BOSTON – Bruins defenseman Zdeno Chara has been a workhorse throughout the NHL playoffs. He averaged 30 minutes, 4 seconds in 19 games before Game 4 of the Stanley Cup finals on Wednesday night. That is more than any other player in the series. Have the Blackhawks been too preoccupied with the 6-foot-9 Bruins captain? […]
2013
Posted inSports
Major League Notebook: Astros sign top pick Appel
HOUSTON – Mark Appel received high praise from MLB Commissioner Bud Selig on Wednesday when the No. 1 overall pick signed with the Houston Astros. Speaking at a MLB diversity business summit at a convention near Minute Maid Park, Selig praised Houston’s rebuilding efforts. He then likened Appel, a right-handed pitcher, and Houston’s 2012 No. […]
advertisement
Posted inNews
Approval of Mass. casino plan seems likely
Las Vegas casino operator Steve Wynn is bankrolling an effort to convince Everett voters to support a proposed casino in the city.
Posted inNews
Local & State Dispatches
Maine man dies from burn injuries after vapors ignite / Suspect admits sex offenses involving two girls in 1980s / Committee supports Portland traffic changes … and more news from around the state.
Posted inNews
Portland charter school on track to open this fall
The Baxter Academy for Technology & Science meets the required enrollment and begins renovations at 54 York St.
Posted inNation & World, News
Easily-spread mysterious virus proving more deadly than SARS
Health officials are unable to pinpoint the source of the virus that originated in the Middle East.
Posted inLife & Culture
This Week in GO
Darius Rucker, Sting, Melissa Etheridge, Joan Baez, David Byrne and more in a fabulous week of music / Movie reviews: ‘World War Z’ and ‘Monsters University’ / Artist William Wegman at MECA’s summer lecture series / ‘Room 237’ debates ‘The Shining’
Posted inSports
Wambach close to breaking unbreakable record
Abby Wambach is two goals from Mia Hamm’s record of 158 for the U.S. women’s soccer team.
Posted inNation & World
IRS plans to pay out $70 million in bonuses
The IRS says it’s obliged by a union deal to reward its workers, despite a budget office directive.
Posted inNation & World
Nation Dispatches
MINEOLA, N.Y. Former investigators push to reopen TWA crash probe Former investigators are pushing to reopen the probe into the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800, saying new evidence points to the often-discounted theory that a missile strike may have downed the jumbo jet. The New York-to-Paris flight crashed July 17, 1996, minutes after it […]