Seven weeks after an electoral drubbing, some party leaders are showing a willingness to make changes on taxes, immigration reform and gun control.
2012
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Sen.-elect Warren of Mass. forms PAC
Warren, who takes office next month, raised tens of millions of dollars in her successful effort to unseat Republican Sen. Scott Brown.
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Colby College sets opening date for museum’s new pavilion
The Waterville college says the July 13, 2013, opening of the 26,000-square-foot Alfond-Lunder Family Pavilion will make the Colby College Museum of Art the largest art museum in Maine.
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Maine judge denies new trial for Sabattus killer
Daniel Roberts was convicted of the August 2005 shooting of 29-year-old Melissa Mendoza after a custody dispute over the couple’s then 2-year-old daughter.
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Finding answersat My Brother’s Keeper
That noise you heard this morning was your own sigh of relief. The tensions, impossibly high expectations, and frantic shopping that, sadly, define Christmas for so many, are over. Even if you don’t engage in this seasonal frenzy, you can’t help but be exhausted by it.
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NFL: 2012 the year of the comeback
DENVER (AP) — From Peyton Manning overcoming four neck surgeries to Adrian Peterson’s rebound from a shredded knee to Chuck Pagano’s fight with leukemia, this has been the Year of the Comeback in the NFL.
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HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS SOCCER: Kendrick wins regional award
Richmond girls soccer coach Troy Kendrick was recently named New England Region Coach of the Year by the National Soccer Coaches Association and will be in the running for National Coach of the Year at the association’s convention Jan. 18 in Indianapolis, Ind. Kendrick, who won the regional award in 2007, is taking the honor in stride.
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COMMENTARY — ON GOLF: Tales from the tour
Dave Kindred, a preeminent American sports writer who has worked his trade for the better part of four decades, was walking down the right side of the first fairway at Kiawah Island with the final group at the PGA Championship when he mentioned he had been teaching a writing class to college students.
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Library to offer family yoga
WATERVILLE — Four weeks of family yoga will be offered from 2 to 3 p.m. Sunday afternoons, Jan. 6, 13, 20 and 27, in the Colby Program Room at Waterville Public Library, 73 Elm St. This program is free and open to the public.
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NBA: Celtics get Christmas win
NEW YORK (AP) — Rajon Rondo lost his cool, and any chance at history, in the second quarter when Boston last met Brooklyn.