PORTLAND — A Biddeford man who transported a woman from Maine to New Hampshire to prostitute her was sentenced to more than four years in prison today, the Office of U.S. Attorney Thomas Delahanty said in a statement. Chief Judge Nancy Torresen sentenced 49-year-old Leo Grondin to 51 months in prison and five years of […]
2016
Sports Roundup
SMCC women off to Nationals After a 23-8 campaign and a trip to the Yankee Small College Conference tournament semifinals, the Southern Maine Community College women’s basketball team earned a berth at the USCAA National tournament in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. The sixth-ranked Seawolves faced No. 3 Albany College of Pharmacy and Health in the quarterfinals Thursday. […]
Winter sports season comes to a close
(For the complete Brunswick-Cape Elizabeth boys’ hockey game story, see theforecaster.net) The winter sports season has come to an end after the last team standing, the Brunswick boys’ hockey squad, lost last week. The Dragons earned the No. 3 seed in Class B South, but fell behind visiting No. 6 Cape Elizabeth early and couldn’t […]
Sports Digest: Youngster impresses Tiger Woods
Taylor Crozier, an 11-year-old from Texas, aces the inaugural shot at The Playgrounds.
Major League notebook: Red Sox hold off Twins
Rick Porcello gives up a run in two innings in his first start of the spring, a 6-5 Boston win.
College roundup: SMCC women ousted in tourney
The SeaWolves lose, 67-59, to Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.
Google working to help Brazil track Zika virus
Google engineers and their UNICEF counterparts create a system to predict where the Aedes aegypti mosquito might next be active.
Maine lobstermen set record with $495 million haul
The Department of Marine Resources also reports that the total 2015 catch topped 120 million pounds of lobster for the fourth year in a row.
Two women arrested, half-pound of heroin seized in Bangor
The women were transporting drugs from New York City in an operation coordinated by a prison inmate, police say.