Isaac White of Fryeburg and Walter Peek-Antolin of Brownfield, both 20, are accused of stealing a woman’s purse at gunpoint.
March 2013
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Augusta school board votes on $700K budget increase Wednesday
The Augusta Board of Education has directed administrators to add about $700,000 to the proposed school budget on which it is scheduled to vote Wednesday.
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Google clashes with Swedes over ‘ungoogleable’
The Swedish version of the word – “ogooglebar” – made the Language Council of Sweden’s list of words that have entered common parlance.
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N. Korea puts artillery forces at top combat posture
The North Korean army’s Supreme Command said it will take “practical military action” to protect national sovereignty and its leadership in response to what it called U.S. and South Korean plots to attack.
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KVCC campus evacuated Tuesday for bomb threat on bathroom stall
About 700 people were evacuated from Kennebec Valley Community College’s main campus Tuesday morning after a student found the word “bomb” written in marker ink inside a bathroom stall.
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Transparency group gives Maine a C- for public spending data
The grade is a notch above the ‘D-‘ it received in 2012 and follows Gov. Paul LePage’s creation of Maine Open Checkbook.
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Maine man’s sandcastle to aid victims of Superstorm Sandy
Ed Jarrett of Wiscasset, holder of the world record, will attempt to break it with an even taller sandcastle in New Jersey.
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NJ professor’s quixotic quest to be next president of Iran
A Rutgers professor declared his candidacy for the Iranian presidency last year. He’s now well into a quixotic quest that has taken him on fundraising jaunts from New York to California to Dubai and, finally, to Iran next month.
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SpaceX Dragon cargo ship splashes into Pacific
The privately owned, unmanned capsule brings back more than a ton of science experiments and old International Space Station equipment. NASA is paying SpaceX more than $1 billion for a dozen round-trip missions.
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Gun in Colo. prison chief’s death matches Texas shootout weapon
The weapon match is part of a puzzle that authorities in two states are trying to piece together in the shooting death of corrections chief Tom Clements.