The Black Bears host the Sharks for a non-conference homecoming game Saturday afternoon.
2023
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Judge orders Texas county where Juneteenth began to redraw maps after voting rights challenge
The decision by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Brown, a Trump appointee, adds to victories voting rights groups have notched in the South this year over maps that Black voters say dilute their political power.
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U.S. officials bolster support for Israel as potential ground offensive in Gaza looms
The visits to the Middle East by Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken came as Israel escalated its war against Hamas militants in response to their shocking and brutal rampage last weekend.
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Abortion workers, crushed by restrictions and buoyed by labor movement, are unionizing
At least 8 reproductive health-care groups have organized since the Supreme Court overturned Roe.
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French authorities link a school stabbing that killed a teacher to Islamic extremism
Authorities say a man of Chechen origin who was under surveillance by the French security services over suspected Islamic radicalization stabbed a teacher to death at his former high school in northern France.
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Three people injured in 2-vehicle crash on Farmington Falls Road in Farmington
A vehicle driven by Daniel Smith, 62, of Bangor attempted to turn around and pulled into the path of a vehicle driven by Seth Reed, 27, of Vassalboro.
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Antisemitic message found at Augusta’s Cony High School
Principal Kimberly Liscomb said the student who wrote the message has been identified and ‘consequences and education have been implemented.’
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House Republicans in chaos after ousting McCarthy and rejecting Scalise. What’s next?
The U.S. House has been without a leader for more than a week, as majority Republicans threw out Speaker Kevin McCarthy and refused to rally around his No. 2, Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise.
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Odes to sharing the roads
It’s getting to be the time of year out here when sharing the road means 90 percent me and Tom, 10 percent the squirrels. (For those who might not know, “out here” is eleven miles from blacktop–where sharing can be with logging trucks, ATVs, moose, deer, the occasional excavator or cement truck and, during the […]
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Saturday Science Event at RPL
Event at The Rangeley Public Library “Solar Eclipse Viewing ” 12:30 pm Saturday Oct 14th, 2023 Presenter: Children’s Librarian Brittany Wetherill A Partial Eclipse will be visible from Rangeley from 12:30 – 2:30, October 14, 2023. The Rangeley Public Library will be hosting a viewing party outside in the Library Garden, presented by Children’s Librarian […]