• Mass. couples 2001 message in a bottle found

  REHOBOTH, Mass. -- A message sealed in a champagne bottle and tossed into the waters off Tampa, Fla., more than a decade ago by a Massachusetts couple celebrating their engagement has been found.Karl and Michelle Kimmell of Rehoboth say occasionally they would wonder if anyone had found the message they cast away in August 2001. The message, announcing their engagement, had just their first ...

• Former ICE agent pleads guilty in firearms case

  BRATTLEBORO, Vt. (AP) - A former U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent will sell more than 150 firearms that were seized from his home during a raid by another agency in ...

• Ex-Marine to be reunited with bomb dog in RI

  SCITUATE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island state police will hold a ceremony this week that will reunite a retired Marine injured in an explosion in Afghanistan with the bomb-detecting dog he used to ...

• Vt. town board OKs biomass agreement

  The board discussed a memorandum of understanding requiring the plant’s owners to pay $3 million for a new access road for truck traffic. It also discusses replacement of homeowners’ old woodstoves with newer, more efficient stoves, to partially offset emissions from the proposed ...

• No charges in Starks shooting

  STARKS, Maine (AP) - A Maine grand jury has declined to bring charges in the case of a Starks man who was shot on his own property following a confrontation with a group of ...

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