A Maine State Prison inmate who was serving a sentence for murdering his mother died Monday at the facility in Warren. Joseph Fitzpatrick, commissioner of the Maine Department of Corrections, announced the death of 51-year-old Andrew Leighton, formerly of Falmouth, late Monday afternoon. Leighton was serving a 27-year sentence for murder that began on Jan. […]
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Inmate from Lewiston dies in prison
WARREN — A 28-year-old inmate at the Bolduc Correctional Facility in Warren died Sunday, the Maine Department of Corrections announced Sunday evening. Dana R. Bartlett of Lewiston died shortly before 6 p.m. at the facility known as the prison farm. A suspected cause of death was not released. The Corrections Department said that, consistent with its policy and Maine Attorney […]
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Former Maine newspaper writer and editor Nancy Grape dies
Nancy Grape, an Auburn native who worked for both the Sun Journal and Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram as a writer and columnist, died Wednesday in Redwood City, California. She was 84. She was born at Central Maine General Hospital, now Central Maine Medical Center, in Lewiston in 1933, graduating from Edward Little High School […]
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Navy seaman from Freeport dies while serving in Persian Gulf
Austin Williams stood out, and not just because of his trademark neon running socks. When he ran cross-country and track at Freeport High School, Williams wore those bright socks and colorful bandannas that made him easily recognizable on the course. But his personality made him just as memorable to the people who met him during […]
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Rescuers brave 108 mph winds, but hiker found dead in extreme N.H. cold
LANCASTER, N.H. (AP) — A hiker who activated an emergency personal locator beacon in New Hampshire’s White Mountains amid brutal weather conditions has been found dead. The state’s Fish and Game Department says New York City resident Kate Matrosova’s body was found Monday afternoon between Mount Madison and Mount Adams near Star Lake. Matrosova activated […]
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Alfred man suffers heart attack, dies while hunting in Industry
INDUSTRY — An Alfred man had a heart attack Monday morning while hunting in woods off Hymie Norton Road, Maine State Police Sgt. Blaine Bronson said. James Chadburn, 68, left a hunting camp in Industry at 7:30 a.m. His brother found him face down in the woods, about a half-mile from the main road and […]
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Corinna town manager dies in ATV crash
MOSCOW — Corinna’s town manager died Sunday afternoon in an all-terrain vehicle accident in Moscow. Kimberly Anne Godsoe, 38, of Hartland had been riding on a trail near Deadwater Road when the crash occurred at about 12:30 p.m. Before becoming Corinna’s town manager in 2011, Godsoe served as the St. Albans town manager’s administrative assistant […]
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Bates grad William Worthy, longtime reporter, dies at age 92
BOSTON (AP) — William Worthy, a foreign correspondent who defied travel bans to Cold War adversaries of the United States, has died. He was 92. Worthy died May 4 at a nursing home in Brewster, Massachusetts, according to the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. He was a Nieman Foundation fellow from 1956 to […]
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Ariel Sharon, Israel’s bulldozer in politics, dies at 85
JERUSALEM — It was vintage Ariel Sharon: His hefty body bobbing behind a wall of security men, the ex-general led a march onto a Jerusalem holy site, staking a bold claim to a shrine that has been in contention from the dawn of the Arab-Israeli conflict. What followed was a Palestinian uprising that put Mideast […]