Jan. 9: LEWISTON, pianist Frank Glazer will perform at 12:30 p.m. at Bates College Olin Arts Center Concert Hall. 786-6135Jan. 9: NEWRY, the Nickelodeon Family Festival Night will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. at Sunday River Ski Resort at the Grand Summit Resort Hotel. Free 824-3000 Tomorrow Jan. 10: LEWISTON, country line dancing […]

LONDON (AP) – Ordinary Britons, who are divided on whether Princess Diana and her boyfriend were the victims of an accident or murder, may be called to give the official verdict on her death, a judge ruled Monday.Nearly a decade after Diana and Dodi Fayed died in a car crash in Paris, the legal proceedings […]

Van Halen made a “jump” into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Monday along with Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, R.E.M., the Ronettes and Patti Smith.A panel of 600 industry experts selected the five artists to be inducted at the annual ceremony, to be held March 12 in New York.Van Halen was the […]

“Today’s” 55th-anniversary celebration this week wasn’t a unanimous decision within NBC.“Some felt we should wait until the 60th,” “Today” boss Jim Bell acknowledges. “I think once you hit 50, you’re on solid ground with zeroes and fives to look back. I don’t think anybody would consider 15 or 35.”At first, “Today” was going to pull […]

1952: NBC’s “Today” show premiered, featuring Dave Garroway as host.1954: Marilyn Monroe married Joe DiMaggio in San Francisco. They split after nine months.1957: Actor Humphrey Bogart died of throat cancer. He was 57.1970: Diana Ross performed for the last time with The Supremes, at a show in Las Vegas.1972: “Sanford and Son” made its premiere […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Hilary Swank and her mom came to Hollywood 16 years ago with only $75 in their pockets. On Monday, the two-time Oscar winner received the ultimate sign that the move paid off: a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.“I remember my mom using a roll of quarters to call agents […]

Elvis and Nixon display has fans all shook up YORBA LINDA, Calif. (AP) – The meeting between two of the most improbable cultural icons of the 1970s lasted all of 30 minutes, but it has fascinated the nation for years.A photo of a cloaked and bejeweled Elvis Presley solemnly shaking hands with a grim-faced President […]

NEW YORK (AP) – Rosie O’Donnell says Donald Trump is a man obsessed.“It’s the way I look. He can’t resist. I love when people say you’re fat like you don’t know,” O’Donnell joked Monday on ABC’s “The View.” “… It’s always the first comment of someone who disagrees with you if you happen to be […]

This has been a complicated season for the TV industry. The broadcast networks – your ABCs, CBSs, NBCs and Foxes – produced more high-quality television than they have in years.It seemed like they were headed for banner ratings. And that’s what they got. In some ways.Ratings for the big TV dogs have dropped only a […]

LISBON FALLS – It looks now as if the long talked of new mill would be a reality by another summer. It is to be a worsted mill and will be erected by the Worumbo Co. on their land near the site of the Androscoggin Water Power Co.’s office. This is good news to the […]