SOUTH PORTLAND — A blazing ceiling collapsed on firefighters battling back a second-floor flare-up early Wednesday morning, but everyone was able to escape the ordeal alive, firefighters on scene told the Bangor Daily News. The blaze, which decimated an apartment building at 554 Main St. and damaged the exterior of the structure next door, was […]
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Maine lobster processing plant to open
TENANTS HARBOR (AP) — A 23-year-old entrepreneur plans to open a lobster processing plant along the Maine coast, with hopes of getting some of the business that now goes to Canada. Kyle Murdock, who grew up on Monhegan Island, plans to have the Sea Hag Seafood plant running by Monday in the former Great Eastern […]
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Portland planners deny Civic Center abutter’s request to rescind approval of $33M renovation project
PORTLAND — An abutter of the Cumberland County Civic Center on Tuesday urged the Portland Planning Board to rescind its approval of the venue’s high-profile renovation project, telling city planners the plan’s proposed loading docks don’t leave enough room for large tractor-trailers to turn out onto the nearby streets. David Ray, legal counsel for the […]
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Lawyer in Navy sub fire case looking to avoid indictment
PORTLAND (AP) — The attorney for a Maine shipyard worker accused of setting a fire that caused $400 million in damage to a submarine said lawyers are discussing a “potential resolution” that would avoid the need for a grand jury indictment, according to court papers. Prosecutors say Casey James Fury, 24, of Portsmouth, N.H., confessed […]
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Mount Vernon man pleads not guilty to more than 50 hunting violations
AUGUSTA (AP) — A Mount Vernon man authorities say showed a “complete disregard” for Maine hunting rules has pleaded not guilty to a long list of alleged violations. The Kennebec Journal reported that Joseph Deleskey pleaded not guilty Tuesday to 16 felony counts charging him with possession of firearm by a prohibited person, as well […]
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Summers stumps in Lewiston
LEWISTON — The top political operative for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce continued to defend television ads that denounce the record of former Maine governor Angus King, an independent U.S. Senate candidate, during a whistle-stop at a Simones’ Hot Dog Stand on Tuesday. The ads charge King with being “the king of spending.” Rob Engstrom, […]
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Woman wins milk for life with ‘great story’ from childhood on Maine farm
MORRILL — When Robin Roberts Webster was growing up at Quanta-View Farm, her dairy-farmer father used to play a funny trick on children who would come visit — especially her cousins from Connecticut. Roger Roberts, who sold milk for almost 30 years to Portland-based Oakhurst Dairy, told the kids that he had a chocolate cow […]
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Man shot by trooper; state police converge at Edinburg residence
EDINBURG — A state trooper shot a town man at the man’s Edinburg Road home after he came at the trooper with a knife while making homicidal and suicidal threats, state police said Tuesday. Trooper Chris Hashey was placed on administrative leave with pay per standard procedure pending the outcome of the Maine Attorney General’s […]
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Major Maine pot dealer gets 8 years in prison
BANGOR (AP) — A man described by prosecutors “as one of the most prolific drug smugglers in Maine” has been sentenced to eight years in federal prison on drug and money laundering charges. Paul Corbin of the northern Maine community of St. David was also sentenced Tuesday in federal court in Bangor to four years […]
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Maine small business group tells U.S. Chamber: ‘Go back to Washington’
LEWISTON — A Maine small-business coalition with about 3,400 members says it has a simple message for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce: “Go home.” “The U.S. Chamber doesn’t care about small businesses in Maine,” said Craig Saddlemire, a Lewiston city councilor and local small business owner. “These are the guys who lobbied for BP after […]