Bellavance found guilty

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December 31, 2011

Bellavance found guilty

AUGUSTA -- Raymond Bellavance Jr. was found guilty Friday on two charges of arson in connection with the 2009 fire that destroyed the Grand View Topless Coffee Shop in Vassalboro.
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December 31, 2011

Grease likely cause of mobile home fire

FREEMAN TOWNSHIP -- A grease fire on a stove appears to have caused a blaze that destroyed a mobile home Friday afternoon, according to a fire department official.
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December 31, 2011

Details of Augusta carjacking released

AUGUSTA -- The man who kidnapped a Walmart shopper in a parking lot and stole her money last week told his victim that he needed cash to help his young son, police said Friday.
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December 31, 2011

Donations pour in for Oakland fire victims

OAKLAND -- Six-year-old Lillian Shuman was excited to receive sparkly sneakers called Twinkle Toes shoes for Christmas this year, but about two days later they were destroyed by fire, along with her home.
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December 31, 2011

Psychics among hundreds of tipsters in Ayla case

WATERVILLE -- Hundreds of tips have been phoned in to police investigating the disappearance of 20-month-old Ayla Reynolds, some of which are coming from people who are calling themselves psychics.

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December 31, 2011

No new information in Hannaford beef recall

More than two weeks after Hannaford Bros. Co. issued a massive recall of ground beef, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has released no additional information about its investigation into the source of the meat that was linked to an outbreak of salmonella infection.
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December 31, 2011

Skowhegan DAR chapter conduct service, auction

SKOWHEGAN -- Eunice Farnsworth-Ruth Heald Cragin Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, recently held a graveside memorial service at Riverside Cemetery in Kingfield in memory of member Beulah Moore who died in August. Beulah was a past regent of the former Ruth Heald Cragin Chapter in North Anson.
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December 31, 2011

NFL: Brady probable for finale

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) -- Tom Brady is listed as "probable" on the New England Patriots injury report for Sunday's regular-season finale against the Buffalo Bills.
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December 31, 2011

YEAR IN REVIEW: 2011 was one of worst in sports

Even after all the turmoil 2011 brought to sports, what with the NBA and NFL players and owners huddling with lawyers and accountants, more unsettling reports of brains ravaged by hard hits, and college players being given cash, tattoos, access to strip clubs and pretty much anything else you can imagine, the games still mattered.
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December 31, 2011

Noonan hopes to develop the statewide derbyinto the nation’s largest ice fishing event

Most of the roughly 6,000 ice fishermen who descend on Sebago Lake each February for the annual ice fishing derby don't know Tom Noonan.