Oil spill in Santa Barbara http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-pipeline-santa-barbara-coast-20150519-story.html Posted by Javier Panzar on Tuesday, May 19, 2015 GOLETA, Calif. — More than 6,000 gallons of oil had been raked, skimmed and vacuumed from a spill that stretched across 9 miles of California coast in a cleanup effort that is now going 24 hours a day, officials said, […]
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LePage adds support to repeal of California concealed handgun permits
AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage has signaled his support for a constitutional challenge in California to repeal that state’s concealed handgun permit law. LePage is one of six Republican governors who have signed an amicus brief on a case in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, according to a court filing dated […]
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Virginia Souza
1924 – 2015 AUBURN — Virginia Souza, 90, longtime resident of Greene, died Sunday, May 3. She was born on June 14, 1924, to Mabel and Herbert (Perry) at 9 Hazel St., Auburn. Virginia attended Edward Little High School in Auburn, graduating at age 17. At 18, she joined Hyde Windlass Co. in Bath, working […]
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Maureen Ann Marcotte
1953 – 2015 LEWISTON — Maureen Ann Marcotte, 61, of Lewiston, received a free one-way ticket to meet Jesus on Sunday, April 12. She was born in Lewiston on Sept. 1, 1953, the daughter of William and Gertrude Matthews. Her family moved to Torrance, Calif., where she spent most of her childhood. During her teen […]
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Romeo A. ‘Meo’ Leclair
1933 – 2015 SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. — Romeo A. “Meo” Leclair, DDS, 81, of Sierra Vista, Ariz., died peacefully on Tuesday, April 14, at his home, with his wife, Terri, by his side, after losing his battle with diabetes. He was born in Chisolm on June 21, 1933, the son of Lucien and Adrienne (Fortier) […]
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Collis Willard Ames
1931 – 2015 AUGUSTA — Collis Willard “Sid” Ames, 84, of Farmington passed peacefully from a long illness on Saturday, April 11, with his children and grandchildren by his side at the Hospice and Palliative Care Unit at the Togus VA Medical Center. He was born Nov. 23, 1931, in Farmington, the son of Carlton […]
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Richard P. Clark
1939 – 2015 ONTARIO, Calif. — Richard P. Clark, 75, of Ontario, Calif., passed away on Thursday, March 19, in Ontario after a lifelong battle with lung disease. He was born in Lewiston on May 25, 1939, a son of Raymond L. Clark and Mary Olehowski Clark, He graduated from Edward Little High School in […]
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Weird Wicked Weird: Bending forks and spoons. With your mind.
Gene Ang travels the globe teaching “Quantum Spoon Bending” classes. He’ll be in Maine in two weeks and in Switzerland after that. The 45-year-old from Thousand Oaks, Calif., is quick to point out that his class name is a bit of a misnomer. He prefers teaching people to bend forks. With their minds. “If kids […]
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Maine sex offenders in prison safer than in many other states
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Shortly after 2 a.m. on April 6, 2010, a guard at Salinas Valley State Prison noticed Alan Ager’s cellmate trying to stuff something under a mattress. It was Ager, blood trickling from his mouth and a cloth noose tied around his neck. The convicted child molester died 10 days later without regaining […]
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Chokehold death protest gets violent in California
NEW YORK (AP) — Mostly peaceful protests of a grand jury’s decision not to indict a white police officer in the chokehold death of an unarmed black man continued around the country, but authorities said a march in California turned violent when a splinter group smashed windows and threw objects at police. A Berkeley police […]