When Transportation Security Administration agents spotted three small knives in a passenger’s carry-on bag at Honolulu International Airport in January, they sent him back to check them. On his second trip through the scanners, they found the knives again — not-so-cleverly concealed inside a thermos. Nice try.
March 2013
Posted inLetters to the Editor, Opinion
Common sense needed for east/west road plans
The east/west corridor needs to be built. But how?
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Posted inLetters to the Editor, Opinion
$50,000 a lot of money, not a ‘tiny sum’
In the March 4 newspaper, I read the article pertaining to a group of legislators asking for $50,000 for a memorial to honor the patients who died at the Augusta Mental Health Institute.
Posted inLetters to the Editor, Opinion
Millions more to Egypt while US citizens suffer
Let me get this straight: Our new U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry has just pledged more than $250 million of our money to support Egypt’s economy.
Posted inNation & World, News
Black smoke from chapel chimney: No pope yet
The cardinals held the first day of the conclave today deeply divided over the problems of the church and who best could fix them.
Posted inPolitics
Many expected to testify on Maine gun-permit data bill
Extra rooms are reserved for the 1 p.m. hearing on the bill to ensure permit-holders’ confidentiality.
Posted inCommunity
SNAPSHOT: Warm-weather worship
Mark McLain, left, plays the guitar while Stephen Arsenault, Marsha Mann and her husband Jacob sing hymns Sunday on Water Street in Hallowell. The quartet held a street meeting to spread the message of their Pentecostal faith. The members of New Light Fellowship Church in Augusta said they plan to sing and pray outside more often as the weather improves.
Posted inCommunity
SNAPSHOT: Desk job
Corey Brown paints the interior of a roll top desk Sunday outside the Pooch’s 2nd Hand Shop on Water Street in Gardiner. The non-profit shop sells items and donates all the proceeds to local animal welfare causes, according to Brown. Brown donated his time to repaint the desk that was recently sold.
Posted inNews
Morning Sentinel area police log, March 11, 2013
IN ALBION, Friday at 5:13 p.m., a theft was reported on Hussey Road.
Sunday at 7:53 p.m., a vehicle accident involving injury was reported on Winslow Road.
Posted inNews
As papal conclave opens, no clear front-runner emerging
Cardinals enter the Sistine Chapel on Tuesday to elect the next pope amid more upheaval and uncertainty than the Catholic Church has seen in decades.