A $12 billion high-speed passenger rail line between Las Vegas and the Los Angeles area has started construction.
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Injured former Bates student sues driver and trucking company for injuries
The third-year student was run over by a delivery truck on the college campus last year.
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Felicity Jones strives to do justice to Ginsburg in film
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Ruth Bader Ginsburg film “On the Basis of Sex” was about to fall apart when Felicity Jones got her hands on the script. The original story about the future Supreme Court justice written by Ginsburg’s nephew, Daniel Stiepleman, had been in various stages of development since 2012, looking for the right […]
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Sports feast: All 5 major U.S. sports leagues in action in Los Angeles on Sunday
LOS ANGELES — Call it a sports eclipse. All five major U.S. sports leagues will play in Los Angeles on Sunday. According to Elias Sports Bureau, it’s the first time that’s happened in the same metropolitan area on the same day. The NFL, MLB, MLS, NHL and NBA will all be in action within miles […]
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Constance L. Easter
AUBURN — Constance Laura Cote Easter, 88, passed away peacefully at Sarah Frye Home on Thursday, Jan. 18. Connie was born in Augusta on Nov. 27, 1929, the daughter of the late Michael H. and Lea (Couture) Cote. She had lived in Mexico and graduated from Mexico High School. Connie married Gerald Elwin Easter on July […]
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Louise S. Conti
FALMOUTH — Louise S. Conti of South Portland died Friday, March 17, after a period of declining health. She was 90 years old. Louise was born Alberta Theresa Louise Stalmuke on Feb. 11, 1927, in Philadelphia, Pa., the daughter of Anthony T. Stalmuke and Alice Miller. As a child, she lived in Los Angeles before […]
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San Diego Chargers plan move to Los Angeles
PointAfter | Graphiq SAN DIEGO — The San Diego Chargers are moving to Los Angeles, where they will join the recently relocated Rams in giving the nation’s second-largest media market two NFL teams for the first time in decades. Team chairman Dean Spanos made the announcement Thursday in a letter posted on the Chargers’ Twitter account. “San […]
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L.A. school threats sent through server owned by Mainer
LOS ANGELES (WGME) — According to CBS News, a Mainer is being subpoenaed in connection to the threat that shutdown LA schools earlier this week. According to CBS News, 21-year-old Vincent Canfield owns the server the threatening emails were sent through. Canfield says he received a subpoena from Clark County Las Vegas Schools as well […]
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Los Angeles schools closed by ‘electronic’ threat
LOS ANGELES — All schools in the vast Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation’s second largest, have been ordered closed due to an electronic threat Tuesday. During a press conference Tuesday, district police Chief Steven Zipperman said the threat was still being evaluated. Schools would remain closed until the threat was cleared, which officials […]
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Face time: Nikolas Whittemore, from this L-A to that L.A.
Auburn’s Nikolas Whittemore is spending senior year of high school jump-starting his acting career on the West Coast. He says he caught the acting bug in middle school. Whittemore will formally graduate from Edward Little High School next spring, but for now, he’s also a freshmen at Santa Monica College studying film production and grabbing […]