Author: Ted Cohen

Woodstock, Vermont original Keegan Bradley had a rough two days of golf, so to speak. New England’s favorite big-time golf pro by acclamation failed to make the weekend cut at the PGA championship, one of the four major professional golf tournaments played annually. Bradley was 6 over after finishing the second round Friday, failing to make the 4-over cutline to go into the weekend. Friday was the same day he got into an argument on the golf course with rules officials who said he was playing too slow. Bradley was “put on the clock,” golf-speak meaning if you don’t shape…

“Help out, Mainers! What’s the BEST lobster roll for @VP? JD Vance wants to know where to get the best lobster roll.” That’s the challenge Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, posted Thursday on X looking for a good roll to feed Vice President Vance during his Maine visit. Some of the recommendations: √ “Bayley’s lobster pound in Pine Point Mr. Vice President.” – James Clifton, @clift72239 √ “My husband can grab a few lobsters right off the boat and make him a homemade one if he wants to hang out :)” – Elaine York, @AELeighton2 √ “LDI Lobster at the end…

If the NFL’s Canoodling Coach of the Year survives the Russini affair fallout, he’ll be going up against his nemeses in the new season’s first game. The Seattle Seahawks will begin defense of their Super Bowl title against the team they defeated to win it – the team led by an ex-NFL reporter’s married boyfriend. Seven months after downing the Patriots to capture Super Bowl LX, the Seahawks will welcome the New England Patriots to Lumen Field for the 2026 NFL season opener September 9th. The matchup was among many notables unveiled Thursday night as NFL teams posted their schedules…

“It is with heavy hearts we share the passing of a Biddeford legend, Bob Cote, who served as our manager for 52 years, starting just one year after our founding in 1961 and retiring in 2013.” The news Friday of Cote’s death, announced by Pizza By Alex, saddened generations of his pie customers and co-workers. “Rest easy, legend,” Rapid Ray’s hamburger stand in neighboring Saco posted on Facebook. “More than a manager, Bob was the face of Alex Pizza for decades: always present, always consistent, always there with a smile and a quick wit,” the popular pizza shop said. “While…

It’s all over but the shouting for Maine’s ski areas but the addicted have three other New England holdouts. Black Mountain in New Hampshire and Jay Peak in Vermont will be open through May 17 before they close up shop. It’s Black’s latest closing ever. The final brave soul is Killington in Vermont, which will be in business weekends til all the snow melts. Unfortunately the Maine mountains have called it a season for a reason.

Scientists are urging the public to be vigilant after the first white shark of the year has been confirmed off the Massachusetts coast. A dead seal was found off Martha’s Vineyard, victim of an apparent shark bite, officials said. John Chisholm of the New England Aquarium said photos of the seal’s wound were consistent with that inflicted by a great white, according to Ken Paiva of the Fall River Reporter. “This is just the beginning of white shark season in New England, and it serves as a good reminder to be mindful of the presence of these sharks in inshore…

A trio of guided-missile destroyers built at Bath Iron Works is being given a new strategic thrust to help salvage original problems with the vessels. They will now be designated as the nation’s front line of supersonic naval weaponry, defense officials announced. “The U.S. Navy is repositioning its three Zumwalt-class guided-missile destroyers as the fleet’s first operational hypersonic strike warships, according to the May 2026 Shipbuilding Plan, transforming a once-controversial destroyer program into a central element of future American naval warfare,” ArmyRecognition.com reported Thursday. The three Bath ships include the USS Zumwalt, USS Monsoor and USS Lyndon B. Johnson. The…

Maine Wire Editor-in-Chief Steve Robinson is being drafted for a future GOP presidential bid. Boston radio’s Kirk Minihane on the heels of Robinson’s introducing Vice President JD Vance in Bangor posted on X that the muckraking editor is a good bet for the White House. “I think there’s a 14 percent chance Steve will be president one day,” Minihane posted. https://twitter.com/kirkmin/status/2055242084538368409?s=20 Robinson in his introduction for Vance’s visit to the state’s scandal-plagued Democrat-controlled government told a brief history of The Maine Wire. The Dexter native and Bowdoin College grad didn’t address his own political future as doing so might have…

The Republican vice president ventured into Maine’s purple congressional district Thursday at an embarrassing cost to the state’s liberal “journalists.” “We’ve got biased reporters in all states. It’s OK. Trust me, I can handle it,” J.D. Vance told a pro-GOP crowd as they shouted down ‘alleged’ questions from a TV guy. During a trip to Bangor, Vance took questions from reporters – or, more aptly, ‘alleged’ reporters, especially the broadcast types. Reps from WCSH-TV and WGME-TV enjoyed trying to counter Vance’s assertion that government fraud under Gov. Janet Mills is real and the Trump administration is cracking down on it…

A staple neighborhood meat and grocery store that got nabbed with a fraudulent food-stamp sale announced it’s closing after nearly four decades in business. Fresh Approach Market’s owners said they never bounced back after losing their food-stamp sales last year and being fined $5,700. The government revoked and then reinstated their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) license after the owners acknowledged that one of their clerks sold non-food items – dish soap and tissues – to an undercover federal agent. “Although we know this was wrong and it never should have happened, our license was suspended for six months and…

Gerald Talbot rightfully got a beautiful sendoff column from the Portland Press Herald after he died recently at age 94. Columnist Steve Collins praised the state’s first black legislator for his many, innumerable civil-rights accomplishments. But Collins astonishingly left out of his remembrance what Talbot did for work outside of his legislative duties and groundbreaking work for minority rights. Talbot worked 25 years for the paper Collins now purports to write for. Talbot was a secret role model for us white folks in the newsroom. (He just didn’t let on.) In fact, he was notably the first black news employee…

A Saco woman who apparently needed a quick pickup – and a fast one at that – went full triage, cops say. Crystal Zahn, 46, has been charged with stealing her ride from MaineHealth Maine Medical Center in Biddeford. Zahn was stopped by police in Buxton after officers spotted the medical vehicle that Northeast Ambulance reported had been taken from the hospital. Northeast had an active tracking device on the stolen ambulance and was able to provide live updates on the vehicle’s location, according to Biddeford Buzz. Zahn was charged with two counts of theft.

