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Father of Bates College student defends son, waits for autopsy results

Italian police are continuing to investigate the death of 21-year-old Bates College junior John Durkin, hoping autopsy and toxicology results expected Tuesday will provide insight into what happened in Rome early Thursday morning. According to the news outlet Roma Today, a camera shows Durkin, a linebacker and captain of the Bobcats’ football team, walking alone […]

Posted inObituaries

Margaret L. Whyte

1926 – 2013 WEST PARIS — Margaret L. Whyte, 87, died Monday, Sept. 16, at the Ledgeview Living Center in West Paris. She was a resident of Swift River Road in Byron. She was born in Jacksonville, Fla., on Feb. 13, 1926, and attended schools in Florida. She was married on March 6, 1946, in Charlton […]

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Tech pleads guilty in hepatitis C outbreak

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A traveling hospital technician accused of infecting patients in multiple states with hepatitis C through tainted syringes pleaded guilty on Wednesday to 16 federal drug charges under an agreement that calls for him to serve 30 to 40 years in prison. Judge Joseph Laplante asked David Kwiatkowski, 34, why he wasn’t […]