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Newspaper
Biddeford York County Weekend
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 2007
Page
4
In downtown Biddeford on a Saturday afternoon business is slow with BD's Variety drawing steady traffic for cheap cigarettes liquor and lottery tickets. City officials consider a 1.25 million bond plan for streetlights parking and a waterfront park to spur growth while small shopkeepers push for low interest plans and a larger retail anchor.
A 49-year-old leather worker, Ernest McCormick, was jailed by York County Sheriff Harold R. Nason after allegedly killing his wife Blanche, 64, at their South Waterboro home. He told the sheriff she nagged him. McCormick was arrested Sunday night and due in Sanford Municipal Court at 2 this afternoon. The victim was shot three times with a 30-30 rifle as she entered the kitchen after visiting her son Norman Taylor nearby.
A theft from Cornelius H. Downs and others in Old Orchard yielded 38 chickens and hens, with authorities knowing the suspect but lacking sufficient direct evidence for arrest. Downs, along Portland road past the kite track toward Milliken Mills, had suffered the heaviest losses amid recent larcenies at the beach.
On this date 1896 Miami Florida was incorporated. In 1914 World War I began when Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia.
On July 28 1945 a U S Army bomber struck the Empire State Building hitting the 79th floor. Fourteen people died in the collision and ensuing fire as rescue crews battled the blaze and civil defense volunteers evacuated occupants.
The University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine CME Office will host a two day symposium titled New Horizons in Human Health 2007 Realizing Personalized Medicine Through Genomics at UNE Biddeford Campus. Distinguished speakers from Harvard Utah and Ohio State will lead sessions on neurogenetics ethnic genetics cancer genetics and personalized health with a dinner reception featuring Maine Governor Baldacci.
A roundup of Monday activities across Maine towns including Biddeford free clinic at Community Center Alfred Street for uninsured, New patients 5 p.m., various meetings from knitting at Ross Center to St. Louis Alumni bingo at Alumni Hall Route 1, and multiple AA Al-Anon support groups with times and contact numbers.
The Clinton administration and congressional leaders reportedly reached a tentative pact to balance the budget by 2002 while cutting taxes for millions of families, students, and investors, part of a broader plan discussed a decade ago.
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