An official said Aaron Alexis was given a ‘general discharge,’ a classification often used to designate a blemished record of performance.
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News outlets stumble during Navy yard coverage
WASHINGTON — So much was misreported in the first few hours after the shooting rampage at Washington’s Navy Yard. Initial reports said that as many as three gunmen were involved. Then two. Then one. Then back to three. That four people were dead. But maybe six were. By midday, CNN had settled for “multiple.” NBC […]
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Obama: ‘Cowardly act’ at Navy Yard kills patriots
Authorities said 13 people were killed in a shooting rampage Monday at the Washington Navy Yard about 3 miles from the White House.
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US to help Syrian forces fight chemical weapons
The White House said the non-lethal assistance could fall into three categories . . .
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ALLEN AFIELD: Trout, salmon fishing heat up
As water temperatures drop below 70 degrees Fahrenheit this coming week, trout and landlock fishing picks up for fly rodders and spin casters. The closer the thermometer gets to 60 to 63 degrees, the faster the action gets, and often in central Maine, that golden time begins during the third week of September. And surely, waters have cooled up north.
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BUSHNELL ON BOOKS ‘Reese’s Leap’ and ‘A Flatlander’s Guide to Maine’
REESE’S LEAP: AN ISLAND MYSTERY By Darcy Scott Turtle Pond Press, 2013 218 pages, $14.95 ISBN 978-1-938883-34-7 Gil Hodges, shameless boozer and world-class Lothario, thinks being stranded on a Maine island with five women is a pretty sweet deal, until he discovers they are all liars and at least one might be a killer. […]
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BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Five Days’ and ‘Blue Lights in the Night’
One of the greatest deceits in a marriage occurs when a husband and wife say they love each other and both know it isn’t true.
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TRAVELIN’ MAINE(RS): The end of our summer was a whale of a week
It was the perfect ending to a wonderful summer: a week in Lubec, dinner at the Water Street Tavern (our favorite restaurant there) and an exciting whale-watching adventure with Campobello’s Island Cruises.
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Text of President Obama’s speech
Here is the text of President Obama’s speech on Syria, as provided by the Federal News Service.