Sanford

Police moved quickly to make an arrest in a weekend robbery at a Sanford store. Authorities say man walked into Rogers Supa Dolla just before 9 p.m. on Saturday and grabbed some cash from an open safe. The suspect fled, chased by a store worker. Police say the robber pulled a knife and threatened the worker before running away. Aided by tracking dogs from the Wells police, 28-year-old Daryl Blums was tracked and arrested. The stolen cash was recovered. He was charged with armed robbery and held on $50,000 bail.

The Sanford School Committee has voted to drop the nickname Redskins for the local high school's sports teams. The board on Monday voted 4-1 to change the name after the Maine Indian Tribal State Commission and representatives of several Maine tribes said the name was derogatory. Some residents expressed pride in the name and said the community and students should have had a chance to weigh in. Board member Adam Cote said that while he has pride in the name he voted it to change it to something "everyone can rally around.

COLUMBIA, S.C. - South Carolina residents - and the simply curious around the world - have watched Governor Mark Sanford’s lovelorn saga unfold, the central character spewing an odd script that would seem more appropriate for a soap opera than state government. Top South Carolina Republicans and at least a half-dozen newspapers are calling for his resignation. Constituents are scratching their heads at their governor’s soul-bearing declarations that he considers his Argentine mistress his “soul mate’’ but is trying to salvage his 20-year marriage.

The new interim chief of the Sanford Police Department says he'll conduct an "A to Z" review following fallout from the Trayvon Martin case. Chief Rick Myers said Friday he wants to help heal the emotional wounds caused by the shooting death of Trayvon Martin in February by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman. He says he will reach out to people in Sanford who feel they've been ignored by the police. Myers was appointed the interim chief until city officials decide the future of former Police Chief Bill Lee. Lee stepped aside on a temporary basis after Martin's death...

The Sanford School Committee has voted to drop the nickname Redskins for the local high school's sports teams. The board on Monday voted 4-1 to change the name after the Maine Indian Tribal State Commission and representatives of several Maine tribes said the name was derogatory. Some residents expressed pride in the name and said the community and students should have had a chance to weigh in. Board member Adam Cote said that while he has pride in the name he voted it to change it to something "everyone can rally around.

COLUMBIA, S.C. - South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford took dozens of undisclosed flights on private planes since taking office in 2003 despite a state law requiring him to report who paid for the travel, an Associated Press investigation has found. Sanford took 35 flights on private planes that he did not list on state ethics forms or campaign reports. The flights are noted on Sanford’s official calendars, obtained through a Freedom of Information request.

COLUMBIA, S.C. - South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford rebuffed his lieutenant governor’s call to resign yesterday, saying he will not be “railroaded’’ out of office and plans to finish the last 16 months of his term. Sanford returned from a nearly weeklong disappearance in June to admit an affair with an Argentine woman, a revelation that led to questions about the legality of his travel on state, private, and commercial planes. At a news conference yesterday hours after Lieutenant Governor Andre Bauer called for him to step down, Sanford said...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - South Carolina’s Supreme Court ruled yesterday that an ethics investigation into Governor Mark Sanford’s travel must be made public, clearing the way for lawmakers considering impeachment to review a report on the probe. Sanford’s lawyers had tried to keep a report on a criminal investigation by the State Ethics Commission from being released to the House of Representatives as leaders there decide whether to move forward with impeachment efforts. The commission’s investigation was launched after Sanford returned from a five-day rendezvous with an...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, still clinging to office after admitting to an extramarital affair, wrote in an opinion piece released yesterday that God will change him so that he can emerge from the scandal a more humble and effective leader. While “none of us has the chance to attend our own funeral, in many ways I feel like I was at my own in the past weeks, and surprisingly I am thankful for the perspective it has afforded,’’ Sanford wrote in the opinion piece distributed statewide for Sunday newspapers.

ORLANDO, Fla. - The United States has opened a civil rights investigation into the shooting death of an unarmed black teen by a white neighborhood watch captain at a gated community in Florida. The Justice Department's civil rights division, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the US attorney's office for the Middle District of Florida are participating in the investigation of the death of Trayvon Martin, 17, according to a department statement. College students around Florida rallied Monday to demand the arrest of 28-year-old George Zimmerman, who...

