A Wells man was critically burned in a fire early this morning and his wife is under arrest charged with arson, according to the State Fire Marshal's Office.
The fire took place at the couple's …
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LEWISTON, Maine — A baby is in state custody after being born in Lewiston last month and abandoned under Maine’s Safe Haven law.
The baby is called “Alexis Safe Haven” in legal ads placed …
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BELFAST, Maine — The man accused of holding a Stockton Elementary School fifth-grade classroom hostage three months ago pleaded not guilty to 41 charges stemming from that incident when he appeared in Waldo County Superior Court on Wednesday.
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PORTLAND — Lobster prices are rising after months in the tank, but with poor weather conditions and much of their fishing gear pulled from the water, not many fishermen are reaping the rewards.
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By Clarke Canfield, The Associated Press
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1/8/09
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Two national park advocacy groups are going to court to challenge a recent change in federal rules that allows people to carry loaded weapons inside national parks.
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A state program to help stimulate the expansion of broadband Internet access into rural Maine is generating some controversy as communications firms that compete against some of the grant recipients are challenging the fairness of the program.
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ELLSWORTH, Maine — Maine’s $3.6 billion stimulus package request to President-elect Barack Obama could include money that would complete improvements on heavily traveled Route 1A in Ellsworth.
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AUGUSTA, Maine — Representatives of Maine’s forestry and wood products industries urged state lawmakers on Wednesday to protect funding for programs that they claim are critical to ensuring the state’s forests are managed sustainably.
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MADISON, Maine — Legislation is being proposed to give school administrative districts such as SAD 53 in Pittsfield that were unable to find a merger partner by November an additional year to make plans without financial penalties.
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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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HALIFAX, Nova Scotia — A new study says Nova Scotia’s fishery is still reeling from past overfishing and has been left “vulnerable” to the global economic crisis as a result.
The report, …
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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 — 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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AUGUSTA, Maine — Maine Public Broadcasting Network President James Dowe told lawmakers Tuesday that the public broadcaster is delaying turning off transmitters in Fort Kent and Calais, but warned that is only a temporary action and the network still faces serious revenue problems.
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Developers of Maine’s new statewide electronic health information exchange system, HealthInfoNet, are troubleshooting a few technical problems and preparing to start processing and transferring …
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