The Buccaneers and Cowboys kick off the NFL season Thursday night with betting legal in 26 states plus the District of Columbia.
2021
Posted inSports
Sports Digest: U.S. Ryder Cup team gets four more rookies, but no Patrick Reed
Tony Finau, Xander Schauffele, Jordan Spieth and Harris English are added to the 12-man team, with Patrick Reed left off following a bout with pneumonia.
advertisement
Posted inNation & World, News
Hurricane Larry now a Category 2; swells to impact U.S. East Coast for the rest of the week
‘Life-threatening’ rip currents and swells may impact parts of the far eastern Caribbean, Bahamas and Canadian shores.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World, News
Yellen warns U.S. may hit debt ceiling in October
The Treasury secretary says that she will be unable to keep the government funded unless Congress acts.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World
Solar energy could power 40% of U.S. electricity by 2035
But a new federal report says it would require massive changes in U.S. policy and billions of dollars in federal investment to modernize the nation’s electric grid.
Posted inSports
Veteran NBA coach Steve Clifford embraces his roots at UMaine-Farmington
Clifford, the former head coach at Charlotte and Orlando, will offer a coaching clinic Saturday at his alma mater.
Posted inNation & World, News
WHO chief urges halt to booster shots for rest of the year
Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says rich countries should refrain until adequate initial doses are made available to poorer nations.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Navy secretary attends groundbreaking for $1.7 billion project in Kittery
The project will expand the number of dry docks at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine
Racist comments from Auburn city councilor tarnish agreement to name footbridge after John Jenkins
Leroy Walker said that alleged looting by “dark-colored people” in the South reflects badly on John Jenkins, former mayor of both Lewiston and Auburn who died last year.
Posted inNation & World
Statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee comes down in former Confederate capital
The 21-foot-tall bronze sculpture, installed in 1890, had stood among four other massive Confederate statues in Richmond, Va., that were removed by the city last summer.