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

State police have identified three bodies found inside two houses in Boothbay Harbor as that of a married couple and their 40-year-old son. 71-year-old Svend Jorgensen and his 75-year-old wife, Carol Jorgensen, were found in their home. The body of their son, Eric Jorgensen, was found at his home. Investigators are working to determine the cause and manner of their deaths but that no one else is thought to have been involved. Autopsies were underway Sunday and would continue Monday. The bodies were discovered Saturday after someone called police requesting that they check on one of the properties. (AP)

A grand jury is reconvening this coming week to reach a decision about whether criminal charges should be brought in a fatal haunted hayride accident. The jury is scheduled to reconvene on Tuesday. The district attorney's office says the jury is expected to wrap up by Wednesday. The jury is considering whether charges should result from the death of 17-year-old Cassidy Charette of Oakland. She was killed during a haunted hayride at Harvest Hills in Mechanic Falls in October. The accident also injured more than 20 people. Authorities have said it appears a mechanical problem caused the accident. (AP)

A man celebrating the Fourth of July died when he tried to launch a firework off the top of his head. 22-year-old Devon Staples of Calais had been setting off fireworks with friends on Saturday night in the backyard of a friend's home. Staples placed a fireworks mortar tube on his head and set it off, injuring his head. He died instantly. Police say the friends had been drinking. Staples' death marks Maine's first fireworks fatality since the state legalized fireworks several years ago. (AP)

Police say an 80-year-old man struck a person in a wheelchair, assaulted responding officers and nearly hit several pedestrians leaving a fireworks display as he attempted to flee. Winslow Police say several thousand people were leaving Fort Halifax Park just before 10 p.m. Saturday when Daryl E. Pratt struck someone in wheelchair on the Sebasticook Bridge. They say when nearby officers began their investigation, Pratt became verbally confrontational. Police say Pratt jumped into his vehicle and attempted to leave while several pedestrians were in front of the vehicle. They say he assaulted two officers who tried to restrain him. Pratt eventually was removed from the vehicle and arrested. He was treated for injuries sustained during his arrest. The officers and the person in the wheelchair did not require medical attention. (AP)

Burt Shavitz, the Burt behind Burt's Bees who co-founded the natural cosmetics company before it sold to Clorox, has died. He was 80. A spokeswoman for Burt's Bees says Shavtiz died Sunday at his home in rural Maine, surrounded by family and friends. Shavitz was a hippie making a living by selling honey when his life was altered by a chance encounter with a hitchhiking Roxanne Quimby. She was a single mother and a back-to-the-lander who impressed Shavitz with her ingenuity. In the 1980s she began making products from his beeswax, and they became partners. An image of Burt's face was featured on labels. Their business partnership ended after the business moved in 1994 to North Carolina. In 2007, Clorox purchased Burt's Bees for $925 million. (AP)

A 16-year-old boy who was rescued from Great Pond in Rome and rushed to a hospital in critical condition has died. 16-year-old Jeffrey Pepin of Chesterville would have been entering his senior year at Mount Blue High School in the fall.Officials say he was swimming with two friends Thursday at Great Pond in Rome and went under as they were trying to swim from a boat back to Crooked Island. Fire officials say it took between 15 to 20 minutes for his friends to find and get him out of the water. A nearby off-duty nurse performed CPR and he was transported to Maine General Hospital in Augusta.The Maine Warden Service is investigating the incident. (AP)

Greece's finance minister has resigned following Sunday's referendum in which the majority of voters said "no" to more austerity measures in exchange for another financial bailout. Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis says he was told shortly after the Greek referendum result that the some eurozone finance ministers and Greece's other creditors would prefer he not attend the ministers' meetings. Varoufakis has visibly annoyed many of the eurozone's finance ministers during Greece's debt negotiations. (AP)

Witnesses say two bombs have exploded at a crowded mosque and an elite Muslim restaurant in Nigeria's central city of Jos, killing at least 15 people. Witnesses say one blast came as a leading cleric who preaches peaceful co-existence was addressing a crowd Sunday night during the holy month of Ramadan. There's no word on fatalities. And another bomb exploded at a restaurant patronized by elite politicians, reportedly killing 15 people. (AP)

Pope Francis travels to the Ecuadorean port of Guayaquil Monday for a Mass that's expected to draw more than a million people. The Argentine-born pope has traveled to his home continent with a message of compassion for the weak and respect for an ailing planet. Francis will take it relatively easy on his first full day in Ecuador, with Mass at the Shrine of the Divine Mercy, and then lunch with a group of fellow Jesuits. Francis also will visit Bolivia and Paraguay. (AP)

Health officials in the Philippines say a 36-year-old who arrived in the country from the Middle East is under quarantine after testing positive for the MERS virus. The Philippines' health secretary says several people who've come in close contact with the patient have been traced. One, who's exhibiting mild symptoms, is under isolation and seven other people are under home quarantine. It's the Philippines' second confirmed case of Middle East respiratory syndrome. (AP)

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