2019 – Page 1692 – The Portland Press Herald

Thursday’s major league roundup: Yankees top Jays 12-6 for ninth straight win

by Associated Press August 8, 2019August 8, 2019

Gio Urshela hits two home runs for the second straight game for the Yankees.

Local golfer wins amateur tournament

by STAFF REPORTS August 8, 2019August 15, 2019

BRUNSWICK – In a day full of tension over looming thunderstorms and tight races in each flight, the 2019 B&C Championship wrapped up with plenty of drama at Brunswick GC. Two of the four flights required extra holes to decide on a winner, and by days’ end four players went home with trophies for their […]

Cops & Courts, Maine, News

Portland police close street after finding meth-making chemicals in car

by Dennis Hoey August 8, 2019August 8, 2019

A section of Somerset Street was closed Thursday night while police conducted a drug investigation.

Maine, News

Portland rally against domestic terror ends with chants of ‘lock him up’

by Dennis Hoey August 8, 2019August 9, 2019

Many protesters blame President Trump for using language that set the tone for mass shootings in Texas and Ohio last weekend.

Boston Red Sox, Sports

Sale returns to vintage form in 3-0 win over Angels

by Associated Press August 8, 2019August 8, 2019

Chris Sale pitches eight scoreless innings, allows two hits and strikes out 13 for his sixth win.

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Yankees, White Sox to play at ‘Field of Dreams’ in 2020

by LUKE MEREDITH August 8, 2019November 8, 2019

Major League Baseball is going to build it — and the White Sox and Yankees are coming to Iowa. The Chicago White Sox will play the New York Yankees next summer at the site in eastern Iowa where the movie “Field of Dreams” was filmed, MLB announced Thursday. The game is set for Aug. 13 […]

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Rosie Ruiz, Boston Marathon course-cutter, dies at 66

by JIMMY GOLEN and RHONDA SHAFNER Associated Press August 8, 2019November 8, 2019

BOSTON — Rosie Ruiz, the Boston Marathon course-cutter who was stripped of her victory in the 1980 race and went on to become an enduring symbol of cheating in sports, has died. She was 66. Ruiz, who was also known as Rosie Vivas, died in Florida of cancer on July 8, according to an obituary that […]