The first significant snowfall of the season is on the way this weekend. If it’s any consolation to those who have to suffer through it, at least Mainers are not alone. According to the National Weather Service, typically warm areas including Galveston, Texas, and Birmingham, Alabama, are also getting snow. Significant snow. Plowable amounts. Does […]
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Protests continue at Susan Collins’ Portland office Friday
Nine religious leaders, part of a daylong sit-in at the downtown office, were arrested after they refused to leave at the end of the day Thursday. Friday afternoon brought a fresh group of protesters to Sen. Susan Collins’ office in Portland, expressing their unhappiness with the Maine Republican’s vote for a tax reform plan working […]
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Underwear left on floor triggered stabbing, Rockland police say
One victim, who suffered serious wounds to his neck and back, is listed in satisfactory condition at Maine Medical Center. ROCKLAND — An argument over underwear left on the bathroom floor sparked an argument that ended with one roommate stabbing two others, sending one man to a Portland hospital with stab wounds. George Gilmore, 32, […]
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Portland police arrest 9 protesting tax plan at Sen. Susan Collins’ office
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Police in Portland say they’ve arrested nine protesters who gathered in Sen. Susan Collins’ office to oppose a bill to overhaul the federal tax code. Collins, a Republican, was in Washington on Thursday and didn’t meet with the religious leaders who were protesting. Police say they were peaceful, but refused to […]
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Police seek man who grabbed girl getting off bus in Parsonsfield
The incident occurred around 4:30 p.m. Monday in the town’s Kezar Falls Village section, police say. Maine State Police are looking for a man they say grabbed a 13-year-old girl as she got off a bus and tried to take her behind a building in Parsonsfield. The incident occurred around 4:30 p.m. Monday in the […]
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Westbrook library wants to add cameras to discourage ‘sexually deviant behavior’
The problem behavior includes sex acts and use of computers to access pornography, according to police. WESTBROOK — The city is looking to upgrade the security cameras at Walker Memorial Library to better ward off sexually inappropriate behavior there. According to Police Chief Janine Roberts, people have been engaging in “sexually deviant behavior” at the […]
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Sen. Susan Collins may change vote if GOP reneges on her changes
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Sen. Susan Collins may change her vote on the GOP tax overhaul if her amendments are not included in the final version that emerges from conference committee, the Republican said. Collins’ comments, made on the same day nine religious leaders protesting the tax plan were arrested at her office in Portland, […]
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Patricia M. Mathieu
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Patricia M. (Levesque) Mathieu, 69 years old, of Lewiston, died unexpectedly of natural causes on Oct. 28, 2017, in Ann Arbor, Mich. Pat was born in Lewiston on Sept. 18, 1948, to Bernadette (Turcotte) Levesque and Roland “Joe Pete” Levesque. She graduated from Lewiston High School in 1967, married her high […]
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Rio Grande hands Maine Red Claws tough loss
Former Maine Red Claws player R.J. Hunter, now with the Rio Grande Valley Vipers, drives to the hoop in the fourth quarter against the Red Claws. Hunter lit up his former teammates with 40 points in a 118-110 victory at the Portland Expo in Portland. (Rich Obrey/NBAE via Getty Images) PORTLAND — Former Maine Red […]
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The Hot Corner: Sports administered differently — no better or worse — in Maine, Kentucky
Eighteen months since leaving the place where my love for high school sports was born and blossomed, then jumping into that scene in a different part of the country, I continue to be amazed at how differently student-athletics are managed outside my native Maine. I’m not saying that one way is always right or that […]