Speculation is growing over what the long-term economic impacts will be to the bankruptcy of Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway. Experts interviewed by the Bangor Daily News, however, say businesses served by the railroad shouldn’t experience any immediate impacts as a result of the company’s bankruptcy. The railway filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Wednesday, […]
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9 Afghans killed in attack on Indian consulate
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Three suicide attackers killed at least nine civilians, most of them children, in a botched attack Saturday on the Indian consulate in an eastern Afghan city near the border with Pakistan, security officials said. Authorities also reported that 22 police officers and over 70 Taliban fighters died in two days of […]
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Woman believed dead for more than 30 years reunited with her family
GLENBURN — Donna Keniston was 17 when her mother left Maine in 1981. “I thought she was dead,” Keniston, 50, of Plymouth said Sunday. So did Betty Lukich’s four sisters: Virginia Allen, 72, of Winter Harbor; Dorothy Ham, 77, of Brewer; Mary Inman, 75, and Laura Riegelman, 78, both of Glenburn. The family was reunited […]
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Maine woman dies after I-495 crash in Mass.
AMESBURY, Mass. (AP) — Massachusetts State Police say a Maine woman is dead after she struck several vehicles on Interstate 495 not far from the New Hampshire state line. Authorities say 73-year-old Patricia Foley, of Limerick, Maine, hit five vehicles in Friday afternoon’s crash in Amesbury. She was pronounced dead at a Boston hospital. Investigators […]
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Co-founder of Russia’s biggest search engine dies
MOSCOW (AP) — Ilya Segalovich, the co-founder of Russia’s largest search engine, Yandex, has died, the company said Sunday. He was 48. Segalovich died Saturday at a London hospital, Yandex director general and fellow founder Arkady Volozh said. Volozh said in the company’s blog that Segalovich was diagnosed with stomach cancer last year. He responded […]
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Manslaughter charge filed in Hudson boat crash
PIERMONT, N.Y. (AP) — A deadly nighttime speedboat crash on the Hudson River hurled a bride-to-be and her fiance’s best man into the water and left the groom and three others injured, including a friend charged with vehicular manslaughter on Saturday, just two weeks before the couple was to exchange their vows. Six friends were […]
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Egypt: Death toll in Cairo clashes rises to 72
CAIRO (AP) — The death toll from weekend clashes between supporters of Egypt’s ousted president and security forces backed by armed civilians in Cairo has risen to 72, the deadliest single outbreak of violence since the army deposed the Islamist Mohammed Morsi in a July 3 coup, a health ministry official said on Sunday. Khaled […]
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Fatal July 4 accident in Bangor caused by failure of brakes on antique firetruck, says initial report
BANGOR — A malfunction of the brakes on an antique firetruck caused the fatal Fourth of July parade accident that left a Holden man dead, a southern Maine newspaper reported Saturday. In response to a request for comment, Sgt. Paul Edwards said Saturday afternoon in an email sent to Maine media that Officer Russell Twaddell’s […]
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3 dead when bus carrying teens crashes in Indiana
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A bus carrying teenagers returning home from a church camp in Michigan crashed Saturday afternoon about a mile from its destination, killing three people and sending 26 others to hospitals, officials said. The bus came speeding off of Interstate 465 in northern Indianapolis, about a mile from the Colonial Hills Baptist Church […]
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Clashes with security near pro-Morsi rally in Cairo leave at least 38 dead
CAIRO (AP) — Overnight clashes between security forces and supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi in east Cairo left at least 38 protesters dead on Saturday, a doctor at the demonstrators’ field hospital said. They followed a day of massive pro-military rallies backing a tough hand against Morsi’s backers and the Muslim Brotherhood group […]