The 2-year-old is flown to Maine Medical Center with injuries to his head and torso.
2015
Posted inForecaster Sports, The Forecaster
Esposito a Fitzy finalist
Portland standout Joe Esposito, already named Maine’s football Gatorade Player of the Year, was named last week as a finalist for the prestigious James J. Fitzpatrick Trophy, given to the state’s top senior football player. Esposito is joined as a finalist by Thornton Academy quarterback Austin McCrum and Brunswick running back Will Bessey. Esposito, a […]
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Posted inNation & World
Foreign port visits resume for nuclear-armed Navy subs
The stops came to a halt after 2003 for a number of reasons, including the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Posted inNation & World, News
FDA formally ends ban on blood donations from gay or bisexual men
The agency says it’s safe if the men are HIV-free and haven’t had sex with other males for at least a year.
Posted inFlashback
Flashback: skating at Deering Oaks, 1954
In a Press Herald photograph from December 1954, kids on winter break put on ice skates at the edge of Deering Oaks pond in Portland.
Posted inBusiness
Mainers’ personal incomes reflect strengthening wages
Third-quarter data from the federal government show Mainers’ incomes increasing more than the national and New England averages.
Posted inBusiness, News
Thai government says it’s not ignoring slavery, forced labor in shrimp industry
Thailand is one of the world’s biggest shrimp providers and its seafood export industry is estimated to bring in about $7 billion annually.
Posted inCoastal Journal, Northern Forecaster, Portland Forecaster, Southern Forecaster, The Forecaster
Community Calendar: Dec. 23-Jan. 10
Greater Portland Benefits Thursday 12/31 Polar Bear Plunge and 5K, East End Beach, Portland, benefit Natural Resources Council of Maine, register online at nrcm.kintera.org/dipdash. Bulletin Board Saturday 12/26 State Sen. Stan Gerzofsky, office hours, 10 a.m. to noon, Bow Street Market, Freeport. Open to all from Brunswick, Freeport, Harpswell, North Yarmouth and Pownal who have […]
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The Universal Notebook: Season’s greetings!
Season’s greetings! Be of good cheer!Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy New Year!Have a blessed Bodhi Day, a joyous Mawlid al-Nabi,Have fun at Festivus and a great Pancha Ganapati! Together we’ve weathered two thousand fifteen –The most hotly contested year that we’ve seen.Between climate change and the GOPAmerica heated up to the nth degree. Here in […]