Ten years after she won her first as a 16-year-old, Simone Biles wins her sixth individual all-around world title and 27th world championship medal.
2023
Posted inBoston Celtics, Sports
NBA notebook: Holiday lands in Boston, bringing ‘electricity’ to practice and championship goals
Jrue Holiday joins his new teammates at their practice facility for the first time since being acquired from Portland on Sunday night.
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Posted inMaine colleges, Sports, UMaine Sports
College football preview: UMaine (1-4) at Richmond (2-3)
The Black Bears look for a second straight Coastal Athletic Association win this week against the Spiders.
Posted inBusiness
Baileyville mill workers intend to strike
Workers say management has not been bargaining in good faith and filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board.
Posted inSports
Tough guy Dick Butkus stood apart in the City of Big Shoulders
The Chicago native was a human sledgehammer as a Hall of Fame linebacker with the Bears in the 1960s and ’70s.
Posted inAndroscoggin County, Business, Franklin, Maine, News, The Franklin Journal
Company planning to purchase Jay paper mill hopes to close deal by Dec. 31
JGT2 Redevelopment plans to restart the cogeneration plant and sell power while redeveloping the mill site.
Posted inMaine
Contaminated farm in Unity to become PFAS research site
Songbird Farm is one of a growing number of farms found to be contaminated with so-called forever chemicals from sludge fertilizer spread on fields, once a common, state-sanctioned practice.
Posted inBusiness, Nation / World
N.Y. commercial fisherman convicted of exceeding fish quotas by 200,000 pounds
He was accused of falsifying records to sell illegal fluke and black sea bass worth nearly $900,000 between 2014 and 2017.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime
Edgecomb man charged with murder in toddler’s Christmas morning death
Tyler Witham-Jordan, 29, was charged Friday with killing his girlfriend’s 3-year-old daughter, Makinzlee Handrahan, more than nine months after authorities ruled her death a homicide.
Posted inNation / World, News
Trump’s lawyers seek to halt civil fraud trial, block ruling dissolving his real estate empire
The judge’s ruling last week calls for dissolving companies that control some of the former president’s most prized assets, including Trump Tower.