Friday, May 24, 2013
OAKLAND -- While most shoppers were focused on door-busting deals at retail outlets, a few kicked off a different kind of shopping season by buying Christmas trees from the Oakland Lions Club Friday.
AUGUSTA -- Bargain hunters were out in full force at city retail stores early Friday for the busiest shopping day of the year.
It's the password thing. My early memories of the password were simple: a game show, or the code spoken in the dark, so you didn't get shot. But the rules are different now, and at my advanced age I have moved -- no, fallen -- headlong into the 21st century.
Maine has moose, lobsters and puffins. Add elephants to the list.
Kevin Grover, who taught second-graders at Falmouth Elementary, suffered a heart attack after running in Rangeley.
No one's quite sure where the insect originated, but red pine scale is easily spread by wind, birds and squirrels. 
The violence reflects the increasingly dangerous polarization in Egypt over what course it will take nearly two years after the fall of autocrat Hosni Mubarak.
After approaching nearly 500 slayings a year in the early 1990s, the annual rate has gradually declined to the point that the city is now on the verge of a once-unthinkable milestone.
Shoppers snag deals at stores while local retailers prepare for the season.
Police also were called to Macy's, where a man had passed out in the lingerie section. 
Notwithstanding Mitt Romney's assertion that Obama gave "gifts" to minorities in exchange for their votes, black leaders are delivering wish lists to the president anyway.
Republicans are changing the formula this time by adding a provision long sought by some immigration advocates.
At issue in the appeal is Monsanto's right to hold seed patents and farmers' need to be exempt from lawsuits.
Some local holiday shoppers were out all night as stores opened at midnight for Black Friday.
A new report says offering pregnant teens extra support would ultimately save taxpayers money by helping them become financially independent and not dependent on welfare.
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The fog was so thick that deputies didn't immediately realize they were dealing with multiple accidents.
The inaugural Moonlight Madness train brings shoppers and well-wishers to Freeport in the wee hours of Black Friday.
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