Tommy Paul ousts fellow American Ben Shelton, but Novak Djokovic – who has won 11 straight sets – is playing well and looming next.
January 2023
Posted inMaine colleges, Sports
Wednesday’s college roundup: UMaine men upset UMass Lowell, 75-70
Basketball: Maine closes out the win with back-to-back 3-pointers in the final minutes.
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Sports Digest: Maine Celtics fall in Fort Wayne, 133-119
Marial Shayok and Kamar Baldwin combine for 58 points in a loss to the Mad Ants.
Posted inMaine, News
Maine’s new lead public defender resigns
The Maine Commission on Indigent Legal Services called an emergency meeting Wednesday to allow its executive director to temporarily fill the role left by Seth Levy.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World, News
Right-wing Newsmax channel dropped by DirecTV
More than 40 Republican lawmakers send a letter to AT&T, which owns DirecTV, warning the provider could face hearings after its rate negotiations with Newsmax fall apart.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, Nation & World, News
States reimagine power grids for a wind and solar future
A complex web of independent system operators, state regulators and utility companies oversee the planning and construction of new grid infrastructure, with frequent disagreements about who should bear the cost.
Posted inKennebec Journal, Maine, Maine Crime, News
Jury in Gardiner man’s murder trial sent home after video, recording system crashes at Capital Judicial Center
This is not the first time the Augusta courthouse has experienced the major technical failure, which prevented proceedings from being electronically recorded and blocked lawyers’ ability to show evidence on monitors, says Superior Court Justice Michaela Murphy, who is calling for the system to be replaced.
Posted inColumns, Dana Wilde
Backyard Naturalist: New stars in a constant sky
Exploding stars known as novas are relatively commonplace in our galaxy, with 30 or 40 novas a year visible through telescopes, Dana Wilde writes.
Posted inSports, Varsity Maine
Watch the video: Varsity Maine Live with girls’ hockey coach Scott Rousseau
Travis Lazarczyk of the Press Herald, Nate Fournier of the Sun Journal and Mike Mandell of the Kennebec Journal discuss the latest news in high school sports. Their guest this week is Scott Rousseau, coach of the Cheverus/OOB/Kennebunk/Windham co-op girls’ hockey team.
Posted inNation & World, News
U.S., Germany sending battle tanks to aid Ukraine war effort
President Biden said the U.S. will send 31 M1 Abrams battle tanks to Ukraine, reversing months of persistent arguments by Washington that the tanks were too difficult for Ukrainian troops to operate and maintain.