BERGERON — Jeannine, 77, of Lewiston, died in Lewiston on Monday, June 15. Services will be held Saturday, June 20, at 11 a.m., Holy Family Church. Donations may be made in her honor to Androscoggin Home Care & Hospice Services, 15 Strawberry Ave., Lewiston, ME 04240. Albert & Burpee Funeral Home. FARMER — Glenwood “Glen” […]
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Funeral notices for Thursday, June 18, 2015
BATES — Alfred J., 85, of Auburn passed away Saturday, June 13, at Marshwood Center nursing home in Lewiston. Visiting hours will be held at Fortin\Auburn on Saturday, June 20, from 2 to 4 p.m. A graveside service will take place on Monday, June 22, at Valley Cemetery in Greene at 11 a.m. Those wishing, […]
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Fires claim 25 lives in 2014; worst since 1993
PORTLAND (AP) — Maine public safety officials are pushing for more home fire safety awareness and proper use of smoke detectors in the wake of the state’s worst year for fire deaths in more than two decades. Twenty-five people died in Maine fires in 2014, the highest figure since 1993. There were 14 fatal fires […]
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N.Y. doctor back from Guinea has Ebola, 1st in city
NEW YORK (AP) — An emergency room doctor who recently returned to the city after treating Ebola patients in West Africa has tested positive for the virus, becoming the first case in the city and the fourth in the nation. Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday urged residents not to be […]
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Jury resumes deliberations in Bangor triple-murder trial
BANGOR (AP) — A Maine jury is back to work in the trial of two men charged with killing three people and burning their bodies in a car in Bangor in 2012. Jurors in the trial of Randall Daluz of Brockton, Massachusetts, and Nicholas Sexton of Warwick, Rhode Island, deliberated for three full days, surpassing […]
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Six Nepalese guides dead, nine missing after avalanche on Everest
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — An avalanche swept the slopes of Mount Everest on Friday along a route used to ascend the world’s highest peak, killing at least six Nepalese guides and leaving nine more missing, officials said. The Sherpa guides had gone early in the morning to fix the ropes for hundreds of climbers when […]
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20 years after tragic Maine crash, parents still honoring son
LISBON — News that changes your life comes in an instant and sometimes it breaks your heart. Daphne and Steve Izer remember well the night the police came to their door 20 years ago. It was just before 11 p.m. on Oct. 10, 1993, a Sunday. He was watching TV. She had just stood to go to […]
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In the wake of bankruptcy, keeping Maine’s rail network intact ‘strategically critical’
Speculation is growing over what the long-term economic impacts will be to the bankruptcy of Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway. Experts interviewed by the Bangor Daily News, however, say businesses served by the railroad shouldn’t experience any immediate impacts as a result of the company’s bankruptcy. The railway filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Wednesday, […]