An American who was among at least 21 people killed in Tuesday’s terrorist attack in Kenya was a 1996 graduate of Hebron Academy, the private boarding school in Oxford County. Jason Spindler, co-founder of a San Francisco firm I-DEV International, grew up in Houston but came to Maine for high school. Spindler, 40, lived a […]
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World's last male northern white rhino, Sudan, dies
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The death of the world’s last male northern white rhino, Sudan, doesn’t end efforts to save a subspecies of one of the world’s most recognizable animals. The focus now turns to his stored semen and that of four other dead rhinos, as well as the perfection of in vitro fertilization techniques […]
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Bates junior’s business flipping fridges expands to 16 college campuses
LEWISTON — A Bates College junior inspired by fellow students who couldn’t be bothered to take their refrigerators home for the summer — or even to move them to avoid a $75 room-cleaning fine from the college — last year created a business of buying and selling used dorm fridges. Later this month, Mitch Newlin […]
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From Somalia to North Yarmouth, radio star settles into new American life
NORTH YARMOUTH — Abdi Nor Iftin’s journey to Maine started in a tiny shack in Mogadishu, Somalia, watching Arnold Schwarzenegger in “The Terminator.” It was there, packed in a room with about 30 other people, that he learned his first three English words: “I’ll be back.” At an event at SPACE gallery in Portland on […]
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Gunmen kill 147 at Kenyan college campus
UPDATED: 9:30 p.m. (2:30 p.m. EDT) Kenya’s national disaster operations center and the interior minister say the attack by al-Shabab gunmen on a college campus has claimed 147 lives, besides four attackers who also died. The interior minister said most of those killed Thursday were students but included two police officers, one soldier and two […]
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Brunswick psychiatrist who works with Kenyan AIDS orphans honored for compassion
BRUNSWICK — Brunswick psychiatrist Lynn Ouellette will be honored Thursday in Boston as a finalist for the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare’s Compassionate Caregiver Award. But Ouellette told the Bangor Daily News that she has already received “a huge gift” through her practice treating patients suffering from a range of afflictions, including anxiety and postpartum […]
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Austin Bay: War against terrorism far from over
President Barack Obama declared in his 2013 inaugural speech that, “a decade of war is receding.” However, al-Shabab’s seizure of a Nairobi, Kenya shopping mall illustrates, in cold blood, that the terrorists’ war on the civilized continues — its savagery and political calculation undiminished. American soldiers say the enemy always gets a vote. On Sept. […]
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Obama says Kenyan mall attack a ‘terrible outrage’
NEW YORK — President Barack Obama says the United States stands with Kenya against the “terrible outrage” of a shopping mall terrorist attack. Obama says the United States is providing law enforcement assistance and all the help it can to deal with the tragedy. At least 62 people have been killed by members of the […]
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King says he wants to investigate possible terrorism recruiting in Maine
U.S. Sen. Angus King said in response to this weekend’s attack at an upscale Kenyan mall that he would investigate attempts by terrorist groups to recruit members from the Somali community in Maine. NBC terrorism analyst Evan Kohlmann said on the Sunday morning “Today Show” that al Shabab is known to recruit members from the […]