A mother dies after a late-night shootout, but it now appears it was a two-way confrontation.
February 2015
Posted inNation & World
Mission to Europa may search for life
Europa, one of Jupiter’s 67 moons, may harbor an ocean that erupts from below its icy surface.
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New England Dispatches
Amherst, Mass. UMass reverses ban on admitting Iranian nationals The University of Massachusetts at Amherst has reversed its decision to ban Iranian nationals from admission to certain graduate programs in engineering and science. Wednesday’s announcement comes on the heels of the university’s decision last week to bar students from Iran in a move that officials […]
Posted inBusiness, Maine
Portland’s restaurant business has little appetite for snow
Major storms and parking bans can worsen the slow winter as customers stay away and revenues decline.
Posted inNation & World
Libya seeks weapons to fight Islamic extremists
A Libyan official urges the U.N. Security Council to rescind an arms embargo instituted in 2011.
Posted inNation & World
Ukraine president asks for an international force
Turning to a peacekeeping mission is an admission his nation can no longer fend off pro-Russian rebels.
Posted inBusiness
Rolls-Royce announces plan for SUV
The high-end carmaker says it will offer elegance and toughness, but does not disclose a price range.
Posted inBusiness
Briefcase
U.S. wholesale price index reflects drop in gas prices U.S. wholesale prices fell by a record amount in January, led by the biggest drop in gasoline prices in six years. The Labor Department said Wednesday that its producer price index declined 0.8 per cent last month, the biggest drop in a data series that goes […]
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Midmeeting resignation shocks Biddeford council
Claiming frustration with the way decisions were made, ‘without facts and data,’ Bradley Cote walks out.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World
Poverty line proving difficult to cross despite pay hikes
Raising the minimum wage, states are finding, fails to materialize as the major game-changer that politicians had promised.