The automaker says the electric Focus will have a unique powering feature that will cut costs.
2011
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Dispatches
BIDDEFORD Holland will be sentenced Feb. 7 in brothers’ murders A sentencing date has been scheduled for Rory Holland, the 55-year-old Biddeford man convicted of murder for fatally shooting two brothers during a late-night confrontation in front of his house. The Journal Tribune reported that Holland will be sentenced Feb. 7 in Bangor. He faces […]
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U.S. adds jobs at a slow pace
Hiring is expected to speed up, but the Fed chair says it could take 5 years for the jobless rate to get back to normal.
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Baker retiring as Westbrook chief of police
He will leave the position in Westbrook to work from his Portland home for an FBI contractor.
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World/Nation dispatches
KABUL, Afghanistan Taliban suicide blast kills 17; violence elsewhere kills four A Taliban suicide bomber blew himself up among men washing in a bathhouse ahead of Friday prayers, killing 17, in an attack that showed militants can still largely strike at will in southern Afghanistan despite a NATO offensive. Roadside bombs also killed three NATO […]
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Feature Obituary: Warren Simpson, 94, owned former Shopper’s Hardware
SOUTH PORTLAND – Warren Simpson, retired owner of the former Shopper’s Hardware store and a longtime member of the South Portland and Cape Elizabeth Rotary Club, died Thursday. He was 94. Mr. Simpson began working at Shopper’s Hardware in the Mill Creek Shopping Plaza in South Portland in 1955. He managed the store for 10 […]
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2010 Word of the Year is apt: ‘App’
The short slang term for a computer or smart phone application wins over the Cookie Monster’s ‘nom.’
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Heil hound: Finnish mutt raised hackles in Germany
Documents show German authorities were obsessed about a dog that raised its paw like the Nazi salute.
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Briefcase
U.S. Bancorp, Wells Fargo lose pivotal foreclosure case The highest court in Massachusetts ruled against U.S. Bancorp and Wells Fargo & Co. on Friday in a pivotal mortgage foreclosure case that could spark more turmoil and uncertainty in the housing market. The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed a lower court judge’s ruling invalidating two mortgage foreclosure […]
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Reflections: Walking a labyrinth puts many on path to peace
“Solvitur ambulando (It is solved by walking)” — St. Augustine In the nave of Chartres Cathedral outside of Paris lies an 800-year-old, 42-foot circle of stone cut into the floor. People come from the world over to walk the symbolic path of this labyrinth to its center and out again. The labyrinth, an ancient tool […]