NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Police say a doctor has been shot and killed in a doctor’s office in a Southern California medical building and a man is in police custody. Newport Beach police spokeswoman Kathy Lowe says police received a report at about 2:45 p.m. Monday of six or seven shots fired at the […]
2013
Mom gets 15 years for drowning autistic son
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A San Diego mother has been sentenced to 15 years to life in prison for drowning her 4-yearold autistic son in a bathtub. U-T San Diego says 37-yearold Patricia Corby received the sentence Monday, about a month after giving a tearful guilty plea to murder. On March 31, Corby drove to […]
Secretary LaHood to leave administration
WASHINGTON (AP) — Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, the only Republican still left in President Barack Obama’s first-term Cabinet, says he plans to leave the Obama administration. The former congressman from Illinois says in an interview with The Associated Press that he intends to remain at the department until his successor is confirmed. LaHood has helped […]
Key win for Wolverines
WISCASSET Coming off a pair of tough home losses to Madison and Winthrop, Wiscasset High School boys basketball coach Dana Lawrence looked for a bounce-back game against Monmouth Academy on Monday. With the Wolverines clinging to the eighth spot in Western Maine Class C, three spots ahead of the No. 11 Mustangs, who hold down […]
Lisbon, Morse cheerleaders on to ‘states’
AUGUSTA Saturday was just another building block in the championship pyramid for Lewiston High School cheerleading. Five days after pocketing their fifth straight Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference title, the Blue Devils bagged a fourth consecutive Eastern Class A crown on the same Augusta Civic Center floor. Lewiston now chases its third state championship in succession […]
Bruins upend Hurricanes, 5-3
RALEIGH, N.C. Dougie Hamilton figured he’d already shot — and missed — enough. So with the game on the line and the puck on his stick, the rookie defenseman deferred to one of the Boston Bruins’ veterans. David Krejci scored the tiebreaking goal off a pretty pass from Hamilton with 1:50 left to help the […]
Dragon girls win in OT; Lewiston up next
LEWISTON — The Brunswick High School girls ice hockey team picked up its second straight key contest Monday with a 3-2 overtime win over St. Dom’s (7-10, ranked sixth in the East). The Dragons, now 7-10 and scheduled to close out the regular season Wednesday at Lewiston, led 2-0 before giving up two third-period tallies. […]
H-D boys topple Lisbon
LISBON FALLS — Michael Woods led three Hall-Dale players in double figures as the Bulldogs defeated Lisbon 62-47 in Mountain Valley Athletic Conference boys high school basketball action on Monday. Woods had 19, Brian Allen 16 and Bryson Kemp 10 as Hall-Dale (9-6) held quarter leads of 12-2, 25-17 and 42-22. The Bulldogs were 14 […]
Bowdoin tracksters shine
MIDDLETOWN, Conn. — The Bowdoin College indoor track and field teams posted several winning performances in a non-scoring meet Saturday at Wesleyan University. Samantha Copland and Michele Kaufman led the way with a pair of wins each for Bowdoin. Copland took first in both the 60-meter dash (8.13) and 200 (27.21). Kaufman captured the 60-hurdles […]
Sea Dogs to audition dancers
PORTLAND — Auditions will be held on Feb. 9 for the all new Portland Sea Dogs Dance Team. The Sea Dogs Dance Team is looking for children, boys and girls, ages 8-16 to perform at select home games, as well as other Sea Dogs’ local events throughout the 2013 baseball season. Children must have some […]