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Foxy cited on probation brushoff

NEW YORK (AP) – Rapper Foxy Brown was summoned to court unexpectedly Monday after being accused of violating probation stemming from a fight in a nail salon more than two years ago.Brown, appearing in Manhattan Criminal Court, where she was sentenced in October to three years’ probation, was accused of failing to keep appointments with […]

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Celebrity tidbits

LONDON (AP) – Kate Winslet finds the glamorization of ultra-thin models and actresses disturbing and says she keeps magazines featuring such women away from her 6-year-old daughter.“It’s only a matter of time before she becomes aware of it, and it frightens the life out of me,” Winslet said of her daughter, Mia.Winslet, who is married […]

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Today

Dec. 11: BETHEL, the Mahoosuc Community Band Christmas concert will be held at 7 p.m. at the West Parish Congregational Church.Dec. 11: DRESDEN, a country western line and partner dance will be held at 7 p.m. at Dresden Masonic Hall, Route. 127. $3/$4 622-4884Dec. 11: NEW SHARON, the Cape Cod Hill School concert will be […]

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Gibson rules box office $14.2M debut of ‘Apocalypto’

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Mel Gibson’s bloody epic “Apocalypto” debuted as the No. 1 weekend movie, proving the filmmaker still can deliver a winner despite his drunken-driving arrest and anti-Semitic rant last summer.“Apocalypto,” a Disney release set in the Mayan civilization and told in an obscure Mayan language, opened with $14.2 million, according to studio […]

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100 Years Ago, 1906

The sad news reached Lewiston of the death from asphyxiation by gas of Ex-Governor Alonzo Garcelon of this city, widely known as the “grand old man of Maine.” The asphyxiation was accidental, and according to Dr. Cleaves, the old man was easily overcome because of his extreme age and feeble condition.Two thousand members of the […]

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Signings at local book stores

n Mark LaFlamme, award-winning journalist and local author, will sign copies of his book “The Pink Room” at 1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 9, at Percy’s Burrow, at the Lewiston Mall, 20 East Ave., next to Heartland. For more information, call 376-3225.n Sandra Lee Huston, author and photographer of “Loons of Tacoma Lakes,” will sign copies […]

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Puzzled children left behind

DEAR ABBY: I come from a family of seven kids that has been torn apart ever since the year our mother decided to leave our stepfather of 11 years to be with another woman.It’s not the fact that she chose to be gay; it’s the distance that came along with it. She has severed her […]