One game does not make a season. All the coaches were telling their teams as much after the opening weekend of high school football. For the winners, there was excitement on the possibilities for this season. At South Portland, the Red Riots turned heads with their 26-13 win over Thornton Academy, the defending Class A […]
September 2013
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High School Cross Country Preview: Run and fun making them fit
Cross country is a tough sport, so coaches find ways to make it enjoyable for runners.
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Economists urge Obama: Pick Yellen, not Summers
Janet Yellen is an ‘effective leader’ and better choice than Larry Summers for Fed chief, they argue.
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Celebrated civil rights lawyer dies
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Demetrius Newton, a civil rights attorney who represented icons like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. before becoming the first black person to serve as speaker pro tem of the Alabama House, has died. He was 85. Rep. John Rogers of Birmingham, a longtime friend of Newton, says he was notified […]
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NFL Notebook: Suh plans to appeal fine
ALLEN PARK, Mich. – Detroit Lions defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh said Wednesday he is appealing the NFL’s $100,000 fine against him for his hit on a Minnesota Vikings player over the weekend. Suh said he knows the NFL is concerned about player safety and that’s one of the reasons he apologized to Minnesota center John […]
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Whoops! Orangutans use social networking, too
WASHINGTON – It’s the ape equivalent of Google Maps and Facebook. The night before a big trip, Arno the orangutan plots his journey and lets others know where he is going with a long, whooping call. What he and his orangutan buddies do in the forests of Sumatra tells scientists that advance trip planning and […]
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Datebook
Thursday “Consumers for Affordable Health Care: Changes Occurring on the State and Federal Levels That Will Affect Small Businesses,” 7:15 to 9 a.m., part of the Business Breakfast series with Mitchell Stein, policy director of Consumers for Affordable Health Care. Thomas College, Spann Student Commons, 180 W. River Road, Waterville. Cost is $17 for midcoast […]
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Briefcase
Three companies from away visiting Maine, LePage says Gov. Paul LePage says three out-of-state companies are visiting Maine this month because they’re interested in doing business here. The Republican governor said Tuesday that the visits came out of meetings he had with companies at the U.S. Manufacturing Summit last month hosted by Walmart and the […]
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Pain remains acute on 9/11 anniversary
NEW YORK – Life in lower Manhattan resembled any ordinary day on Wednesday as workers rushed to their jobs in the muggy heat, but time stood still at the World Trade Center site while families wept for loved ones who perished in the terror attacks 12 years ago. For the families, the memories of that […]
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Spending gap puts Section 8 vouchers at risk
The Portland Housing Authority cannot promise to absorb the funding loss, as some other cities say they will do.