WATERVILLE — Area residents and businesses are offering $30,000 reward for information leading to the whereabouts of 20-month-old Ayla Reynolds. During a press conference Monday, Waterville Police Chief Joseph Massey announced the reward, which he described as the largest reward ever offered in a missing person case in Maine. Massey urged anyone with information to […]
December 2011
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Odd news keeps New Englanders laughing, thinking
Unlucky and stupid criminals, strange quests and weird accomplishments may not be earth-shattering news, but they still all grabbed headlines across New England in 2011.
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Experts: Riding in cars riskier than ski lifts
A chairlift accident last year at Sugarloaf left some wondering about the safety of ski lifts. But statistics show ski lifts are far safer than cars, experts say.
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Police: Ayla taken from father’s Waterville home
Local businesses and residents have offered $30,000 for any information leading to the whereabouts of 20-month-old Ayla Reynolds, the city’s police chief announces.
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Civil War’s 150th stirs a trove of memories
From New England to the South, archivists are using the Civil War’s sesquicentennial to collect a trove of mementoes that have gathered dust for years. In Maine, they recently discovered dozens of old Union photographs, dog tags and other items.
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Obama spends Christmas with family, military
President Barack Obama blended his roles as a father and commander-in-chief this Christmas, exchanging presents and singing carols with his family, then greeting U.S. service members stationed at a Marine base in Hawaii.
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Back in campaign mode, GOP presidential hopefuls focus
With just a week until Iowa holds its leadoff caucuses and many still undecided, the GOP candidates resume campaign mode today.
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Tough choice looms on 9/11 health lawsuits
1,600 people who filed lawsuits claiming that their health was ruined by dust and smoke from the World Trade Center must decide by Jan. 2 whether to keep fighting in court, or drop the litigation and apply for benefits from a government compensation fund.
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SNAPSHOT: Swiftly through the snow
Ricky Trask, 12, launches an electric car Sunday on a fresh coat of snow at his Gardiner home. Trask said he received the remote controlled vehicle as a gift on Christmas eve and wanted to try operating it on snow.
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Crash kills 4
PALERMO — A Palermo father and son and two Bucksport brothers died on snowy Route 3 on Sunday afternoon in Maine’s deadliest motor vehicle crash of the year.