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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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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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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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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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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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 […]
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Palmyra man arrested in Detroit death
BANGOR — Maine State Police have charged a 22-year-old Palmyra man in connection with the death of a Detroit man last week. Detectives arrested Jason Cote and charged him with murder, Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Stephen McCausland said Wednesday night. The state medical examiner’s office has concluded that Ricky Cole, 47, died from […]
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Storms leave investigators searching for clues to ATV rider’s death in East Millinocket
MEDWAY — Maine Warden Service investigators sought public help Saturday as they attempt to reconstruct a fatal ATV accident that had its traces obliterated by thunderstorms. An off-duty East Millinocket police officer found 50-year-old Gene Smith of Medway lying next to an upended Arctic Cat all-terrain vehicle in a wooded area near Rockabema Road just […]
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Officials investigate plover killed by dog at Scarborough beach
AUUGUSTA (AP) — Federal and state wildlife officials are investigating after a dog killed a protected piping plover chick on a Scarborough beach. A spokesman for the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife says a woman spotted an unleashed dog on Pine Point Beach on Monday morning approaching a plover nest. She warned the […]