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Anthem releases details of new Maine insurance plan
By JESSICA HALL and JOE LAWLOR Staff Writers Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield on Tuesday filed a list of doctors and hospitals that would be part of the health insurance plan it is proposing to be available in the state of Maine under the federal Affordable Care ...
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AP PHOTOS Astrodome JFK terminal endangered
WASHINGTON -- Houston's Astrodome stadium, New York's old Pan Am Worldport Terminal at Kennedy Airport and Montana's one-room schoolhouses are joining a list of the nation's most endangered historic places.On Wednesday, the National Trust for Historic Preservation is releasing its listing of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places. It includes sites from Maine to ...
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Early black church in Maine named as endangered
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - The Abyssinian Meeting House is the nation’s third-oldest standing African-American meeting house, used for religious, social, educational and cultural events until its closing in ...
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Prospective astronaut from Maine always on a mission
Jessica Meir, a 35-year-old scientist from Maine, is among eight people who were selected from a pool of more than 6,000 applicants to be trained as astronauts. Meir, who grew up in Caribou, is the youngest of five in a family of ...
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Home sales on rise in Maine
HLFSCRN HOUSING MARKET TURNAROUND? MORE SIGNS OF RECOVERY FOR BUYERS, BUILDERS, AND SELLERS, AS HOME SALES HIT A MAJOR MILESTONE THIS MONTH, SHOWING A POSSIBLE ECONOMIC REBOUND FOR A ONCE STRUGGLING MARKET.. GOOD EVENING AND THANKS FOR JOINING US, I'M TRACY SABOL. THE COMMERCE DEPARTMENT SAYS BUILDERS BEGAN CONSTRUCTION ON MORE SINGLE-FAMILY HOMES AND APARTMENTS IN MAY. IN FACT.. HOUSING ...
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Hospitals Maine Medicaid expansion would help
By JOE LAWLOR Staff Writer The cost of free care provided by Maine hospitals to uninsured patients has more than doubled since 2007, and those expenses will continue to grow ...
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Maine lawmaker unanimously endorse no toxic chemicals in childrens toys
– Maine lawmakers on Tuesday quietly and unanimously advanced a bill aimed at beefing up the state program designed to phase out toxic chemicals in children’s products, but final passage is still in question. The proposal, L.D. 1181, sponsored by Sen. Seth Goodall, D-Richmond, requires manufacturers of 49 chemicals on the so-called "high concern list" to report what ...
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Attempt to strengthen Maine mining laws likely fails
– A bill designed to tighten mining laws that took effect last year appears headed for defeat, with the House and Senate unable to reach consensus on the ...
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Maine Gov. Paul LePage hands out 5 more vetoes
Among the bills is one that would have required the state’s public charter schools to be run as nonprofit organizations. LePage said that the bill puts new constraints on charter schools, limiting students’ educational ...
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Democrats grading plan for Maine schools gets initial Senate approval
, sponsored by Sen. Rebecca Millett, D-Cape Elizabeth, the Senate chairwoman of the Legislature’s Education Committee, would hold up action related to the existing grading system and wait until the 2014-2015 school year to implement a new one. It passed the ...
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In mostly symbolic vote Maine House supports gun background checks
In a largely symbolic Tuesday vote, a narrow majority of the Maine House of Representatives doubled down on support of a gun-control bill, weakened since it was first proposed earlier this year. The 78-64 House vote likely means the bill, L.D. 1240, sponsored by Rep. Mark Dion, a former Cumberland County sheriff, will die between that body and the Senate, which passed a version of the bill on ...
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Maine governor says he wont talk to 3 newspapers
AUGUSTA, Maine -- A spokeswoman for Maine Gov. Paul LePage says the administration will no longer comment for stories published in three of Maine's daily newspapers.Adrienne Bennett told the Portland Press Herald (http://bit.ly/17Wn2Of ) on Tuesday the administration won't be talking to that publication, the Kennebec Journal and the Morning Sentinel. All are owned by MaineToday ...
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Patriots TE Gronkowski undergoes back surgery
On May 20, Gronkowski had his fourth surgery on the left forearm that he broke on Nov. 18 while blocking for an extra point in a 59-24 win over the Indianapolis Colts. He broke it again in the Patriots’ first playoff game, a 41-28 win over the Houston Texans. Rosenhaus said the fourth surgery was expected to be the last on his ...
