AUGUSTA (AP) — Gov. Paul LePage sent Christmas, holiday and New Year’s greetings to Mainers, saying this is a time for the family but also to remember troops serving around the world.
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LOCAL COLLEGE ROUNDUP: Edwards leads Maine to win
ORONO — Justin Edwards scored 27 points, grabbed 11 rebounds to lead the University of Maine men’s basketball team to an 84-78 win over Florida Gulf Coast on Saturday afternoon at the Alfond Arena.
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LOCAL ROUNDUP: Indians ice Bulldogs
WINSLOW — Anthony Paul had a goal and two assists to lead the Skowhegan boys hockey team to a 6-1 win over Lawrence at Sukee Arena.
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MLB Pirates, Sox close in on trade
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Boston Red Sox are pursuing another burly right-hander to shore up their bullpen.
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NFL: For Patriots, it’s all about momentum
Momentum. That’s all the New England Patriots are looking for in the final two weeks of the regular season. They want to win these final two games, today against Jacksonville and at home Dec. 30 against Miami, heading into the playoffs, then they don’t care how many games they have to play. The road to […]
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Two prongs in fight against mass shootings
One common response to the mass murder of innocent children in Newtown, Conn., has been calls “to do more” to help people with mental illness.
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Focus on job training good for all of us
Democrats in the Legislature had a broad range of issues on which they could focus this session.
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Stevens, Melisurgo
FAIRFIELD — Edward and Leanne Stevens of Fairfield have announced the engagement of their daughter, Lindsay Rachel Stevens to Daniel Matthew Melisurgo, son of Paul and Ann Melisurgo of Bay Shore, N.Y.
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Roots of mass murder
Every mass shooting has three elements: the killer, the weapon and the cultural climate. As soon as the shooting stops, partisans immediately pick their preferred root cause with corresponding pet panacea. Names are hurled, scapegoats paraded, prejudices vented. The argument goes nowhere.
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It’s a time for silence,not more inane babble
WASHINGTON — It is a conundrum of wordsmiths that sometimes events are so horrible that words escape us. Bereft of the tools of our trade, we are left with what is perhaps the only appropriate response to something as heart-stopping as the massacre of children: Silence.