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — Trayvon Martin had been suspended from school for marijuana when the unarmed teenager was shot to death by a neighborhood watch volunteer, a family spokesman said Monday. Martin, 17, was suspended by Miami-Dade County schools because traces of marijuana were found in a plastic baggie in his book bag, family spokesman Ryan Julison said. Martin was shot Feb. 26 by George Zimmerman while he was visiting Sanford with his father. Martin's mother, Sybrina Fulton, and family attorneys blamed police for leaking the information about the marijuana to...

ST. LOUIS - Sanford "Sandy" McDonnell, a former Boy Scout who went on to work on the first atomic bomb before heading aerospace behemoth McDonnell Douglas Corp., has died, according to Boeing Co., which bought McDonnell Douglas in 1997. He was 89. Mr. McDonnell, former chairman and chief executive of McDonnell Douglas, had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in November 2010 and died March 19 at his home in the St. Louis suburb of Clayton, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.

ORLANDO, Fla. - The United States has opened a civil rights investigation into the shooting death of an unarmed black teen by a white neighborhood watch captain at a gated community in Florida. The Justice Department's civil rights division, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the US attorney's office for the Middle District of Florida are participating in the investigation of the death of Trayvon Martin, 17, according to a department statement. College students around Florida rallied Monday to demand the arrest of 28-year-old George Zimmerman, who authorities...

Police moved quickly to make an arrest in a weekend robbery at a Sanford store. Authorities say man walked into Rogers Supa Dolla just before 9 p.m. on Saturday and grabbed some cash from an open safe. The suspect fled, chased by a store worker. Police say the robber pulled a knife and threatened the worker before running away. Aided by tracking dogs from the Wells police, 28-year-old Daryl Blums was tracked and arrested. The stolen cash was recovered. He was charged with armed robbery and held on $50,000 bail.

Northern New Englanders awoke to bone-chilling temperatures Monday with the mercury falling to well below zero across much of the region. The National Weather Service said some of the cold spots in Maine at 6 a.m. were Fryeburg, which was minus 20, and Sanford, where the temperature was 13 below zero. In New Hampshire, the temperature was minus 18 in Berlin and minus 14 in Whitefield. And in Vermont, the temperature in Montpelier and St. Johnsbury was 15 below zero at 6 a.m.

An actor who appeared on stage at London's Globe Theatre and on television in "Sanford & Son" has died in New Jersey. Graham Brown was 87. Actress Barbara Montgomery often appeared with Brown on the stage and had power of attorney on his behalf. She says he died Tuesday of pulmonary failure at the Lillian Booth Actors' Fund Nursing Home in Englewood. Montgomery says Brown was meticulous and was a gentleman. Brown often appeared in stage productions of the New York-based Negro Ensemble Company and was a founding member of the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis.

COLUMBIA, S.C. - South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford used state aircraft for personal and political trips, often bringing along his wife and children - contrary to state law regarding official use, an Associated Press investigation has found. According to state budget law, “Any and all aircraft owned or operated by agencies of the State Government shall be used only for official business.’’ Records reviewed by the Associated Press show that since he took office in 2003, the two-term Republican has taken trips on state aircraft to locations of his children’s sporting events, hair and...

Northern New Englanders awoke to bone-chilling temperatures Monday with the mercury falling to well below zero across much of the region. The National Weather Service said some of the cold spots in Maine at 6 a.m. were Fryeburg, which was minus 20, and Sanford, where the temperature was 13 below zero. In New Hampshire, the temperature was minus 18 in Berlin and minus 14 in Whitefield. And in Vermont, the temperature in Montpelier and St. Johnsbury was 15 below zero at 6 a.m.

Authorities say a 74-year-old man has died in a fire in Sanford, Maine. Public Safety spokesman Stephen McCausland says Armand Talbot died Tuesday night after he entered his burning home and was likely overcome by smoke. The body was found by firefighters inside his Armand Lane home. McCausland says Talbot discovered the fire after arriving home from a town meeting. He went to neighbors' home to have them call the fire department and then went into the burning house in an apparent effort to put the fire out. Fire investigators said Wednesday that the source of the fire was a faulty...

WASHINTON - Sanford H. "Sandy" Winston, a retired Army lieutenant colonel who was a highly decorated hero of World War II and later served as a spokesman for the old Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, died Aug. 22 at his home in Sarasota, Fla. He was 90 and had heart and respiratory ailments, his son Mark Winston said. Before becoming a media spokesman, Colonel Winston had a 25-year Army career and was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross - second only to the Medal of Honor for combat valor.