Local sports results for May 14, 2013
Today’s games HIGH SCHOOL Softball Ashland at Madawaska, 4 p.m. Brunswick at Edward Little, 4 p.m. Calais at Machias, 4 p.m. Central at Penquis Valley, 4:30 p.m. Cony at Oxford Hills, 4 p.m. DI-S at...
View ArticleAstronauts fresh from space touch down in Bangor on their way home
BANGOR, Maine — Two astronauts who returned Monday from the International Space Station touched down briefly in Bangor on Tuesday as they made their way from Kazakhstan to Houston. Canadian Chris...
View ArticleRockland-area parents call for saving small schools
OWLS HEAD, Maine — Parents of students who attend the Owls Head Central and Gilford Butler schools were ready Tuesday night to circle the wagons to keep their community education centers open. “We have...
View ArticleBecky Sawtelle is the Queen of Weight Loss!
I think today should be all about Becky Sawtelle. No wait, let’s give her the entire rest of the week. She deserves it! For most of Becky’s life she struggled with her weight and finally decided to...
View ArticleRays’ Moore stifles Sox after Ortiz’s home run
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Matt Moore made his one mistake early and was dominant thereafter as Tampa Bay opened a three-game series with a 5-3 win over the Boston Red Sox on Tuesday night at Tropicana...
View ArticleLawmakers ask: Are business tax breaks working to create jobs in Maine?
AUGUSTA, Maine — Over the past 50 years, Maine legislatures and governors have added millions of dollars in tax breaks for businesses without doing the detailed analysis to find out which are effective...
View ArticleReverse Diabetes with Bacteria
Once again, gut bacteria proves to affect our health far more than we realized. Science has discovered that those who have diabetes, also have high levels of pathogens (bad bacteria) in their...
View ArticleLawmakers hope they have an energy bill LePage, Democrats can agree on
AUGUSTA, Maine — The Legislature’s Energy Committee unveiled a multipronged bill Tuesday that incorporates elements from nine different measures aimed at expanding Maine’s natural gas infrastructure,...
View ArticleOwner of tanker that hit Maine-N.H. bridge fighting lawsuit from states
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — The owner of an oil tanker that swung loose into the Piscataqua River earlier this year and made contact with a bridge between New Hampshire and Maine is fighting a lawsuit from the...
View ArticleOnce a beacon, Obama under fire over civil liberties
WASHINGTON — He may have been the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago. He may have written a book extolling...
View ArticleRevenue grabber
The LePage budget: Trying to take money from the poor, the elderly and property taxpayers.
View ArticleMan trying to dribble soccer ball to Brazil dies after being hit by car
OLYMPIA, Washington, May 14 (Reuters) — A man less than two weeks into a planned journey to dribble a soccer ball from his home city of Seattle to Brazil, the host nation for the 2014 World Cup, died...
View ArticleAttending Slow Money Maine on Wednesday
I’ll be in Augusta on Wednesday, first attending the Maine State Chamber of Commerce’s fifth annual Business Day at the Statehouse and later joining Slow Money Maine’s bi-monthly meeting. Slow Money...
View ArticleNo, Collins did not ask IRS to investigate NAACP
With the revelations that the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative groups for more rigorous review of their applications for a certain tax exempt status, some on the left have begun calling...
View ArticleWedding Season—the official season of crazy—is upon us.
I remember thinking in my mid-20s—right when it seems as though there are 6-7 weddings per summer and I felt like I couldn’t get my shit together—that weddings were these small, impermanent nations of...
View ArticleAngelina Jolie’s brave decision
Angelina Jolie published a piece in the New York Times Tuesday about her decision to undergo a preventive double mastectomy last month. As a carrier of a gene mutation called BRCA1, Jolie cut her...
View ArticleJolie’s revelation about preventive mastectomy spurs praise, concerns
CHICAGO — Angelina Jolie’s announcement Tuesday that she has a genetic predisposition to breast and ovarian cancer that led her to undergo a preventive double mastectomy has raised awareness about the...
View ArticleSearch continues for missing men presumed dead in Rangeley Lake
RANGELEY, Maine — Game wardens plan to resume their search on Wednesday for the bodies of two missing snowmobilers believed to be in Rangeley Lake. “As far as I know, they’ll be back out there with the...
View ArticleMedicine can make you sick. How to check out side effects.
A few years ago, I developed a painful infection. My doctor prescribed an antibiotic and a second drug to alleviate the agonizing, burning sensation. Despite the medicine, my misery increased. After a...
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