday […]
Maine
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Newry eyes $300,000 road project
NEWRY — Selectmen are pondering a proposal from Main-Land Development Consultants for an estimated $300,000 project to reconstruct 1,200 feet of the Sunday River Road. Main-Land owner and president Bob Berry and project manager Rick Dunton met with the board last week to discuss options for the stretch of road near the Nordic Knoll subdivision […]
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Much of Maine at peak foliage for holiday weekend
AUGUSTA (AP) — Conservation officials say the fall colors are hitting peak levels across much of eastern, central and western Maine in time for Columbus Day weekend. In its weekly fall foliage report, the Maine Forest Service says rangers are reporting that the foliage is 75 to 100 percent toward peak in a swath stretching […]
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F. Koris: Overzealous environmentalists
A recent Sun Journal article showing Maine’s business climate and economic standing to be last in the nation brings to mind what may have been missed opportunities. For instance: the Dickey-Lincoln hydroelectric proposal (remember the Furbish’s lousewort?), an oil refinery in the Eastport-Machias region, a plan to develop an eco-friendly resort community in the Great […]
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Maine heating oil price stays at $3.53 a gallon
AUGUSTA (AP) — The average price for home heating oil in Maine is unchanged from last week at $3.53 a gallon. The Governor’s Energy Office said a weekly survey found the prices ranged from a low of $3.28 found in three areas of the state to a high a $3.75 found in northern Maine. Energy […]
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Portland committee approves abortion clinic buffer zone
PORTLAND (AP) — Planned Parenthood of Northern New England is applauding approval by a Portland City Council committee to create a buffer zone around a Maine clinic to separate anti-abortion protesters from patients. The council’s Public Safety, Health and Human Services Committee unanimously approved establishing a buffer zone on Tuesday after hearing from about 40 […]
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Portland man faces federal drug charges
PORTLAND (AP) — A Portland man is facing federal charges for allegedly running an interstate marijuana smuggling operation and laundering more than $100,000 through a Maine attorney. According to documents filed in U.S. District Court in Portland, 29-year-old David Jones was arrested Friday on a charge of possession with intent to distribute more than 100 […]
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Bus full of partying Colby students stopped in Oakland
OAKLAND (AP) — Nearly two dozen college students have been summoned to court to face underage drinking charges after the bus driving them home from a party was pulled over for speeding. Police say the bus packed with students from Colby College in Waterville was stopped at about 1 a.m. Sunday in Oakland. Sgt. Tracey […]
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Lewiston casino campaigners may get penalty reprieve in campaign finance case
LEWISTON — Promoters of a statewide effort to bring a casino to downtown Lewiston in 2011 might avoid paying more than $35,000 in civil penalties for presenting false information under Maine’s campaign-finance reporting laws, based on new documents released Tuesday. But the decision on what the political action committees set up by Stavros Mendros and […]
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Maine author, bow-maker to read at Rumford Public Library
RUMFORD — Maine author and bow-maker Richard Longbow will visit the Rumford Public Library from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 10, to read from his book, “Frozen in Time.” According to a news release by the library, Longbow’s novel focuses on “a 5,300 year-old forensic mystery about a Neolithic human called the Iceman or […]