Two unidentified New Hampshire vacationers were among those evacuated Monday from a cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak, authorities confirmed. As a result, hospitals in the Granite State are closely monitoring the situation. New Hampshire officials are working with the two passengers from their state and with federal health authorities to minimize any health risks, WCAX-TV reported. The whereabouts of the two was not immediately publicized. But Dartmouth Medical Center in Hanover, New Hampshire said it has been contacted by the Centers for Disease Control about the virus. Experts say they do not think hantavirus will turn into…

Frances Hawkes never got her one precious wish – to see her daughter grow into young adulthood. Hawkes died not knowing who murdered her daughter, a mystery that blocked unlocking a mother’s greatest gift of joy. Alice Hawkes was found dead in her Westbrook apartment in 1987 of multiple stab wounds. Not until 39 years later were police able to solve the killing, arresting Alice’s partner Stephen Bouchard, 63, last week. Alice Hawkes was the youngest of five children, her oldest sibling 19 years her senior. By the time she was born her mother was already in her mid-40s, something…

The self-described digger of Maine journalism is boasting about its “local news service … in direct response to what people told us they need.” But arguably the question is what the Maine Monitor is actually doing to ensure its followers are – in its words – “informed and engaged.” The Monitor claims to be “committed to investigative journalism and Maine,” says keen statewide media watchdog Jonathan Reisman of Cooper, Maine, who says he hasn’t “seen anything on fraud, Somalis,” to cite two examples. Reisman, an economist/policy analyst who retired from the University of Maine at Machias after nearly 40 years…

The tough-talking drawling multi-millionaire who made environment a household world and created TV’s first liberal cable sanctuary has died. But for all his high-powered exploits Ted Turner will be also remembered as the one-time husband of actress Jane Fonda, aka “Hanoi Jane” for her anti-Americanism disguised by the legacy media as nothing more than antiwar. “Ted Turner, the media maverick and philanthropist who founded CNN, a pioneering 24-hour network that revolutionized television news, died peacefully Wednesday, surrounded by his family,” according to a news release from Turner Enterprises. “The Ohio-born Atlanta businessman, nicknamed “The Mouth of the South” for his…

Ex-Bruin and now Flyer right wing Garnet Hathaway of Kennebunkport, known for his bruising ice play, now has to spend the off-season wondering ‘what if’ he didn’t fight enough. Hathaway, who now plays for Philadelphia, failed along with his teammates to pull out a win Saturday night. The Flyers were eliminated from the Stanley Cup Playoffs in a 3-2 overtime loss to the Carolina Hurricanes in Game 4 of their second-round series. The Hurricanes completed a four-game sweep at Xfinity Mobile Arena, ending the Flyers’ first playoff run since 2020. Tyson Foerster and Alex Bump scored for Philadelphia in the…

Fenway welcomed back legendary 42-season announcer Joe Castiglione earlier this week to call a game for old time’s sake. WEEI featured a special Facebook reel of Castiglione back up in the broadcast booth high above the diamond. Castiglione became famous for calling four World Series championships, including the historic 2004 victory. He retired from a full-time, regular-season schedule after the 2024 season, but remains a Boston Red Sox ambassador, and plans to call a handful of games this season. Castiglione was inducted into the Red Sox Hall of Fame and received the National Baseball Hall of Fame’s Ford C. Frick…

Deborah Van Patten was walking her beloved Frankie behind a New Hampshire high school when her pup was electrocuted after stepping into a puddle. Following community support and a plea from Van Patten, Portsmouth officials have agreed to donate $5,000 to the NHSPCA in memory of Frankie. Frankie died in the February incident after an underground cable which connected two lamps in the Portsmouth High School parking lot broke, electrifying the puddle he walked through. Van Patten recently appeared before city councilors, asking them to acknowledge the incident and that the city make a donation to the Society for the…

Political commentator Dick Morris dismissed the chances of Democrat Graham Platner defeating five-term U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, despite a recent poll showing Platner leading the longtime Republican incumbent by seven points. Speaking Saturday on Newsmax’s “Saturday Report,” Morris said he did not believe the polling reflected the eventual outcome of the race and predicted Collins would win reelection comfortably. “I don’t know if that poll is right, but there is no way in hell that Platner is going to win,” Morris said. He argued that a Collins victory would significantly complicate Democratic efforts to flip the Senate.“The significance of that…

After President Trump threatened and imposed Canadian tariffs, Democrat Gov. Janet Mills – with the help of the state’s largest newspaper – cried that Maine tourism would suffer a backlash. Unfortunately for Janet, tourism spending actually went up last year, according to a report Friday in the usually-Mills-friendly Portland Press Herald. The paper of course had been glad to join its friend the governor cheerleading her anti-Trump fervor. But now that the 2025 numbers are in, all the sky-is-falling feigning over fear that Trump’s offending Canadian tourists and scaring them off from visiting Maine proved to be a complete fallacy.…

It’s sometimes hard to tell which is worse, incompetent government or none at all. As De Tocqueville (1805-1849) said, “we want to be free but we want to be led.” So we get what we asked for. York, Maine along the beautiful Atlantic coast is one of the most historic communities in the world, becoming the first incorporated city in America in 1642. Sadly, local government seems unable – or unwilling – to manage its gift. The latest case in evidence is a $4 million village “revitalization” that was “only” supposed to cost $3 million. But bids came in too…

When iconic singer Britney Spears finally decided enough was enough she came to a $12 million oceanfront Maine mansion to dry out. TMZ is reporting that the “Princess of Pop,” as she’s known, received detox and mental-health treatment at Borden Cottage in Camden. “Sources close to Spears” told TMZ she chose the “quiet, rural facility for “dual diagnosis care for both substance abuse and mental health services, following her recent DUI arrest,” the outlet says. “We’re told the super private center sits on a 14-acre estate and offers high-end, individualized treatment,” TMZ added. “The program blends clinical therapy with holistic…

The “lifestyle” columnist for Maine’s largest daily is worried that the state’s largest city is losing the fight to newcomers. “Portland’s Maine-born population has dropped to 40%,” Leslie Bridgers writes. “Is that a problem?” Well apparently it is or Bridgers would neither have asked the question nor written an entire column about it. Bridgers complains that the percentage of Portland’s native-born residents is lower than anytime in memory. “Bringing diversity and new energy to a place are generally considered positive changes, fostering innovation and expanding everyone’s perspective,” Bridgers writes. “But is there a breaking point in the ratio of natives…

Stephen A. Smith insists on everyone using his middle initial so you can figure out what kind of guy he is. But however much of an egotistical assh**** he is, he’s a nationally-influential and widely followed political and sports commentator. So it was not for nothing Thursday when he told Celtic crybaby Jaylen Brown to STFU. Brown, of course, is as much of a hot head as Stephen A. Smith. Jaylen has been whining since the Celtics lost their playoffs that he’s not appreciated as the star that he thinks he is. So on his podcast Thursday, Stephen A. Smith…

The USS Mason used its five-inch and .50-caliber guns Thursday to repel its second Strait of Hormuz attack this week, defense officials said. The Bath-built, Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, along with the USS Truxton and USS Rafael Peralta, was attacked by Iranian missiles, drones and small boats. The U.S. military’s Central Command confirmed the attacks in a statement and said the U.S. military responded with “self-defense strikes” on Iranian facilities, including drone and missile launch sites. The U.S. vessels were not struck, CENTCOM said.”They trifled with us today,” President Trump said. “We blew them away.”

