Yale’s Dante Palecco stumbles as UMaine’s Brendan Robbins digs in to take possession during Monday’s game at Cross Insurance Arena in Portland. (Portland Press Herald photo by Ben McCanna) PORTLAND — The Black Bears’ best players played like their best players Monday night. Eduards Tralmaks used a nifty move to cut off the half-wall and […]
January 2019
Posted inNational Sports
Kyrie Irving scores 17 in return as Celtics top sloppy Nets
Celtics guard leads eight Boston players in double figures.
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Posted inNational Sports
Tom Brady’s respect for Phillip Rivers is high entering Patriots-Chargers playoff matchup
“I mean the guy played with a torn ACL. We played in 10-degree weather and he was still firing dimes out there,” New England QB says.
Posted inBethel
Bethel board extends medical marijuana moratorium
BETHEL — Selectmen voted unanimously Monday to extend the moratorium on town approval for medical marijuana stores for another 180 days. The vote followed a public hearing Selectman Peter Southam said the moratorium is retroactive to December, when the previous one expired. Mike Everett told selectmen Monday that a law went into effect that a town […]
Posted inBoys Basketball, sj-web, Varsity Maine
Boys’ basketball: Leavitt stays unbeaten with win over Maranacook
Wyatt Hathaway scores 24 and Josh Banks adds 15 for Hornets.
Posted inOxford Hills
SAD 17 gets state approval for buses
PARIS — Oxford Hills School District Superintendent Rick Colpitts told the board of directors Monday night that the state has approved funding for more buses, which could support a single run if school officials approve. Colpitts said he will approach the Finance Committee to determine how the buses might be paid for and report to […]
Posted inBoys Basketball, sj-web, Varsity Maine
Boys’ basketball: Winthrop defense stellar in win over Madison
Ramblers hold Bulldogs to one point in first quarter.
Posted inFranklin, Lewiston-Auburn, Livermore Falls Advertiser
Trial begins for former Jay man accused of killing girlfriend
FARMINGTON — The murder trial of James “Ted” Sweeney opened Monday with the prosecutor focusing on Sweeney’s obsessive jealousy and the defense pointing to mental illness and deafness as factors in the beating death of Wendy Douglass at her home in Jay last year. Sweeney, 58, formerly of Jay, is accused of killing his former longtime girlfriend […]
Posted inNews, Politics
Maine DHHS starts rulemaking process on public assistance for asylum seekers
Gov. Janet Mills does not plan to change rules proposed by the LePage administration after a court decision forcing the state to restore benefits it had been denying.
Posted inBusiness
Federal contractors feel impact of shutdown, but BIW will get its funds
Contracts such as those at BIW are unaffected because that department already received its funds.