The Taunton man asks for a “Blue Ice 7s” ticket, but a distracted clerk instead gives him a “Sizzlin 7s.”
August 2012
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Police: Murder suspect feared losing boyfriend
Detectives arrested the 25-year-old Arline Seavey on Wednesday as she was being discharged from a psychiatric hospital in Westbrook.
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Romney nixes Obama offer on tax return disclosure
A Romney spokesman says the Obama campaign’s offer was a ploy to distract from “the issues that matter to voters.”
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Judge frees Mass. rape suspect over traffic stop
The judge rules that police had no legal basis to stop his car and arrest him.
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Obama defends Medicare record in new ad
Mitt Romney has criticized Obama for taking more than $700 billion in Medicare funds to help pay for the president’s health care law.
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Next wave in rescues: Remote-control ‘lifeguards’
It looks like a buoy, but it’s a small watercraft fitted with a flotation device. It can go up to 22 mph and can get to people more quickly than any human.
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Progressive insurance on defense after court case
The criticism began Monday with a blog post from Matt Fisher of Brooklyn, whose sister had Progressive insurance and was killed in a June 2010 car crash.
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Authorities seeking 3 in Poland home invasion
Police say the men forced their way into a home, tied up and assaulted the male resident, then fled with some cash.
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Augusta will ask for help from state, nonprofit
AUGUSTA — City councilors voted Thursday to ask the state and a nonprofit organization that houses people with mental illness in Augusta to come up with some money to help offset the city’s cost of providing police, fire and other municipal services to mentally ill clients and residences that house them in Augusta.
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Mainers remember the Elvis show that would have been
On Aug. 16, 1977, Dot Gonyea was at home listening to an Elvis Presley record, daydreaming about how she was going to see the king of rock ‘n’ roll from the front row the next night at the new Cumberland County Civic Center.