CHICAGO The fury of the winter storm that swept into the northern Great Plains on Christmas Day weakened heading into today, but thousands remained without power in the Dakotas and Michigan. High winds and drifting snow continued to make travel hazardous in the Dakotas, even as vast stretches of highways that had been closed reopened […]
December 2016
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Rescuers find flight recorder from Black Sea plane crash
SOCHI, Russia Rescue workers today found a flight recorder from the Russian military plane that crashed into the Black Sea over the weekend, the defense ministry said. All 92 people aboard the Tu-154 plane are believed to have died Sunday morning when it crashed two minutes after taking off from the southern Russian city of […]
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Elaine I Mercier
HARPSWELL — Elaine I Mercier of 3 Hadfield Shore Road passed away peacefully on Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2016, at 1:00 p.m. at Mid Coast Senior Healthcare Center in Brunswick after a long battle with cancer. Elaine was proud of the time she spent in the nursing profession at the Maine Medical Center right after High […]
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Obama, Japan’s Abe to seek reconciliation at Pearl Harbor
HONOLULU Putting 75 years of resentment behind them, the leaders of the United States and Japan are coming together at Pearl Harbor for a historic pilgrimage to the site where the bloodshed of surprise attacks thrust America into World War II. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit today with President Barack Obama is powerful proof that […]
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Trump’s pick for ambassador to Israel sparks hot debate
NEW YORK If President-elect Donald Trump wanted to show he planned to obliterate President Barack Obama’s approach to Israel, he might have found his man to deliver that message in David Friedman, his pick for U.S. ambassador. The bankruptcy lawyer and son of an Orthodox rabbi is everything Obama is not: a fervent supporter of […]
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Simone Biles soars to AP Female Athlete of the Year
Simone Biles tried to treat the 2016 Summer Olympics like just your average ordinary gymnastics meet. So what if the stage and the stakes were different? The floor was still the floor. The vault still the vault. The uneven bars still uneven. The balance beam still a four-inch wide test of nerves. And the 19-year-old […]
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Cowboys too much for Lions on MNF
ARLINGTON, Texas Matthew Stafford lost to his hometown team again, and the playoff plans are on hold for the Detroit Lions. Dez Bryant threw his first career touchdown pass between a pair of scoring catches, Ezekiel Elliott ran for two TDs and the Dallas Cowboys kept the Lions from clinching a postseason spot with a […]
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UConn fires football coach Bob Diaco
STORRS, Conn. UConn fired football coach Bob Diaco on Monday after his third losing season, choosing to cut ties rather than allow Diaco to rebuild a struggling offense. Diaco will be relieved of his duties effective Jan. 2, university officials said. The move was surprising in its timing a month after the Huskies season ended […]