Ex-President Obama claims he has such a patriotic duty to protect the populace from President Trump he’s doing so at the peril of losing his marriage. In an interview with The New Yorker the former president says his wife is mad at him for paying more attention to Trump than to her. “She wants to see her husband easing up and spending more time with her, enjoying what remains of our lives,” Obama said. “It does create a genuine tension in our household, and it frustrates her.” At the beginning of Trump’s first term Obama stayed largely silent about his…

TMZ has gained access to footage showing Pats coach Mike Vrabel walking down a dock to meet gal pal Dianna Russini. See it here. The shocking video comes a day after TMZ found out the two secret lovers five years ago rented a boat together in Tennessee. The meetup discovery comes amid speculation whether the growing scandal may cost the three-time Superbowl star his job. Who’s the Daddy?

The Portland Press Herald actually thinks it’s in the news business. With a blaring headline Wednesday night the paper wrote: “Susan Collins discloses medical condition” Talk about the obvious. The paper was so proud of itself it boasted that Collins “said in a statement to the Press Herald Wednesday evening” she has a tremor. The five-term senator said she has a benign “essential tremor.” Tear up Page 1. “Not news,” Kelly Thurston of Oxford commented on Facebook.”Been this way for years.” “She’s had this for years,” said Nica Bates of Westbrook. “Not news.” “An Essential tremor is a common, often…

The Vrabel-Russini boating excursion is reminiscent of a famous National Enquirer photo of doomed Democrat presidential candidate Gary Hart getting caught in 1987 on a vessel called Monkey Business with his mistress Donna Rice in his lap. TMZ on Wednesday revealed new photos showing Mike Vrabel and Dianna Russini boating alone five years ago just two months before she gave birth to a baby she named Michael. The outlet’s discovery helps confirm speculation the NFL star and curvy reporter were involved in an affair that has been ongoing for years. The TMZ report contains documents with signatures of both the…

The national GOP podcaster Tucker Carlson, who lives part-time in Maine, has seen his 2028 presidential odds rise recently. Carlson’s 2028 presidential election odds recently hit an all-time high on the prediction market platform Polymarket as he has teased a potential presidential run. As of May 1, Carlson reached 7 percent odds, with his chances sitting at 6.3 percent as of May 6th, I95Rocks.com’s Jordan Verge reports. Carlson currently holds the third-best odds, behind U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio at 20.8 percent and Vice President J. D. Vance, who currently leads the field at 39.1 percent. The host of…

Kim Carrigan asked Candy O’Terry on her weekly podcast to “name a song that instantly changes your mood.” “In My Life by the Beatles,” O’Terry responded with glee. That’s just an example of the sophomoric level to which two once-serious Boston mikers have fallen since their heyday. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Rather than going through her weekly speed round of puffball questions, why doesn’t Carrigan use her time with a sharp mind like Terry O’s to ask, for instance, “What is Michelle Wu doing about housing illegals in Boston?” Or maybe “What’s with Jaylen Brown’s mommy…

The latest so-called “newsletter” from the top editor of Maine’s largest daily reads more like a letter home from summer camp. Or maybe it’s a letter home to mom for upcoming Mother’s Day, which coincidentally is Sunday. Either way, it’s the furthest thing from a “newsletter,” which in the infinite wisdom of the Maine Trust for Local News is supposed to contain… news? “Last week was spring break for much of Maine, my family included,” executive editor Carolyn Fox writes. “We spent five days in Quebec City after traveling north up the Kennebec River through Jackman and across the border.…

Brian Hayden Jr. of Wells began operating his father’s earthmoving machines when he was just 5 years old. Hayden’s adroit handling of the huge Caterpillar diesel beasts never left him, evidence a new trophy naming him the Cat operator of the ages. “Meet Your Global Operator Challenge Champion! 🏆,” Cat announced on Facebook. “Brian Hayden from the United States proved himself the best of the best after taking on three demanding challenges and eight other finalists at Caterpillar’s Global Operator Challenge, held at CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2026,” Cat officials said. “Con Expo,” held in Las Vegas Nevada, is billed as the largest…

The state’s largest halfway-house chain for the mentally ill had just hired a new executive director as a staffer was knifed to death in cold blood. Shalom House of Portland announced on April 30 it was promoting its clinical director to the top management spot – executive director. Abigail Spadone will succeed Mary Haynes-Rodgers, the $155,000-a-year director who is retiring after 18 years. Shalom House first hired Spadone in 2017 as residential treatment director, promoting her two years later to clinical director. The facility has just advertised seeking applications for the $100,000 position Spadone is vacating. The administrative shuffle comes…

The league has fined Celtics big mouth Jaylen Brown $50,000 for criticizing the refs during a live stream after Boston’s Game 7 loss to the 76ers. The NBA announced the penalty Tuesday night, per Yahoo Sports. Brown had said in a livestream he hosts that game officials “clearly had an agenda” to call fouls against him for “pushing off” when he drove toward the basket while handling the ball. “There’s some referees that need to be investigated,” Brown said on the livestream Sunday, a day after Boston’s 109-100 loss to Philly in their first-round playoff series. During Sunday’s stream, ESPN…

One of the most recognizable personalities in Boston TV news is moving on to greener pastures. Mark Ockerbloom, veteran anchor at WFXT-TV, is leaving the station after more than two decades. The Mass native, affectionately known by viewers as “Ock,” said he will be spending more time with his family following a 40-year career in broadcast journalism, the Patriot Ledger reported. “As a kid who grew up in Winchester, it was the thrill of a lifetime to get to work in my home market,” Ockerbloom said in a statement.”I want to thank all of the talented people I’ve had the…

The most unpopular guy in Boston these days claims he has no worries about his Sox, despite ticket holders chanting “sell the team!” “Fans get frustrated,” team owner John Henry told the Sports Business Journal. “It doesn’t mean you ignore them, it means you work harder,” Henry added. “You don’t settle for mediocrity. You have to win.” The problem is the fans don’t see the Red Sox winning and their record shows that’s the reality. The New York Post is wondering whether Henry is paying more attention to the British soccer team he owns than to New England’s Sox. “Many…

