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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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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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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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Portland Maine Lifes good here
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- Everyone knows that what happens in Las Vegas "stays in Vegas." Maine's largest city is launching its own marketing campaign, and wants you to know simply that "Life's good ...
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Maines strawberry season closing in
AUGUSTA, Maine - The recent pattern of sun one day, rain the next, seems to be working for Maine's strawberry crop.Growers say their berries will be ready for picking soon. ...
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Maine House OKs $5 snowmobile fee hike
Supporters say the increase is necessary to maintain the state’s trail system. Republicans criticized Democrats for pushing another fee ...
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Lewiston hospital group sues state over insurance plan
- A Maine hospital group has gone to court to get more details about a proposed new health insurance plan being put together by Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield and MaineHealth. The state has said that Anthem can keep details of the plan secret as it seeks approval from the Maine Bureau of Insurance. Lewiston-based Central Maine Healthcare filed suit in Kennebec County Superior Court last week ...
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Maine double-fatal crash under investigation
AUGUSTA, Maine - Police have released the names of the two people killed in a three-vehicle crash on Route 3 in Augusta.Police say 46-year-old Laura Hall of Liberty died at the scene of the crash just after 7 a.m. Monday.Deputy Chief Jared Mills says 45-year-old Dean James of South China was taken to MaineGeneral Medical Center in Augusta where he later died.A third driver was not injured.All ...
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Wind farm proposed for central Maine
BINGHAM, Maine (AP) - Opposition is lining up against a proposed 62-turbine wind energy facility in Somerset and Piscataquis counties in central ...
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Ex-Maine man sentenced for making secret videos
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - A former Maine resident has been sentenced to two years in jail for installing video cameras inside a home to record undressed teenage ...
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Kings century-old hometown library needs repairs
King and his wife, Tabitha, agreed to pay $3 million for repairs, if the remainder of the $9 million repair could be raised from other sources. Bangor voters were deciding Tuesday whether to approve a $3 million tax-exempt bond to replace the copper ...
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Maine Senate OKs scaled-back gun-control bill disappoints advocate
It took two votes and some last-minute amendments Monday for the Maine Senate to pass a scaled-back version of what began as a strict gun-control proposal when introduced earlier this ...
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Acadia park fall injures three climbers
Acadia National Park rangers said a broken rope was to blame for a fall that injured three climbers on a 25-foot-high rock face and led to a complicated rescue. Ranger Will Overton said that two men tumbled from the rock face at Otter Cliffs and that one or both landed on a third climber at the bottom Sunday morning. A man and woman were taken away in an ambulance. It took roughly four hours to ...
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Auburn firefighters save snakes from burning attic
It may sounds like a B-grade movie, but it was all too real for Maine firefighters who encountered snakes in an attic. Firefighters in Auburn learned upon responding to an attic fire Monday morning that a tenant was keeping 25 to 30 ball pythons in the attic. Captain Scott Hunter told WMTW-TV that firefighters rescued about half the snakes after being told they were not poisonous. Firefighters ...
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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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