Islamic State militants prepare for an all-out attack on the strategic Kurdish town of Kobani.
October 2014
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Franklin Street revival depends on cooperation
If this becomes another ugly Portland land-use fight, nothing positive is likely to happen.
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Posted inNew England Patriots, Sports
Browner, Tyms rested but are they ready to play for Patriots?
The offseason acquisitions complete four-game suspensions.
Posted inNation & World
Border Patrol takes aim at desert-dwelling cartel scouts
Lookouts in the Sonoran Desert are warning smugglers when authorities come close to the cartel.
Posted inLife & Culture, Nation & World
N.J. nun moves step closer to sainthood
Sister Miriam Teresa Demjanovich, who died in 1927, will be beatified in a ceremony Saturday.
Posted inBusiness, Maine
Protesters rally against Calais-to-Coburn-Gore toll highway
People gather outside Cianbro’s offices to protest a proposed 220-mile route that runs through Maine.
Posted inBusiness
‘There’s no place to run and hide’ from data breaches
Experts warn credit card users to monitor their accounts.
Posted inNation & World
National Dispatches
VANDENBERG AFB, Calif. Beaches closed for weekend after shark attack on surfer Three beaches along coastal Vandenberg Air Force Base have been closed through the weekend after a 28-year-old surfer survived an attack by a shark estimated at 10-12 feet in size, authorities said Friday. The man, whose name was not released, was surfing Thursday […]
Posted inLife & Culture
Keanu Reeves obtains restraining order against woman
She had swum in his pool and showered in his home, court filings say.
Posted inNation & World
Information about enterovirus 68
It has caused serious breathing problems in many children, and now is being eyed as possible factor in at least four deaths