PORTLAND (AP) — The president of the University of Southern Maine says the school must trim $5 million from its budget for the coming year, a move that could mean staff reductions. President Theo Kalikow said Tuesday she does not know exactly how the university will reach that target. She set preliminary cuts of $3.2 […]
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Ex-Monmouth teacher pleads guilty to lesser charge
AUGUSTA (AP) — A former Maine middle school teacher who originally pleaded guilty to a felony child pornography charge has withdrawn that plea and instead admitted to a lesser offense that allows him to avoid jail time. The Kennebec Journal reported that Christopher Brown, a former Monmouth Middle School fifth-grade teacher, pleaded guilty a year […]
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Gubernatorial candidate Woods proposes eliminating 108 Maine towns
FALMOUTH — Gubernatorial hopeful Steve Woods unveiled an economic strategy Tuesday that could result in the closure of more than 100 small Maine towns and redirect their state dollars — and potentially their residents — toward more urban centers. Woods said the state now invests too much maintaining infrastructure to reach a widely dispersed population […]
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Augusta man charged with throwing bleach at woman
AUGUSTA (AP) — An Augusta man has been charged with throwing bleach in a 60-year-old woman’s face after claiming to be a police officer. Authorities say 44-year-old Charles Cortright had an argument with the woman on Monday night. He left the area and returned a short time later. Police say he knocked on the woman’s […]
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Portland rape suspect denied lower bail
PORTLAND (AP) — A Portland man charged with taking part in the kidnapping and gang rape of a woman last summer has been denied lower bail by a judge. An attorney for 23-year-old Mohammed Abdi told a judge in asking for bail to be lowered from $200,000 to $10,000 on Tuesday that the sexual encounter […]
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College roundup: Marks, Maine smoke Florida Atlantic
BOCA RATON, Fla. — Rookie Jake Marks pitched a complete game shutout to lead the University of Maine baseball team to an 8-0 win over Florida Atlantic University on Tuesday night. Marks struck out eight batters in the game and allowed just three hits in the victory to improve to 1-0 on the season. Maine […]
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Maine Sports Hall of Fame to induct William S. Cohen
WATERVILLE — Bangor native William S. Cohen, secretary of defense in the Cabinet of former President Bill Clinton, is among 10 new members who will be inducted by the Maine Sports Hall of Fame at its 38th annual banquet at the Augusta Civic Center on May 5. Richard L. Whitmore, President of the Maine Sports […]
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iPads for all Maine middle-schoolers? Maybe.
The state’s first-in-the-nation laptop program may be going iPad. Maine is negotiating five options for its next Maine Learning Technology Initiative contract. For the past seven years, that program has placed Apple MacBook laptops in the hands of every seventh- and eighth-grader in the state. Two new options include computer tablets for the first time. […]
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Expanding Medicaid would give state boost, report says
AUGUSTA — Expanding Medicaid in Maine would stimulate $350 million in economic activity, create more than 3,100 jobs and generate as much as $18 million in state and local taxes annually, according to a policy report released Tuesday. But if Maine decides against expanding Medicaid, it stands to lose to other states the $256 million […]
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Government can’t force guns on these people
Until last week, Byron was best known to the outside world for Coos Canyon and gold panning in the Swift River. Then two out of three selectmen voted to place a symbolic article on the town warrant requiring all 58 households to own a gun. We say symbolic because, as one selectman told the Sun Journal, […]