SPLIT: Freeman Lord lugs a slab of hemlock he cut Wednesday at his family’s Hallowell saw mill. Lord is cutting beams for a barn he plans to assemble with wood from the family’s lot. The mill was built by his father, Roger, the same year Freeman was born, 1940.
September 2012
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Netanyahu says world must draw “red line” for Iran
The Israeli prime minister addressed the United Nations today, saying it was getting “late, very late” to stop Iran from making a nuclear bomb.
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Mercier guilty of 1980 Anson murder
SKOWHEGAN — It took about three hours Thursday for a jury to find Jay Mercier, 57, of Industry, guilty of murder in the 1980 death of Rita St. Peter.
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Poll shows King with 12-point lead
The latest survey results are roughly in line with others released earlier this month.
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Obama, Romney campaign in each other’s shadow
The candidates’ debate spread across the airways in Virginia and a handful of other swing states where the campaign is being waged in its final days.
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Fairfield crash victim in ‘fair’ condition
WATERVILLE — A teenager involved in a collision Wednesday between a Volkswagen Beetle and a loaded pulp truck in Fairfield remained in fair condition Friday at a local hospital.
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Cheers for the refs: Thursday’s game ends lockout
About an hour before kickoff Thursday, the real NFL referees walked onto the field in Baltimore to a standing ovation.
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VIDEO: Crews demolish Augusta Spiritualist Church
Excavators Thursday morning tore down the Augusta Spiritualist Church, at the corner of Court and Perham streets, to make way for the expansion of Kennebec County court complex.
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Lottery proposed for Maine elver-fishing licenses
There has been high interest in elver licenses since last spring’s eel-fishing frenzy, when fishermen were getting more than $2,000 a pound.
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Prosecutor: Sex proved Mercier killed St. Peter; defense attorney says there is ‘reasonable doubt’
Sex may not be murder, but sex in this case proved murder over and over again, according to prosecutor Andrew Benson in his closing arguments in the Jay Mercier murder trial this morning.