The Catamounts get the top seed for the America East tournament and will again play Maine on Saturday after ending the regular season with a 74-62 win over the Black Bears.
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Posted inBusiness
Fed chair promises steady hand, sees little risk of recession
Jerome Powell predicts the economy will stay strong, but he warns it’s too early to gauge tax cuts’ efficacy.
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Posted inSports, Varsity Maine, Winter sports
Tuesday’s high school roundup: Late goal propels York to boys’ hockey semis
Dalton McCann scores the winning goal with 1.7 seconds left in the third period as York edges Brunswick 3-2 in the Class B South quarterfinals.
Posted inCops & Courts, Maine, News
Thomaston student charged with threatening two others
Police charge the middle-schooler with misdemeanor terrorizing and witness tampering, but found he had no means of carrying out the threat to ‘shoot it up.’
Posted inMaine, News
Maine State Police troopers intercept wrong-way drivers on I-295
The incidents occurred late last week in South Portland and Portland.
Posted inCops & Courts, Maine, News
Boy, 13, under house arrest after he’s overheard threatening Mt. Blue Middle School
A teacher notified the principal after hearing the Farmington boy threaten to ‘shoot up the school,’ police say.
Posted inMaine, News
Portland woman pleads guilty to sending bomb threats in mail
U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank says Nina Michalski, 61, sent letters to three religious congregations in California between October 2016 and February 2017.
Posted inSports
Major league notebook: Mariners avoid major injury to Hernandez
Pitcher Felix Hernandez took a scary line drive off his right arm – ‘I didn’t feel anything like that before’ – but there are no breaks and the Mariners do not expect him to miss too much time.
Posted inMaine, Politics
Panel votes to tighten rules for online burn permits
The measure also would lift the $7 fee and allow the permits to be viewed on smartphones.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Rail authority approves Downeaster summer runs to Rockland, but only on 3 weekends
The original plan called for runs to Bath, Wiscasset, Newcastle and Rockland on 10 weekends this summer.