BRUNSWICK (AP) — A landmark Brunswick business is closing its doors for good in November after 124 years. The owners of Pennell’s Clothing Store said they sold their Maine Street building on Sept. 3 and now have two months to liquidate their inventory. Pennell’s opened in 1889 and has been owned for the last four-plus […]
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Maine man appealing triple-murder convictions
PORTLAND (AP) — A 23-year-old man who was given three life sentences in a 2010 triple killing is appealing his convictions and sentences to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. Thayne Ormsby was convicted last year of three counts of murder and one count of arson for the 2010 stabbing deaths of 55-year-old Jeffrey Ryan, his […]
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College Hockey: Racine raring to go with Black Bears
LEWISTON — John Racine has spent most of his adult life teaching boys how to become better goaltenders. If there’s a difference in his latest job, Racine said, it’s that he’ll be instructing men. Racine, 46, has been named a volunteer assistant hockey coach at the University of Maine. His focus will be specifically on […]
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Face Time: Dan Magoon — Putting his degree to use at Johns Hopkins
We heard from Dan Magoon three days too late — but he’s been trying to cure cancer, so we’re OK with that. Magoon, who graduated with a degree in biology from the University of Maine, was one of the original 15 students in the Sun Journal’s “Following the Freshmen” project, which wrapped in 2009. Last […]
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Lola the six-clawed lobster finds new home at Maine State Aquarium
BOOTHBAY HARBOR — Even a “normal” lobster is considered by many to be on the freaky side of nature, but the Maine State Aquarium in Boothbay Harbor has one that even lobster experts have never seen. Lola the six-clawed lobster arrived at the aquarium on Thursday after being caught off Hyannis, Mass., on the F/V […]
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Maine potato fields backdrop for feature film
PORTLAND (AP) — The filmmakers who won critical acclaim for their documentary focusing on the troop greeters at Bangor International Airport are again using Maine as a backdrop. The first feature film by Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly is set among the blue potato farms in Van Buren in northern Maine. “Beneath the Harvest Sky” […]
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Police: Labor Day travel weekend safest in three years, with one fatality
AUGUSTA — One of the summer’s busiest travel weekends proved to be the safest in three years, according to state police. Only one person was killed on Maine highways during Labor Day weekend, marking the safest travel holiday weekend since 2010, according to Department of Public Safety spokesman Stephen McCausland. The 2013 figures compare to […]
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Saco man facing sexual assault charges
ALFRED (AP) — A Saco man already on Maine’s sex offender registry is facing new charges of raping a girl in her early teens after giving her alcohol. Arthur Grant Jr. has been indicted by a York County grand jury on charges including gross sexual assault; gross sexual assault by employing alcohol; and sexual abuse […]
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Maine-Nova Scotia ferry service to resume in May
YARMOUTH, Nova Scotia (AP) — The provincial government has completed a deal with a Maine-based company to run a ferry service between Portland and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, starting in May, officials said Thursday. The deal struck with STM Quest Inc. calls for the provincial government to provide $10.5 million in startup costs and $1.5 million […]
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Portland business owner sentenced for illegal welfare benefits
PORTLAND (AP) — A Portland man who pleaded guilty to making false statements to obtain Medicaid, foods stamps and federal housing assistance funds while drawing a six-figure salary is going to prison for two months. A judge also ordered Dafle Abdullahi Ali to pay restitution and sentenced him to two years of supervised release. Prosecutors […]