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- US committed to fight in Syria against Islamic State, general says
Sunday - 01/26/2020 - 11:56 AMGREEN VILLAGE MILITARY OUTPOST — U.S. troops at military outposts ín eastern Syria asked variations of the same question to their top commander Saturday: What is our future here? What are the goals we need to think about?More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Angus King says impeachment acquittal would shift power to White House
Sunday - 01/26/2020 - 01:20 PMAcquitting President Donald Trump of obstruction during his impeachment trial could reshape the power structure between the president and Congress forever, creating graver implications than the abuse-of-power claims, Sen. Angus King said.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Kobe Bryant dies in helicopter crash in California
Sunday - 01/26/2020 - 03:20 PMCALABASAS, Calif. — NBA legend Kobe Bryant, his teenage daughter and three others were killed in a helicopter crash in Southern California on Sunday.
The chopper went down in Calabasas, about 30 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - No longer underground, Maine’s drag queen scene is mainstream and ‘finally cool’
Sunday - 01/26/2020 - 07:55 AMPORTLAND, Maine — A capacity crowd of nearly 600 people saw Gigi Gabor win the 2020 Miss Blackstone’s Drag Queen Pageant at Port City Music Hall on Saturday night. The annual contest was moved from its tiny namesake gay bar to a larger venue this year due to so many people being turned away at the door in 2019.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Payment processor WEX announces plans to acquire 2 companies
Sunday - 01/26/2020 - 09:30 AMA Portland-based payment processor plans to acquire two other payment companies in a deal worth about $1.7 billion.
WEX filed notices with federal regulators Friday of its intent to acquire eNett and Optal in a mostly cash deal, the Portland Press Herald reports.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Former Mass. state trooper denies collecting pay for holidays he didn’t work
Sunday - 01/26/2020 - 10:32 AMFALL RIVER, Massachusetts — A retired Massachusetts State Police lieutenant has pleaded not guilty to collecting more than $11,500 in holiday pay he had not earned.
David Andrade, 47, of Westport was released on personal recognizance after pleading not guilty Friday in Fall River Superior Court to larceny and violation of public employee standards of conduct, The Herald New s reported.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trump defends Bernie Sanders, stoking Democratic divisions
Sunday - 01/26/2020 - 11:16 AMWASHINGTON — As tensions between Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren rose earlier this month, Sanders found himself with an unusual ally: President Donald Trump.
During a raucous campaign rally in which Trump critiqued some of his Democratic challengers, the president launched into an unprompted defense of Sanders.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Former Maine journalists to appear on Wheel of Fortune
Sunday - 01/26/2020 - 01:00 AMTwo former Maine journalists are due to appear on the popular game show Wheel of Fortune this week.
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Giovanna Bechard, a former reporter for Portland TV station WGME who now works as communication director for the Maine Education Association, will appear on the episode airing Monday. - It’s time to bury the Blaine amendments and allow full school choice
Sunday - 01/26/2020 - 06:00 AMSupporters of school choice, take notice. The Supreme Court just heard oral arguments in a case that could limit your ability to pick the school that’s right for your children.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Gardiner man arrested after allegedly shooting one person and stabbing another
Saturday - 01/25/2020 - 12:58 PMPolice arrested a 21-year-old man Saturday afternoon in connection with a shooting and stabbing that occurred earlier that morning in Gardiner.
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Dylan Ketcham of Gardiner has been charged with elevated aggravated assault and is being held at the Kennebec County Jail, state police spokesperson Stephen McCausland said.
- Connecticut woman killed in Solon snowmobile crash
Sunday - 01/26/2020 - 12:26 PMA Connecticut woman was killed Saturday night when her snowmobile crashed in Solon.
Michelle Pavia, 43, of Stamford, Connecticut, was riding a snowmobile on Ironbound Pond and was heading toward shore about 9:45 p.m.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Iraqi protesters defy top cleric and return to the streets
Sunday - 01/26/2020 - 02:47 PMBAGHDAD — Hundreds of anti-government protesters flooded the streets of Iraq’s capital and southern provinces on Sunday, defying a powerful Iraqi religious leader who recently withdrew his support from the popular movement.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Monday, Jan. 27, 2020: Fish farm facts, saving for retirement, Pickering Square works for the bus hub
Sunday - 01/26/2020 - 07:36 AMFish farm facts
Many times at the Belfast Planning Board hearings related to the Nordic Aquafarms proposal, the promotion of facts has been so distorted as to render them no longer factual.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - What Jim Lehrer’s rules can teach us all
Sunday - 01/26/2020 - 08:00 AMJim Lehrer, the longtime anchor of PBS NewsHour, died last week at 85. Perhaps best known for interviewing world leaders and moderating presidential debates, Lehrer’s life’s work reporting the news was defined by a commitment to fairness.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Democratic race in Iowa heats up as caucus approaches
Sunday - 01/26/2020 - 10:27 AMDES MOINES, Iowa — Democratic presidential candidates have roared back into Iowa touting fresh endorsements, critiquing their rivals and predicting victories in the caucuses that will soon launch the process of deciding who will challenge President Donald Trump.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - How Maine’s members of Congress voted over the past week
Sunday - 01/26/2020 - 10:48 AMWASHINGTON — Here’s a look at how Maine’s members of Congress voted over the previous week.
