She and her husband, Capt. Mark Kelly, urge background checks for more gun buyers.
July 2013
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MORNING SENTINEL GIRLS LACROSSSE PLAYER OF THE YEAR: Izzy Skinner
As long as you keep a couple things in mind, Izzy Skinner advises, it’s not that difficult to take the beating that comes with being a girls lacrosse goalkeeper.
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KJ/MS GIRLS LACROSSE COACH OF THE YEAR: Andy Haskell
The Gardiner girls lacrosse team was 1-11 in the regular season last year, but to the Tigers, it must have felt like a hundred losses. There were two to Cony, by a combined 23 goals. Two more to Brunswick, by a total of 19 goals. Two more to Mt. Ararat, by 16 goals.
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TRAVIS LAZARCZYK: Trash talk here to stay
My brother, Keith, tells a good story about a moment from the 1999 Vermont Division I high school football championship game.
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AMERICAN LEGION BASEBALL: The Red Barn splits with Franklin
AUGUSTA — As The Red Barn tried to hold on to first place in Zone 2 Saturday, the Augusta-based team hosted two games with Franklin County. The first was quick, crisp, and well-played. The second looked like it would be the kind of game that began at 1 p.m. and was called on account of darkness.
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SNAPSHOT: Summer sailing
A sailboat in the Kennebec River goes past the Gardiner landing on Saturday, near where the Cobbossee Stream joins the river. There was a light breeze on the hot sunny afternoon.
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STILL LIFE: Flying over his friends
Travis Decato, 20, leaps over his friends, Jennifer Stanphill, 19, right, Joe Andrews, laying on the deck, bottom center, and Samantha Thomas, 21, hidden, in to the Messalonskee Stream in Waterville on Saturday.
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W.Va. suspect in shooting of 2 deputies killed
An 84-year-old West Virginia man who shot and injured two deputies was killed by police Saturday after he emerged from his barricaded house with a weapon, police said.
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Ex-prisoner chosen to lead Syria opposition group
A former Syrian political prisoner with close links to Saudi Arabia was picked Saturday to lead Syria’s main Western-backed opposition group, filling a post long vacant due to divisions among President Bashar Assad’s opponents.
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Egypt: ElBaradei’s appointment put on hold
Egypt’s new president moved to assert his authority and regain control of the streets Saturday even as his Islamist opponents declared his powers illegitimate and issued blood oaths to restore Mohammed Morsi, whose ouster by the military has led to dueling protests and pitched street battles between rival sides.