Patrick Calder, a 29-year-old merchant mariner from Portland, says “it is important that people be given an alternative.”
2012
Occupiers to judge: Park ‘is a symbol of our movement’
Occupy Maine presents oral arguments and testimony seeking a preliminary injunction to prevent the group’s removal from Lincoln Park.
“Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss” casting in Boston
Do you have the “burning desire to make the transformation, physically and mentally”?
Maine has role in Seabrook meltdown drill
The exercise begins with Gov. Paul LePage declaring a state of emergency to help deal with heavy traffic during an evacuation.
Man gets 32 years in stabbing death, dismemberment
Shawn Garland is sentenced for killing Richard Meyers by stabbing him 97 times and then trying to dismember the body.
Detectives chasing leads in Sebago rape case
The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office ships a sample of the attacker’s bodily fluids to the state police crime lab today for developing a DNA profile.
Commission: Landlord didn’t stop gay harassment
The state human rights panel rules that a real estate management company didn’t do enough to stop the harassment of a couple living in one of its apartments.
One person killed in Jefferson car crash
One person has been killed in a two car crash this morning on Route 32.
Maine wardens chaplain to give prayer at U.S. Capitol
The chaplain of the Maine Warden Service, Elizabeth Kate Braestrup, is scheduled to deliver the opening prayer today in the U.S. House of Representatives. Jonathan Riskind has the story in his Maine on the Hill blog.
Kennebec County Sheriff’s Office log Jan. 24
The Kennebec County Sheriff’s Office reported the following activity Jan. 24: