ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A Virginia man accused in an alleged bomb plot against the U.S. Capitol was scheduled to plead guilty today, federal prosecutors said. Amine El Khalifi was due in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., for a plea hearing today, four months after he was charged in an undercover FBI operation. El Khalifi […]
June 2012
Driver in 6-car crash arrested
WATERVILLE — A woman involved in a serious six-vehicle crash on College Avenue in March is in jail after a grand jury indictment. Nancy Hazard, 43, of 1 Collins St., Apt. 2, was arrested at her residence Thursday afternoon on one count of aggravated driving to endanger — a class C felony. On March 18, […]
Maine Rx robberies this year near total for all 2011
Almost no part of Maine has been immune from the wave of drug store heists.
Schilling: Company collapse cost me baseball fortune
Former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling Schilling says he put more than $50 million of his own money into 38 Studios video game company and that he’s had to tell his family that “the money I saved during baseball was probably all gone.”
Sandusky jury rehears Penn St. assistant testimony
In its second day of deliberations, the jury returns to the courtroom to listen again to the testimony of Mike McQueary, who reported seeing Sandusky assault a boy in a shower.
Maine home sales, prices rise from a year ago
Figures show that 1,035 single-family homes were sold in May, a 32 percent increase from the same month a year earlier.
Obama to address Latino leaders a day after Romney
Mitt Romney, who spoke to the group Thursday, backed off the anti-illegal immigrant rhetoric of the primaries and vowed to address illegal immigration “in a civil but resolute manner.”
Moody’s downgrades 15 of world’s biggest banks
The behemoth banks are all major players in the global stock and bond markets, which have become extremely volatile.
Cooling fails, things get ‘skunky’ at Androscoggin jail
Jail officials have closed nonessential rooms and lightened the guards’ dress code. Even so, guards often go home drenched.
Mass. man faces sentencing in fatal boat crash
A jury clears a Westfield man of six of eight charges stemming from the 2010 collision of his speedboat with a kayak that killed a 10-year-old boy.