IN CAMBRIDGE, Saturday at 4:30 p.m., a theft was reported on Ripley Road.
August 2013
Lobstermen keeping eyes on spread of shell disease
The number of afflicted lobsters is still low here, but a state biologist says there is cause to be concerned.
NH man kills self, son during supervised visit
A New Hampshire man used a handgun to shoot his 9-year-old son to death before taking his own life during supervised visitation at a YWCA office in the state’s largest city, officials said Sunday.
Abducted R.I. child found safe
Two men have been arrested in the double homicide and kidnapping.
Obama: Progress made on veterans’ disability claims backlog
President Barack Obama assured disabled veterans Saturday that his administration is making progress on reducing a backlog of disability claims and said the number of requests for assistance has fallen by nearly one-fifth since peaking at more than 600,000 just a few months ago.
Funeral held for Pa. boy who was parents’ best man
The Rev. Jan Zotter told a funeral audience Saturday that Logan Stevenson’s life “had an impact over the whole world.”
Religious family abandons US, gets lost at sea
A northern Arizona family that was lost at sea for weeks in an ill-fated attempt to leave the U.S. over what they consider government interference in religion will fly back home Sunday.
Mystery of Texas grave next to Oswald’s solved
For years, curiosity seekers visiting the Fort Worth, Texas, grave of Lee Harvey Oswald have wondered about the simple headstone next door, marked Nick Beef. It turns out Nick Beef is alive and living in New York.
Reality and the real world, ‘Mountain Man’ style
Since leaving his parents’ suburban home at 17 and moving into the woods, Eustace Conway has been preaching the gospel of sustainable, “primitive” living. But over the past three decades, those notions have clearly evolved.
Lobstermen meet to form a union
Fishermen frustrated about low prices and higher expenses gather Sunday in Bangor.