MATTAWAMKEAG — An oil train pulling 15 full 33,000-gallon crude oil tankers apparently spilled only 3 gallons of oil when it derailed Thursday yards from the Penobscot River. The train went off the tracks near Route 2 and about a few hundred yards from the Winn town line at about 5 a.m. Thirteen of the […]
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GOP turns up heat on hospital debt
AUGUSTA — GOP lawmakers and Republican Gov. Paul LePage are turning up the rhetoric and the political heat as they push LePage’s plan to use revenue from the state’s liquor business to pay back $484 million the state owes to 39 Maine hospitals. LePage on Friday will bring his message to Lewiston-Auburn, where he will […]
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Orono police officer fired after arrest for drunken driving
ORONO (AP) — Orono police say an officer has been fired after being arrested on a drunken driving charge. A Hancock County sheriff’s deputy arrested Officer Joshua Gunn late Friday night in Dedham, where his car had gone off Route 1-A. WZON radio in Bangor said 30-year-old Gunn has lost his job as an Orono […]
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2nd section of Kittery-Portsmouth bridge in place
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — Hampshire and Maine is in place. Work is now expected to start on the center lift span of the bridge connecting Portsmouth, N.H., to Kittery, Maine. The north span on the Kittery side was successfully moved into place early Wednesday. The south span was put into place in January. Denis Switzer […]
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Student restraint compromise backed
AUGUSTA (AP) — The Maine Legislature’s Education Committee has voted to back a compromise reached by teachers, parents and disability rights groups on how much leeway teachers have in physically managing a disruptive student. A rule that took effect this school year said Maine teachers couldn’t use physical restraint unless the student or teacher was […]
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Arrest made in theft from Fairfield church
FAIRFIELD (AP) — Police say a Belgrade woman has been arrested in connection with the theft of more than $2,000 from a Fairfield church. Sarah Runnion-Bareford was charged Wednesday with felony theft after police received tips that she may be involved. Interim chief Joseph Massey told the Morning Sentinel that church workers picked her out […]
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Here’s the real danger of ‘Agenda 21’
If your fear of the future is: a bleak, cold world where the ruling elite force healthy people to walk on treadmills to produce electricity while the elderly and disabled are strapped to conveyor belts and incinerated, or an overheated, arid planet where healthy people wear masks to avoid breathing polluted air as factories in […]
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Hospital releases teen skier who survived 2 night near Sugarloaf
FARMINGTON (AP) — A 17-year-old boy who was found alive and well after going missing for two nights near a ski resort has been discharged from a Maine hospital. A spokeswoman for Franklin Memorial Hospital in Farmington said Nicholas Joy of Medford, Mass., was released at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday. Spokeswoman Jill Gray could not give […]
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Price of heating oil dropping in Maine
AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine energy officials said the statewide average cash price for No. 2 heating oil is $3.78 per gallon, down 5 cents from last week. The Governor’s Energy Office also said the average kerosene price fell 5 cents, to $4.25 per gallon. Prices for propane also went down 6 cents, to $2.82 per […]