The Polar Bears continue their NCAA tournament success at the expense of Southern Maine, 75-68.
March 2012
Maine path open for fourth-place finish
The Black Bears will have home ice against Merrimack in the league playoffs with a win today.
Clearing up a storm
The ‘marathon’ snowstorm – easily the biggest of the season – keeps city work crews busy overnight, and the frigid forecast has them scrambling to prepare.
People & EntertainmentSmokey roots for young artists
WASHINGTON – Music legend Smokey Robinson reached out to a new generation of performing artists Friday, telling them they were starting out as he did: “with a love for doing something creative.” Robinson, 72, visited Duke Ellington School of the Arts, named for the jazz great whose music Robinson said was the first he heard […]
Teachers getting help with supplies and demand
When the school budget falls short, local businesses pitch in to equip an elementary classroom.
She and her dad defined success; then, she lived it
Writing about a talk she had with her father helps an active Winslow High senior earn a $20,000 scholarship.
Another View: Sen. Katz shows he doesn’t know much about the media
A new investor has better things to do with his time than orchestrate news coverage.
Dispatches
BELFAST Suspect in firefighter’s death given support at courthouse More than 50 friends and family members turned out to support a man at his first court appearance on a charge that he murdered a Florida firefighter. Daniel Porter of Jackson wore a bulletproof vest over his jail jumpsuit as he appeared Friday in Waldo County […]
Secrets few among hockey semifinalists
Today’s Western Class A and B semifinals are all rematches of regular-season games.
37 Maine residents become U.S. citizens
Fifth-graders in Falmouth bear witness as 37 people from 22 countries raise their hands, recite the Pledge and gain American citizenship.