Hearings and work sessions for Tuesday.
May 2013
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Murdered Falmouth mother was trying to have her son committed at time of death
Shirley Leighton, of Falmouth, was walking to the telephone Friday, intending to call a psychiatric facility in Westbrook to have her son Andrew committed, when he shot her in the back of the head with a gun he had bought the day before, according to a Maine State Police affidavit.
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Bill to strengthen Clean Election Act sails through legislative hearing
No one at a legislative hearing Monday opposed a bill that would strengthen the Maine Clean Election Act, which was weakened last year.
That doesn’t mean there isn’t powerful opposition, however. Gov. Paul LePage’s spokeswoman has called the law “welfare for politicians.”
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COLLEGE ROUNDUP: Foster, Husson win NAC tournament
CASTLETON, VT. — Messalonskee High School graduate Dylan Foster went 2 for 4 and scored pair of runs as the Husson University baseball team beat Castleton State 4-2 to win the North Atlantic Conference championships on Monday.
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State employees union braces for ‘inevitable’ shutdown
The union representing state employees has requested a meeting with the LePage administration to discuss plans to prepare for an “inevitable” shutdown of state government.
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HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL ROUNDUP: Mt. Blue walks off with win
FARMINGTON — Nate Kendall hit a walk-off single with two outs in the bottom of the seventh inning to lift the Mt. Blue baseball team to a 3-2 win over Skowhegan in a Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference Class A game Monday.
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LOCAL GIRLS ROUNDUP: Fowler nearly perfect in MCI win over Leavitt
TURNER CENTER — Courtney Fowler took a perfect game into the seventh inning and finished with a one-hit shutout as Maine Central Institute defeated Leavitt 6-0 in Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference Class B softball action Monday afternoon.
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HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL: McKenney keeps her cool in Madison victory
MADISON — It used to be easier to rattle Madison pitcher Emily McKenney. It used to be easier to score some runs on her, too.
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State fire marshal reports cause of downtown Waterville fire unknown
The cause of a downtown Waterville fire that destroyed one building and damaged two others on Friday is undetermined, investigators said Monday. Sgt. Tim York, of the State Fire Marshal’s Office, confirmed that the fire did originate from a third-floor deck, could not definitively say what caused it.
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County jails face $700,000 shortfall in state funding; meeting with corrections board Tuesday
County jail officials statewide are facing a $700,000 shortfall in funding from the state’s Board of Corrections. The board plans to meet Tuesday with county officials to divide $1.5 million in state dollars among the jails in order to fund their fourth-quarter payments partially.