ORONO — Play for the tie? Nope. Instead, the University of Maine went for the win — and got it in a most improbable fashion. Sophomore kicker Kenny Doak kicked a 52-yard field goal as time expired to lift the Black Bears to a stunning 13-10 victory over Villanova on Saturday evening at Alfond Stadium. […]
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Maine gets extension to 2020 on compliance with Real ID
AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine driver’s licenses will still be acceptable to board aircraft and access federal facilities until October 2020. Maine’s secretary of state says the Department of Homeland Security has issued Maine another waiver for compliance with the Real ID Act. The current waiver expires on Oct. 10, but Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap […]
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College football: UMaine outclassed by Yale
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Joe Harasymiak’s assessment of the University of Maine’s 35-14 loss to Yale University at the Yale Bowl on Saturday afternoon was succinct and blunt. “We got our (butt) kicked,” the third-year Black Bears head coach said. It probably wasn’t a pleasant six-hour bus ride back to Orono. Quarterback Kurt Rawlings threw three […]
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College hockey: UMaine's Swayman excelling with underdog mentality
University of Maine goalie Jeremy Swayman makes a save as sophomore forward Veli-Matti Tiuraniemi tracks the puck during a drill Monday at Alfond Arena in Orono. (Kevin Bennett photo) ORONO — Twenty years ago, an unheralded Alfie Michaud backstopped the University of Maine to its second NCAA national ice hockey championship. The current goaltending coach […]
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Patrick Dempsey to be on ‘GMA Day’ Wednesday
LEWISTON — Patrick Dempsey, the actor, producer and race car driver whose namesake Dempsey Challenge is less than three days away, will appear on ABC’s “GMA Day” Wednesday. Dempsey is expected to talk about the two-day fundraising and the Dempsey Centers in Lewiston and South Portland, which are bolstered by the Challenge and provide free […]
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Mainers explain why they didn’t report sexual assaults right away
Jennifer Day was sexually assaulted as a young teenager at a friend’s sleepover 35 years ago. To this day, she has not reported the assault to police. So when President Trump questioned in a tweet Friday why Christine Blasey Ford didn’t immediately report the alleged attack by a drunken, teenage Brett M. Kavanaugh at a 1980s house […]
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Car-moose collisions on decline in Maine
Good news for moose: The overall population is up, but the number of car-moose collisions is trending down. In 2017, there were 287 car crashes in Maine involving a moose, according to new data from the Maine Department of Transportation. That’s less than half the 646 crashes 10 years earlier, in 2007, and down 32 […]
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Maine unemployment rate ticked up slightly in August
Maine’s unemployment rate rose slightly to 3.2 percent in August from 3 percent in July, according to preliminary, seasonally adjusted estimates released Friday by the state Department of Labor. Still, August’s unemployment rate remained lower than a year earlier, when it was 3.4 percent, the department said. The number of unemployed job-seekers in Maine declined […]
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Advocacy group makes new legal move to block LePage’s efforts to reject Medicaid expansion
An advocacy group for low-income Mainers that’s suing the LePage administration went to court this week to try to erase any reference to Gov. Paul LePage’s request to federal officials to reject Medicaid expansion. In early September, LePage filed a form with Medicaid – called a State Plan Amendment – that’s typically a routine document […]
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Really, Maine? Why is Sour Patch Kids the top Halloween candy sold?
On Thursday, CandyStore.com released the three most popular Halloween candies by state after combing through 11 years of its sales data and in Maine, Sour Patch Kids took the top spot.