Death by Own Action Shocks UMass Amherst Campus
David Harpin, 21, Rochester, leaped from the 28 story UMass library roof at 5 PM after threats and erratic behavior following theft of marijuana and mental distress. Friends had described his talk of death as not serious but this time he acted, jumping 286 feet to concrete below near a diagram he’d drawn on his dorm door.
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David
David Bowers
Harpin
Paul Logue
Webster
Umass-Amherst
Rochester
Davis
Dave
Bowers
John Braidman
Air Force Academy
Peter Townsend
Jethro Tull
Vincent van Gogh
Salvador Dali
U-Mass
Richard Grader
Grader
Amphibious? Not Quite Amphibious in Pool Crash
James Wiley of Providence RI drove his car into an empty Capri Motel pool in North Dartmouth Massachusetts after claiming an accelerator stuck. He suffered minor injuries and was treated at St Luke's Hospital in New Bedford and released.
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North Dartmouth
Mass
James Wiley
Wiley
Providence
R.I
St. Luke's Hospital
New Bedford
Saco Man Shares Cash Award for Government Savings
Richard A. Desrochers of Saco, a machinist at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, shared a $295 cash award for a beneficial suggestion that will save the government $1,900 annually.
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Sarah Brooks
SACO
Richard A. Desrochers
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
St. Louis
Orchard St
Biddeford
Roger Legere
Alban Legere
Mabel Ave
Robert Belair
Raoul Belair
Grandview Drive
Old Orchard Beach
Cantara
COLBY
Michael P. Cantara
Jean Paul Cantara
Granite St
Colby College
Waterville
OOB Student Wins EPA Award
Allison Durfee a fifth grade student at Jameson School has won the Environmental Protection Agency prize in the elementary ecology poster and poem contest. She is among 10 Maine entrants and 60 from New England to win out of more than 7 000 participants. Senator Edmund Muskie and EPA official Paul G Keough will present a plaque at a May 28 ceremony at the University of Maine Orono. Durfee's winning poem Your Town Street urges students to observe their town and note litter and environmental decline.
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Old Orchard Beach
Allison Durfee
Jameson School
Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
Roeiss Durfee
Maine
New England
Edmund Muskie
Paul G. Keough
Miss Durfee
University of Maine At Orono
Miss
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Raulies
Loicc
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U.S
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Cyr
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CHUCK
Hamburg
RUN Dawgs
Dixie
Shurfine
Frankfurters
California
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Edward M. Desmarais
U.S. Navy
Dorothy L. Desmarais
Hills Beach Road
Great Lakes
Ill
Guam
Spec. Howard
Fort Ord
Calif
Richard W. Howard
U.S. Army
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West Kennebunk
Army
Doody
Cynthia Lee Doody
George J. Doody
Ross Road
Casco Bay College
Protland
Thornton Academy
Catherine Morrison
American Legion
Carl Kirkpatrick
Jackson
Jacqueline C. Jackson
John A. Jackson
Surf Ave
Ferry Beach
Concord
N.H.) General Hospital
Normand R. Boisvert
Forest St
Halasz
UNH Kennebunk
Stephen E. Halasz
Stepen Halasz
Alewive Road
University of New Hampshire
Kennebunk High School
U OF M
Machias
University of Maine At
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Waterboro
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OOB
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