OAKLAND, Calif. — Tom Brady grew up in the Bay Area rooting for Joe Montana so it was only fitting that in his first game back here in nine years he passed the Hall of Famer on an exclusive list.
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COLLEGE ROUNDUP: Hale scores twice to lift UMF to victory
HENNIKER, N.H. — Jordan Hale scored two goals as the University of Maine at Farmington men’s soccer team beat New England College 2-0 in a North Atlantic Conference game Sunday.
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Wall Street protesters: We’re in for long haul
NEW YORK — The protesters who have been camping out in Manhattan’s Financial District for more than two weeks eat donated food and keep their laptops running with a portable gas-powered generator. They have a newspaper — the Occupied Wall Street Journal — and a makeshift hospital.
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ALDS: Tigers shut down Yankees in Game 2
NEW YORK (AP) — This is no time for the New York Yankees to stop hitting. Justin Verlander is on deck for Detroit, and he figures to pitch more than one inning.
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Court returns to Pownalborough
DRESDEN — The interests of justice will be served once again in the pre-Revolutionary Pownalborough Court House when the Maine Supreme Judicial Court hears arguments in two appeals cases there Oct. 12.
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Convenience store, gas station skips step
NORRIDGEWOCK — Town planners are facing another retroactive permitting process, this time for a convenience store and gas station on the north end of the U.S. Route 201A bridge.
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VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Young Americans are ‘Shortchanged Generation’
Newly released Census data demonstrate the chilling impact the recession has had on the current crop of young Americans, to whom the American Dream is increasingly becoming a historical curiosity.
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Mitchell says Palestinian UN bid worrisome
PORTLAND — Former U.S. Middle East peace envoy George Mitchell said Sunday that the Palestinians’ bid to gain membership in the United Nations will worsen the prospects for peace with Israel.
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Seniors value as volunteers touted
AUGUSTA — Economic forecaster Laurie Lachance suggested members of the Senior College at the University of Maine at Augusta could improve life for themselves and others in Maine by volunteering to work with youngsters and teens and various civic groups, including historic preservation efforts.
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GOP politicians act to deprive citizens of vote
I don’t want barriers to our citizens voting in the state of Maine. Republican politicians keep repeating the same line about fraud and “vulnerabilities” in Maine’s voting system, but those claims are misleading. Even the leading proponents of the change to curtail Maine voters, Secretary of State Charles Summers and Maine Republican Party chairman Charles […]