Businesses are hoping the Lunar New Year will bring better luck for the former Portuguese colony and the only place in China where casinos are legal.
2023
New district attorney takes office in Franklin County
Neil McLean Jr. of Turner will serve Androscoggin, Franklin and Oxford counties.
State courts confront crisis on multiple fronts
Jail recordings of attorney-client phone calls and defense lawyer shortages are among the top concerns.
Floods in Philippines leave 51 dead, 19 missing
More than 8,600 people are still in shelters.
Waldoboro couple’s baby is state’s first of 2023
Jude Owen Dow was born at 12:44 a.m. on Jan. 1 at Lincoln Health in Damariscotta.
Alpine slopes face snow shortage in unseasonably warm winter
Climate change, the pandemic and war are not proving easy for European resorts.
At Supreme Court, it’s taking longer to hear cases
Arguments that usually lasted an hour in the morning have stretched well beyond two – or long past lunchtime.
Historic term begins in Michigan as Whitmer, others sworn in
The inauguration comes days after two men were sentenced to lengthy federal prison terms after they led a plot to kidnap her in 2020.
Patriots’ uneven season leads to must-win finale at Buffalo
New England (8-8) has control of its playoff fate entering the final week of the schedule, despite a poor offense and some befuddling moments.
Tom Caron: NHL’s Winter Classic has lost a bit of its luster
Outdoor NHL hockey games once generated excitement, but the league now has staged 36 of them over the past two decades.