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LEWISTON — After months of searching for 22-year-old Christiana Fesmire, who disappeared in July, her family members and friends got the call Friday they had feared most, according to a relative of Fesmire.

Maine is ahead of the curve in a movement to reduce the medication of elderly people in nursing homes. A Food and Drug Administration audit in May found dozens of nursing homes failed to comply with federal regulations designed to prevent overmedication, and that certain drugs were being prescribed for uses not approved by the FDA or not qualified for Medicare patients.

LISBON — A man serving two life sentences for maiming a father and his 10-year-old daughter in a machete attack in their Pittston home claims he was wrongly convicted and the sentences are unconstitutional and too harsh for the crimes.

PORTLAND — Sen. Olympia Snowe called for regulatory reforms and an overhaul of the nation’s tax structure at a business breakfast Friday at the Holiday Inn By the Bay.

George J. Mitchell School students, from left, Alan Brooker, 8, Andrew Wolman, 7, Ashley Harwood, 8, and Elle King, 7, prepare to store lobster sandwiches made by volunteers from the Maine Children’s Home in a refrigerator at the school in Waterville on Friday. Sandwich proceeds go to the Christmas Program at the Maine Children’s Home.