BRISTOL, R.I. – Chad Raffety struck out eight over eight innings Friday as the St. Joseph’s College baseball team won its sixth straight, edging Roger Williams, 3-2. Rafferty cruised through the first seven innings before allowing a two-run double in the eighth. He got out of it when John Oppenhimer was thrown out at home […]
March 2012
Maine Voices: Putting limit on methadone treatment will exact a high cost
Beyond the human pain of addicts and their loved ones, society would pay with higher crime rates.
Dispatches
Crews called to brush fire amid red-flag warning / Maine schools say no thanks to ‘pink slime’ / AG warns of diabetes scam … and more news from around the state.
Another View: Apply clear principle to survivor benefits case
At issue in court are payments to children artificially conceived after their father’s death.
People & EntertainmentSimpson cover gets covered up
PHOENIX – A photo of a pregnant Jessica Simpson on the cover of Elle magazine was apparently too much for some customers of a Tucson Safeway store. A store worker wound up covering it with cardboard. The April edition features the photo of the singer/actress/fashion designer with one hand over her breast and another wrapped […]
Rogers starts in Triple-A
Mark Rogers, who has eight games left on his suspension, has returned to start for Nashville.
After 148 years, Maine man returns seized Confederate flag
An Islesboro man fulfills his great-grandfather’s request by donating the Civil War trophy.
Raymond to choose from three to manage beach
The select board will interview the applicants to sell food at and run the beach on April 10.
Three state officers in Senate campaign juggle jobs
Three candidates for U.S. Senate say they won’t allow campaigning to interfere with their constitutional offices.
World/Nation Dispatches
JUNEAU, Alaska Former Exxon Valdez heads for Indian Gulf scrap heap The ship formerly known as the Exxon Valdez, responsible for one of the worst oil spills in U.S. history, appears destined for the scrap heap in a shipyard along the Indian Gulf of Cambay. The tanker ran aground at Alaska’s Bligh Reef on March […]