Sam Birch, left, and Joe Wathen roll a mail cart full of donated food into the Augusta Food Bank storage area on Saturday as part of the annual National Association of Letter Carriers’ Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive. “It’s one of our biggest drives of the year and fills up storage area and shelves at time of year people don’t traditionally think of hunger issues,” said Abbie Perry, executive director of the Augusta Food Bank. The group’s next big event will be a lawn sale, food drive and hot dog sale on June 1 at the Shaw’s store on Western Avenue in Augusta.
May 2013
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Chrysler recalls almost 470,000 Jeep SUVs
Chrysler is recalling 469,000 Jeep SUVs worldwide because they can shift into neutral without warning on startup.
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Obama hails courage of nation’s police officers
In a White House ceremony honoring some of the bravest, he said America need look no further than the Boston Marathon bombings to know what police are made of.
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One by one, homes in California subdivision sinking
So far, the Lake County public works director and an expert hired by the county have been unable to determine why groundwater is bubbling to the top of the hill where homes were built 30 years ago.
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Spacewalk fixes space station leak
York’s Christopher Cassidy was one of two astronauts to fix an ammonia leak in an electrical system.
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Downeaster ridership up despite some disruptions
Bridge work that affected the Brunswick-to-Boston train finishes this weekend in time for summer travel.
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40 dead in Turkey car bombings near Syria
The blasts, which were 15 minutes apart, raise fears that Syria’s brutal civil war violence is crossing into its neighbor.
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‘It’s time to live,’ speaker advises fellow USM grads in Gorham
The University of Southern Maine graduation is split into morning and afternoon ceremonies at the Gorham campus fieldhouse.
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Attacks kill 29 as Pakistanis stream to polls
Despite the violence, Pakistanis turned out in huge numbers Saturday to vote in an election that marked a historic democratic transfer of power in a country plagued by military coups.
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For ex-captives in Cleveland, it’s ‘like coming out of a coma’
Therapists say that with extensive treatment and support, healing is likely for the women, who were 14, 16 and 21 when they were abducted. But it is often a long and difficult process.