Bulldogs get double-double from Wani Donato and prevail, 45-40.
2021
U.S. sets shorter COVID-19 isolation time for health care workers
Federal officials are loosening rules that call on health care workers to stay out of work for 10 days if they test positive.
Inmate serving life sentence for murdering boy, 8, dies at Maine State Prison
Milton Wallace died Thursday at the age of 82; the cause of death was not released.
Local roundup: South Portland/Freeport/Waynflete boys hockey shuts out Portland/Deering
Tobey Lappin has a hat trick in the victory.
Thursday’s high school roundup: South Portland rallies past Thornton in clash of unbeaten teams
Boys’ basketball: Jaelen Jackson sparks a fourth-quarter comeback by the Red Riots in a 60-53 victory.
Groome’s career gains steam after starts and stops
The Red Sox had big hopes when drafting Jay Groome, who struggled for five years but found a groove in 2021, especially when he reached the Portland Sea Dogs at the end of the season.
Suit settled over trans teen’s suicide at detention center
The mother of a transgender teenager who died by suicide at a youth detention center in Maine has settled a wrongful death lawsuit against the state for $225,000. The Bangor Daily News reported the settlement Thursday in the death of Charles Knowles, 16, at Long Creek Youth Development Center in fall 2016. Michelle Knowles, of […]
Preliminary data from U.K. suggests hospitalization less likely with omicron
Britain’s public health agency says preliminary data suggests that people with the omicron variant of the coronavirus are 50 to 70 percent less likely to be hospitalized than those with the delta strain.
To grandmother’s house or no? Omicron disrupts holiday plans
For the second year in a row, the ever-morphing coronavirus presents would-be holiday revelers with a difficult choice: cancel their trips and celebrations yet again or figure out how to forge ahead as safely as possible.
U.S. has reunited 100 children taken from parents under Trump
President Biden issued an executive order on his first day in office to reunite families that were forcibly separated at the U.S.-Mexico border to discourage illegal immigration.