ORONO — Liam Coen, the University of Maine football team’s offensive coordinator, said one of the attributes possessed by new starting quarterback Chris Ferguson is his competitive nature. When you are the 10th of 11 children in your family, you have to be competitive. The redshirt freshman has nine sisters and a brother. “We’re definitely […]
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UMaine picks Ferguson as starting quarterback
ORONO — The University of Maine football team has a starting quarterback, and it’s not who most expected. UMaine head coach Joe Harasymiack named redshirt freshman Chris Ferguson as the team’s starter, the school announced Saturday. Ferguson will be under center for the Black Bears when they open the season Aug. 31 at New Hampshire. […]
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Justice Department won’t pursue civil rights action in Ferguson shooting
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department won’t prosecute a former Ferguson, Missouri, police officer in the shooting death of an unarmed black 18-year-old, but in a scathing report released Wednesday faulted the city and its law enforcement for racial bias. Federal officials concluded there was no evidence to disprove former officer Darren Wilson’s testimony that he […]
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Martin Luther King Jr. legacy misinterpreted, speaker says
Joseph was the keynote speaker at Bates’ MLK Jr. Day: “From Selma to Ferguson: 50 Years of Nonviolent Dissent.” An author, national civil rights commentator and Tufts University history professor, Joseph introduced himself as a native New Yorker. Growing up, his mother was a trade union worker. “My first picket line was in New York […]
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Otisfield cell tower law revised; vote expected in June
OTISFIELD — Almost two years after the town’s first and only cell tower application erupted in a bitter legal battle between residents and officials, the committee charged with revising the town’s wireless telecommunications ordinance has completed its work. The Ordinance Policy Review Committee formally accepted the final draft of the Wireless Telecommunications Facility Ordinance on […]
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Students chant, march through downtown Lewiston
LEWISTON — The protests have come to Lewiston. Starting at about 5 p.m. Friday, a crowd of more than 100 people began a march through downtown Lewiston, starting at Bates College and ending on Birch Street. What followed was a series of minor traffic snarls and a lot of curiosity. Lewiston police officers in cruisers […]
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NAACP, other groups plan Portland ‘March to End Violence’ at 2 p.m. Sunday
PORTLAND — Several hundred people protesting the recent deaths of two black men by white police officers stopped traffic in the city’s busy downtown on Friday and another similar protest is scheduled for 2 p.m. Sunday, said Rachel Talbot Ross, state director of the Maine NAACP. “The march is intended for those who want to […]
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Protests erupt after cop cleared in chokehold death
NEW YORK (AP) — A grand jury cleared a white police officer Wednesday in the videotaped chokehold death of an unarmed black man stopped for selling loose, untaxed cigarettes, triggering protests in the streets by hundreds of New Yorkers who likened the case to the deadly police shooting in Ferguson, Missouri. As the demonstrations mounted, […]
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Rich Lowry: Ferguson protestors spin misinformed version of what happened
The bitter irony of the Michael Brown case is that if he had actually put his hands up and said, “Don’t shoot,” he almost certainly would be alive today. His family would have been spared an unspeakable loss, and Ferguson, Missouri, wouldn’t have experienced multiple bouts of rioting, including the torching of at least a […]
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H. Hamilton: The rule of law
The grand jury’s decision concerning the police officer in Ferguson, Mo., is an example of reason and rule of law over mob rule. I am so disappointed over how irrational my countrymen/women can be. There may be race problems in Ferguson and other places, but this case was about a thug, robbing a store and […]