Last month, the firm that controls the Elvis brand sent cease-and-desist letters to multiple Elvis-themed chapels in Las Vegas, ordering them to stop using The King’s likeness in ceremonies.
June 2022
Posted inSports, Varsity Maine
Wednesday’s high school roundup: Kennebunk caps perfect regular season
Girls’ lacrosse: The reigning Class A champion will take a 12-0 record into the state tournament after a 14-9 victory over Cheverus.
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Posted inLocal & State, News, Schools and Education
After an untraditional 4 years, Portland High School grads still get pomp and circumstance
They reveled in graduation day and in all they’d gone through, with the pandemic, to get there. In all, 462 students will graduate from Portland’s public high schools this week.
Posted inGirls Lacrosse, Sports, Varsity Maine
Girls’ lacrosse: Cape Elizabeth rallies to beat Freeport, 14-11
The Capers dominate the second half and score eight goals to win their regular-season finale.
Posted inBoys Lacrosse, Sports, Varsity Maine
Boys’ lacrosse: Fulton scores eight goals as Yarmouth tops NYA, 16-10
Yarmouth ends the regular season with seven straight wins on a big night for Steven Fulton.
Posted inNew England, News
Feds say oil deal woes led to murder of Vermont man
Federal prosecutors say a conspiracy that resulted in the murder of a Vermont man grew out of a financial dispute between the victim and one of the men now charged with arranging to have him killed.
Posted inBaseball, Sports, Varsity Maine
Baseball: Westbrook shuts down Cheverus for 4-1 win
The Blue Blazes snap a five-game losing streak and should finish sixth in the Class A South standings
Posted inNation & World, Politics
Watchdog opens probe into huge Social Security fines to poor, disabled
At the heart of the investigation is the Civil Monetary Penalty Program, a little-known anti-fraud program run by the inspector general’s office which during the Trump administration began levying unprecedented fines imposed on disabled and elderly people.
Posted inLocal & State, News
Maine health care workers to appeal order to disclose their names in vaccine mandate lawsuit
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that there is no evidence that the plaintiffs face ‘a heightened risk of severe social stigma and worse’ if they are no longer allowed to remain anonymous.
Posted inNation & World
Four killed in shooting at Tulsa medical building
The shooter is also dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police say.