LEWISTON — Police went into a homeless encampment along Lincoln Street on Wednesday, removing 13 puppies and ordering the occupants to leave the property by the end of the week. In the thickly wooded area between Lincoln Street and the Promenade Mall, half a dozen tents were set up at the start of summer, with […]
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Court ruling upheld for animal control officer from Greene
LEWISTON — A Greene man who had been told he had a fatal form of cancer by a local hospital’s doctor won’t have to go to trial to prove his case again. The Maine Supreme Judicial Court ruled Tuesday that the jury verdict delivered in favor of Wendell Strout at his civil trial last year […]
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High court hears Lewiston hospital’s appeal in Greene man’s case
PORTLAND — An attorney for a Lewiston hospital on Monday sought to have the state’s highest court throw out a verdict by a lower court jury in a case in which a former patient had been told he had a fatal form of cancer. The appeal by Central Maine Medical Center hinged on the trial […]
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Lewiston hospital appeals court award to Greene man
AUBURN — A Lewiston hospital is appealing a lower court jury verdict that awarded $200,000 in damages to a former patient who had been told he had a fatal form of cancer. Laird Covey, then-president at Central Maine Medical Center, sent a letter to Wendell Strout of Greene in December 2009 sympathizing over the anguish […]
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Street Talk: Why I’m not having eggs for breakfast
For this week’s column, it would be helpful if you’d hum the “Jaws” theme while I relate this riveting story. You could hum the theme from “To Sir, With Love” if you’d rather, but it wouldn’t make sense. Starting now. It’s late Friday afternoon on Lisbon Street. I’m standing with Animal Control Dude Wendell Strout […]