Former New England Patriots receiver Stefon Diggs was acquitted Tuesday of trying to suffocate his former chef and lover. The six-person jury rendered its verdict after just 90 minutes of deliberations. The case centered on a Dec. 2 encounter at Diggs’ home in Dedham, Massachusetts where Jamila Adams, a former live-in personal chef who is known as Mila, testified he slapped and choked her during an argument. Diggs pleaded not guilty, and his attorneys claimed the assault never happened. The case turned on questions about Adams’ credibility and whether the dispute was about money or an assault, AP reported. Defense…

A guided-missile ship that was built by Bath Iron Works fended off an attack in the Iran war, defense officials told CBS News. The USS Mason was fired on by drones and missiles but shot them all down. “The USS Mason and USS Truxtun , supported by Apache helicopters and other aircraft, faced a series of coordinated threats during the passage,” the defense officials said. Iran launched small boats, missiles and drones against them in what officials described as a sustained barrage, CBS reports. “Despite the intensity of the attacks, neither U.S. vessel was struck,” the news outlet said. Military…

The Biddeford zoning board has rejected University of New England’s request to start cutting down trees for a new research pier. “A big win for those who have expressed opposition to a new pier along the Saco River,” Biddeford Buzz reported. The school had wanted to clear trees along the waterway as well as demolish Leonard Hall. The planned $200,000 project was to cut trees along the river in order to build an access road. Board members decided the permit request was covered by a building moratorium the city recently enacted preventing future school construction, despite school officials insisting they…

An ex-network TV queen who says she got pushed out for a younger version is hawking a new memoir with a stop in Maine. “Back in one of our favorite places, Naples Maine, and how could we not stop for a bowl of chowder and a Maine lobster roll?” Joan Lunden posted on Facebook. Lunden also put up a picture of an evening overlooking the lake in the western part of the state. “Sunsets over Long Lake in Naples, Maine are breathtaking, as the sun slips behind the White Mountains,” she commented. Lunden, 75, is on a book tour promoting…

Bruins Coach Marco Sturm has sent a subtle message to Bruins GM Don Sweeney after the team’s crushing finals iceout. During a news conference after Boston lost in the playoffs to Buffalo, Sturm talked about the need to get more guys ready to get in front of the net. “One of the biggest reasons why we made it this far is our goalies,” said Sturm. “We can’t expect that every year. So that means we – as a group – we need to find ways to limit scoring.” Scott Roche, reporter for Causeway Crowd, said there needs to be additions…

Despite $60-million-a-year Jayson Tatum being useless to the Boston Celtics due to his injuries, he’s still management’s class pet. That is sticking in the craw of Jaylen Brown, who despite loyally filling the gap left by Tatum’s extended medical leaves isn’t the front office’s fair-haired boy. “Yup, either he’s bout to ask for a trade so he can run his own show or Tatum bout to be moved,” Mo Sports Network on Facebook commented Monday. “They not going to keep them both together past next season.” By the numbers, Tatum is the better player, according to a NESN analysis published…

The former personal cook for Stefon Diggs broke down into tears Monday recounting the ex-wide receiver choking her at his multimillion dollar mansion as his assault trial got underway. Jamila Adams said on Dec. 2, 2025 she texted Diggs from her bedroom in his house, upset he wasn’t taking her to a Miami art show. Adams said he burst into her room shouting “‘What was all that sh*t you was talkin?’” before attacking her. “He smacked me with an open hand,” Adams testified as she began to cry during the first day of his trial. Adams said she tried to…

Invitation to Maine Democratic Party executive director comes in wake of dust-up over weekend convention press coverage The host of Maine Wire TV has extended a warm invitation to the executive director of the Maine Democratic Party to appear on the program, despite their political differences. Tom Shattuck, managing editor of The Maine Wire, said on Monday’s daily show that Devon Murphy-Anderson is more than welcome to come on. Shattuck also extended the invitation to Graham Platner, Democrat primary candidate for U.S. Senate. https://twitter.com/TheMaineWire/status/2050330211024253033?s=20 Reporter Jon Fetherston, the only journalist Murphy-Anderson barred from covering the weekend Democrat convention, promised he…

Barney Frank, reprimanded as a congressman after hiring and then living with a male prostitute, now is giving Democrats advice? A terminally-ill formerly sanctioned Massachusetts congressman and first openly-gay federal lawmaker is now scolding fellow Maine liberals for picking the wrong U.S. Senate candidate. “I am concerned that some of my party have chosen the flavor of the month so that somebody who is new and doesn’t know much is somehow preferred over the people who know how to do the hard work to get controversial things adopted,” Barney Frank told CNN on Sunday. Frank, 86, was interviewed live from…

The Democrat Party of late has found a convenient excuse for losing – senility. The leftists did it with Biden and they’re now doing it with Janet Mills. But in reality it’s not old age that killed Biden and Maine’s two-term governor. It’s their policies. Age is just a cheap distraction from open borders, crime, high taxes and and at least in Maine outright financial, billion-dollar government fraud. For years now, The Maine Wire has been relentlessly highlighting Janet’s illegal Chinese weed farms, Medicaid Somali fraud, outrageous electric prices and bad roads, to name just a few. So it’s not…

After more than three decades as a morning drive fixture in Boston, Susan Semedo is dialing up retirement. From the daily-morning drive grind, that is. Known on-air as Pebbles, Semedo is leaving mornings at Beasley Media Group’s Hip-Hop and R&B Hot 96.9 (WBQT) to focus full-time on her “Positively Pebbles” brand, Radio Ink reports. Semedo joined Hot 96.9 at its launch in 2013 after more than 15 years at Jam’n 94.5 (WJMN), where she built the morning franchise that eventually followed her across the dial, RI reporter Cameron Coats says. “Northeastern alum Pebbles began her career at WILD 1090 (1988-1995),…

Conservative businessman and Maine gubernatorial candidate Jonathan Bush tells Breitbart News the GOP has a “much better chance”of holding its U.S. Senate seat against Democrat Graham Platner than vs. Janet Mills. “He’s a silly boy,” Bush said in a Saturday interview with Breitbart. “He went to private school, and got kicked out of Hotchkiss, so he went to another private school, and had unsuccessful experience after unsuccessful experience. “Now he sells oysters to his mom, which is sort of hilarious, that he’s in a getup like a Maine fisherman,” Bush told Breitbart’s Elizabeth Weibel. “He wouldn’t last five minutes as…

