BRUNSWICK — Five members of the Bowdoin College track and field teams have qualified for the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field Championship scheduled to begin today at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio. Katherine Harmon ( hammer throw), Erin Silva ( pole vault), Addison Carvajal (heptathlon), Jacob Ellis (800 meters) and Kevin Hoose […]
May 2014
AREA HIGH SCHOOL TENNIS
Area tennisBOYS — Morse 4, Medomak Valley 1Thomas Jarmusz (M) over Ezra Hinkley, 6-0,6-1.Stephen Tapia (M) over Richard Kinney(MV), 6-1, 6-1.Matthew Jarmusz (M) won by forfeit.Justin Trottier and Lucas Brown (M) overDevin Field and Aaron Smeltzer, 4-6, 6-2,6-4.Cyril Miller and Greg Wadsworth (MV)over Oskar Matero and Wade Daigle, 3-6,6-2, 6-4.Exhibition:Cyril Miller and Greg Wadsworth (MV)over […]
Spurs roll to 2-0 lead with 112-77 rout
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The San Antonio Spurs have been here before. Tony Parker scored 22 points, Danny Green added 21 on seven 3-pointers, and San Antonio used a dominant third quarter to pummel Oklahoma City 112-77 Wednesday night and take a 2-0 lead in the Western Conference finals. The Spurs were in the same […]
Behind IPO is unlikely success story
HONG KONG T he mammoth IPO planned by e-commerce giant Alibaba Group highlights founder Jack Ma’s improbable rise to China’s entrepreneur-in-chief. Ma, a former English teacher who flunked his college entrance exam twice, founded Alibaba in his apartment in 1999 with 17 friends and $60,000 they had raised. Charismatic by the gray standards of Chinese […]
Neb. man recalls ‘interesting life’
FREMONT, Neb. Don Young has had high-flying adventures. From flying dignitaries, including a vice president, to soaring into the middle of hurricanes, the Fremont man has traveled the world. Now 83, Young has many stories from his days of fighting polio to the months he spent in Vietnam. “I’ve had a very interesting life,” he […]
New effort to halt the spread of HIV in the Caribbean
KINGSTON, Jamaica A handful of sex workers sit on discarded cardboard along a filthy sewer channel, sharing food and razors to shave their legs and faces as they prepare for the night’s labor on the streets of Jamaica’s capital. Gay sex and prostitution is illegal in Jamaica, and LGBT people who sell sex face arrest […]
THIS WEEK IN THE CIVIL WAR
With the bloodletting of hard combat at Spotsylvania Courthouse in Virginia now receding, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant marched a considerable Union force to the North Anna River as he prepared to again confront Confederate forces led by Robert E. Lee. Grant’s Overland Offensive was continuing, with both sides tracking each other in an area […]
Motorist, passenger arrested after police chase
BATH Bath Police arrested James Badger, 26, after a lengthy police chase by car and on foot, and an attempt to run down a Sagadahoc sheriff’s deputy. Also arrested was his passenger, 24-year-old Weston Gardner. Both men are from Bath. On Thursday just after 4 p.m., the Sagadahoc Sheriff’s Office received a complaint of a […]