PARIS (AP) — French tennis player Mathieu Montcourt, who was recently banned for betting on matches, has died. He was 24. The French tennis federation said Tuesday that Montcourt died overnight but the cause of death is not yet known, and an autopsy will be conducted. French media reported the 119th-ranked Montcourt was found dead […]

Tuesday Buckfield: Selectmen, 6:30 p.m., Municipal Building Greenwood: Selectmen, 5 p.m., Town Office Paris: Recreation Committee, 6:30 p.m., Town Office Paris: Oxford County Commission, 5 p.m., commissioners’ office Wednesday Bethel: Board of Assessors, 8 a.m., Town Office Bethel: Planning Board, 7 p.m., Town Office Buckfield: Recreation Committee, 6:30 p.m., Municipal Center Fryeburg: SAD 72 Board […]

READING, Ohio (AP) – The owner of a suburban Cincinnati barbecue restaurant is appealing an order to put more clothes on a busty, scantily clad mannequin outside his door. Kenny Tessel says the eye-catching, life-size figure has boosted his business 40 percent. But officials in Reading (REH’-ding) objected to her skimpy halter top and tight […]

NEW YORK (AP) – Money doesn’t grow on trees, but a tree-care supervisor in New York City’s Central Park found an old wallet inside a dead one. The blue leather wallet had been stolen by a pickpocket 27 years ago. It was found in the hollow of a dying cherry tree. It was near where […]

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – Police in Albuquerque say the father of a 5-year-old girl has been charged with child abuse after the girl was spotted behind the wheel of a speeding pickup truck. KRQE-TV reports that Daniel McCoy was arrested Thursday when police saw his truck speeding and swerving on the city’s west side. Police […]

Franklin Jay: Selectmen, 6:30 p.m., Town Office Livermore Falls: Selectmen, 6:30 p.m., Town Office Oxford Hills Bethel: Conservation Committee, 7 p.m., Town Office Buckfield: Planning Board, 6:30 p.m., Municipal Center Greenwood: Planning Board, 7 p.m., Town Office Hartford: Planning Board, 7 p.m., Town Hall Paris: Recreation Committee, 6:30 p.m., Town Office Rumford Carthage: Selectmen, 6 […]

EAU CLAIRE, Michigan (AP) – A husband and wife are tops at this year’s International Cherry Pit Spitting Championship. Rick “Pellet Gun” Krause, of Tuba City, Arizona spit for the win Saturday at the contest, held in the state of Michigan. In somewhat windy conditions, he shot a pit 48 feet and half an inch […]

KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) – A sea turtle named after President Barack Obama that was rescued just before Inauguration Day has been set free on Independence Day. Obama the loggerhead sea turtle was found ailing off a Key West beach on Jan. 19, the eve of the inauguration. Suffering from an intestinal impaction, the 200-pound […]

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) – A New York man, accused last July of selling fireworks that sparked a fire in Buffalo that damaged four buildings has been arrested again – for illegally selling fireworks from his vehicle. Police say they found six boxes of commercial fireworks in Leon Sapp’s Jeep. Sapp, who’s 50, was arrested Friday […]

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) – The soldier who was photographed fighting the Taliban in his boxer shorts says he’s glad to be back home in Texas after his yearlong deployment to Afghanistan – especially on the Fourth of July. Specialist Zachary Boyd says he initially thought he’d get in trouble after an Associated Press photo […]