Maine-born Jordon Hudson has captured top honors from her latest cheerleading contest, cheered on by ‘WAG’ Bill Belichick. Downeast-Maine’s Hudson, 25, is still young enough to flex into the most-challenging cheerleading contorts, while ex-Pats coach Bill 74, can only dream… Belichick was there by her side, however old his gal-pal’s flexible follies made him feel. “The former NFL great coach was down at Walt Disney World this weekend cheering from the sidelines,” SportingNews.com reported. “Hudson’s ‘Cheer Extreme Code Black’ team won another championship in the International Open Coed Non-Tumbling division at the Cheerleading Worlds,” SN said. Jeff Hauser, the reporter…

‘NFL reporter Dianna Russini had insider info from boy pal Mike Vrabel on illegal trade.’ – Tony Farmer The betting markets are showing a 1:4 chance that embattled canoodling New England Patriots Coach Mike Vrabel will soon be gone. Mike Florio of NBC’s Pro Football Talk checked in with Kalshi and Polymarket for their predictions. The key test is whether former NFL reporter Dianna Russini is ready to spill. “Given the developments to date and the possibility, if not inevitability, of more developments to come, it remains possible that Mike Vrabel won’t remain the head coach of the Patriots,” Florio…

Due to deteriorating water quality in the St. George River, pets are now banned from a midcoast park. Thomaston officials have declared Mill River Park along the banks of the river off limits to dogs due to apparent pollution. The decision to ban canines from the picturesque park follows ongoing water quality concerns in the St. George, according to Pen Bay Pilot. Recent findings from the Maine Department of Marine Resources indicate that microbial contamination levels are approaching regulatory limits, with evidence suggesting pet waste may be contributing to water quality impacts in the area, according to a news release.…

A Biddeford homeless overnight shelter, enmeshed in a budget battle with city councilors, announced Friday it’s opening a second facility. Seeds of Hope said it is assuming operation of York County Family Shelter in Sanford, according to Biddeford Buzz.com. Beyond a canned press release containing fawning accolades for the York shelter’s years in operation, Seeds of Hope officials offered no information to help the public understand how it intends to finance the new facility, especially in the face of its own budget hassles. The announced expansion of the Seeds of Hope Neighborhood Center comes as center officials catch flack from…

Celts, B’s, Sox: #BeanBust 2026 When the owners of a pro sports team agree to pay a player $60 million dollars to play 82 games, they must expect him to be a big winner. Jayson Tatum of the Celtics is in the first of a five-year contract paying him $300 million to win basketball games – the biggest salary deal in NBA history. The average per-game payout was actually much higher this, the first year, because Tatum only played 22 games due to time away healing from an injury suffered last year. By the numbers, on Saturday night Tatum’s 2025-2026…

The top jock on the Boston waves who’s made a career out of humiliating then-Massachusetts U.S. Rep. Barney Frank now says Frank got one close to right, literally. “You know Democrats have lost the plot when even Barney Frank is saying his party has ‘embraced an agenda that goes beyond what is politically acceptable,’” Carr said Friday. “The Democrats have gone too far left for even Barney Frank? That tells you a lot,” Carr added. Then this from Carr: “Barney is 86 years old, and apparently on the way out. He’s in hospice in Ogunquit, Maine, which is basically Provincetown…

The Boston Bruins’ season has ended in heartache for New England ice diehards who’d prayed for an 11th hour comeback. The Bees lost 4-1 Friday to the Buffalo Sabres in game six of the first-round playoff series at TD Garden, Buffalo having taken the series four games to two. The Sabres took a 2-0 advantage in the first period and never lost their edge as they held Boston to just one goal when it was all over. “It’s tough, a missed opportunity, obviously,” Nikita Zadorov told BostonBruins.com. “With the group we had, the belief we have in this room, and…

A sports-betting company hired a plane to hover above the Boston Red Sox with a banner blasting team ownership. The aircraft circled over Fenway Park, trailing a banner behind it that read, “FIRE CRAIG! SELL THE TEAM!” in red letters. The flyover was commissioned by the online sports betting company Underdog, which wants Sox owner John Henry to fire Craig Breslow. Fans are blaming Breslow, the team’s chief baseball officer who Henry ordered fire manager Alex Cora. They also want Henry to sell the team, which has had an abysmal season so far showing a 13-19 start. Underdog created the…

Angus King III proved during the first key statewide Democrat primary pivotal televised debate he doesn’t have Daddy’s killer instincts. Unfortunately the younger King needed a moment – one that could have reaped him huge headlines as well as proving he’s no Mama’s boy but as smart as Daddy, he being U.S. Sen. Angus King Jr. If Angus III really wants to win the Democrat nod in the June 9 primary to go on to the general as he seeks the coveted office his father held for two terms, he needs to get serious. He’s proven so far he isn’t,…

A foster child who was ripped from her mother and nearly later died of addiction is applauding a Republican state senator livid with Democrats for abandoning Maine’s most needy youngsters. Sen. Jeff Timberlake, R-Androscoggin, the Senate Republican lead on the Legislature’s Government Oversight Committee, earlier this week held Democrats accountable for blocking legislative overnight of the Maine Department of Health and Human Services. “There was no reason for Senate Democrats not to stay and do their job except to run cover for the Mills administration,” Timberlake said, expressing outright frustration. “Maine Department of Health and Human Services’ record has been…

A Connecticut businessman is celebrating a seafood joint he just bought by offering a whopper of a lobster roll that he admits owes its reputation to a similar Maine clawbster. The Clam Castle in Madison, Connecticut came under new ownership earlier this year, announcing the celebratory spring debut April 15 of the giant $180 lobster roll, “Lobzilla.” Social media went nuts over the heavy-duty lobster roll, according to Susan Braden, staff writer at CtInsider.com. Bunny Probus ordered the five rolls – at $180 each – on the phone after her daughter called her, gushing about the massive lobster roll she…

A state judge has ruled that 18-year-old Deven Young is competent to stand trial for the murder of Sunshine “Sunny” Stewart last year in Union, Midcoast Villager reports. Judge Eric Walker ruled that Young “has a rational as well as a factual understanding of the proceedings and a sufficient present ability to consult with legal counsel with a reasonable degree of rational understanding,” reports the Villager’s Stephen Betts. The judge impounded the competency evaluation of Young, along with more detailed reasons for the ruling.Walker ordered a scheduling conference for May 7 in Knox County court. The judge has had the…

After Portland Press Herald writer Steve Collins admitted earlier this week he had lied about fellow Democrat Janet Mills, he’s got gall complaining about The Maine Wire. Collins in his latest creative-writing exercise calls the news outlet beating him like a drum “the state’s leading farm of racist and discriminatory content.” At least it has principles😅, unlike the two-faced Collins who hid for months his secret that he believed Mills was too elderly to run for U.S. Senate. The Press Herald writer is apparently piqued that The Maine Wire called out his duplicity on Thursday – the day before he…

