Pilots marvel at how a failed flight that engulfed apartments in flames avoided killing anyone.
2012
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AT&T contracts expiring
NEW YORK — Union contracts for 40,000 AT&T workers were to expire at midnight Saturday, leaving them free to call a strike to pressure the company at the negotiating table. The workers are on the shrinking local-phone and long-haul data side of the business, and located mainly in the Midwest and California. Four separate contracts […]
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Adored by fans, ignored by critics, painter Thomas Kinkade dies at 54
Though dismissed by the art establishment, he claimed to be the nation’s most collected living artist.
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Avalanche kills at least 100 Pakistani troops
The soldiers die on a glacier in an area fought over by Pakistan and India.
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Classical Beat: Back Cove Festival features ‘Summer King’
If not for alcohol and bouts of madness, Josh Gibson might have been the first black player to enter major-league baseball in 1947 instead of Jackie Robinson.
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Book review: ‘Flawed’ ballplayer succeeds, inspires
Born without one hand, pitcher Jim Abbott tells a moving story of his career.
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Movies: ‘American’ back for same old, same old
The problem with “American Reunion” is that it never overcomes the feeling that it is – above all else – an attempt to wring a few more dollars from a once-profitable franchise.
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Books Q&A: A big-picture portrait of Thomas Hart Benton
In his new book, UMaine professor Justin Wolff creates a comprehensive portrait of the complex and contradictory muralist Thomas Hart Benton.
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The ‘Barn’ adds to theater workshop
A wish come true for the Celebration Barn Theater: Summer intensive expands from two to four weeks and makes it easier for one lucky Mainer to attend.
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TAKE HEART: A Conversation in Poetry
Alice Persons of Westbrook is the co-founder of Moon Pie Press, which lists books by a range of poets, both new and established. In today’s poem, she muses about spring’s influence on the natural world and on us. Mud Season / By Alice Persons After a brutal Maine winter the world dissolves in weak sunshine […]