AUGUSTA — A former Manchester town clerk who spent more than a year in prison for forging residents’ signatures is penniless and cannot afford to pay $80,000 owed to the town’s insurer.
Rough terrain hindered rescuers in hiker’s death
ATTEAN TOWNSHIP — Local Jackman-Moose River firefighters were the first official aid workers to reach a man who collapsed while hiking Sally Mountain on Friday.
Camp kids in crash OK
Five children from a Belgrade summer camp were treated Sunday for minor injuries when a van they were traveling in rear-ended a school bus, also from the camp, on U.S. Route 1 in front of Splashtown USA.
Associated Grocers aftermath felt
The effects of the shutdown of Associated Grocers of Maine don’t stop at the border.
Agency errs on request
PALERMO — Selectmen have learned that the Maine Emergency Management Agency failed to forward Palermo’s 2010 application for federal funds to rebuild Banton Road to the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Medical marijuana operation files paperwork
AUGUSTA — As expected, Maine’s largest medical marijuana nonprofit delivered to the state a final $1.6 million financing agreement it says will enable them to start opening dispensaries.
Births: July 9-12
AUGUSTA — A daughter, Kathleen Angel Norris, was born July 12 at MaineGeneral Medical Center, Augusta campus, to Deborah Costley-Curtis and Charles Norris, Jr. of Augusta.
South China’s Kehoe documented his cancer fight
PORTLAND — Brendan Kehoe kept a diary of the last four months of his life on his blog, Zen.org.
Did Butch Cassidy survive? Maybe, says one historian
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Did Butch Cassidy, the notorious Old West outlaw who most historians believe perished in a 1908 shootout in Bolivia, actually survive that battle and live to old age, peacefully and anonymously, in Washington state? And did he pen an autobiography detailing his exploits while cleverly casting the book as biography under another name?
Libyan rebels move to seal off Tripoli
ZAWIYA, Libya — Libya’s rebels threatened to isolate Tripoli by blocking key supply routes and cutting oil pipelines on Monday after a dramatic weekend advance put them in the strongest position since the 6-month-old civil war began to attack Moammar Gadhafi’s stronghold.