Among corporate America’s most persistent shareholder activists are 80 nuns in a monastery outside Kansas City.
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Potentially massive pay package for new Starbucks CEO, and he doesn’t even have to move to Seattle
Brian Niccol could make well in excess of $100 million in his first year with the company.
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Posted inLocal & State, Morning Sentinel, News
Tractor-trailer brings down utility poles, damages Winslow apartments
The apartment complex was without electricity and part of Benton Avenue was closed following the incident.
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Search our database of the Maine Antler Deer Permit Lottery winners of 2024
More information can be found at maine.gov.
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Wally Amos of cookie fame died at age 88
Amos created the Famous Amos cookie empire and eventually lost ownership of the company. In his later years, he became a proprietor of a cookie shop called Chip & Cookie in Hawaii, where he moved in 1977.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Nation & World
Matthew Perry’s assistant among 5, including 2 doctors, charged in ‘Friends’ star’s death
Two of the defendants, including the actor’s personal live-in assistant, have pleaded guilty to the charges already, and a third person has agreed to plead guilty.
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Falmouth hiker rescued from a Mount Redington trail in northern Franklin County
Several rescuers from state and local agencies hiked to reach Gerard Jalbert, 71, after he collapsed.
Posted inNation & World
More than 40,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, territory’s Health Ministry says
Health officials and civil defense workers say the true toll is likely thousands higher, since many bodies remain buried under the rubble of buildings destroyed in airstrikes.
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Meta kills off CrowdTangle despite pleas from researchers, journalists
Meta has released an alternative to CrowdTangle, called the Meta Content Library. But access to it is limited to academic researchers and nonprofits, which excludes most news organizations.
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Gena Rowlands, acting powerhouse and guiding light in independent cinema, dies at 94
She starred in groundbreaking movies by her director husband, John Cassavetes, and later charmed audiences in her son, Nick Cassavetes’, tear-jerker ‘The Notebook.’