Even after he was fired by a Chick-fil-A outlet, Keyshun Jones still had access to its cash register codes. So every once in a while, cops say, Jones would saunter into the Texas store that fired him, slip behind the counter and put in a Mac & Cheese order. Then he’d issue his credit card a refund and go on about his day, according to Fox 4 News in Dallas. Store officials, perplexed by 800 refunded orders of fromage, then checked their security cams. That’s when they realized who had taken them for $80,000 worth of stolen Mac & Cheese,…

Not sure Graham Platner meant to say what he did by trying to praise Janet Mills as she exited stage left. “We both got into this race because we knew how critical defeating Susan Collins is,” Platner said in his campaign statement. “And her decision today reflects that commitment.” So it’s thank you Janet for your commitment to losing – so I can win. Now that’s funny stuff. https://twitter.com/TheMaineWire/status/2049967529624326518?s=20

Boston radio talker Mike Felger is trying his best to explain why the city’s sports reporters are missing the grits on Pats coach Mike Vrabel’s affair. Appearing on the Brandon Contes podcast carried by AwfulAnnouncing.com, Felger, a former tabloid guy who now has a show on WBZ-FM, claimed the media outlets need to assign outside reporters to cover the story. “I don’t blame the Patriots reporters, because that is a tough spot if you’re a beat guy that covers that team,” Felger told Contes. “You gotta go down there and face the coach every day, and you’ve got to talk…

The disgraced NFL reporter who the New York Post caught canoodling with the Pats coach and later credited with saving a car-crash victim was apparently nowhere near the accident. The Post recently ran a story crediting Dianna Russini happening upon the New Jersey scene and rushing to rescue the trapped elderly driver even as her NFL writing career was crashing and burning. But podcaster and NFL analyst Tony Farmer was skeptical and got a copy of the police accident report to follow his hunch. Sure enough the cop investigating the car crash made no mention of Russini in his report.…

Outgoing Maine Gov. Janet Mills, who threw in the towel Thursday on her U.S. Senate dream, is looking for a sale on, aptly, towels. To wit, Janet said in her withdrawal statement she’s going to Reny’s. “While I am suspending active campaigning, I look forward to seeing you at a Reny’s,” Mills posted on her social-media campaign account. As a way of giving thanks to Janet’s tossing in the towel after throwing everything but the kitchen sink at her cash-strapped campaign, Reny’s is offering a special “Bye Bye Janet” kitchen-towel sale! For $7.99, shoppers who meet the long faced governor…

The Maine governor’s political bedfellow over at the state’s largest paper just stuck a shiv in his good pal. Columnist Steve Collins, despite showering praise on Janet Mills as “courageous and compassionate,” offers his own albeit late confessional on what he really thinks of the woman who just quit her Senate campaign. Or more accurately thought but never said publicly. Until now, when it’s easy to say “I told you so” when no, you didn’t ever say it when it might’ve mattered. “When Mills decided to challenge Sen. Susan Collins in the longtime incumbent’s reelection bid this year, I worried…

Boston WEEI’s former on-again, off-again, foul-mouthed-but-ratings-king Kirk Minihane is on again – his own show that is – blasting his ex-colleagues as “gigantic *ssholes.” Minihane on his show earlier this week blasted Rich Shertenlieb, who is co-hosting on WEEI a new weekday afternoon show with Ken Laird and Ted Johnson. “I told people way before Fred did that Shertenlieb is a gigantic *sshole,” Minihane said, referring to Shertenlieb’s ex-partner and now nemesis on a different radio station, Fred Toucher. “That show is f*cking dead. A year from now it’s gone.” Shertenlieb is a veteran Boston broadcaster, first arriving in 2006,…

Bob Marley in his latest Facebook video is questioning the audacity of Maine’s transpo officials suggesting you “snack wisely.” Marley, who is arguably the state’s leading comedic performer, happened to stop at an interstate rest area for a travel break. That’s when he noticed the sign by the rest-area’s lean-to telling motorists to “Snack Wisely.” “I love it here – a little bit freaking weirdo though. Look at this sign. ‘Snack Wisely. Remember, snacks are not meal replacements.’ “Kind of overstepping your bounds ain’t you Maine? I just pulled in here for Christ sakes and now you’re telling me what…

French race car driver Romain Grosjean has angered animal rights group PETA for ‘flippant’ comments after hitting a bird while testing for next month’s Indy 500. Grosjean created quite a flap when describing the 230 mph bird strike in graphic terms earlier this week. “I still have blood on my race suit, there were pieces of the bird on the rollbar. I couldn’t see where I was going any more, there’s plenty on the aero screen,” Grosjean said. “The helmet stinks, the seat stinks. I didn’t get any chicken for lunch; I just walked past it.” Mimi Bekhechi, senior vice…

UMaine is lauding yet-another massive cash haul from a former Black Bear who is now the multi-millionaire vice chairman of the Boston Red Sox. But Phillip Morse’s $20 million gift comes in exchange for the donor’s immortality – Morse’s big checks require a new building be enshrined as Morse’s Arena and that sports programs carry his family’s name. The latest Red Sox exec’s bequest to his alma mater is his family’s second $10 million check, the first $10 million being written four years ago. The initial $10 million “secured naming rights to Morse Arena and Chappelle Court, expected to be…

An aspiring white law student has filed legal notice alleging discrimination against a black-only internship in a case similar to one just settled in the U.S. Sophie Corcoran is challenging the British “10,000 Interns Foundation,” which offers scholarships only to “under-represented groups.” Corcoran, a so-called influencer and GB News Commentator, alleges the foundation is violating Britain’s Equality Act. Hoping to go to law school, she applied to the foundation for a scholarship only to learn it caters only to blacks and other minorities. “This case is not simply about my own experience,” Corcoran told The Guardian. “I am pursuing it…

The president of University of New England’s proposal for a mediator to negotiate with Biddeford officials has landed with a thud. Twice now UNE President James Herbert has reached out to Mayor Liam LaFountain seeking a meeting with a peacemaker present. Judging from a second letter from Herbert to the city’s top elected official the school president’s request won’t be getting its baccalaureate. “As you know, you are in receipt of correspondence from UNE on April 15 requesting an independent mediator to address disagreements and litigation,” Herbert wrote April 27. The college and city have been mired in a fight…

