Last Update: 09:02 AM 05/14/2008     

Township shooting shocks neighbors

INDIAN TOWNSHIP, Maine - A 40-year-old Calais man who had been waving a pistol and shooting at a house in a subdivision on the reservation was shot dead by police Monday night.



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Bangor councilor enters plea of not guilty to theft charge


BANGOR, Maine - A city councilor arrested on Monday for allegedly stealing grocery items from a local supermarket told authorities he was "disabled, hungry and had no money, and it was not like him to steal," according to a police report released Tuesday.
Ellsworth: Grandmother robbery case going to trial :
OMG!!!I got chills when I read this...poor 74 year old grandma with a bag over her head and tied up...BY HER RELATIVES!!! So they can steal her money? ...continued

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NFL gives Spygate some closure


NEW YORK - A murmur rippled across the room as the NFL revealed the tapes provided by former Patriots video assistant Matt Walsh. The cause was not some new revelation of wrongdoing by New England.



Women excellent in PTC's 'Iguana'


The Penobscot Theatre Company has not been kind to Tennessee Williams. It happened in 1996 with "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" and again in 1998 with "A Streetcar Named Desire." Scott R.C. Levy has made a similar mistake with "The Night of the Iguana."