In mid-February, a nastier strain started causing more illnesses and driving up hospitalizations.
Tim Allen
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World, Uncategorized
Ancestry pulls slavery-era ad after backlash
The DNA testing company is apologizing after an ad that showed a white man and black woman discussing escaping to the North during the Civil War era drew widespread criticism online.
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How many cherries in frozen pie? FDA may soon drop rules
President Trump may soon be able to claim a sweet victory for his deregulation push: Officials are preparing to get rid of decades-old rules for frozen cherry pies.
Posted inNation & World, Religion and Values
As Good Friday and Passover meet this year, interfaith families receive double blessings
When the springtime holidays fall on the same date, Jewish and Christian couples look for ways to combine them or celebrate them one after the other.
Posted inNation & World
Fire-ravaged Notre Dame now stabilized; firefighters leave
Notre Dame’s rector says a ‘computer glitch’ may have been behind the fast-spreading fire that tore through the cathedral.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Nation & World
‘All in the Family,’ ‘Jeffersons’ rebooted for live special
The influential 1970s-era sitcoms are coming back to TV, live and for one night only
Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime, News
Saco man arrested in Connecticut in alleged paving scam
Henry Cooper, 40, is charged with 3 misdemeanors, each of which carries a potential jail sentence of up to 3 months and a fine of up to $500.
Posted inLocal & State, News
Author to recount York County’s Underground Railroad to protect slaves
Author Mark Alan Leslie says residents of several communities formed a network of illegal ‘safe houses’ to hide slaves from slave hunters in the 19th century.
Posted inLocal & State, News
Biddeford bans single-use plastic bags
The City Council votes 5-3 to prohibit single-use, carryout plastic bags, and the ordinance will take effect on July 15.
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A devastated art world wept and watched as Notre Dame burned
A survivor of wars and revolutions, it has stood for centuries as not merely the greatest of the Gothic cathedrals but as ‘one of the great monuments to the best of civilization.’