The Moxie Festival — with the theme of “Moxie … It’s Maine in a bottle!” — attracted a crowd to Lisbon Falls on Saturday to pay homage to the bittersweet soda created by a Mainer in the 1870s. Events included a 5K road race, a parade with antique Moxie cars, the Moxie Chug N Challenge, […]
2011
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Furbush heads to minors, but future remains strong
Charlie Furbush has the poise and pedigree to make the majors, and likely to make a return.
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Portland’s South Sudanese hoist a flag of hard-won independence
The day mixes grief over those who died fighting, with jubilation over the separation from the north.
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Anthony trial showcase for ‘most polarizing’ cable host
Nancy Grace’s style is blunt (some say rude), but her coverage of Anthony’s acquittal drew 3 million.
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Scandal-tainted tabloid closes
After 168 years, the News of the World prints its last issue, a victim of a phone-hacking controversy.
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Nation Dispatches
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Final flight of space shuttle practically flawless so far The space shuttle Atlantis hasn’t performed like a ship ready for retirement. The first full day of the final flight of the aging space shuttle fleet — the most complicated machines ever built — was practically flawless. NASA officials say the unusually small […]
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Legless vet dies after fall from ride
Officials were checking to see if he should have been barred from the coaster because of his disability.
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Speaker Boehner to push for smaller deficit reduction deal
House Republican budget negotiators have abandoned plans to pursue a massive $4 trillion, 10-year deficit reduction agreement in the face of stiff GOP opposition to any plan that would increase taxes as part of the deal. House Speaker John Boehner told President Obama Saturday that a smaller package of about $2 trillion was more realistic. […]
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Steve Solloway: Ballpark accident hits home
Back when the Mets were called the Amazins and Shea Stadium was the newest version of baseball’s cathedrals, I got my first major league baseball. Didn’t have to throw elbows or fists. It rolled out of the scrum of fans and bounced down some steps into my waiting hands. Ed Kranepool had hit it foul […]