The owner of an Old Orchard Beach store scares a robber away with a club, and the operator of another business now keeps a gun behind the counter, saying, ‘You can’t bring a baseball bat to a gunfight.’
2018
Posted inNation & World, News, Politics
Comey book: Trump ‘untethered to truth’
The fired FBI director’s upcoming memoir includes strikingly personal jabs at the president.
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Posted inMaine, Schools and Education
SAD 49 school board proposing $26.6 million annual budget
The proposed budget is about 1.25 percent larger than the current operating budget.
Posted inLife & Culture, Nation & World, News
Study suggests limiting alcohol to one drink a day
More than that hastens death, researchers say, by one or two years.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime
South Thomaston woman sentenced in crash that killed passenger
Kelsey R. Campbell, 20, reaches a plea deal in which she would spend a year in jail.
Posted inUncategorized
Two pit bulls shot and wounded, Buxton police say
Officers are investigating the incident at 43 Fifield Drive in which one of the dogs ran off after being shot in the hind legs.
Posted inMaine, News
Wiscasset attorneys argue for injunction on state’s traffic-control plan
The town sued the Maine Department of Transportation last year, contending the state backed away from earlier promises about the project and said it doesn’t have to follow local ordinances.
Posted inNation & World
Satellite to probe space for exoplanets
It will be the most extensive survey of its kind from orbit.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime
Biddeford man charged with shooting out window at Saco business
Emil Girard also is charged with taking a motorbike.
Posted inNation & World
Thousands march in Poland to mark Holocaust
The March of the Living takes place each year on Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day.