ORONO — The University of Maine football team continued its record-setting season in impressive fashion Saturday afternoon. The sixth-ranked Black Bears secured the program’s first outright conference championship since 1965 with a resounding 41-0 victory over New England rival Rhode Island on Morse Field at Alfond Stadium. Coach Jack Cosgrove’s team improved to 10-1 for […]
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R.I. judge dismisses trespassing charge against Maine man who tried to pass note to Taylor Swift
SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. — A trespassing charge has been dismissed against a Maine man accused of showing up at Taylor Swift’s Rhode Island vacation home. The Westerly Sun (http://bit.ly/18OYq5q ) reports that police decided to drop the charge after determining it would be difficult to prove that 55-year-old Joseph Bernatche of Portland, Maine, was on […]
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2-year-old boy abducted from RI home found safe
JOHNSTON, R.I. (AP) — A 2-year-old boy kidnapped from a Rhode Island home where police made an early morning discovery of two bodies was found Sunday night “in good health,” police said. Johnston Deputy Police Chief Daniel Parrillo said the boy was found in Providence, but he would not provide any other details on the […]
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Irene S. White
1915 – 2013 AUBURN — Irene Sarring (Zarina) White, M.S., M.A., 97, of Auburn, biochemist, professor and author, moved to “better hunting grounds” (as she liked to say) on Monday, July 29, at Androscoggin Hospice House. She was born in Riga, Latvia, on Oct. 28, 1915, in the midst of World War I, the daughter […]