HOUSTON (AP) — Updates on Tropical Storm Harvey (all times local): Updated 10:10 a.m.: Houston police Chief Art Acevedo says authorities have rescued 2,000 people from flooding in the city. Acevedo says the city has 185 critical rescue requests still pending as of Monday morning. He says the goal is to rescue those people by […]
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Texas prepares as Harvey strengthens to Category 2 hurricane
HOUSTON (AP) — Hurricane Harvey intensified as it steered toward the Texas coast on Friday, with forecasters saying it had strengthened to a Category 2 storm with the potential to swamp communities more than 100 miles (161 kilometers) inland. The slow-moving hurricane could be the fiercest such storm to hit the United States in almost […]
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Condom-clogged pipe leads police to Austin prostitution ring
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Police say they cracked an Austin prostitution ring they were led to by a drainage pipe clogged with condoms. A police affidavit filed Tuesday said investigators learned that a massage parlor was operating in a shopping strip in northwestern Austin after the realty company that had just taken control of the […]
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Connie L. Lebroke
NORWAY — Connie L. Lebroke, 60, passed away Wednesday, Feb. 15, after a short battle with cancer. She was born in Waco, Texas, on March 25, 1956, to Curtis A. and Irene J. Millett. Connie worked for many years at A.C. Lawrence Co. leather tannery, then Norway Footwear and Sebago Shoe. In 1999, Connie was […]
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Police officers shot in Missouri and Texas ambushes
A police officer has been fatally shot in Texas, and another in Missouri was shot in the face but is expected to survive, in what authorities are calling the latest in a series of targeted attacks on law enforcement. The detective in San Antonio, Texas, was writing out a traffic ticket when he was shot […]
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Chief Michael Bussiere: Dallas a reminder of the risks of law enforcement
LEWISTON — From his office here on his last day, Police Chief Michael Bussiere watched the horrific news unfold in Dallas: five officers dead, nine people wounded by a sniper attack. In a week, he’ll start a new job in a department that neighbors Dallas, sad but undeterred. “Obviously, I’ve been in contact with some […]
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Armed Wal-Mart worker takes hostages, killed by police
AMARILLO, Texas — Officers fatally shot an armed man inside a Wal-Mart store in Amarillo on Tuesday after he took two people hostage, including a manager with whom he had a work-related dispute, according to police. Amarillo police identified the suspect as 54-year-old store employee Mohammad Moghaddam and said neither hostage was injured. Police said […]
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Lackland Air Force Base: Airman shot commander in murder-suicide
DALLAS — An airman shot his commander in an apparent murder-suicide Friday at a U.S. Air Force base in San Antonio, a senior U.S. official said. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to publicly discuss the shooting at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland. Two handguns were found near the bodies of […]
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Tammera C. Nowajewski
1958 – 2016 TOPSHAM — Tammera C. (Reynolds) Nowajewski, 57, of Topsham and formerly of Houston, Texas, died unexpectedly on Saturday, March 19, at her home. She was born in Bangor on Aug. 31, 1958, a daughter of George A. Reynolds of Topsham and the late Donna J. (Meyette) Reynolds. Tammera worked in Houston, Texas, […]
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Texas teen to be tried as juvenile in Jay theft case
FARMINGTON — A Texas teenager accused of stealing about $13,000 from a lockbox at a Jay residence in April 2015 was released into his mother’s custody Thursday. The boy was 17 when the money was reported missing and turned 18 less than two months later. He was being held at a Maine detention center since […]