Former WGME reporter and anchor Doug Rafferty died in Hawaii, according to the Portland television station. Rafferty, a longtime anchor at the CBS affiliate, died eight hours after arriving in Hawaii to visit his daughter, his wife, Bev, told WGME. He was 66. Rafftery joined WGME in the early 1990s and spent 21 years at […]
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Lava from Kilauea volcano enters ocean, creates toxic cloud
PAHOA, Hawaii (AP) — White plumes of acid and extremely fine shards of glass billowed into the sky over Hawaii as molten rock from Kilauea volcano poured into the ocean, creating yet another hazard from an eruption that began more than two weeks ago. Authorities on Sunday warned the public to stay away from the […]
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Hawaii volcano erupts, forcing 1,500 from homes
PAHOA, Hawaii (AP) — Nearly 1,500 people fled from their mountain-side homes after Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano sent molten lava chewing through forests and bubbling up on paved streets in an eruption that one resident described as “a curtain of fire.” After a week of earthquakes and warnings that an eruption could be imminent, steam and […]
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Jean P. Crowley
LEWISTON — Jean P. Crowley, 68, a resident of Turner, passed away from natural causes following several years of illness, Friday, Feb. 16, at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston. She was born April 17, 1949, in Rumford, the daughter of Thomas Bartholomew and Glenys “Rae” (Lane) Bartholomew. Jean was a 1968 graduate of Gould Academy. […]
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Learn from false missile attack fiasco
The false missile attack alert that the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency issued at 8:05 a.m. on January 13 provides American civil defense agencies and military planners with numerous points to ponder. Three deserve immediate attention. Point 1: Hawaii’s civil defense warning system procedures are abysmally bad. Yes, the Wireless Emergency Alert system worked. Mobile phones […]
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Reporter recounts moments after Hawaii missile alert
HONOLULU (AP) — It was a beautiful Hawaii morning: nice breeze, blue skies, birds chirping. Then terror struck. We were up early, my daughter and I, because this Saturday morning was her first day of ice skating lessons, a day we had been talking about and looking forward to for months. We were also having […]
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Missile-alert mistake in Hawaii feeds doubts about a real emergency
HONOLULU (AP) — When Jonathan Scheuer got an alert on his phone of a ballistic missile headed for Hawaii, he and his family didn’t know what to do. They went to their guest bedroom, then decided it would be safer on the ground floor of their Honolulu home. “What do we do?” he wondered. “Where […]
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Lifelong best friends discover they're actually brothers
In this Dec. 23, 2017, image made from a video provided by Honolulu news station KHON, Alan Robinson and Walter Macfarlane are interviewed in Honolulu. The two Hawaii men grew up as best friends and recently learned that they’re actually brothers. They revealed the surprise to family and friends over the holidays. The two, who […]
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Patricia M. Mathieu
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Patricia M. (Levesque) Mathieu, 69 years old, of Lewiston, died unexpectedly of natural causes on Oct. 28, 2017, in Ann Arbor, Mich. Pat was born in Lewiston on Sept. 18, 1948, to Bernadette (Turcotte) Levesque and Roland “Joe Pete” Levesque. She graduated from Lewiston High School in 1967, married her high […]
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Lionel "Nel" Dionne
AUBURN — Lionel “Nel” Dionne, 53, of Lewiston, passed peacefully at the Hospice House in Auburn on the afternoon of Aug. 14, following a long battle with cancer. Lionel was born to Philibert and Antoinette (Phillipon) Dionne on Feb. 21, 1964. He attended Lewiston schools and joined the Navy shortly after graduation. He worked as a […]