Ryan Flaherty, a Portland native, worked for the Padres for the past four years, spending the 2023 season as the team’s bench coach/offensive coordinator.
2024
Navy approves at least $34 million for Bath Iron Works for accelerated training, housing, child care
Sen. Susan Collins requested the funding, which will reduce the training timeline from five years to three and pay for 85 housing units and 150 more child care slots.
Lawsuit aims to keep Pennsylvania congressman off ballot over Constitution’s insurrection clause
The filing cites Scott Perry’s role in trying to help stall the certification of the election by installing an acting attorney general who would be receptive to Trump’s false claims of election fraud.
NFL notebook: Patriots assistant Jerod Mayo says he’s ready to be NFL coach
The linebackers coach for the Patriots thinks he’s ready to a head coaching position, whenever and wherever he gets chance.
Bath to hold public hearings on petition to stop development at Bath Golf Club
The Bath Golf Club’s ownership wants to cut the course from 18 holes to nine and build a housing development to return it to profitability.
Windham man faces child porn charges, admits to abuse
Cote Noonan, 32, is scheduled to appear in federal court in Portland on Friday for a detention hearing.
Fund created for Maine businesses affected by pre-holiday wind and rainstorm
Grants of up to $10,000 to replace equipment or lost supplies will be available through the fund created by the Retail Association of Maine and the Maine Grocers and Food Producers Association.
U.S. women stocking up on abortion pills, especially when there is news about restrictions
Nationally, the average number of daily requests shot up nearly tenfold, from about 25 in the eight months before the May 2022 Roe v. Wade leak to 247 after.
To help rare whales, Maine and Massachusetts will spend $27 million on data and gear
The population of North Atlantic right whales fell by about 25% from 2010 to 2020, and now numbers less than 360.
Proposed $4.3 billion merger of Avangrid, New Mexico utility scuttled
Officials with New Mexico’s largest electric utility say a proposed multibillion-dollar merger with Avangrid, a U.S. subsidiary of global energy giant Iberdrola, has been scuttled.