Red Sox fans give Betts, who said he doesn’t carry any hard feelings over the trade that sent him to L.A., a warm ovation in his first game at Fenway Park since 2019.
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Collin Morikawa breaks 36-hole scoring record, tied for lead at Tour Championship
Morikawa shoots 64 in the second round to break Tiger Woods’ mark, and is tied with Viktor Hovland at 16 under.
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Eight arrested in ‘melee’ at Oxford Plains Speedway
Oxford Police Chief Rickie Jack said the trouble began around midnight when police tried to arrest a Sumner man for driving drunk in the speedway parking lot.
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Former AP transportation writer Joan Lowy dies at 66
WASHINGTON — Joan Lowy, a veteran Washington journalist who spent the final decade of her career covering transportation issues for The Associated Press, has died. She was 66. Lowy died early Wednesday at her home in Vienna, Virginia, after a 10-year battle with abdominal cancer, said her husband, Michael Christensen. “She was a heck of […]
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Sports Digest: Sea Dogs rained out, will play doubleheader Sunday
The Maine Clambakes promotion scheduled for Friday night will instead take place in Sunday’s doubleheader opener.
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Maine chief justice asks legal community to help represent indigent clients
Chief Justice Valerie Stanfill said in a letter to seven large law firms that the Maine Commission on Indigent Legal Services is considering rule changes for lawyers willing to take child custody appeals.
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Director of British Museum steps down amid controversy over thefts of ancient items
Hartwig Fischer had planned to leave the post next year but said his presence had become a distraction after questions were raised recently about whether the museum took warnings seriously.
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Waterville man who admitted to involvement in terrorist conspiracy now facing assault charge
Xavier J. Pelkey was indicted this week in Somerset County on a count of aggravated assault and authorities say he used a chair to injure another inmate at the county jail, where he was being held prior to pleading guilty to a federal conspiracy charge.
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NFL notebook: Trey Lance heading from San Francisco to Dallas
The third-year quarterback, drafted third overall in 2021, is being traded to the Cowboys after starting only four games from the 49ers.
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Alexine Clement Jackson, wide-ranging volunteer, dies at 87
She served as board chair of the Susan G. Komen breast cancer advocacy foundation and the national president of the Young Women’s Christian Association.