KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Prince Fielder made a splash at the All-Star Home Run Derby. Eight of them.
July 2012
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SNAPSHOT: Fore and fawn
A fawn whitetail deer leaps across a fairway Monday during the first day of the New England Women’s Golf Association Championship at Natanis Golf Course in Vassalboro. Over 70 of the top female amateur golfers in New England are teeing up to determine the top player in play through Wednesday. Play resumed immediately after the […]
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Criticism of turnpike toll hikes continues
YORK — Motorists who travel through the Maine Turnpike toll plaza in York would pay $3 instead of $2 under a proposal favored by staff at the turnpike authority.
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Hallowell considers future of Vaughan Field dog park
HALLOWELL — In response to complaints from residents about noise and odors, city officials will consider whether to move or even do away with the dog park in Vaughan Field.
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NH daily hires former MTM editor as CEO
Richard Connor, former publisher and editor of MaineToday Media, has been named chief executive officer of Foster’s Daily Democrat, a daily newspaper based in Dover, N.H.
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Ogunquit supportive of marriage of Barney Frank, partner
OGUNQUIT — Barney Frank and Jim Ready spent their honeymoon here at their home tucked on a wooded hillside, with the tourist-filled village churning below and a sliver of the Atlantic gleaming in the distance.
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Waterville mom appears in court
PORTLAND — Less than two hours before a TD Bank near the Maine Mall was robbed Thursday night, Waterville resident Jamilee Kus’ cellphone sent a text message asking the recipient to check the branch’s hours.
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Firefighters lacking health insurance
DENVER (AP) — They work the front lines of the nation’s most explosive wildfires, navigating treacherous terrain, dense walls of smoke and tall curtains of flame. Yet thousands of the nation’s seasonal firefighters have no health insurance for themselves or their families.
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Somerset County Jail inmate escapes from work crew
MADISON — A 20-year-old inmate with 10 days left on his sentence bolted from a work crew and scaled a fence at Somerset County Jail in East Madison on Monday, the jail administrator said.
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Gardiner councilors plan to follow state benefit cuts
GARDINER — Councilors on Wednesday plan to accept a general assistance ordinance that will reduce the maximum benefit by 10 percent and limit housing assistance to nine months.