Last Saturday night, Mark Visentin stopped 39 of 40 shots in a 2-1 win against the Bridgeport Sound Tigers.
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Posted inNews, Sports
Coyotes call up Ekman-Larsson from Pirates
The defenseman who spent the previous 1½ seasons in the NHL with the Coyotes, flew back to Arizona this afternoon.
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Community Calendar: Jan. 9-20
Greater Portland Bulletin Board Friday 1/11 El Centro Latino, general meeting, 7 p.m., 68 Washington Ave., Portland, 749-8823. Call for Volunteers Ongoing ActionBasedCare.org needs volunteers to expand organization, ABC believes in empowerment through sailing, and action-based activities to relieve depression, check website or 831-4151. Allegiance Hospice is looking for volunteers to visit patients under hospice […]
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Colo. prosecutors outline theater shooting case
Investigators say James Holmes wore body armor and a gas mask when he opened fire during the midnight showing of “The Dark Knight Rises,” killing 12 people and wounding dozens.
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Arts Calendar: Jan. 9-20
Greater Portland Auditions & Calls for Art Musica de Filia, auditions for several all-female choirs, Jan. 2-22, 550 Forest Ave., Portland, 807-2158. Tuesday 1/15 The Portland Community Chorus will be holding auditions for its spring session. The PCC is one of the largest community choruses in New England with more than 140 members. To schedule […]
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Sanford robbery suspect surrenders to police
Justin Brady turned himself in Monday morning at 3 a.m.
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Morning Briefing 1.7.13
Here we go … The 126th Legislature officially convened Dec. 5, but the real work begins this week. The Legislature’s budget-writing committee will get back to work Tuesday digging into Gov. Paul LePage’s $35.5 million curtailment order. The panel nibbled around the edges last week, but expect department heads to begin appearing before the panel […]
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Policy Wonk: Corporate welfare in Maine: Alive, well — and growing
Fourteen years ago, investigative reporters Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele did a lengthy, four-week series for Time magazine that estimated the federal government “shells out $125 billion a year in corporate welfare.” That number is much larger today. Recently, Louise Story of The New York Times wrote a series of articles documenting that […]
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The Universal Notebook: Peeved at my own incompetence
Nothing puts me in a foul mood faster than something I can’t fix. That means I’m in a fuming funk a lot of the time, not fit to live with until whatever is broken is either repaired or replaced. At the moment it’s the #*(^%$! roof. The roof over my sunroom office has been leaking […]
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US spent whopping $18B on immigration enforcement
Immigration enforcement in 2012 topped the combined budgets of the FBI; Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; Drug Enforcement Administration and U.S. Secret Service.