AUGUSTA, Maine — A mentally ill man who stomped an 88-year-old man to death during a random attack in a supermarket parking lot in Portland eight years ago has won permission to move into a group …
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VASSALBORO, Maine — Vassalboro’s planning board has approved an application for a coffee shop with topless waitresses despite opposition of most residents who showed up.
More than 50 residents …
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FARMINGTON, Maine — A Maine man convicted of manslaughter in 2000 is facing more time behind bars for threatening the mother of his child.
Jeremiah Paulton of Farmington was convicted Tuesday of …
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LEWISTON, Maine — A Maine man who bumped into his father in Iraq describes the meeting halfway around the world in a war zone as “surreal.”
Army Capt. John Driscoll of New Gloucester, who …
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PITTSFIELD, Maine — As Yogi Berra said, it was deja vu all over again at the Pittsfield Town Council meeting Tuesday night. Tim Nichols, who is starting his 12th year on the council, was re-elected mayor, and the crucial topic of the night was an ongoing one: water and sewer issues.
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MILO, Maine — The owners of downtown businesses that were burned in a Sept. 14 fire that was ruled an arson are eligible for low-interest disaster loans through the U.S. Small Business Administration.
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PITTSFIELD, Maine — Weightlessly whirling around the Earth in outer space at 17,500 mph may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but for U.S. Navy Capt. Stephen Bowen, a Massachusetts native, it was a …
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LILY BAY TOWNSHIP, Maine — An Abbot man was summoned to court and a Florida man was arrested on Jan. 1 after they were involved in an accident on Lily Bay Road.
Corey Cookson, 30, of Abbot lost …
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NEWPORT, Maine — Newport police expected to obtain several arrest warrants Monday night in connection with an armed robbery that occurred here early Sunday morning, according to Chief Leonard …
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VASSALBORO, Maine — A one-time motel in a small central Maine town could soon be offering an eye-opening way to start the day — topless coffee shop waitresses.
The Vassalboro Planning Board on …
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PITTSFIELD, Maine — Town Manager James Ricker gave his department heads all the credit Friday for keeping their budgets low and using innovative, out-of-the-box thinking to become more efficient in 2008.
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DETROIT, Maine — Nomination papers will be available Jan. 5 at the Detroit Town Office for three positions, one three-year seat on the Board of Selectmen, a one-year term as sexton, and a …
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AUGUSTA, Maine — A 21-year-old Augusta man remains in jail after a judge denied his request for bail reduction on charges in a brutal machete attack on a Pittston man and his young daughter. …
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PALMYRA, Maine — Slippery road conditions early Tuesday were blamed for an accident on Interstate 95 that injured a Carmel woman.
Joan Small, 74, lost control of her late model Cadillac about …
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All five of Maine’s public television stations are set to make the transition from analog to digital signal on Sunday, Jan. 11, more than a month ahead of the nation’s Feb. 17 date.
The switch …
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PLYMOUTH, Maine — It began about 5 p.m. Saturday night with a single car off the road and ended two hours later with 15 cars and pickup trucks either in the median, the ditch or crashed into each …
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BANGOR, Maine — A Pittston man pleaded not guilty Wednesday in U.S. District Court to having more than 500 oxycodone pills in his house and vehicle.
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WILTON, Maine — Authorities say a Wilton man has been arrested on a manslaughter charge in last month’s death of his girlfriend’s 17-month-old toddler.
State police say 25-year-old David …
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AUGUSTA, Maine — The city of Gardiner has filed a lawsuit seeking to retrieve money that was stolen by a former finance administrator who is now in jail for embezzlement.
Patricia Coty pleaded …
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