AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine Labor Commissioner Jeanne Paquette says Maine’s unemployment rate dropped by 0.2 percentage points to 7.4 percent in October. October’s preliminary rate, down slightly from 7.6 percent in September, compares to New England’s overall jobless rate for the month, 7.4 percent. The share of Maine’s population that’s employed remained well above the […]
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EL grad Jake Sasseville launches web series
He purchased eight 30-minute blocks on ABC Family to launch “Delusions of Grandeur.” It was set to debut Oct. 4 at 1 a.m. EDT, but the network pulled it two weeks before the airdate, Sasseville said. “I got a ton of emails from the legal team who all of a sudden chose … that the […]
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Lewiston man gets more than 2 years for threatening to kill Social Security official
PORTLAND — A Lewiston man who spent decades behind bars on a murder conviction was sentenced Monday in U.S. District Court to two years and three months in federal prison for threatening to kill an official with the Social Security Administration in Baltimore. In addition to prison time, Harold Rowe, 55, was sentenced by U.S. […]
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District attorney decides not to prosecute former Messalonskee football coach
OAKLAND (AP) — The district attorney has decided not to prosecute a former Maine high school football coach who had been accused of assaulting a player. Somerset County District Attorney Alan Kelley said in a statement Monday that “criminal assault charges are not supported by the evidence.” Wes Littlefield resigned in September as coach at […]
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Augusta man gets 15 years for pharmacy robberies
AUGUSTA (AP) — An Augusta man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for a series of crimes, including the robberies of three Maine pharmacies within a four-day period last summer to feed his prescription pill dependency. Shawn Merrill pleaded guilty Monday in Kennebec County Superior Court to 16 offenses dating to 2010. The […]
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Boothbay research center to probe deep-sea microbes
EAST BOOTHBAY (AP) — Bigelow Laboratory’s Single Cell Genomics Center in Maine has extracted and amplified DNA from microbial cells that appear to thrive miles deep in the ocean, which until recently was thought to be devoid of life. A consortium of scientists, led by a researcher from the East Boothbay lab, has received a […]
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Unions flexed muscles in state campaigns
WASHINGTON (AP) — From California to Maine, unions used their political muscle in the recent elections to help install Democratic governors, build labor-friendly majorities in state legislatures and defeat ballot initiatives against them. The combination of union money and member mobilization helped Democrats take control of state legislatures in Maine and Minnesota. In Michigan, voters […]
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Police release names of three people found dead in central Maine home
ALTON (AP) — The bodies of man, his wife and his friend were found in the couple’s home in this rural central Maine town. Investigators were not saying what caused the deaths, but a spokesman said Tuesday it did not appear that anyone else was involved. The dead were identified as Scott Reed, 43; his […]
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Former top Maine drug prosecutor on the lam
PORTLAND (AP) — Maine’s former top drug prosecutor has disappeared following a federal appeals court decision upholding his conviction on seven counts of child pornography, the U.S. Marshals Service said Monday. James Cameron, 50, cut off his court-ordered electronic monitoring ankle bracelet and disappeared around midnight on Nov. 14, the same day the 1st U.S. […]
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Ex-Maine prosecutor disappears after failed appeal on child pornography conviction
PORTLAND (AP) — The U.S. Marshals Service is looking for Maine’s former top drug prosecutor who disappeared after a federal appeals court upheld his conviction on seven counts of child pornography. The marshals service said James Cameron cut off his court-ordered electronic monitoring device and disappeared on Nov. 14. That was the same day that […]