The Black Bears’ star had not been cleared Friday for the NCAA regional semifinal with Minnesota-Duluth.
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Sanford, Fla., police, blacks have a tense history
The police chief steps aside and the city manager acknowledges a problem.
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Demonstrators vow to storm Damascus
BEIRUT – Tens of thousands of Syrians braved tear gas and gunfire to protest across the country Friday, vowing to storm the capital Damascus to oust President Bashar Assad. Meanwhile, the European Union ramped up pressure on the regime by imposing sanctions on Assad’s wife and other close relatives. Security forces deployed in many cities […]
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Youth group subjected to mock kidnapping
PITTSBURGH – A church subjected members of a youth group to a mock kidnapping and interrogations without telling them it was staged, and the mother of a 14-year-old girl has filed a complaint with police. The pastor of the Glad Tidings Assembly of God in Middletown said the church is “so saddened” that the girl […]
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Religion Calendar
Today Sixth annual service auction and chocolate desserts, 6:30 p.m., First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church of Kennebunk Main Street, Kennebunk. For details, go to www.uukennebunk.org. Sunday Liturgical dance, 9:55 a.m., Shana Bloomstein from Freedom, will interpret the morning scripture reading. Bremen Union Church, Route 32, Bremen. For more information call: 832-1283. “Being a Place Where […]
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Bulletin Board
The Portland Area Youth Soccer Association fall travel program is holding a sign-up and information night on Thursday, April 5, at the Riverton School Community Room. New and returning players for teams U10 through U14 should sign up for evaluations between 6 and 8 pm. Those new to the travel program should attend a 20-minute […]
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Reflections: Brownies, like so many pleasures, leave us hungry
Through January, February and into Maine’s March, my mood sometimes darkens like the winter outside. And I have a brilliant solution: soft brownies or something fudgy with chocolate chunks at least, or mini-chocolate chips melted on top, as much for their sheen — so needed through the drab season — as their velvety flavor. Brownies […]
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Pope pays a long-awaited visit
Pope Benedict XVI arrives in Mexico on his first trip to Spanish- speaking Latin America.
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Roy Essoyan, 92, reporter who broke story of Sino-Soviet split
NEW YORK – Born in a Japanese fishing village just after his refugee family landed there in a desperate 1919 escape from Russia’s Bolshevik revolution, Roy Essoyan arrived in the Soviet Union nearly four decades later as an American journalist. But after three years of hobnobbing with Premier Nikita Khrushchev and other communist leaders, The […]
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NFL Notebook: Patriots officially sign Stallworth, Hoyer
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – The New England Patriots announced the signings of wide receiver Donte’ Stallworth and quarterback Brian Hoyer. Stallworth spent the 2007 season with the Patriots, when they went 18-0 before losing in the Super Bowl to the New York Giants. He had 46 catches during the regular season. Stallworth had 17 receptions with […]