New Portland News

This article appears in the current issue of the Strange Maine Gazette . Some of you might have heard me discussing it with DanK on WMPG's "Random Thought Crime Generator" radio show last night.

It's the New Year and a time to make positive lifestyle changes, a time for new beginnings.

Nothing disturbed the peaceful rank and file of white headstones at the west section of Togus National Cemetery at 11 a.m. Saturday.

Glen Hinckley, 19, of Lewiston suffered a head injury when his Pontiac Firebird and a Toyota Tundra pickup driven by Brian Smith, 48, of New Portland collided on Washington Avenue in Auburn on Wednesday afternoon, police said.

Two women who say they grew up in Anson and were friends of homicide victim Rita St.