The 20-time Grand Slam champ has not played in more than a year and plans to return next week.
2021
Posted inThe Forecaster
Letter: Maine tank farms need legislative oversight
Searsport, Bucksport, Hampden and South Portland are the ports through which bulk oil, petroleum and asphalt materials are shipped and stored. What materials these ports handle has changed over time, as have the impacts on citizens living nearby. I’ve lived in South Portland fairly close to tank farms for 45 years, but only noticed terrific […]
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Posted inSports
NFL notebook: Cardinals agree to terms with free agent J.J. Watt
The defensive star was released by the Houston Texans earlier this year.
Posted inNation & World
States easing virus restrictions despite experts’ warnings
The push to reopen comes as COVID-19 vaccine shipments to the states are ramping up.
Posted inNation & World, Politics
Senate panel votes to advance Merrick Garland’s nomination to be attorney general
Garland, a federal appeals court judge who was snubbed by Republicans for a seat on the Supreme Court in 2016, is among Biden’s most widely supported nominees.
Posted inNation & World
UN experts urge independent probe into Navalny’s poisoning
Two top U.N. rights experts also call for the immediate release from prison of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
Posted inNation & World
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy found guilty of corruption, sentenced to at least a year in prison
The ruling followed years of parallel investigations against the former president, and some others are ongoing.
Posted inMaine, News
Investigator seeks information about police response to June protest in Portland
The city hired a Minneapolis firm to do an internal affairs investigation of the police department’s response to an anti-racism demonstration that drew an estimated 2,500 downtown.
Posted inAmerican Journal
Lewiston man receives $40,000 in settlement of police bias suit against Westbrook
The city was responsible for a $10,000 deductible toward the total payment.
Posted inThe Forecaster
Letter: Limbaugh was the wrong kind of warrior
Rush Limbaugh was not a member of what he called the “long-haired, maggot-infested, dope-smoking crowd,” who, he said, should get jail time instead of treatment. (Here’s Something: “Be like Rush, a happy warrior,” Feb. 26.) He was a simple, narcotics-addicted Happy Warrior, who paid $30,000 to buy his way out of a felony drug conviction […]