The city’s Oxford Street Shelter is filled to capacity, as frigid temperatures make sleeping outdoors life-threatening.
2017
Posted inNation & World
Suburban Chicago anti-gambling crusader takes home $25,000
Kathy Gilroy won by playing a free sweepstakes game at a gambling cafe.
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Posted inNews
RFK aide John Nolan dies, secured release of Americans, post-Bay of Pigs
John E. Nolan Jr. negotiated with Fidel Castro in Cuba over an extended period.
Posted inBusiness
Apple offers discounts on iPhone batteries amid static from users
But Apple’s CEO resists the idea that Apple slowed down its phones to get people to buy new phones.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Cold snap highlights rising cost of energy
The Department of Energy had already projected that heating costs were going to track upward this winter.
Posted inBusiness
Debate over health risks of sitting heats up
Two Drexel University researchers now believe that sitting could be the newest workplace liability.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World
Seventh person charged in teen forced labor case at egg farm
The teens from Guatemala were forced to turn over most of their earnings, and had to live in run-down trailers with no heat and little food before they were rescued in 2014.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World
Former Miss America calls for board resignations
Mallory Hagan and other former Miss Americas are renewing their call for the entire board to step down.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World, News, Politics
Many who paid 2018 property taxes early may still have deductions capped
The IRS says the prepayments can be deducted from income only in limited circumstances.
Posted inCoastal Journal, Times Record
Yellowfront Grocery facing uncertain future
Co-owner Jeff Pierce said the store will continue, but not under the family that’s owned it for nearly a century