Scarborough dispatcher Amanda Marden, who is certified and licensed emergency medical dispatcher, this week received a 911 call from a family in Old Orchard Beach. It turns out a woman was in active labor. Marden ended up helping the family deliver a healthy baby boy while waiting for the first responders to arrive. As you …
Monthly Archives: November 2021
Guilty: Verdict in Ahmaud Arbery Murder Case
All three men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia in Feb. 2020, have been found guilty of murder. Greg McMichael, son Travis McMichael and neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan face minimum sentences of life in prison. #BREAKING: Greg McMichael and his son, Travis McMichael, who pursued Ahmaud Arbery, have been convicted of murder. The …
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Waldo County Man Arrested in Texas on Child Abuse Charges in Maine
Steven Mathis, 32, of Winterport has been arrested in Texas and extradited back to Maine to face criminal charges of child abuse and exploitation. Mathis was interviewed and confessed to sexually abusing several identified children along with uploading images of the abuse online and disseminating the images to various people. An electronic device was seized …
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Federal jury finds white supremacists conspired in deadly Unite the Right rally
A federal jury on Tuesday found that white supremacists conspired to take part in violence during a 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia which left three people dead. The jury in the civil trial ruled in favor of the plaintiffs on four of the six counts they faced, but deadlocked on two federal …
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President Biden orders 50M barrels from emergency oil stockpile to bring gas prices down
President Joe Biden has ordered the release of tens of millions of barrels of oil from the strategic reserve in a move to bring down gas prices. During remarks from the White House on Tuesday, Biden ordered an additional 50 million barrels from the reserve, which is an emergency stockpile of oil stored in underground …
2022 Grammy Nominations: Chris Stapleton, Mickey Guyton, Jimmie Allen and more lead the country music nominees
Nominations for the 2022 Grammy Awards were revealed on Tuesday by the Recording Academy via a Livestream from Los Angeles. Jimmie Allen, Chris Stapleton and Mickey Guyton are among country music’s top nominees. Allen, who is up for Best New Artist, is country music’s only nominee in the all-genre category. Guyton earned 3 nominations, including for Best …
Sam Hunt & friends heading to Cancun, Mexico for ‘Casa Fiesta’ experience in March 2022
Sam Hunt is heading to Cancun, Mexico for spring break next March, along with Parker McCollum, Nelly, The Band Camino, Surfaces, Tai Verdes, Lily Rose, Shy Carter and Connor Smith, for “Casa Fiesta Featuring Sam Hunt and Friends,” set for March 14-18, 2022. The five-day experience, presented by tech company Pollen, will include performances on …
Good Morning America’s Michael Strahan to fly to space on Blue Origin
Good Morning America co-host and NFL legend Michael Strahan announced that he will fly to space on Jeff Bezos’ ‘Blue Origin’ on its next flight, to take place on December 9. It will be the rocket’s third human flight this year, and marks the first flight with a full astronaut manifest of six crew members …
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General Hospital’s Steve Burton fired for not complying with the show’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate
General Hospital’s Steve Burton, who has played the role of Jason Morgan on and off since 1991, is leaving the long-running ABC soap opera after deciding not to get vaccinated. The 51-year-old actor took to social media on Tuesday, November 23 to confirm he had been fired by the series for not complying with the …
Maine Double Murder Leads to 2 Life Sentences
Mark Penley was sentenced today to two concurrent life sentences in the killing of Heather Bickford and her boyfriend, Dana Hill. They were killed in their South Paris apartment on New Year’s Day 2019. Penley was sentenced at Oxford County Superior Court. #UPDATE: A Maine man who killed his ex-girlfriend and her boyfriend so “no …
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