They’re focusing first on the Senate, which likely will act on Obama’s proposals before the House does.
2013
Posted inNation & World, News, Politics
Obama backers aim to outflank NRA on gun control
To succeed will require overturning two decades of conventional wisdom that gun control is bad politics.
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Posted inLife & Culture, News
Gertrude Moran, tennis star who made fashion history, dies at 89
As a 25-year-old in 1949, Moran made jaws drop and flashbulbs pop when she showed up at Wimbledon in a short skirt and ruffled underwear.
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Portland man gets 21 months for gun crime
Convicted felon Jason Lee Morrill, 32, illegally sold a firearm that was later used in a New York City shooting.
Posted inNew England Patriots, News, Sports
Light, Faulk honorary captains for Patriots
Matt Light and Kevin Faulk, both three-time Super Bowl winners, will serve as honorary captains for the New England Patriots in Sunday’s AFC championship game.
Posted inNew England Patriots, News, Sports
Coaching stability key for Patriots, Ravens
Bill Belichick has been on the job since 2000 and has gone to five Super Bowls. John Harbaugh has won a playoff game in each of his first five seasons.
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3 arrested in Farmington, NH, shootings
Even before today’s arrest, a Maine man had turned himself in in connection with the shootings.
Posted inNation & World
Flu season ‘bad one for the elderly,’ CDC says
So far, half of confirmed flu cases are in people 65 and older, and about 90 percent of flu deaths are in the elderly.
Posted inPortland Forecaster, The Forecaster
Police investigating 'suspicious' death at Portland motel
PORTLAND — Police are investigating the death of a woman whose body was discovered Thursday afternoon in a vehicle parked at a Riverside Street motel, near the Westbrook border. The body was discovered at Motel 6 at about 3:30 p.m, and police are treating the death as “suspicious,” City Hall spokeswoman Nicole Clegg said Thursday […]
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Man killed in single-vehicle crash in Franklin
The wreckage was discovered along Route 182 by a nearby resident this morning.