A video shows them shoving a 75-year-old protester who fell and hit his head on the pavement.
June 2020
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Testing plan is biggest hurdle for NBA
The league and its players must figure out safety protocols before the season can resume in late July.
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MLB stalemate: Huge financial gap between proposals
Some teams would save more than $100 million in salaries if players were to accept management’s demands for pay cuts.
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Michael Jordan pledges $100 million toward racial equality, social justice
Jordan and the Nike-affiliated company the Jordan Brand plan to make donations over the next 10 years.
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The Latest: Mayor of Portland, Oregon, orders police not to use CS gas except as last resort
PORTLAND, Ore. — Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler has ordered the city’s police not to use a type of tear gas except as a last resort in life-threatening situations. Wheeler issued a statement Saturday saying he shares community concerns about the use of CS gas, especially during a respiratory-illness pandemic. Critics have called on the Portland […]
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The Latest: 2nd day of 50-plus cases in South Korea virus spike
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea has reported 57 additional cases of the coronavirus, marking a second day in a row that its daily jump is above 50 as authorities struggle to suppress a spike in fresh infections in the densely populated Seoul metropolitan area. The figures released Sunday by the Korea Centers for Disease […]
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Lewiston’s Class of 2020 drives into graduation
Cars fill the tarmac at The Auburn-Lewiston Airport as the Class of 2020 is celebrated during a drive-in graduation.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime
Teen arrested and charged in Clinton crash that killed 3 teens
Timothy Silva, 17, was arrested on Thursday evening four months after a car accident that killed three teens and injured another.
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May jobs report’s ‘misclassification error’ made unemployment rate look lower than it is. Here’s what happened.
The unemployment rate is actually about 16.3 percent for May.
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On this date in Maine history: June 6
June 6, 1944: Nineteen-year-old Charles Norman Shay, a Penobscot Indian, rescues drowning and wounded soldiers while under enemy fire among the first wave of attackers to land on Omaha Beach in France on D-Day. His actions earn him a Silver Star. Shay, who grew up on Indian Island in the Penobscot River, is an Army […]