The President Donald Trump impeachment trial was the only subject of roll call votes.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Ex-Boston City Hall official sentenced in bribery scheme
Sunday - 01/26/2020 - 11:37 AMBOSTON — A former Boston City Hall official who admitted accepting a bribe was sentenced in federal court Friday to just over three years in prison and one year of supervised release.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Dominating Bucksport football standout named Gaziano Award winner
Sunday - 01/26/2020 - 01:00 AMDavid Gross was recognized Saturday as the best in the state at what he does on the football field.
The Bucksport High School senior was named winner of the Frank J.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - UMaine basketball coach reprimanded by America East for criticizing officials
Saturday - 01/25/2020 - 06:41 PMUniversity of Maine men’s basketball coach Richard Barron has been issued a reprimand by the America East Conference for his public criticism of officiating, commissioner Amy Huchthausen announced.
Barron made comments criticizing the officials during a televised halftime interview in UMaine’s game against Vermont on Wednesday.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Central Aroostook captures D North/South cheering regional title
Saturday - 01/25/2020 - 01:01 PMDefending six-time state champ Central Aroostook High School of Mars Hill rattled off a highly creative and near-flawless performance Saturday afternoon to cruise to the Class D North/South regional cheerleading championship at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- In recording, Trump asks how long Ukraine can resist Russians
Sunday - 01/26/2020 - 12:09 PMWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump inquired how long Ukraine would be able to resist Russian aggression without U.S. assistance during a 2018 meeting with donors that included the indicted associates of his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Man sentenced to prison for Sanford arson fire that displaced 8
Sunday - 01/26/2020 - 03:11 PMA Springvale man who was accused of setting a fire that displaced eight people in Sanford last summer has pleaded guilty.
Johnathan Cox, 25, was sentenced Friday to eight years in prison with all but five suspended on the charge of arson, a Class A felony, at York County Superior Court in Alfred, according to Sanford police Detective Sgt.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - UMBC women’s basketball team snaps UMaine’s 17-game home win streak
Sunday - 01/26/2020 - 04:46 PMIt was a long afternoon for the cold-shooting University of Maine women’s basketball team on Sunday — and a terrific one for the University of Maryland Baltimore County.
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Speedy and talented guards Te’yJah Oliver and Lyric Swann constantly blew past UMaine’s defenders en route to converting easy layups or dishing off to teammates for short jumpers as the Retrievers snapped UMaine’s 17-game Cross Insurance Center winning streak against America East opponents with a 74-54 victory. - Man who fatally shot Maine Marine at South Carolina base found guilty
Sunday - 01/26/2020 - 09:19 AMA Marine from Ohio was found guilty in a military court of fatally shooting a Standish man at a South Carolina base more than nine months ago.
The Charlotte Observer reports that Cpl.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - UMaine’s Shea earns family bragging rights in overtime win against Boston College
Sunday - 01/26/2020 - 09:39 AMUniversity of Maine senior right wing Patrick Shea’s father, Neil, played 135 games for Boston College between 1982 and 1986.
But the younger Shea earned family bragging rights on Saturday night.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Astronauts plug leak in cosmic ray detector outside International Space Station
Sunday - 01/26/2020 - 10:58 AMCAPE CANAVERAL, Florida — Spacewalking astronauts plugged a leak in a cosmic ray detector outside the International Space Station on Saturday, completing a series of complex repairs to give the instrument new life.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Woman pleads guilty to embezzling $180K from Mass. animal hospital
Sunday - 01/26/2020 - 11:26 AMLOWELL, Massachusetts — A Massachusetts woman has pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $180,000 from a local animal hospital, federal prosecutors announced Friday.
Sasha Saulnier, 32, of Lowell pleaded guilty to six counts of wire fraud in Boston federal court on Thursday.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Why Maine needs the Transportation Climate Initiative
Sunday - 01/26/2020 - 06:00 AMAs any Mainer knows, we have a transportation problem. And it unfortunately goes beyond limited access to public transit and chronic underfunding of our transportation infrastructure.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Long-range shooting lifts UMBC past UMaine men’s basketball team
Saturday - 01/25/2020 - 04:00 PMThe University of Maryland Baltimore County used its long-range shooting accuracy to surge past the University of Maine men’s basketball team 63-53 in an America East encounter at the UMBC Event Center in Baltimore on Saturday afternoon.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Why I’m supporting Mike Bloomberg
Saturday - 01/25/2020 - 01:53 PMGrowing up in a working-class family, you learn not only the value of hard work, integrity and honesty. You learn that if you have an opportunity to help, you have an obligation to act.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share