WATERVILLE — Cony High School graduate Rachael Mack had 18 points, nine rebounds and three assists as the Colby women’s basketball team beat Trinity 60-56 in a New England Small College Athletic Conference game Friday.
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HIGH SCHOOL BOYS BASKETBALL: Raiders’ big 3rd sinks Bears
READFIELD — Winslow broke out of a first-half shooting slump in the third quarter of its Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference Class B game against Maranacook on Friday night and took over the game in the space of six minutes.
AFC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME: New England owner calls team extended family
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Robert Kraft is headed to another AFC championship game in a season like no other in his 18 years as owner of the New England Patriots.
Probe may hit casino PACs
The Maine ethics commission will decide Wednesday whether to probe the campaign finance reports of the political action committees behind a failed proposal to allow a casino in downtown Lewiston.
Experts: LePage can’t close schools
State officials and legal experts said Gov. Paul LePage doesn’t have the power to close the state’s schools — something he said he’d do May 1 if the Legislature doesn’t accept spending cuts in the Department of Health and Human Services budget.
Tensions high at housing meeting
AUGUSTA — Questions about payments to vendors, sponsorships and politics dominated a testy meeting of the Maine State Housing Authority Board of Commissioners on Friday.
Selectmen hear employees’ concerns over wages
VASSALBORO — Town employees used statistics and spreadsheets to show selectmen they are paid an average of 25 to 30 percent less than the average of workers in comparable Maine towns.
Sappi Fine gets new director from Bucksport
SKOWHEGAN — The former vice president of operations at the Verso Paper Corp. mill in Bucksport has been named the new managing director at the Sappi Fine Paper North America’s Somerset mill in Skowhegan.
MAN PLEADS NOT GUILTY IN STABBING
FARMINGTON — A Massachusetts man accused of fatally stabbing an 81-year-old Farmington woman pleaded not guilty Friday in Franklin County Superior Court.
Storm pushes snow total up to normal
Residents of southern Maine awoke Friday to a deeper-than-expected blanket of snow, particularly in inland communities, where cold temperatures and southwest winds combined to push snow totals above 9 inches.