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Body of Missing Maine Woman Found in NH Pond
By not in system - AOL NewsCONWAY, N.H. -- The body of a missing Maine woman whose car was abandoned at a ski area with her toddler unharmed inside was recovered Wednesday from a nearby pond. Divers retrieved the body of Krista Dittmeyer about a quarter-mile from where her car was found idling early Saturday in the parking lot of Cranmore Mountain ski area in Conway, a town of 10,000 people. Police said previously that they believed Dittmeyer, 20, was a victim of a crime, but Senior Assistant Attorney General Jane Young said Wednesday that the case was being investigated as a "suspicious death." She declined ...
Family of Missing Maine Mother Pleads for Her Safe Return
By Lisa Flam - AOL NewsKrista Dittmeyer is happy and outgoing, a single mother who loves her baby daughter. She is also someone who doesn't have enemies who would want to harm her, her mother and sister said today, pleading for her safe return. Dittmeyer, of Portland, Maine, last spoke to her relatives on Friday, and her mother was expecting her on Easter Sunday. But she vanished overnight. Her black Nissan Sentra was found at 6:30 a.m. Saturday in the parking lot of the Cranmore Mountain Resort in Conway, N.H., about 65 miles from her home. Her 14-month-old daughter, Aliyah, had been left asleep in the abandoned ...
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Maine Fifth-Grader Born Without Hands Wins Penmanship Award
By Susanna Baird - AOL NewsNicholas Maxim loves football (the Patriots), baseball (the Red Sox) and writing. "It started with coloring," Terri Maxim, Nicholas' mother, told AOL News. Crayons gave way to pens and pencils. "He does that in his spare time. It's not typical. He watches them and keeps up with the sports, but his true love, besides football and baseball, is writing." When 10-year-old Nicholas writes, he holds his pencil between his two upper arms. The brown-haired fifth-grader was born without lowers arms or hands. He's also missing one knee and lower leg. He's looking forward to running alongside his ...
Man Lines Front Lawn With Toilets in Protest
By Steven Hoffer - AOL NewsThere may be more than a dozen toilets on his front lawn, but David Linscott will not sit down. The Kittery, Maine, plumbing contractor has lined his property with 17 commodes of varying shapes and sizes as an act of protest against his town's decision to make additions to the middle school across the street from his home. "Originally, it was intended to be a pretty obvious political statement toward the town," Linscott told Foster's Daily Democrat. Renovations were made to Kittery's Shapleigh Middle School after a nearby elementary school was shut down. Linscott says the subsequent road ...
Burt's Bees Founder Wants to Donate National Park
By not in system - AOL NewsTOWNSHIP 3, RANGE 8, Maine -- Maine sportsmen were outraged when Roxanne Quimby, the conservation-minded founder of Burt's Bees cosmetics, bought up tens of thousands of acres of Maine's fabled North Woods -- and had the audacity to forbid hunters, loggers, snowmobiles and all-terrain vehicles on the expanses. Quimby confronted the hornet's nest she'd stirred up head-on -- calling one of her sharpest critics, George Smith, then-executive director of the Sportsman's Alliance of Maine. Smith couldn't believe his ears. The back-to-the-earth advocate who made millions with her eco-friendly line ...
Maine Mother of 2-Year-Old Gets 20 Years in Child Pornography Case
By Lisa Flam - AOL NewsA Maine mother was sentenced to 20 years in prison for producing child pornography after admitting that she performed sex acts on her 2-year-old daughter while a man in England watched on a Web camera. Julie M. Carr, 33, pleaded guilty in February 2010, admitting that she transmitted four live videos of herself performing sex acts on her youngest daughter, the Bangor Daily News reports. "What you have done, Ms. Carr, is violate the most basic bond of society -- the bond between a mother and her child, the bond between a mother and her daughter," U.S. District Judge John Woodcock told her in ...
Swollen Waterways Worry Officials on East Coast
By not in system - AOL NewsTRENTON, N.J. - Hundreds of flood-weary East Coast residents were returning home Saturday, as rain-swollen rivers and other waterways were slowly receding to normal levels. But officials say it might be a few more days before some people - especially those in hard-hit areas of northern New Jersey - will be able to get back home. And others may need to be evacuated if some major regional waterways crest as expected on Sunday morning. "This is not a game. This is real. If you can, please seek higher ground now," Paterson Mayor Jeffery Jones told residents on Saturday, warning them that it ...
Northern New England Snowstorm Could Reach 30 Inches
By not in system - AOL NewsMONTPELIER, Vt. -- A fierce winter storm was blanketing northern New England and upstate New York with up to 30 inches of snow Monday, while western Connecticut was deluged with so much rain that parts of homes and cars floated down a swollen river. As of 1 p.m., 23.3 inches of snow had fallen at Burlington International Airport -- the biggest March snowfall there on record -- and it wasn't finished yet. At Aubuchon Hardware in downtown Montpelier, the most popular types of snow shovels were sold out, the grass seed was on display and store were readying shelves for more springtime ...
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