WATERVILLE (AP) — A Tri-State Megabucks Plus lottery ticket worth $2.3 million has been sold in Maine. The Maine State Lottery announced Monday that one winning ticket for the jackpot prize was sold for Saturday’s drawing. The ticket was bought at a Cumberland Farms store in Waterville, but the winner has not come forward. Tri-State […]
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Maine to expand online AP course offerings
PORTLAND (AP) — Maine is increasing funding and expanding offerings for a program that provides free online Advanced Placement courses to students who can’t get them at their local high school. There are currently about 200 students taking 17 courses in Maine’s AP4ALL program. The Portland Press Herald reported that for the 2013-2014 academic year, […]
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Maine gas prices fall again
AUGUSTA (AP) — Gas prices in Maine are down more than two cents per gallon, yet remain well above the national average. Price-monitoring website MaineGasPrices.com reports Monday that the average retail cost of a gallon of gas in Maine has dropped to $3.74 in the past week, a full dime above the national average. Maine […]
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Maine man goes on trial in crowbar beating death
BANGOR (AP) — Opening statements are getting under way in the murder trial of a 49-year-old Maine man charged in the beating death of a construction company owner over a property dispute. Peter Robinson, of Bradford, goes on trial Monday in Penobscot County Superior Court in Bangor. Robinson is charged in the death of 71-year-old […]
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Proposed assault-rifle ban coming to a slow boil
With gun control at a fever pitch in the halls of government, another ban of so-called “assault weapons” is on its way, for the second time. Tried once in this country, it accomplished nothing. No reduction in violent crime, no elimination of bad guys getting guns of any kind. But if politicians, with the help […]
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Oil sands through Maine? The battle is on despite no plan
LEWISTON — Somewhere in western Maine, in a steel pipe below the earth, crude oil is making its way north from Portland to refineries in Montreal. More than 5 billion barrels of oil (210 billion gallons) have moved through the pipeline — the only one of its kind connecting interior Canada to a port in […]
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Role reversal in Maine over taking on debt
For a governor who started out as a cash-and-carry kind of guy, Gov. Paul LePage is now weirdly willing to rack up some big-time debt. The governor started his first term firmly opposed to bonding, even insisting that the bonding by colleges and hospitals be approved by voters. The Maine Health and Higher Education Facilities […]
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Developer plans more Brunswick projects near Cooks Corner
BRUNSWICK — Topsham developer Jim Howard of Priority Real Estate Group said Wednesday that previously cool relationships among town, state and redevelopment officials regarding redevelopment of the former Brunswick Naval Air Station seem to have thawed, prompting him to move forward with plans for another $27 million in development at Brunswick Landing — and a […]
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High prices expected as Maine elver season begins
PORTLAND (AP) — Hundreds of eel fishermen are lining Maine rivers for the start of eel fishing season. High prices are expected when the season kicks off Friday. For the next 10 weeks, fishermen will catch the tiny translucent eels, known as elvers, in nets as they swim up coastal rivers and streams. The eels […]
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February home sales dip due to weather
SOUTH PORTLAND (AP) — Real estate agents say sales of existing single-family homes in Maine fell 5 percent in February from a year ago because of severe weather, but the sales prices for those homes went up. The Maine Association of Realtors says real estate agents sold 593 homes last month, down from 624 a […]