DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A U.S. Navy guided missile destroyer was left with a gaping hole on one side after it collided with an oil tanker early Sunday just outside the strategic Strait of Hormuz. The collision left a breach about 10 feet by 10 feet (three by three meters) in the starboard side […]
2012
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Toll of Iran quakes exceeds 250
TEHRAN, Iran — Residents of the zone in northwestern Iran hit by powerful twin earthquakes described moments of terror and panic with birds crowing loudly in warning seconds before the ground shook. As the death toll rose Sunday to more than 250, with entire villages leveled, rescuers called off searches for survivors and turned their […]
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On the Move
NEW FACES • Sergio Gaddar joined WBRC Architects/Engineers as project manager of its Portland office. Gaddar has extensive experience on projects across many sectors, including health care, hospitality, educational, residential and mixed use. • Vanessa Pelzer Bell has founded Maine Adult Guardianship Services LLC. She had worked as a project director at the University of […]
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Olympics: U.S., then the rest
The Americans continue their domination of women’s basketball with a fifth straight gold medal.
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Auto Racing Roundup: Flip is back, Edwards wins Nationwide
WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. – Since losing the Sprint Cup title last year to Tony Stewart by the slimmest of margins, Carl Edwards has struggled. It’s been 54 races since his last Cup victory — at Las Vegas in March 2011 — and he’s fallen out of the top 10 in points this year, in desperate […]
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Sea Dogs’ rally foiled by homer in ninth inning
Portland overcomes a 4-1 deficit but falls to the Erie SeaWolves for the second straight night, 5-4.
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Sports Digest
BASEBALL Portland team advances in Junior Legion regional Nick DiPalma threw eight innings, striking out 11 and allowing just four hits, to lead Bruno’s Restaurant to a 6-4 victory over Cranston, R.I. in the Junior Legion Northeast Regional tournament semifinals in Cranston, R.I. Trailing 4-1 with two outs and no one on in the seventh […]
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Legion Regional: First Title takes first loss, faces an elimination game
Milford, Conn., becomes the final undefeated team in the Legion baseball regional after a 4-1 win.
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NFL Roundup: Dolphins’ Johnson arrested
DAVIE, Fla. – Miami Dolphins wide receiver Chad Johnson was arrested Saturday night for domestic violence, according to numerous website reports. Johnson’s wife, Evelyn Lozada, was treated for a laceration on her forehead, allegedly caused by a head-butt. Johnson and Lozada were married on July 4. PANTHERS: Carolina reached a five-year contract extension with running […]
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Steve Solloway: As tough as a linebacker, just as determined to win
Tyler Patterson doesn’t want to forget that sunny afternoon when Ashley Drew perched on his shoulder pads, and he and she and the entire University of Maine football team smiled for a cellphone camera. He got a copy of the photo and put it on a wall of his apartment. “I look at it every […]