Maine Republican Party Chairman Charlie Webster stood before reporters and TV cameras Monday waving a list of 206 college students who “may have conducted voter fraud here in Maine.” Then, on Thursday, Secretary of State Charlie Summers alleged that high-ranking officials in the Secretary of State’s Office and Bureau of Elections destroyed documents showing that […]
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Feeling tasked by all these studies
Maine’s former governor, John Baldacci, liked trying to solve problems by creating task forces. In fact, during his tenure, task forces were almost as commonplace in Augusta as state workers. For a politician, a task force is irresistible. First, it’s a clever way to put the problem-solving burden on the shoulders of others. Secondly, the […]
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Maine task force watchful for terrorism threats
LEWISTON — Young Maine residents apparently are not being recruited for international terrorism, but law enforcement officials are keeping close watch. Members of the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security heard testimony Wednesday morning about the al-Qaida-affiliated Somali terror group al-Shabab recruiting young Somali men from Minnesota in 2007, 2008 and 2009. There are no […]
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Soldier buried in hometown
NEWPORT — More than 200 people attended the funeral for a 19-year-old soldier from Maine who was killed in Afghanistan. Services for Army Pfc. Tyler Springmann were held Friday at Nokomis Regional High in Newport, where he graduated last year. Burial, with military honors, was at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Dexter. Springmann died July 17 […]
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Residents escape apartment fire
PORTLAND — A fire in a three-story apartment building in Portland, Maine, led to several dramatic rescues, with some people saving themselves by escaping through windows. Portland firefighters used a ladder to rescue a woman from the third-floor apartment unit on Sherman Street, while others escaped through window and lowered a baby to neighbors waiting […]
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Crisis hot line call triggers manhunt
PORTLAND — Officials say a report of an armed man — dressed in camouflage, and described as either homicidal or suicidal — had officers scrambling in Portland. Acting Chief Michael Sauschuck says the man was believed to be in woods on the East End, prompting officers to shut down roads and clear a baseball field […]
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Man dies in Standish crash
STANDISH — A Maine sheriff’s department says a 69-year-old man is dead after the vehicle he was driving went off a road in Standish and a hit a tree, trapping the victim inside. The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Department says the crash happened at about 9:30 p.m. Thursday on Chadbourne Road. The name of the victim […]
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Gang warning follows brawl
PORTLAND — Portland bar owners and other merchants are being asked to ban customers wearing gang colors after a brawl involving two dozen motorcycle gang members in the Maine city. Officials say two men were arrested and two were treated for injuries at local hospitals after the Saturday fight between members of three rival motorcycle […]
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Webster says UMF College Republicans parked vans on Election Day 2010
FARMINGTON — The chairman of the Maine Republican Party said Friday that College Republicans at the University of Maine at Farmington worked to prevent university vans from being used to take student voters to the polls on Election Day 2010. Charlie Webster, who has been campaigning against a group seeking to overturn a recently passed […]
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A case of duplicate voter registration?
LEWISTON — Brendan O’Brien, former chairman of the Maine College Republicans, believes that plenty of students from away vote in Maine while living and attending college here. He did. “I’m not sure this is right and I’m not saying I fully support it, but a lot of college students do it,” O’Brien said. O’Brien, who […]