Brunswick — Brunswick High’s football team will play three home games at Bowdoin College this fall as the school’s field undergoes a track renovation project. The Dragons will play at Bowdoin’s Whitter Field on Sept. 7 (Skowhegan), Sept. 20 (Windham) and Oct. 4 (Gardiner), all games starting at 6:30 p.m. Brunswick has one other home game […]
2019
Posted inTimes Record, Times Record Sports
Pats Edlelman returns to practice
Julian Edelman returned to practice on Monday. The receiver was spotted wearing his jersey, pads and a helmet for the first time this summer since suffering a broken thumb. The news means that Edelman is coming off the non-football injury list and is eligible to play in the preseason – if the Patriots want him […]
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Posted inTimes Record, Times Record Sports
Red Sox shut down Sale for rest of season
BOSTON — Red Sox left-hander Chris Sale is receiving treatment for inflammation in his elbow that will shut him down for the rest of the regular season, another blow to the defending World Series champions whose postseason hopes appear all but dashed. Orthopedist Dr. James Andrews gave Sale an injection of platelet-rich plasma on Monday and […]
Posted inTimes Record
Police never asked Maine landlord who killed 2 teenagers if he had a gun, court records reveal
A federal judge soon will decide whether to allow two lawsuits against Biddeford police to go forward based in part on new information that police previously declined to disclose in a case that stems from a 2012 double murder. The lawsuits allege that two Biddeford police officers were negligent for failing to arrest or detain […]
Posted inNation & World, News
Court upholds convictions against highest-ranking Vatican official jailed on charges of child sex abuse
Australian Cardinal George Pell will continue to serve his six-year sentence for sexually assaulting two choir boys.
Posted inTimes Record
Democratic candidate Gideon attacks Sen. Collins over tax vote, ACA
Maine House Speaker Sara Gideon criticized U.S. Sen. Susan Collins on Monday for her vote in favor of the 2017 Republican tax bill, saying the bill strengthened a lawsuit aimed at repealing the Affordable Care Act. Gideon is running for the 2020 Democratic nomination to challenge Collins, a Republican who has been in office since […]
Posted inAmerican Journal, Lakes Region Weekly
Politics & Other Mistakes: Big bucks for small brains
Here’s the dirty truth about political advertising: It only works on stupid people. Of course, there are lots of stupid people, and most of them are on social media, where it’s easy to target campaign messages to specific types of dopes. Whether it’s gun nuts or anti-gun kooks, pro-life fanatics or pro-choice extremists, tree huggers […]
Posted inThe Forecaster
Greater Portland School Notebook: Aug. 21
Holy Cross names new principal for new school year Holy Cross School in South Portland, which serves pre-K through grade 8 students, announce Cynthia Elwood has been hired as its new principal, effective immediately. Elwood succeeds Christine L’Abbé, who left her position as principal in July. Elwood, who served as a middle school math teacher […]
Posted inThe Forecaster
Greater Portland People & Business: Aug. 21
Preti Flaherty attorney appointed to state animal welfare council Bonnie Martinolich, a partner at Preti Flaherty, has been appointed by Gov. Janet Mills to the 14-member Maine Animal Welfare Advisory Council. Each AWAC member is appointed to provide expertise for a designated interest in animal welfare. Martinolich was specifically appointed as an attorney with experience […]
Posted inJournal Tribune
Detained immigrants sue over conditions, medical care
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Immigrants held in U.S. detention facilities filed a lawsuit Monday decrying what they called shoddy medical care and a failure by authorities to provide accommodations for disabilities. In the suit filed by disability and civil rights advocates in U.S. District Court, immigrants said they’re placed in isolation as punishment and denied […]