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Maine House approves bill to extend reach of dental hygienists
Eric McMaster, an independent practice dental hygienist, recently opened Healthy Smiles on Water Street in downtown Gardiner. A bill would allow a new category of dental hygienist in ...
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Wilson Nobel winner for physics dies in Maine
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- Physicist Kenneth Wilson, who earned a Nobel prize for pioneering work that changed the way physicists think about phase transitions, has died in Maine, where he retired to enjoy kayaking with his wife. He was ...
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Maine Hall of Fame revokes hoopsters induction after child porn conviction
- The Maine Sports Hall of Fame has revoked the induction of a former college basketball star following his conviction on a child pornography charge. Sixty-two-year-old Dana Wilson of Brewer was inducted into the hall in May 2012 for his basketball accomplishments at Bangor's Husson College, from which he graduated in 1974. Wilson averaged nearly 35 points a game his senior year, best ...
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Amtrak Subsidy cuts would jeopardize service
By JOAN LOWYAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Amtrak's president says long-distance trains and some short-haul routes would be jeopardized and service in the busy Northeast corridor might have to be slowed if federal subsidy cuts proposed by a House subcommittee are realized. Iowa Republican Rep. Tom Latham is chairman of the House Appropriations Committee's transportation ...
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Maine lawmakers vote to raise snowmobile fees support trails
- The Maine House and Senate have passed a bill that would increase the registration fee for snowmobiles and then use that extra money to help maintain snowmobile ...
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Assistant Maine GOP leader backs Medicaid veto override
AUGUSTA, Maine - The Maine Senate's assistant Republican Leader who helped craft a Medicaid expansion compromise says he is hopeful they can get enough votes to override Republican Gov. Paul LePage's veto.Roger Katz of Augusta said on Tuesday that he is disappointed in the veto to expand Medicaid coverage, which came Monday night.Katz authored an amendment to cut off Maine's ...
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Nobel-winning physicist Kenneth Wilson dies in Maine
- A physics professor who earned a Nobel prize for pioneering work that changed the way physicists think about phase transitions has died in Maine at age 77. Kenneth Wilson was a member of the physics department at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., when he won the Nobel Prize in 1982 for applying his research in quantum physics to phase transitions, creating a mathematical tool called the ...
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Massachusetts Climbers Hurt In Fall Off Maine Cliff
Two men, a climber and a local guide, fell off a 25-foot cliff due to a broken rope. One landed on a woman. (Photo credit: LeslieAnn Dykes ...
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Maine Democrats scramble after governor blocks Medicaid expansion
By Dave Sherwood BOWDOINHAM, Maine, June 18 | Tue Jun 18, 2013 12:25pm EDT BOWDOINHAM, Maine, June 18 (Reuters) - Democratic legislators in Maine scrambled on Tuesday to muster the votes needed to override Republican Governor Paul LePage's late-night veto of a bill to expand Medicaid coverage to an additional 60,000 people. LePage late on Monday blocked a compromise bill that would ...
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Maine Senate passes bill regulating police use of drones
Police would have to get a warrant in most cases before using unmanned aerial aircraft, or drones, under a bill initially passed by the Maine Senate on Monday night. But the vote didn’t come without controversy. The version passed is opposed by Maine Attorney General Janet Mills, and there is no indication that police are using drones in the state. Sen. Linda Valentino, D-Saco, the Senate ...
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Man goes to jail for recording teen girls
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- A 45-year-old former Maine man who installed hidden video cameras in a home to record unsuspecting teenage girls is going to jail for two ...
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Maine House sustains LePage long-term care veto
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) - Maine lawmakers have sustained a veto by Republican Gov. Paul LePage on a bill designed to lower long-term care insurance ...
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Historical schooner Bowdoin is a state asset
The Bowdoin recently undertook a short tour of Maine’s coastline, stopping in Portland and Bath so that the public could explore the ship and get a taste of the state’s maritime history, the historical schooner, built in 1921 and operated by the Maine Maritime Academy, is a historical jewel with a rich and fascinating history.
Nowadays ships are built to be big and imposing, the Oasis-class cruise ship Oasis of the Seas, the biggest cruise ship in the world at 47 meters wide, 360 meters long and capable of carrying 6000 passengers and the Mærsk E-class container ship Ebba Mærsk at 397 meters long and 47 meters wide, have set benchmarks in the size of these various kinds of ships. Read more
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