NEW YORK (AP) – Time magazine has named Bill and Melinda Gates and rock star Bono its “Persons of the Year,” citing their charitable work and activism aimed at reducing global poverty and improving world health.The magazine said 2005 was a year of extraordinary charity in which people donated record amounts in response to extreme […]

NEW YORK (AP) – Starting next week, the company that measures what people watch on television will also follow what they record on DVRs to watch later.The move by Nielsen Media Research is a reflection of how the traditional notion of watching TV is changing. And if Nielsen’s numbers show that new technology is also […]

Knight Ridder Newspapers With dates still left to play, U2’s Vertigo tour is easily the top-grossing concert tour of 2005. As reported to Billboard Boxscore through Nov. 15, the Irish band brought in upwards of $260 million from more than 3 million concertgoers, including 90 sellouts.As for the rest of the top 10, it’s mostly […]

Today Dec. 19: DRESDEN, a country western line and partner dance will be held at 7 p.m. at Dresden Masonic Hall, Route. 127. $3/$4 622-4884Dec. 19: PORTLAND, the Nutcracker Burlesque will be performed at 7:30 p.m. on Dec. 19-22 and 6 and 8:30 p.m. on Dec. 23 at St. Lawrence Arts and Community Center, 76 […]

The age of wonders is not past yet. There is in the possession of a Lewiston girl a piece of script of great value and with history that makes one feel that it is all a fairy tale.The story runs something like this. Four years ago last September Annie Saucier of 304 Lincoln street, Lewiston, […]

NEW YORK (AP) – In a Dec. 15 story about the finale of NBC’s “Apprentice,” The Associated Press reported erroneously that the show’s winner, Randal Pinkett, chose a job with Donald Trump working on the construction of a condominium complex in Jersey City, N.J. Pinkett picked the other option, working with casino expansions in Atlantic […]

Today Dec. 14: FARMINGTON, Allen Flint and Gary F. Elwell, University of Maine professors, will speak at 6:30 p.m. at Franklin Memorial Hospital’s Ben Franklin Education Center. 779-2471Dec. 14: LEWISTON, the Auburn Community Band 25th Annual Holiday Concert will be held at 7 p.m. at Bates College Olin Arts Concert Hall. Donations 784-0191Dec. 14: MECHANIC […]

By Chuck Barney,Knight Ridder Newspapers OK, so maybe Frank Capra should have scrapped those hokey voices-amid-the-galaxy sequences. Perhaps he could have poured on a tad less syrup here and there. But the marble-hearted, Mr. Potter-like cranks who dismiss “It’s a Wonderful Life” as nothing more than a big tub of sentimental goo have got it […]

DEAR ABBY: These will be the first holidays for my husband and me since we discovered that his sister, “Dawn,” embezzled more than $200,000 from our business. It happened over a period of three years, when Dawn was our bookkeeper. Actually, our overall losses were even greater, because of her frivolous spending, “company write-offs” and […]

My first year in Maine was so amazing that even though it was 25 years ago, I remember each season vividly. But I remember summer and Christmas the most.Christmas in 1980 was cold, minus 28 degrees with a wind chill of minus 65 degrees. I didn’t realize at the time that we were setting a […]