Alex McCann

3 days ago | pressherald.com | Alex McCann

Searchers receive a briefing from Baxter State Park rangers and the Maine Warden Service on Wednesday morning before resuming the search for a missing hiker. Photo courtesy of Baxter State Park Searchers continued to scour the top of Katahdin on Wednesday for clues about the whereabouts of a hiker from New York who was last seen Sunday and whose father was found dead on the mountain Tuesday. Esther, left, and Tim Keiderling were reported missing Tuesday near Katahdin.

6 days ago | centralmaine.com | Alex McCann

FAIRFIELD — An early-morning fire that spread from a barn storage area into an attached three-story apartment building left two families without their homes Sunday. No people were hurt in the blaze at 16 Summit St., but a cat was killed in the fire, and the tenants of the two occupied apartments have been displaced, according to Fairfield fire Chief Travis Leary. The structure fire was reported just before 3 a.m. Sunday. Firefighters from several departments were on the scene for nearly five hours.

1 week ago | sunjournal.com | Alex McCann

Standing astride Lewiston’s Main Street, not far from a huge sign that reads “Hopeful,” is a new bronze statue of a resolute Muhammad Ali. His connection to the city is known to the world mostly through a 1965 heavyweight boxing bout where Ali’s “phantom punch” knocked Sonny Liston down for the count before some fans had even settled into their seats. A stunning photograph that captured the moment has long since become one of the iconic images of the era.

1 week ago | sunjournal.com | Alex McCann

Muhammad Ali elicits awe. Forty-four years after his final fight, nine years after his death, Ali will always elicit awe. The statue of Ali unveiled Saturday afternoon in Lewiston elicits that same awe, and now stands as a reminder to the city to always fight. “That’s why this statue matters,” said Ilyas Bashir, a first-generation Somali immigrant, a New England Golden Gloves champion and a recent Bates College graduate from Auburn.

1 week ago | centralmaine.com | Alex McCann

A Florida man drowned Friday in Damariscotta Lake while attempting to swim after his boat, which had drifted away while he was launching it, authorities said. Richard Eason, 74, a resident of Ocala, Florida, who kept a summer home in Nobleboro, launched his boat at the Vannah Road boat launch around 1:45 p.m. Friday, then pulled it to shore, according to a news release from Mark Latti, communications director for Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife.