LONDON (AP) — A princess is born. Prince William’s wife, the Duchess of Cambridge, “was safely delivered of a daughter” Saturday morning, less than three hours after checking into central London’s St. Mary’s Hospital, royal officials said. Kensington Palace said the baby — the couple’s second child — was born at 8:34 a.m. London time […]
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Clarence H. Merrill
1925 – 2015 SOUTH PARIS — Clarence H. “Sonny” Merrill died Sunday, April 12, at the Maine Veterans’ Home. He was born in Poland on Aug. 8, 1925, the son of Clarence C. and Esther Martin Merrill. After graduating from South Paris High School in 1943, he served as a medic in World War II […]
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Jane Welles Addicott
1913 – 2014 CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA, Calif. — Jane Wolcott Welles Addicott passed away peacefully at her home in Carmel-by-the-Sea, Calif., at the age of 101, surrounded by loving family, on Monday, Nov. 3. Born at home in Wethersfield, Conn., Jane was educated at the King Low Heywood School in Connecticut, Rollins College in Florida and Exeter […]
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Hazel D. Dill
1925 – 2014 DIXFIELD — Hazel D. Dill, 89, of Nova Street in Dixfield, passed away unexpectedly on Tuesday, July 1, at her residence. She was born in Southampton, England, on Oct. 25, 1925, a daughter of Sydney B. and Dorothy A. (Marsh) Morant. Hazel attended schools in England. She married the love of her […]
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U.K. police: 3 women held captive for 30 years
LONDON (AP) — Three women have been freed after spending 30 years held captive in a south London home, including one woman believed to have spent her entire life in domestic slavery, police said Thursday. London’s Metropolitan Police announced the rescues after two people — a man and a woman, both 67 — were arrested […]
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3-month-old Prince George is christened in London
LONDON (AP) — Dressed in a lace and satin gown designed in the 1840s, Britain’s 3-month-old future monarch, Prince George, was christened Wednesday with water from the River Jordan at a rare gathering of four generations of the royal family. The occasion had historic overtones: the presence of Britain’s 87-year-old monarch and three future kings, […]
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Twitter abuse stirs unease in Britain
LONDON — Hours after successfully campaigning to have a woman — Jane Austen — featured on a new British banknote, Caroline Criado-Perez was bombarded with rape and death threats. The vast majority came via Twitter. At the peak of the frenzy last month, the 29-year-old freelance journalist was receiving about a threat every minute. Some […]
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Man from England charged with raping Maine girl
BANGOR — Maine police say a 26-year-old man from England has been charged with raping a 13-year-old girl he’d met online. Nicholas Cheese of Oxford, England, has been charged with gross sexual assault and sexual exploitation of a minor. He was due in court Monday afternoon. The Portland Press Herald says the girl’s father told […]