Central Maine News: Nov 12, 2015

These are some of the stories central Maine is talking about today.

The Waterville Board of Education adjourned with no decision Wednesday night over whether to fire the Waterville Senior High School Principle, Don Reiter, who is accused of asking a student for sex. The superintendent has recommended he be fired. Rieter is accused of asking a female student for sex. He denies the allegations and says the student made passes at him, which he immediately reported to his supervisor. According to WGME, Reiter's lawyer says no more witnesses will be called. It is now in the hands of the school board. They're scheduled to meet again on Monday at 5 p.m. to continue deliberating. (WGME)

A Maine state representative called a candidate for mayor of Lewiston an "anti-Christian bigot" in a Facebook post, adding more fuel to an already contentious campaign. Republican Rep. Larry Lockman of Amherst posted on Tuesday that Ben Chin hates Christians, a claim Chin says is totally false. Chin faces Lewiston Mayor Bob Macdonald in a runoff election next month. Chin says he often serves as a lay Episcopal preacher and reads sermons at Trinity Church in Lewiston. The mayoral campaign became heated earlier when Lewiston building owner Joe Dunne put up signs that said "Don't vote for Ho Chi Chin" before the Nov. 3 election. (AP)

A Maine man says he was wrongfully fired from his job at a railroad system after requesting time off to receive cancer treatment. Eric Thomas of Winslow filed an employment discrimination lawsuit in Bangor federal court this week against Pan Am Railways. A lawyer for the 51-year-old Thomas says Pan Am unlawfully fired Thomas on the day he requested three additional weeks of medical leave to undergo chemotherapy. (AP)

Legislators and key witnesses will have lawyers at the ready when the Government Oversight Committee convenes today for a hearing on Gov. Paul LePage’s intervention in Goodwill Hinkley’s decision to offer a job to House Speaker Mark Eves. According to the KJ, two members of LePage’s staff who were subpoenaed to testify will be represented by a Portland lawyer, whose fee will be picked up by Maine taxpayers. Meanwhile, the committee has been huddling with the state Attorney General’s Office for advice on how to handle potential obstructions, including the possibility that the two memebrs of LePage’s staff may refuse to answer lawmakers’ questions. The committee voted Oct. 15 to subpoena them. The highly anticipated hearing will include seven other witnesses who were not subpoenaed. (centralmaine.com)

Police responded to a report of the death of a 61-year-old man on Boothby Street in Waterville yesterday. According to the KJ, a neighbor called police to report the death shortly before 7 a.m. The body was found outdoors in front of a home. The man died of natural causes. Police were working to contact next of kin. (centralmaine.com)

A fast-moving storm system that dropped both snow and rain over portions of the Midwest Wednesday is now over eastern Iowa, northeast Missouri and western Illinois. The storm dumped more than a foot of snow on the Rockies before creating conditions ripe for tornadoes. But forecasters say it wasn't warm enough for tornadoes to materialize. (AP)

The U.N. Security Council has scheduled a vote Friday on a resolution strongly condemning increased killings, torture and human rights violations in Burundi. Statements last week by Burundi government officials echoing language used in the 1994 Rwanda genocide are raising alarms at the U.N., and there's talk of possible sanctions against those contributing to the violence. Witnesses say there's been a deadly government crackdown on opposition members. (AP)

South Korea's top court has upheld a lifetime sentence for the captain of the ferry that sank last year, killing more than 300 people. Seventy-year-old Lee Joon-seok was sentenced to life in prison after the court ruled that he fled his ship without giving an evacuation order. Most of the people killed in April 2014 were teenagers on a school trip. (AP)