Friday, May 24, 2013
BATH — Dale Fussell was known among her friends and family members as a generous soul, someone who lived frugally herself but was eager to help others and to cheer them up when they were down.
WATERVILLE — Don’t be alarmed if four red-vested men with a single red rose appear on your doorstep today and launch into song.
AUGUSTA -- The second of three city men charged in connection with a series of home burglaries last year pleaded guilty Tuesday to 16 charges in Kennebec County Superior Court.
PORTLAND -- A prosecutor in the Kennebunk prostitution case told the state's highest court Wednesday that prostitutes' customers are like secret lovers engaging in their activities behind closed doors.
VATICAN CITY -- With a humble "Grazie" as bishops doffed their mitres and applause echoed through St. Peter's Basilica, a frail Pope Benedict XVI began his long farewell by presiding over Ash Wednesday services in a tearful, final public Mass.
FAIRFIELD -- Singer and songwriter Emily Mure has spent most of her musical career playing on the streets of Galway, Ireland, and the stages of New York City's Lower East Side.
WASHINGTON -- A moderate Republican senator once thought to be a possible backer of Chuck Hagel's nomination to be secretary of defense said she'll oppose his confirmation, while other GOP senators signaled they may delay a floor vote on the nomination unless the White House provides more information about the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya.
WASHINGTON -- A Maine woman who has struggled for decades to overcome the trauma of a sexual assault that ended her military career said Wednesday that it was a bittersweet honor to lend her name to a bill to help other veterans who are haunted by past assaults.
Meanwhile, law enforcement officials find a charred body believed to be that of Christopher Dorner, in the ruins of the cabin that erupted in flames.
WASHINGTON -- House Speaker John Boehner said Wednesday it's unlikely the Republican-controlled House and Democratic-led Senate will prevent a wave of automatic spending cuts from beginning to strike the economy in two weeks. Yet he sounded hopeful about avoiding a partial shutdown of the government when a temporary spending bill expires next month.
AUGUSTA -- Gov. Paul LePage's energy director says the governor's recent promise to fast-track natural gas infrastructure projects and lower energy costs for residents and businesses will mean streamlined state environmental permitting, new programs to help Mainers convert to natural gas and other alternatives to oil heat.
AUGUSTA -- A Farmingdale man will spend four years in prison for robbing a woman at gunpoint and striking her in the face with a handgun.
Adam Goode’s bill is one of a growing number of ethics bills to be proposed this session after Maine received an "F" for its corruption potential in a study last year.
In our woods, the easiest birds to identify that aren’t crows or blue jays are the chickadees. 
AUGUSTA — Like many parents, Mike Mullett has tried to raise money for his children’s sports teams with raffles, candy sales and bottle drives.
Maine's highest court is urged to reinstate 46 invasion-of-privacy charges against Mark Strong Sr. in the prostitution case.
The Ruth Moore Act would help people who suffered 'military sexual trauma' receive benefits.
WINTHROP — Police said a local man used his own blood to deface the police station before trying to dismantle the department’s generator.
The Cape Elizabeth man is easily confirmed for the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals after a year of delays by Republicans.
Dale Fussell, a soup kitchen volunteer killed at her apartment Tuesday, had been saving to buy her own home.
Daniel Porter, 25, is charged fatally shooting 31-year-old Jerry Perdomo, a firefighter from Orange City, Fla.
The cruise line contradicts the accounts of some passengers who told relatives of filthy, hot conditions, limited access to food. no running water and few working toilets on the Carnival Triumph.
They are the first commemorative plates produced by the state since the United States celebrated its Bicentennial in 1976.
All six people misused computers at the academy and some of them participated in consensual sex acts on school grounds during the workday, an academy spokesman says.
Social media light up after the senator’s pause while rebutting Obama’s speech, and the company joins in.
The former leader of the Winter Hill Gang is awaiting trial in a sweeping racketeering indictment accusing him of participating in 19 murders. 
A Maine shipyard official says the frame of a replica 18th-century sailing ship that sank during Hurricane Sandy was rotted.
In the past 40 years, only Katrina exceeded the storm that pounded the northeastern region.
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