UPCOMING Appalachian Trail Workday, all day Sept. 18 in Caratunk The Maine Appalachian Trail Club is looking for volunteers to help on a trail work day. The MATC manages and maintains the 267 miles of the Appalachian Trail in Maine. Volunteers are needed to help bring materials to the trail for an upcoming installation at […]
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Two Maine men injured, one critically, in fatal Massachusetts speed boat crash
A New Hampshire man dies in the accident during a race on Watson Pond in Taunton.
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Clinton says she was wrong in describing Trump voters
The Trump campaign objects after she refers to his ‘basket of deplorables’ during a speech.
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Clinton says she was wrong in describing Trump voters
The Trump campaign objects after she refers to his ‘basket of deplorables’ during a speech.
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Lifetime on sex-offender registry questioned
Critics ask whether those convicted of one assault should have a chance to get off the list eventually.
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U.S. appears safer, but violent jihadists multiply
Anti-terror efforts since 9/11 have averted a major attack here as the threat of smaller ones gets worse.
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Natives of Amazon reject civilization in favor of forest
They face new dangers as their lives are threatened by illegal logging, mining and farming.
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Voter registration ruling reversed
A federal appeals court rules that a proof-of-citizenship requirement must be removed from a form in Kansas, Alabama and Georgia.
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Chilean women dance alone to protest disappearances during dictatorship
An 83-year-old is among those who will perform on the 43rd anniversary of the Sept. 11, 1973, bloody coup that brought Gen. Augusto Pinochet to power.
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Fewer orders, more coaching: Drill sergeants mentor new marksmen
More than half of the Army’s new generation of recruits have never held or fired a weapon.