And nothing beats the holidays for evoking that alone-in-a-crowd feeling.
2018
Posted inLife & Culture, Maine, News, Politics
Gov. LePage’s official portrait unveiled in State House
The portrait of Maine’s 74th governor will now hang with those of his predecessors.
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Posted inNation & World
Putin warns threat of nuclear war rising
He blames the U.S. pullout from arms control treaties and its destabilizing military plans.
Posted inNation & World
North Korea says it won’t denuclearize unless U.S. removes ‘threat’
Pyongyang’s reiteration of its long-standing position on nuclear disarmament could prove to be a major setback for diplomacy, which was revived early this year.
Posted inSports
Thursday’s NFL notebook: Beckham wants to continue playing with Giants
Odell Beckham Jr. is dealing with a quad injury with a team that’s out of contention.
Posted inLife & Culture
‘Oatsie’ Charles, grande dame of Newport, R.I., dies at 99
She broke bread with President John F. Kennedy and drank with spy novelist Ian Fleming.
Posted inLife & Culture
Miss America leaders illegally took over pageant, lawsuit claims
A former board member and four states that have had their licenses terminated by the Miss America Organization are suing the group.
Posted inLife & Culture
NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson to tell her story in book next fall
Johnson was one of the pioneering black women featured in the book and film ‘Hidden Figures.’
Posted inBusiness
What makes chickens happy? Nobody is quite sure
Canadian researchers launch a new study to measure the welfare of poultry.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World
Stocks dive again, heading for worst December since Great Depression
Investors are growing worried that global economic growth is cooling and that the U.S. could slip into a recession in the next few years.