Water-guzzling residents who’ve been staying close to their air conditioners will have to get through one more day before temperatures are expected to start cooling down.
2012
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MLB: Ortiz slam helps Sox down Marlins
BOSTON (AP) — David Ortiz hit a grand slam for one of the Red Sox’s four homers as they set a season high in runs, beating the Miami Marlins 15-5 Wednesday night on the hottest day of the year in Boston.
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World’s smallest jet lands at aviation history talk
AUGUSTA — Stuffed into the cockpit of the world’s smallest jet, Peter Reny, who first learned to fly at Maine Instrument Flight while a junior at Cony High School, made a big, smoke-spewing entrance Wednesday night.
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GOP’s claim King left Maine with $1 billion shortfall has merit
“In 2000, Angus King had a budget surplus of over $300 million, but he left office with a $1 billion shortfall.” — Statement from National Republican Senatorial Committee on Republican, Democratic Senate primary wins in Maine
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Snowe, Collins join effort to oppose GOP plan to lower mecury emissions
New England’s U.S. senators delivered a unanimous rebuke Wednesday to an effort by Republicans from the South and West to overturn federal regulations to cut mercury and other toxic emissions released by coal-fired power plants.
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SNAPSHOT: China fishing
Alex Pratt baits his line at the outlet of China Lake on Pleasant View Ridge Road Tuesday.
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MaineToday Media adds newsroom staff
PORTLAND — Kevin Miller, a reporter for the Bangor Daily News for the past six years, has been hired as Washington bureau chief for MaineToday Media, which includes the Kennebec Journal in Augusta and the Morning Sentinel in Waterville as well as the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram.
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Lobstermen facing delay
A manufacturing problem has delayed the production of license tags for lobster traps, forcing hundreds of lobstermen in New England to wait weeks to set their traps for the season.
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STATE PICKS PIPELINE BUILDER
AUGUSTA — The state government has selected a company affiliated with Central Maine Power Co.’s parent company to build a natural gas pipeline system in the Augusta area to distribute the gas to state property throughout the region.
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Swimmer’s death in China Lake ruled accidental
CHINA — The death of the swimmer whose body was found in China Lake this week was accidental, a state official said Wednesday.