CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Busy Philipps, 41; Linda Cardellini, 45; Ricky Gervais, 59; Carly Simon, 75. Happy Birthday: Change your goals to suit the economic trends better. Staying one step ahead of the competition will help put your mind at ease and give you the incentive to set unique alternatives that are more conducive […]
June 2020
Posted inDear Abby
Hair-trigger temper keeps mom walking on eggshells
DEAR ABBY: I have one child, a daughter, “Anna,” I adopted at 19 months. She’s 41 now and has two small children. She had a normal upbringing, although her father and I divorced when she was 9. She has chosen to not have a relationship with him as an adult. Anna has never married, nor […]
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Posted inDr. Roach
Could drinking a glass of water really stop heart palpitations?
DEAR DR. ROACH: I have a suggestion for the lady who complained of heart palpitations without any apparent underlying causes. My late uncle, when staying in our house, always requested a big glass of water by his bed in case heart palpitations awoke him. He said that drinking water stopped palpitations each time. It also […]
Posted inAuto Racing, National Sports, Sports
How Bubba Wallace ended up assigned to a garage stall containing a noose
Coronavirus protocols changed the way NASCAR decided which garages each team occupied at Talladega Superspeedway on Sunday.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State, News
Lawyers ask judge to pull referendum on CMP corridor from November ballot
Attorneys on both sides agree that the matter will go to the state supreme court regardless of how Justice Thomas Warren rules.
Posted inNational Sports, Sports
NBA, NBPA say the goal of restart will be sparking social change
The NBA and the National Basketball Players Association say that dealing with racial matters will be a shared goal during the resumed season.
Posted inNation / World
Businesses sue Seattle over ‘occupied’ protest zone
The plaintiffs say they are not trying to undermine protests for racial justice, but must do something after the city’s decision to “abandon and close off an entire neighborhood.”
Posted inNational Sports, Sports
After 60 games in 2019, World Series champ Nationals were in trouble
The Washington Nationals’ championship season last year might give fans a sense of what it will mean to have a Major League Baseball season shrunk down to just 60 games during the pandemic.
Posted inLocal & State, News
Bangor may relocate monument to Portuguese explorer
The City Council is scheduled to discuss a proposal from the Penobscot Nation to remove the controversial monument to Estevan Gomez.
Posted inBusiness, Nation / World
Bottled water sold by Whole Foods has high levels of arsenic, tests show
The levels are at least 3 times higher than other brands tested by Consumer Reports.