Leslie Bridgers

Portland Press Herald

Leslie Bridgers is the features editor for the Portland Press Herald, overseeing coverage of arts, entertainment and culture. She spent 10 years as a reporter, half of that time for the Portland Press Herald, covering the western suburbs of Portland, writing feature stories and working on special projects. Originally from Connecticut, Leslie came to Maine by way of Bowdoin College and never left.

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Published
July 20, 2012

DHHS says confidential information sent out because of computer error

Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services accidentally mailed confidential information from 31 applications for public assistance to random addresses in its database because of an error in its computer system.
Published
July 19, 2012

DHHS filing error led to mailing of personal info

Some of the mailings included applicants’ Social Security numbers and bank information.
Published
July 19, 2012

Hannaford, Cumberland Farms, Sam’s Club withdraw suspect meatballs

Hannaford supermarkets, Cumberland Farms and Sam’s Club stores in Maine removed products made with Buona Vita meatballs from their shelves last week following a recall because of listeria contamination.
Published
July 19, 2012

Maine stores pull contaminated meatballs from shelves

Hannaford supermarkets, Cumberland Farms and Sam’s Club stores in Maine removed products made with Buona Vita meatballs from their shelves last week following a recall because of listeria contamination.
Published
July 18, 2012

Multiple Maine stores recall tainted meatballs

The meatballs are found in sandwiches and other prepared foods at Hannaford Supermarkets, Cumberland Farms and Sam’s Club.
Published
July 12, 2012

Portland man, 24, killed in shooting

PORTLAND — A 24-year-old Portland man died and two other men were injured Wednesday in an apparently random predawn shooting on India Street, the city’s first homicide of 2012.
Published
July 11, 2012

Suspects still at large in Portland’s first homicide of 2012

A 24-year-old Portland man died and two others were injured Wednesday in a predawn shooting on India Street, which was an apparently random act of violence.
Published
June 29, 2012

Hawthorne favored home in Raymond

RAYMOND — Behind the frozen-in-time boyhood home of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the Maine Historical Society in Portland has a single file on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s life on Sebago Lake.
Published
June 26, 2012

Plane in fatal crash featured in documentaries for safe design

Julie Tate heard the buzz of her husband’s 1946 Stinson Voyager outside their home in Durham late Sunday morning. As usual, she took the dogs outside to wave as he circled overheard.
Published
June 26, 2012

Durham doctor in crash

Julie Tate heard the buzz of her husband’s 1946 Stinson Voyager outside their home in Durham late Sunday morning. As usual, she took the dogs outside to wave as he circled overheard.