AUGUSTA — Kennebec County Sheriff Randall Liberty has spent the past 30 years kicking in doors and arresting drug users and thieves.
April 2012
NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP: Kentucky tops Kansas, wins title
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — No matter where Anthony Davis and his buddies go to make their millions, their ol’ Kentucky home will long remember this championship season.
Passamaquoddy tribe gets $11.4 million settlement
PLEASANT POINT — The U.S. Department of Interior has agreed to pay Maine’s Passamaquoddy tribe $11.4 million to settle a claim of federal mismanagement of tribal assets.
Local county jails’ strip-search procedures
Maj. David Allen, administrator at the Somerset County Jail in East Madison, said strip-searches are done routinely on inmates entering the general population.
University pay raises raise concerns
The University of Maine System handed out a total of $7 million in individual salary increases in the last seven years, during a period of budget cuts when most workers went without regular raises, according to systemwide data released Monday.
WOMEN’S NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP GAME: Baylor’s supporting cast comes up big
DENVER (AP) — Baylor star Brittney Griner casts such a giant shadow that it’s easy to overlook her supporting cast.
MLB: Beckett has injured thumb
FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — Josh Beckett went to Texas on Monday to have his injured thumb examined as Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine said he expected the right-hander to make his scheduled start at Detroit this weekend in Boston’s second game of the season.
NCAA MEN’S CHAMPIONSHIP GAME: Miller breaks record at Kentucky
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Darius Miller gets plenty of grief about being an old man as the only senior who plays significant minutes for Kentucky. He to became the most experienced Wildcat ever, too.
History comes to life … and, for the first time, is available online
Within hours of the release of 1940 U.S. Census data Monday morning, Kathy Amoroso had looked up her father.
N.H. liquor resales cost millions
AUGUSTA — Maine bar owners and others who buy large volumes of liquor in New Hampshire and resell it in Maine are costing the state $4 million to $11 million a year, the head of the state’s liquor bureau said Monday.