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U.S. Cross Country Championships:Koons and Tarling measure up

Nils Koons and Sam Tarling raced through the foothills of Black Mountain with their high school ski teams many times before their Nordic skiing careers truly took flight.

Koons competed as a student at Messalonskee, Tarling at Greely.

This week, they returned to Maine for the U.S. Cross Country Championships wearing Dartmouth College green, finishing 22nd and 23rd overall in the men’s 30-kilometer freestyle event on Thursday.

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Bill Nemitz: Governor, be alert to the devil in the details

A word of advice for those of you who feared that Gov. Paul LePage would show up for his first full day of work Thursday with absolutely no idea what to do next. Relax. He has at least one. “You’re going to find me very passionate about this program,” LePage told 5,000-plus cheering supporters during […]

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York lawmaker’s bill seeks to let Peaks Island secede

AUGUSTA – A Republican lawmaker from York has submitted a bill to allow Peaks Island to break away from Portland and form its own town. A similar secession effort four years ago was narrowly defeated in a vote that fell on partisan lines. This time, advocates of secession sense opportunity. Portland’s legislative delegation has lost […]

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Message in a teardrop: ‘Not tonight, dear’

Tears mean a lot of things in the drama of human interaction. They telegraph heartbreak, hopelessness, anger, frustration, elation and relief. They express mood — and can alter behavior — in an instant. But it turns out there might be more to know about tears, which historically have interested poets more than scientists. A team […]

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No bombast as Constitution read aloudon House floor

WASHINGTON – Read the Constitution lately? Congress did Thursday. Out loud, section by section, alternating by party. It was the first time the document, ratified in 1788, had ever been read on the House floor, congressional historians said. It might also have been the first time that some lawmakers actually read or heard it in […]

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Briefcase

AT&T selling earlier iPhone for $49 – with conditions AT&T Inc. will start selling the previous-generation iPhone — the iPhone 3GS — for $49 starting today to customers who buy the smart phone with a two-year service contract and data plan. The wireless company, which is the exclusive U.S. carrier for the iPhone, made the […]

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Report: Facebook finances soon must be public

NEW YORK – Facebook will be forced by law to start coughing up details of its financial performance or go public by April 2012, a published report says. The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that privately held Facebook Inc. plans to cross the 500-shareholder threshold this year, citing a memo being distributed to potential investors. […]