You can still make Anthony Ranaudo grimace. Just walk up and say: Two-thousand and twelve. Ouch. Not a lot of pleasant memories from 2012. “Definitely a year to forget,” Ranaudo said. “I just have to put 2012 behind me.” So many times Ranaudo has said those words, in interview after interview. The former No. 1 […]
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BEIRUT Mortar shells kill 10 students at Damascus outdoor cafe Mortar shells crashed into an outdoor cafe at Damascus University on Thursday, killing at least 10 students in the deadliest of a rising number of mortar attacks in the heart of the Syrian capital. The strikes have escalated as rebels fighting to topple President Bashar […]
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Film salutes sacrifice of fallen police
The documentary ‘Heroes Behind the Badge’ will be presented in Westbrook on Friday as part of a fundraising event.
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Some wins likely for gay marriage
A nationwide law, no; but Supreme Court justices lean toward other changes that could widen the field.
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Newtown shooter’s arsenal included spear, swords
Search warrants unsealed Thursday reveal the school gunman’s intense interest in weapons and violence.
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Payroll tax could hit richest French firms
The president, foiled in his attempt to tax rich people, seeks taxes on the big salaries in their companies.
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Seniors ‘brainwashed’ by scooter ads?
Critics say many patients don’t need the devices, at a cost to Medicare of hundreds of millions a year.
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Nelson Mandela hospitalized with lung infection
JOHANNESBURG – Nelson Mandela has been hospitalized again after a worrying recurrence of the lung infection he suffered in December, the South African president’s office announced Thursday. It was the third time Mandela, known affectionately by his clan name, Madiba, has been hospitalized since December. South Africa’s first black president, who served from 1994 to […]
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U.S. flexes nuclear muscle for North Korea’s benefit
In announcing that stealth bombers were taking part in military drills, it is likely to enrage Pyongyang.
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Filthy oral surgeon’s office may have infected 7,000
TULSA, Okla. – Health officials on Thursday urged an Oklahoma oral surgeon’s patients to undergo hepatitis and HIV testing, saying filthy conditions behind his office’s spiffy facade posed a threat to his 7,000 clients and made him a “menace to the public health.” State and county health inspectors went to Dr. W. Scott Harrington’s practice […]