WATERBORO — A 43-year-old suspect has been arrested and charged with Class B felony unlawful sexual contact involving a juvenile following an investigation by Deputy Kevin Collins of the York County Sheriff’s Office and the Maine Department of Health and Human Services. Brent Capener of Waterboro was taken into custody by Collins, who had obtained […]
2018
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Dilapidated former mill on Sanford radar
SANFORD — The owner of a dilapidated, long vacant former textile mill building on Jagger Mill Road is looking for a zone change to facilitate redevelopment. At the same time, in separate action, the city is looking to have the structure deemed a dangerous building and have violations corrected. The city is poised to discuss […]
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New poll shows 2018 race for Maine governor in virtual dead heat
Republican Shawn Moody and Democrat Janet Mills are locked in a dead heat in the Maine governor’s election, according to a new poll by Suffolk University in Boston. In the race for the U.S. Senate, incumbent Angus King, an independent, holds a commanding lead, with 52 percent saying they would vote for him if the […]
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Joseph Horton: Please don’t just counsel them
If you are a football fan, and perhaps even if you are not, you have read the allegation that current Ohio State head football coach, Urban Meyer, and athletic director, Gene Smith, knowingly employed an assistant coach, Zach Smith, who was battering his now ex-wife, Courtney Smith. The story continues to unfold as new information […]
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Harold Pease: ‘I fear going to college’
Student unrest in many colleges last spring demonstrated what is becoming obvious; institutions of higher learning are becoming radicalized and project intolerance for anything but a liberal view. Too few permit conservative or libertarian speakers and far fewer a constitutional speaker. I was not surprised, some years ago, to hear a mother share with me […]
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Silvia Giagnoni: When you are among those few granted asylum
This story has a good ending — or, I should say, a promising beginning. I just bought my ticket to Minneapolis to go visit Robel* whom I first met last October while doing visitations at Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia. Originally from the Horn of Africa, * Robel (not his real name) had been […]
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NCAA adopts college basketball reforms for agents, NBA draft
RALEIGH, N.C. — The NCAA is taking steps to try to clean up college basketball, carving out a limited role for agents to work with players and changing pivotal parts of its rules-enforcement system as part of numerous reforms in the wake of a corruption scandal. The Indianapolis-based governing body for college sports announced Wednesday […]
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Regulators refuse to increase Maine fishing quota for lucrative baby eels
Maine efforts to expand its lucrative baby eel fishery by increasing its annual quota by 20 percent were shot down Wednesday. The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, the interstate body that oversees the American eel fishery, cited the “depleted” state of the stock when it rejected the proposal. Licensed Maine elver fishermen are currently allowed […]
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National summit on aging targets Maine, home to nation’s oldest, most rural population
Donato Tramuto, CEO of Tivity Health, speaks Tuesday during the summit at the Westin Portland Harborview. He cited studies showing that loneliness has negative health effects as serious as smoking, obesity and alcohol abuse, and called for increased awareness of the need for programs to address social isolation. Staff photo by Shawn Patrick Ouellette The vast […]
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Gruden returning to Coliseum as head coach of Raiders again
NAPA, Calif. — As much as he tries to downplay the significance, Oakland Raiders coach Jon Gruden is fully aware Friday’s exhibition game against the Detroit Lions will be anything but an ordinary preseason contest. It’s been 17 years since Gruden last roamed the sidelines at the Coliseum with the Raiders. He came back in […]
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