AUBURN — Constance Laura Cote Easter, 88, passed away peacefully at Sarah Frye Home on Thursday, Jan. 18. Connie was born in Augusta on Nov. 27, 1929, the daughter of the late Michael H. and Lea (Couture) Cote. She had lived in Mexico and graduated from Mexico High School. Connie married Gerald Elwin Easter on July […]
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California DA says couple's abuse of 12 kids became torture
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — They were starved and shackled to their beds, sometimes for months. They were beaten and choked. They were given scant medical care, often denied use of a toilet and allowed to shower but once a year. They lived mostly at night, out of sight of neighbors, and knew virtually nothing of […]
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Parents arrested after their 13 children found chained in Calif. house of horrors
These Sunday, Jan. 14, 2018, photos provided by the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department show Louise Anna Turpin, left, and David Allen Turpin. Authorities say an emaciated teenager led deputies to a Perris, Calif., home where her 12 brothers and sisters were locked up in filthy conditions, with some of them malnourished and chained to beds. […]
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Holy Guacamole! Crash spills 40,000 lbs of avocados onto Texas highway
About 40,000 pounds of avocados spilled across a major interstate in Central Texas when the big rig hauling them crashed and caught fire. (Dec. 28)
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Southern California brush fire grows from 50 to 26,000 acres in 7 hours
An explosive brush fire raced through Southern California with ferocious speed, spreading from about 50 acres to an estimated 31,000 acres in a matter of hours, forcing thousands of residents to flee and leaving at least one person dead. Named the Thomas Fire, it began in a canyon near Santa Paula, about 65 miles northwest […]
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Charles Manson, whose cult slayings horrified world, dies at 83
In this 1969 file photo, Charles Manson is escorted to his arraignment on conspiracy-murder charges in connection with the Sharon Tate murder case. Authorities say Manson, cult leader and mastermind behind 1969 deaths of actress Sharon Tate and several others, died on Sunday, Nov. 19, 2017. He was 83. (AP Photo, File) LOS ANGELES (AP) […]
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Raymond A. Buckminster
LEWISTON — Raymond A. Buckminster, 84, of New Vineyard, passed away on Wednesday, Nov. 15, at CMMC in Lewiston, surrounded by his wife, Debbie Martin and family. Raymond was born on Nov. 30, 1932 in Sunshine, Deer Isle, Maine, the son of Emery and Ethna (Shepard) Buckminster. He graduated from Stonington-Deer Isle High School in the […]
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Shootings at multiple sites kill three in California; children wounded at school
RED BLUFF, Calif. (AP) — A gunman killed four people and wounded a number of others at random Tuesday at multiple locations in rural Northern California, including an elementary school, before police shot him dead, authorities said. Two hospitals said they were treating seven people, including at least three children. Details were still sketchy hours […]
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Lorraine M. Crawford
TOWNSEND, Tenn. — Lorraine M. (Labbe) Crawford died Wednesday, Oct. 25, at her home in Townsend, Tenn., with her loving family by her side and her dog, Heidi. She was born in Lewiston on Nov. 27, 1937, the daughter of the late Philip and Marie Labbe of Lewiston. She was the oldest daughter of five girls […]
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Deadly California wildfires force thousands to evacuate wine country
Coffey Park homes burn early Monday Oct. 9, 2017 in Santa Rosa, Calif. More than a dozen wildfires whipped by powerful winds been burning though California wine country. The flames have destroyed at least 1,500 homes and businesses and sent thousands of people fleeing. (Kent Porter/The Press Democrat via AP) SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) — […]