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Thieves steal Sweden’s crown jewels and escape in a speedboat
Sweden’s royal family still regularly captures Europe’s attention with glamour, gossip – and the shiny crown jewels that are put on public display whenever the occasion merits it. That particular part of the century-old tradition will become much more difficult now after at least some of the priceless Swedish crown jewels are no longer in […]
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Elizabeth L. Glover
AUBURN — Elizabeth L. “Betty” McCrater Glover, 89, of Sweden, passed away Sunday, Oct. 15, at Androscoggin Hospice House in Auburn. She was born on Oct. 1, 1928, in Bath, to Maurice and Louise (Swett) McCrater. She is survived by her daughter, Susan Heath and her husband, Kenneth of Topsham; daughter, Kathleen Gowen of Sweden; son, […]
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Hijacked truck crashes into Stockholm, Sweden, store; at least 5 killed
The rear of a truck, left, protrudes after it crashed into a department store injuring several people in central Stockholm, Sweden, on Friday, April 7, 2017. UPDATED 12:44 P.M.: STOCKHOLM — A hijacked beer truck crashed into an upscale department store in central Stockholm on Friday, killing at least two people, according to Swedish Prime […]
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Swedish startup implants microchips into employees
STOCKHOLM — The syringe slides in between the thumb and index finger. Then, with a click, a microchip is injected in the employee’s hand. Another “cyborg” is created. What could pass for a dystopian vision of the workplace is almost routine at the Swedish startup hub Epicenter. The company offers to implant its workers and […]
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Trump: Look at what is happening in Sweden
As if on cue, riots broke out in a heavily immigrant suburb of Stockholm as soon as the media mocked President Donald Trump for a vague warning about immigration-related problems in Sweden. At a campaign rally over the weekend, Trump issued forth with a mystifyingly ominous statement. “You look,” he declared, “at what’s happening last […]
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Donald Trump explains what happened in Sweden
HELSINKI — Swedes have been scratching their heads and ridiculing President Donald Trump’s remarks that suggested a major incident had happened in the Scandinavian country. The American president now says he was referring to something he saw on television. During a rally in Florida on Saturday, Trump said “look what’s happening last night in Sweden” […]
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Sweden man pleads not guilty to trafficking heroin
PARIS — A Sweden man pleaded not guilty Monday morning to bringing more than 600 doses of heroin from Massachusetts for resale in Western Maine. Derek Verrill, 27, appeared before Active-Retired Justice Robert Clifford in Oxford County Superior Court and pleaded not guilty to Class B unlawful trafficking in scheduled drugs and Class C illegal importation of scheduled […]
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Eleanor A. Maxim
1922 – 2015 NORWAY — Eleanor A. Maxim, 93, of Norway died Wednesday, Sept. 23, at Norway Center for Health and Rehabilitation. She was born in Sweden on March 20, 1922, the daughter of Ernest N. and Lucie Stearns Abbott. She received her education in South Paris schools, graduating from Paris High School in 1941. […]