INDIANAPOLIS — Paul George had 24 points and nine rebounds and Lance Stephenson added 16 points, leading Indiana to a 114-81 rout of Houston. The Pacers ended their only two-game losing streak of the season and maintained their grip on the Eastern Conference’s best record (21-5) with their most lopsided win of the season. Dwight […]
2013
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Sports Digest
SKIING Bethel’s Dumont finishes fifth in halfpipe event Simon Dumont of Bethel renewed his bid to qualify for the Sochi Olympics by finishing fifth Friday night in a ski halfpipe event at Copper Mountain, Colo. Dumont competed a week after he missed the first of five qualifying events because of a crash in practice. Two […]
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College Roundup: North Dakota State routs UNH, 52-14
The undefeated Bison win big in a Football Championship Subdivision semifinal.
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Judge orders continued life support for girl declared brain dead
A California hospital is ordered to sustain a girl on a ventilator while an additional medical opinion is sought.
Posted inAmerican Journal
Dennis Rodman holds tryouts in North Korea
PYONGYANG, North Korea — Former NBA star Dennis Rodman held tryouts Friday for a North Korean team to face a dozen NBA veterans in an exhibition game on leader Kim Jong Un’s birthday next month – though he hasn’t persuaded all the players on the American team that it’s safe to come to Pyongyang. The […]
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Dennis Rodman holds tryouts in North Korea
PYONGYANG, North Korea — Former NBA star Dennis Rodman held tryouts Friday for a North Korean team to face a dozen NBA veterans in an exhibition game on leader Kim Jong Un’s birthday next month – though he hasn’t persuaded all the players on the American team that it’s safe to come to Pyongyang. The […]
Posted inHealth, Nation & World
Religious groups win injunction on health care contraception rule
OKLAHOMA CITY — A federal judge granted an injunction Friday that prohibits the government from enforcing the federal health care law’s requirement that insurance coverage include access to the morning-after pill and similar contraceptives on almost 200 religious organizations that have filed a class-action lawsuit to block the mandate. The preliminary injunction issued by U.S. […]
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Local & State Dispatches
Task force seeking ideas for improving family court / Second child-porn conviction to net Lewiston man long sentence / Man to serve 40 years for killing woman in 1998 … and more news from around the state.
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Gov. LePage criticized for MaineCare rides statements
The governor implied a troubled contractor may get some of its contracts renewed, but declined to be specific or answer questions.
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New England killer could again face death penalty
A new hearing will be held for a drifter serving life for three grisly slayings in two states in July 2001.