Oxford Hills’ Marcus Stone, left, and Ty LeBlond stuff Bangor’s Eli Bradford on a kickoff return during Saturday’s game at Gouin Athletic Complex in Paris. (Brewster Burns photo) PARIS — Homecoming was the perfect prescription for an Oxford Hills team coming off a week of illness, injury and its first loss of the season. The […]
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Field hockey: Oliver, York have all the answers against St. Dom's
York’s Christina Dargie takes a swing at the ball in an attempt to blast it past St. Dominic’s Avery Greco during Saturday’s field hockey game in Auburn. (Andree Kehn/Sun Journal) AUBURN — Every time St. Dom’s scored, York had an answer. The Saints, meanwhile, struggled to find an answer for the Wildcats’ Bailey Oliver. The […]
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Maine unemployment rate ticked up slightly in August
Maine’s unemployment rate rose slightly to 3.2 percent in August from 3 percent in July, according to preliminary, seasonally adjusted estimates released Friday by the state Department of Labor. Still, August’s unemployment rate remained lower than a year earlier, when it was 3.4 percent, the department said. The number of unemployed job-seekers in Maine declined […]
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Standoff has Kavanaugh accuser's Senate appearance in limbo
WASHINGTON (AP) — The high-stakes confrontation over whether Brett Kavanaugh’s accuser will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee grinded into Saturday as Republican Chairman Chuck Grassley gave Christine Blasey Ford more time to decide whether to tell her story to his panel and a riveted nation. Grassley had set a Friday night deadline for the […]
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Distemper virus appears to be the culprit in seal deaths
An ongoing mass die-off of seals along the New England coast has been linked to an outbreak of a distemper virus. Almost 1,000 stranded seals have been reported along the coastline in Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts since July. As of last week, three-quarters of the seals were dead, according to figures from the National […]
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Westminister's top dog Uno the beagle dies at 13
Every dog might have its day, but not many ever had a night like this. Cheered on by a roaring, packed crowd at Madison Square Garden, the playful beagle responded like a true champ. “Ah-roo!” Uno bayed that evening, a decade ago. “Ah-roo!” Uno, who became perhaps the most popular pooch to step into a […]
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Overdose deaths in Maine averaged nearly one per day during first half of 2018
Drug overdoses continued to claim nearly one life per day in Maine during the first six months of 2018 despite intensive efforts – from the State House to sober houses – to slow the opioid crisis. There were 180 overdose deaths in Maine through June 30, down just slightly from the 185 drug-related deaths reported […]
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Donald Trump wants to rid Justice Department of 'lingering stench'
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — President Donald Trump has issued an ominous warning about the Justice Department and the FBI, promising more firings to rid a “lingering stench” after reports that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein discussed secretly recording Trump. Trump, at a political rally Friday night in Missouri, did not explicitly mention the Rosenstein furor, […]
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Former priest, Cheverus teacher due to go on trial on sex assault charges
Michael Doherty remembers the moment he finally saw James Talbot in handcuffs. Talbot has a history of alleged sexual abuse of children dating to the 1970s at Boston College High School in Massachusetts, then at Cheverus High School in Portland. The former Jesuit priest and teacher has settled lawsuits with more than a dozen victims, […]
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Franklin Health Primary Care to hold Open House
FARMINGTON — Franklin Health Primary Care, formerly Franklin Health Intown Medicine on Box Shop Hill in Farmington, is hosting an open house from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 6, at its new location in the Mt. Blue Health Center on the Franklin Memorial Hospital campus. Anyone with an interest in visiting the offices, […]