Sam Burns closes with a 3-under 68 for a three-stroke margin over Keegan Bradley in the Valspar Championship.
2021
Public transit hopes to win back riders after crushing year
As President Biden urges more federal spending on public transportation, transit agencies decimated by COVID-19 are struggling to figure out how to win back passengers
Florida middle school killer dies in prison at 31
No cause of death is released for the man who at age 14 lured a friend into a bathroom stall at their suburban Miami middle school and cut his throat.
Holt, Rangers rally past Red Sox
Former Boston utility player Brock Holt drives in the go-ahead run as Texas beats Boston, 5-3.
Maine Sen. Susan Collins wants to renew Farm to School grant program
Sen. Susan Collins says the bill is designed to raise the program’s funding to $15 million.
SpaceX returns 4 astronauts to Earth; rare night splashdown
Sunday’s U.S. crew splashdown was the first in darkness since the Apollo 8 moonshot.
Use-of-force cases prompt state debates over officer records
At least 16 states have contemplated measures to release such records, or summaries of them, publicly. Another eight have discussed making the records accessible to other law enforcement agencies.
Six Brunswick organizations included in $1 million grant for vulnerable Mainers
The organizations include Sexual Assault Support Services of Midcoast Maine, Tedford Housing, Maine Coast Fishermen’s Association, Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program, Volunteers of America Northern New England and Growing to Give.
Sunday’s Maine college roundup: USM softball streak ends with doubleheader split
The Huskies rally for a 7-6 victory over Eastern Connecticut State, then have their 15-game winning streak snapped by a 6-3 loss in Game 2.
U.S. to launch trade talks on COVID-19 vaccine distribution
The White House has been under pressure from lawmakers at home and governments abroad to join an effort to waive patent rules for the vaccines so that poorer countries can begin to produce their own generic versions of the shots.