WASHINGTON — Foreshadowing the coming power struggles between the White House and a more Republican Congress, President Obama on Tuesday signed a $1.4 billion overhaul of the nation’s food safety system as some lawmakers complained that it’s too expensive and threatened its funding. The first major overhaul of the food safety system since the […]
2011
Posted inSports, Varsity Maine
Girls’ basketball: Greely, and right from the start
The Rangers take a 17-3 lead to open the game and continue to pull away from Cape Elizabeth.
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Biddeford land deal secures heart of park
BIDDEFORD — Most hikers and mountain bikers who use Clifford Park assume that the undeveloped land they traverse is all city-owned, when in fact some of the trails weave through private property. That will soon change, with the city’s purchase of more than 50 acres of undeveloped land separating the two parcels that comprise Clifford […]
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PAC treasurer: ‘I followed ethics staff ad advice’
She says she was told to report the contribution and to note the newspaper’s role in the free ad space.
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Steve Solloway: The record still shows USM basketball cares
GORHAM — No one buried a basketball or set fire to a printout of a schedule that listed last season’s awful results. Karl Henrikson saw little use for the symbolism. He wanted reality to serve as a reminder. The University of Southern men’s basketball team takes a 7-4 record into tonight’s game with Husson. Losses […]
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Local Dispatches, Jan. 5, 2011
PORTLAND Today’s inaugural may skip poetry, but this event won’t Maine poets and those who love poetry will gather at Longfellow Square in Portland at noon today to read their favorite poetry. The event, organized by Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance, is in response to the lack of poetry planned for the inauguration of Gov.-elect […]
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Report of forced prostitution prompts Maine arrests
Saco police charge three people with kidnapping in the incident at a local motel early Monday.
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Bulletin Board, Jan. 5, 2011
The Sanford Elks Lodge will hold its annual foul shooting contest at 3 p.m. Saturday at Carl Lamb School on Shaw’s Ridge Road. Age groups for boys and girls are 8-9, 10-11 and 12-13. Winners will advance to a contest on Jan. 16. For more information, contact Gary at 698-5963. The University of Southern […]
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Victim’s camera captures his assassin in Philippines
MANILA, Philippines — Philippine police investigating the New Year’s Eve shooting death of a local councilman did not have to look further than the last photograph the victim took. That photo led to the arrest of two suspects. The picture, taken outside the councilman’s house in metropolitan Manila, clearly shows a man aiming his gun […]
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Boys’ basketball: Western Class Bis so up in the air
Theo Bowe scored a career-high 34 points and Cape Elizabeth forced 24 turnovers Tuesday, pulling away to a 55-41 victory against Greely in a Western Maine Conference boys’ basketball game.
Cape (5-1) handed Greely (5-1) its first loss of the regular season and signaled that Western Class B could be wide open. Cape’s loss was to Yarmouth, a team the Rangers beat handily.
“Taking nothing away from Yarmouth, but against us they shot lights out and we didn’t play well,” said Bowe.