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PHILADELPHIA — Pinch-hitter Brock Holt hit a tiebreaking solo homer, Rick Porcello threw seven impressive innings and the major league-leading Boston Red Sox beat the Philadelphia Phillies 2-1 Tuesday night.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Track and field
MAINE USATF
15-Under Championship
At Augusta
BOYS
8-Under
100m: 1, Goudreau, Griffin, Topsham, Team Be, 16.83. 2, Woods, Kendrick, TRAIL, 16.84. 3, Murphy, Elijah, Topsham, Team Be, 16.94.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

AUGUSTA, Maine — The LePage administration is mum on Medicaid coverage for low-income Mainers who’ve applied while a legal battle over Medicaid expansion continues.
Mainers who sought Medicaid expansion under a voter-approved law last month could receive coverage as early as Thursday or Friday.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Mimicking animal noises is a skill that most of us have dabbled with, beginning with early childhood attempts to “moo” like a cow and “woof” like a dog.
Eventually, some of us even try luring in game animals by grunting like a moose or gobbling like a turkey.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

State officials are investigating a wastewater leak from a Baileyville pulp and tissue mill into the St. Croix River.
The spill, which occurred Friday, Aug. 10, involved more than a half million gallons of partially treated wastewater that was discharged from an effluent line, according to Scott Beal, spokesman for St.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Authorities in Nebraska on Tuesday morning used the powerful opioid fentanyl to carry out a death sentence, an unprecedented move that came as the state — which just three years ago briefly abolished capital punishment — completed a remarkable reversal and resumed executions for the first time in nearly a generation.

A Bowdoinham man was arrested Monday and charged with felony terrorizing with a dangerous weapon after allegedly threatening to “shoot up” Central Maine Community College in Auburn.

PORTLAND, Maine — During all of 2017, Harpswell-based nonprofit Marine Mammals of Maine responded to 40 calls about seals in distress along the Maine coast.
Already this year, the organization has been called about nearly 250 seal pups, either dead or in distress, between Portland and Kittery.

The CEO of Central Maine Power is apologizing for an inadequate response to customers’ concerns about a new billing system.
Television ads that began airing Monday feature Doug Herling saying he’s sorry that the company “didn’t respond as well as we should have” to concerns raised about a new customer care and billing system last winter.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s inaugural committee pushed back hard last summer on questions about whether the unprecedented $107 million budget for the event was fraught with cost overruns and misspending.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share