The Daily Mail says a “Patriots insider” reports team management is looking at a former Steelers coach as a Mike Vrabel backup plan. Mail reporters Russ Weakland and Ben Nagle said ex-Pittsburgh coach Mike Tomlin is a possible replacement. The married Vrabel, distracted for the past three weeks denying an affair with a married NFL reporter, ran from the paparazzi Tuesday in Utah, where he owns a vacation home. Patriots ownership reportedly does not want to fire Vrabel, though as the controversy grows, it’s possible something could happen, The Spun and then the Daily Mail reported Tuesday. PB Sports Talk,…

The Maine State Police said late Tuesday they’ve found a missing Waldoboro man dead. Darryl Sanborn, 64, of Thomaston was last seen in Waldoboro, a town he also frequented, on April 5. A person walking on a dirt road off Wagner Bridge Road in Waldoboro nearly two weeks later discovered the body of an adult male. The deceased was transported to the Office of Chief Medical Examiner in Augusta, where an autopsy was performed. The body wasn’t immediately identified, leading to a delay in the official announcement that it was Sanborn. There was no immediate explanation from police as to…

A federal court has found fraudulent efforts by an art hawker to make and sell copies of iconic Maine artist Robert Indiana’s creations. A jury had awarded $102 million in damages to Indiana‘s former business partner, Morgan Art Foundation. The foundation had sued art publisher Michael McKenzie for fraudulent counterfeiting of Indiana’s work. Indiana died eight years ago, having lived out his retirement on Vinalhaven, an island in Penobscot Bay just off Midcoast Maine. The artist was most famously associated with a sculpture spelling out “LOVE” with the letters “L” and “O” piled atop the letters “V” and E,” and…

The nation’s former top cop was indicted – and the subject of a federal arrest warrant -Tuesday over a photo of seashells officials said threatened to kill President Trump. James Comey a year ago posted a picture on social media of shells on a beach writing out the numbers “86 47,” which critics said referred to killing Trump. The former deputy attorney general and FBI director has denied – with a straight face – the display had any nefarious meaning. “When used as slang, the number 86 can refer to getting rid of or tossing something out,” CNN said. “Trump…

In what had to be a Harvard Lampoon exercise, councilors held a standing ovation for a city manager who’s resigning nine months into the job. Biddeford Mayor Liam LaFountain had to be kidding when he pulled out all the superlatives he could fabricate to thank Trucmai Tran Nguyen-Dever for her dedication to civil service. Problem was he wasn’t kidding. Nguyen-Dever was hired less than a year ago at a salary of $200,000 to straighten out the financial messes in the flailing Democrat-run city. The woman who’s never managed a city before lasted all of nine months before deciding she was…

After traveling to Baltimore over the weekend to meet with – and fire – Alex Cora, Red Sox owner John Henry has been nowhere to be found. Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy is calling Henry, who also owns The Boston Globe, a “f***ing coward” for avoiding the press. “From best Red Sox owner to worst,” said widely followed broadcaster Jim Rome. “If you’re no longer in it to win it, sell it to someone who is.” Casters like Portnoy and Rome hold sway in the stands so if they’re calling for Henry’s head, the Sox boss may actually be feeling…

The wife of the leading Democrat primary candidate for U.S. Senate, who’s made a campaign issue out of her difficulty getting pregnant, has lost her first baby. The Graham Platner campaign announced Monday night Amy Gertner suffered a miscarriage following the couple’s highly publicized IVF treatments in the country of Norway. “Just as the difficulty in accessing fertility treatment is overlooked, so too is the heartbreak of loss,” Platner Saturday social-media post. “We suffered that heartbreak recently, when we experienced a miscarriage.” “While it’s difficult to talk about, we felt it was important to be open, because so many families…

Local boy does good. Great, actually. Cooper Flagg, born in Newport, Maine, took home the NBA’s 2025-26 Rookie of the Year Award Monday night. “It’s surreal,” Flagg said. “Getting thrown in the fire right away helped me long term. I feel I grew in a lot of different areas throughout the year.” Despite an injury scare in March, Flagg dominated in April, scoring 96 points in a two-game span, Yahoo reports. On the season, the former Duke Blue Devil finished with averages of 21 points, 6.7 rebounds and 4.5 assists. Now with one year under his belt, Flagg will have…

Scarborough Police on Monday announced the passing of former Chief Robert Moulton after a long illness. Moulton began with Scarborough in 1977 as a reserve officer patrolling Higgins Beach, Prouts Neck and working details at Scarborough Downs and Beech Ridge Speedway. He went full-time a year later. During his career, Moulton also was a youth-aid officer working with school programs. He was promoted to detective in 1981, involved in the creation of the Southern Maine Task Force comprised of investigators from a variety of southern Maine communities. Moulton later became a patrol sergeant and then detective sergeant supervisor. He was…

A Nevada judge has sentenced “Dances With Wolves” actor Nathan Chasing Horse to life behind bars for sexually assaulting Indigenous women and girls. A jury had previously convicted him of 13 charges, mostly related to sexual assault of three women, The Associated Press reported. Accusers and their families told Judge Jessica Peterson they continue to suffer from the trauma caused by Chasing Horse, 49, and struggle with their faith after he exploited his position as a spiritual leader. He’ll be eligible for parole after serving for 37 years, and has continued to deny the charges against him. “This is a…

A registered dietitian nutritionist is doing our work for us with a breaking blueberry alert. Before you grab a pint in the grocery store, make sure your pick doesn’t have obvious moisture on it. “It’s all too easy to quickly grab a pack and be on my way while supermarket shopping without taking a closer look at what I’m buying,” says Christina Manian. “On more than one occasion, I open up the containers to find spoiled blueberries just days later.” A New Englander at heart, Manian was accustomed to eating wild blueberries right off the bush while hiking. But alas…

If there’s blood in the historic Charles River today, as it wends its way through Brighton and upstream to Waltham, trace it to 98.5’s Fred Toucher’s latest competitive rantings. Touchebag has again become unglued, this time over his former sports radio pal Rich Shirtenlieb’s partnering with arch-nemesis WEEI Sports Radio. Shirtenlieb’s new afternoon drive-time show premiered Monday on WEEI, much to Toucher’s unbridled disgust. “I hate him so much,” Toucher told his listeners Monday. “I just hate him.” https://twitter.com/bostonmedia617/status/1996815831712649490?s=20 Toucher anchors the early-morning drive-time show at 98.5 in Waltham, a relatively short paddle downstream in the Charles to the WEEI…

If Biddeford city officials thought they were getting calm after a storm by hiring a rookie manager, they were off the mooring by a mile. Trucmai Tran Nguyen-Dever, who took the reins in city hall just nine months ago to succeed the Jim Bennett tumult, has abruptly resigned from her cushy $200,000 salaried perch along Maine’s southern coast. Veteran ten-year manager Bennett had left amid a tit-for-tat storm between him and city councilors, who bet on his inexperienced successor to straighten out their financial messes. Nguyen-Dever, a Californian who’d never run a city, “led the city through a difficult and…

