RANGELEY — A Massachusetts teenager critically injured in a June 1 accident on Route 4 is listed in fair condition at Massachusetts General Hospital, a spokeswoman at the Boston hospital said Wednesday. Janessa Gordon, 18, of Melrose, Mass., is in an intensive care unit. Gordon was flown from Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston. Her […]
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Massachusetts teen remains in critical condition after Rangeley crash
RANGELEY — A Massachusetts teenager remains in critical condition at a Lewiston hospital but is putting up a fight for her life, police Chief Dennis Leahy said Thursday. Janessa Gordon, 18, of Melrose, Mass., was a front-seat passenger in a car that went off Route 4 at the bottom of Dodge Pond Hill and rolled […]
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Massachusetts teen critically injured in Rangeley rollover
Teens’ tweets give a glimpse into circumstances preceding Rangeley crash: The Sunday evening accident that critically injured a Massachusetts teenager was preceded by Twitter postings. RANGELEY — A Massachusetts teenager in Maine for a graduation celebration was critically injured Sunday night when the car she was a passenger in rolled over at the bottom of Dodge […]
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Catherine King Oliver
1916 – 2014 LEWISTON — Catherine King Oliver, 98, of Portland died on Friday, May 30, attended by family members as she joined her beloved husband, Vincent, in Heaven. She was born in Boston on March 3, 1916, to Patrick and Barbara Joyce King, recent arrivals from Ballyconneely County, Galway, Ireland. She left Boston at age […]
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Marijuana advocates object to sales tax proposal
BOSTON — As the state Senate begins debate Wednesday on a more than $36 billion state budget, medical marijuana advocates are objecting to proposed amendments they say will impose new taxes on low-income, chronically ill patients and further delay opening of state-licensed dispensaries. Matthew Allen, executive director of the Massachusetts Patient Advocacy Alliance, said his […]
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Helen C. McGuire
1923 – 2014 AUBURN — Helen C. McGuire, 90, of Lewiston, died peacefully April 26, following a period of declining health. Helen was born in Medford, Mass., on Dec. 6, 1923, the younger of two children born to Clair V. Chesley Sr. and Maryella (Rendall) Chesley. She was raised and educated in Hanover, N.H., and […]
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Buckfield man pleads guilty in Massachusetts molestation case
SALEM, Mass. (AP) — A Maine man has been sentenced to four years in prison after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting a Massachusetts girl over several years starting when she was 8 years old. Jonathan Hare, 31, of Buckfield was sentenced Tuesday after pleading guilty to child rape and seven counts of indecent assault and […]
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Plymouth Rock struck by vandals
PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — Vandals have struck Plymouth Rock, but the spray-painted mess was quickly cleaned up. Someone spray-painted the word “LIES” on the chunk of rock earlier this week. Plymouth Rock is engraved with “1620” to mark the Pilgrims’ arrival in the New World. The vandal or vandals also defaced the granite walls of […]
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Ice slickens roads, tarmac in Northern New England
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Icy conditions made travel treacherous by road and air across Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine on Saturday, closing roads, causing accidents and even sending a flight at Bangor International Airport skidding off a taxiway. But as the weather warmed and road crews across the region cleared ice from highways, up to […]
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Idaho man to be extradited to Maine on burglary charges
BETHEL – An Idaho man incarcerated in Massachusetts on burglary charges will be extradited to Maine, after DNA evidence linked him to a 2012 burglary in Bethel, Oxford County Chief Deputy Hart Daley said in a press release Thursday. Daley said James Radler of Idaho was recently indicted by an Oxford County grand jury on […]