AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine’s Republican governor says he plans to bring up his proposal to prevent the use of food stamps for junk food during a visit to Washington, D.C. Gov. Paul LePage, who blames the sugar lobby for resistance to his proposal, planned to travel to Washington for a holiday party this […]
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Portland driver, 82, who hit pedestrian in parking lot had suspended license
[media-credit id=266 align=”alignnone” width=”1024″][/media-credit] An 82-year-old man is facing multiple charges after he hit a pedestrian as he entered the parking lot of Pratt Abbott in Portland. Robert Carson of Portland, whose license was suspended, was driving an unregistered and uninspected car Wednesday afternoon when he was involved in an accident at 1055 Forest Ave., police said. […]
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Bangor police agree to bring a rescue dog home in time for Christmas
At the intersection of happenstance and need, there was a border collie and the Bangor Police Department. A woman in Waldoboro contacted the department when she saw two officers were in Washington, D.C., escorting a Wreaths Across America trip to Arlington National Cemetery. She had a request: Would the officers pick up her rescue dog? […]
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Robert Burton who led police on long manhunt gets 55 years for murder
Burton was found guilty in a jury trial that ended Oct. 9 of murder in the shooting death of his former girlfriend in the Parkman home they had once shared. BANGOR, Maine (AP) — A man who slipped into his ex-girlfriend’s home and killed her before leading police on the longest manhunt in state history […]
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Fire destroys van in Lewiston
Lewiston Fire Inspector Paul Ouellette checks out the damage inside a van at the corner of Curtis and Cottage streets in Lewiston on Friday morning while trying to determine the cause of a fire. The owner of the van, Jac Williams, said that shortly after he started it up he smelled smoke and got out […]
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Sen. Angus King renews push for more energy independence
PORTLAND (AP) — Maine Sen. Angus King is introducing a bill he says will create a push for greater energy independence. King, an independent, is calling the legislation the Next Generation Grid Resources and Infrastructure Development Act, or the GRID Act. He says it’s designed to use federal resources to support an electricity grid that’s […]
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Labor shortage forces Maine to pay private Ohio firm to fill snowplow jobs
The state is paying private contractors to drive plow trucks and work on road crews in an effort to overcome a chronic shortage of full-time transportation workers in southern Maine. Roughly 24 contractors are expected to work for Maine Department of Transportation road crews in Freeport, Alfred and Yarmouth through October 2018. The department has […]
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State planning commission postpones wind energy meeting
FARMINGTON — The Maine Land Use Planning Commission has postponed its meeting to consider whether to initiate rule-making to expand the expedited wind power permitting area in northern Franklin and Somerset counties. The meeting will be held Tuesday, Dec. 19, beginning at 9 a.m., but a review of NextEra Energy Resources’ petition to expand the […]
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Ski ME: Western Maine ski resorts getting ready for winter
Black Mountain’s Angry Beavers created four new glades. Sugarloaf spent $250,000 on a pair of snow machines that open up back-country terrain for an experience it says can’t be found anywhere east of Michigan. Sunday River Resort skiers are already riding its first new lift in nine years and its Christmas week bookings are up […]
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Black Bears come back to defeat Quinnipiac
HAMDEN, CT — A third period scoring burst from the University of Maine men’s hockey team led the Black Bears to a 7-4 victory over Quinnipiac in a non-conference contest. Freshman Eduards Tralmaks had two goals in the third period to pace the Black Bears. Sophomore defenseman Patrick Holway, a sixth-round draft pick of the Detroit […]