The musical chairs continue to go round ‘n round at Boston’s WEEI all-sports radio, where it competes with 98.5 Sports Hub radio. Today’s star show, so-to-speak, is the WEEI afternoon drive-time slot at 2 p.m, when ex-98.5 co-host Rich Shirtenlieb comes back to sports radio, after a falling-out with his ex-cohost at 98.5, Fred Toucher. Shirtenlieb and Toucher were a radio team for 20 years, starting at the old Boston WBCN radio, in 2008, just after ex-WBCN’s shock jocks Opie and Anthony departed with poor ratings, and who a decade earlier, WAAF had sent packing, after they reported (falsely as…

Two 18-year-olds were arrested for disorderly conduct after filming a social-media stunt driving a lawnmower through a Target store in Florida. Janek Szkaradek drove the mower, and Luke Charske recorded the incident, according to Ocala Police. The night before, Szkaradek used a leaf blower inside of Culver’s restaurant. “These actions endangered people and caused property damage,” the police department said. “They are crimes, not harmless videos. Think before you record – it’s not worth an arrest and a criminal charge.” Szkaradek was charged with criminal mischief and disorderly conduct for the incident at Culver’s, and disorderly conduct for the Target…

Thousands of pounds of steamed Maine lobster went to the birds rather than to the famished legacy press. A shooter – an apparent would-be assassin – made his way into the association’s annual dinner Saturday night after guests got their spring pea and burrata salad. But the next course – Maine lobster – never got plated. “Wondering what happened to the lobster for 2,600 people that never got served,” Nico Perrino posted on X. Perrino is executive vice president of a group calling itself Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, its mission “to defend and sustain the individual rights of…

A mysterious disappearance of a Waldoboro man has an investigatory website speculating about a possible connection to a huge kidnapping/assault/drug bust in the town earlier this month. But followers of Mysteries in Maine say Darryl Sanborn wasn’t into pharmaceuticals and wouldn’t have fraternized with the hard-core element. “Now believed to be deceased,” the Mysteries Facebook page claims, citing likely “foul play.” A local store employee “states Darryl expressed fear for his life right before going missing,” the page administrator said. “He literally came into my store before he went missing and was telling me how he was worried for his…

A new 100-year photographic retrospective exhibit of sex goddess Marilyn Monroe reveals a secret about her first husband, who would go on to become a Maine police officer. Jim Dougherty, who later lived in Maine with his third wife, married ex-high-school classmate Monroe in 1942 when she was just 16 and he was 21. Her name at the time was Norma Jeane Mortenson, baptized as Norma Jeanne Baker, later to become the iconic Marilyn Monroe, a name change she made in 1956. Two years after they married, Dougherty shipped off with the Merchant Marines and while at sea saw a…

The Montana class of battleships with their 16-inch guns would have been the most feared vessels ever put to war by the United States Navy. But just before production started and after years of planning, U.S. defense officials cancelled plans to build them, realizing the new superhero of war at sea was aircraft carriers, not battleships. They became dinosaurs before they ever had their keels laid. The armor plating on the 71,000-ton Montana class was so heavy the ships would have been dead in the water before thru could have gotten out of the way of enemy vessels, according to…

While at work a northwestern Maine hospital employee happened to notice from a third-floor window a potential tragedy unfolding. As Eastern Maine Medical Center’s Trista Burchill noticed a child playing on the nearby riverbank, she alerted Brewer Police and Fire, who rushed to the area. During the search for the child, police learned that an 8-year-old autistic child was missing from a residence in Brewer. Police officers deployed to Indian Trail Park, the Conservation Club, and the Treats Falls Dam. “Sgt. Nickerson, OfficerJohnston, and Officer Brasslett traversed significant distances over rough terrain, and with the assistance of the Brewer Fire…

A tourist in Florence allegedly damaged a 16th-century fountain as part of a pre-marriage challenge to touch a statue’s genitals. Florence city officials said a woman climbed up the Fountain of Neptune, known as the “Biancone,” in Piazza della Signoria and left it damaged. The fountain was built in 1565 to celebrate the opening of a new aqueduct and earned its nickname, which means “great white,” due to the brilliance of its marble. The statues at the heart of the fountain show the Roman sea god Neptune on a chariot drawn by four horses, surrounded by other figures. Cops spotted…

“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” That was the now-infamous phrase uttered by Democrat Rahm Emanuel, then chief of staff to President Obama. Learning their lessons well, members of the White House press corpse started pocketing bottles of wine from their annual dinner Saturday night. The bizarre scene was recorded on video and posted on X after shots rang out at the Washington Hilton soiree attended by President Trump and thousands of alleged reporters and their guests. As attendees are leaving the ballroom following the shooting, one of them, a woman in a long black slitted…

The top official at York County’s only emergency nightly-housing supplier issued a blistering defense Sunday, accusing skeptical taxpayers of peddling “misinformation.” “For weeks, Seeds of Hope has remained quiet while misinformation, assumptions, and personal attacks have circulated,” said executive director Vassie Fowler. “But when misinformation begins shaping public understanding and influencing city decisions, silence is no longer responsible. Facts matter. The community deserves them. And we are done being quiet.” Fowler’s defense of the Biddeford low-income services facility, published by BiddefordBuzz.com, comes in the wake of divisive council budget deliberations over funding. Seeds of Hope Neighborhood Center, a nonprofit entity,…

A day after a three-game sweep by New England’s dreaded Yankees, the Red Sox fired manager and ex-infielder Alex Cora over the weekend, promoting Maine’s minor-league manager to MLB coach ESPN reported that Cora and five coaches were canned Saturday night amid Boston’s dismal standings. WEEI’s Christian Arcand was calling it the “Saturday Night Massacre,” a Watergate-era phrase. The Saturday night sweep results in a temporary promotion to The Bigs for Chad Epperson, the manager at the Double-A Portland, Portland Sea Dogs who will serve as interim third-base coach. Boston is in the basement with a 10-17 record, having lost…

A former Hancock County budgeteer and perennial downeast candidate and has been fined $250 for wrecking signs at a land preserve. Ian Schwartz, who initially denied the vandalism, pleaded guilty to damaging several signs and trail markers at the Mount Desert Land & Garden Preserve. The Mount Desert resident has run three times for local, county and state office, all ending in defeat. He competed in the 2018 Democrat primary for state senate, Mount Desert selectman’s race in 2019 and as a Democrat for Hancock County Commission in 2020. Schwartz, a former member of a county budget committee, was charged…