The owners of the Old Orchard Beach Raging Tide are bringing summer baseball back to The Ballpark. The Raging Tide, who competed in the New England Collegiate Baseball League last summer, have joined the Futures Collegiate Baseball League of New England, a nine-team league with representatives from Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. The team, […]
March 2012
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Obama offers communities clean-energy deal
MOUNT HOLLY, N.C. – Mixing politics with policy, President Obama returned to North Carolina on Wednesday to seek support in this key election-year swing state and to propose new federal incentives to spur “clean energy” vehicles. In a spirited speech at the Daimler Trucks manufacturing plant — a rare union shop in right-to-work North Carolina […]
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Limbaugh downplays growing ad defections
LOS ANGELES – The flight of advertisers from “The Rush Limbaugh Show” continued Wednesday, with a total of 45 national and local companies pulling their spots, according to the liberal activist groups angered by the talk radio host for calling Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke a “slut” and a “prostitute.” But Limbaugh told his audience […]
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For bin Laden, final days were troubled
Hiding out in Pakistan, the al-Qaida leader lived with his three wives, who harbored suspicions against each other.
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Freeport weighs town computer upgrade
An overhaul of the current balky system would make life easier for workers and residents, an official says.
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Robert Sherman, Walt Disney songwriter extraordinaire, dies at age 86
LOS ANGELES – At the Academy Awards ceremony in 1965, Robert and Richard Sherman already had accepted their Oscar for best score for “Mary Poppins” when they returned to the stage to pick up another statuette for best song, “Chim Chim Cher-ee.” Having already thanked everyone, Robert Sherman told the audience that all they could […]
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More investors join Greece’s debt-relief deal
European stock markets rise in anticipation of a successful bond swap to head off financial chaos.
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Study calls jobless-rate maxim a myth
The report says older employees leaving the work force — not discouraged ones — are what lower the unemployment rate.
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Romney edging away from the pack
For the GOP front-runner, it would be great if all of his opponents dropped out; just one could hurt him.