Former Hallowell resident Michelle LaPointe heard the helicopters circling over her home in a Cambridge, Mass., neighborhood Thursday night as police began the massive manhunt for the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings.
April 2013
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Some Maine businesses say lockdown means doubt
Seafood suppliers and others with patrons in Boston find it’s tough to operate when ‘who the heck knows what’s going to happen.’
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Uncle makes passionate plea to bombing suspect: ‘Turn yourself in’
He says his nephews ended up ‘just hating everyone,’ and urges Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to turn himself in.
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Former Maine residents wake up to SWAT team in Watertown
Among the Watertown residents who woke up to a neighborhood under police lockdown Friday were Doug Murphy, who grew up in Maine with his wife, Zoey Murphy.
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Kerry: ‘Part of the way there’ in bringing bombing suspects to justice
“Terror anywhere in the world against any country is unacceptable and we need to continue to stand up and fight against it.”
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Maine’s March unemployment rate 7.1%, down slightly
The unemployment rate was below the statewide average in all three of Maine’s metropolitan areas.
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Maine Supreme Court justice, stuck in Boston, describes ‘unbelievable’ shutdown
Maine Supreme Court Justice Joseph Jabar of Waterville described a surreal scene of deserted streets in downtown Boston, where he is attending a judicial conference this morning.
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Photos detail boxing interests of Boston suspect
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, died after a shootout with police early Friday morning in Watertown, Mass.
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Mainers in Boston share ‘sense of fear’ in eerily quiet city
Like most in the city on Friday, Mainers who live in and around Boston wait indoors while law enforcement scours the city.