SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Marcus Thornton hit five 3-pointers scored a season-high 36 points and the Sacramento Kings snapped a three-game losing streak with a 120-95 win over the Boston Celtics on Friday night. The Kings set a season high for points and pulled away in the third quarter, shooting 70 percent and scoring 41 points […]
2012
9/11 hate crime victim’s kin become US citizens
Anum Hasan has seen many visions of America: the hope of a better life that brought her family from Pakistan, the hate-filled act that ended her father’s life, and an outpouring of compassion for her family. Now, America is home.
Maine theme park ready to hire 250 for summer
Funtown Splashtown USA in Saco is holding a job fair from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. today at the Ramada in Saco.
Bin Laden planned to assassinate Obama and Petraeus, documents show
Osama bin Laden in his final days schemed over an effort to kill President Barack Obama, “the head of infidelity,” according to documents recovered from his compound.
Co-founder of ‘Kony’ video group detained in Calif.
A co-founder of the Invisible Children, the group behind a viral video about a brutal central Africa warlord, was detained by police and hospitalized Thursday after running through streets in his underwear and acting irrationally.
Review: Players’ ‘A Few Good Men’ holds up well
Like “Here’s looking at you, kid” or “You talkin’ to me?”, “You can’t handle the truth” is one of those memorable lines that writers dream of writing and actors dream of delivering. The Portland Players have opened an ambitious production of “A Few Good Men,” the play in which that famous line about truth, later […]
Review: ‘Red’ invites art to show its true colors
Is a painting merely brush strokes on a canvas? Or is it the hopes, dreams and fears of its creator and those who look upon it? In the play “Red,” legendary abstract expressionist Mark Rothko (Joel Leffert) tells his assistant Ken (Anthony Johnston) that sending his paintings out into the world is akin to “sending […]
Maine 5, Boston University 3: And now, the final touch
UMaine keeps its cool down the stretch and earns a spot against BC in the Hockey East final.
Saturday, March 17, 2012
Paul Emile Lambert, 74, of Saco, passed away peacefully at home, with his family by his side, on Thursday, March 15, 2012, following a courageous battle with cancer. Visiting hours will be 4-7 p.m. Monday at Cote Funeral Home, corner of Beach and James streets, Saco. A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated at […]
Fire house living
WATERBORO — A couple of weeks ago, as the ambulance made its way to the hospital and EMTs were tending to the patient’s needs, John Malia reached out to do what he could to comfort the woman, who had dementia. “I held her hand on the way to hospital,’” said Malia, a student in the […]