BAR HARBOR (AP) — Maine’s College of the Atlantic has received a federal grant to explore ways to turn food waste into fuel. The Bar Harbor school said a student team has been awarded a $15,000 Environmental Protection Agency grant to develop a system to turn food waste into a resource for liquid fuel or […]
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Police release name of Bangor stabbing victim
BANGOR (AP) — Bangor authorities have released the name of the man stabbed to death late last month. Police say 34-year-old Jeffrey Leblanc was stabbed once in the abdomen at a city home at about 2:30 a.m. Saturday. He was taken by ambulance to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. The Maine State Medical […]
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LePage’s cutback order brings Appropriations Committee back early
AUGUSTA (AP) — Four days before the House and Senate are scheduled to return to the State House to get down to business for the 2013 session, the Appropriations Committee will be reporting for duty Friday — at leaders’ request. On its agenda is a $35.5 million curtailment order signed a week ago by Gov. […]
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Maine using lottery system to get out alerts on missing seniors, kids
AUGUSTA — Maine is employing some unique methods to help keep its aging population safe. Maine is one of 35 states to have a Silver Alert program or its equivalent. A Silver Alert is similar to an Amber Alert for missing children, but is intended to help find a missing senior citizen. Then-Gov. John Baldacci […]
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Alcohol-sensing devices may be next safety step
It is amazing to think how much safer our roads and highways have become over the past 50 years. Most of the thanks for that goes to better-designed cars and highway systems that have made accidents much more survivable than decades ago. With each new model, automakers seem to add standard equipment and options designed […]
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Maine Democratic Party chairman seeks re-election
AUGUSTA — The chairman of the Maine Democratic Party said Thursday he intends to seek re-election later this month. Ben Grant, a Portland-based lawyer, said he wants another term so he will have a chance to return the Blaine House to the Democrats. The choice of chairman will be decided by the party faithful on […]
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There’s ‘no safe ice’ on Maine lakes, rivers and ponds, officials say
FORT KENT — Those whose business it is to monitor ice conditions on Maine’s lakes, rivers and ponds are saying this week there is no safe ice in the state. “It really is the case there is no safe ice in Maine,” Doug Rafferty, spokesman with the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, said […]
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Knox County faces $2M claim over fatal plane crash
ROCKLAND — A $2 million claim against Knox County has been filed on behalf of the estate of one of the three young men who died in an airplane crash at the Owls Head Regional airport two months ago. The notice of intent to sue was sent to the county Dec. 26 on behalf of […]
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Weather hampers search for 3 missing snowmobilers in Rangeley
In a short span Sunday night, four people died — the three men riding together and a woman who was riding separately — when they drove their machines into icy open waters. Nobody can recall any time when four snowmobile riders were killed in the same place at roughly the same time. “It’s hard to […]
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King to appear on national news shows
LEWISTON — Maine’s newest U.S. senator is poised to make a national splash this week as he appears on two of the country’s most watched television news and politics shows. Independent Angus King, a former Maine governor, will be sworn in to the U.S. Senate on Thursday. He will appear on “NBC Nightly News” in […]