Provides the latest RSS feeds for Maine News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Maine State News.net http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/cat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a/ en-us Fri, 24 May 2013 01:01:32 -0400 Fri, 24 May 2013 01:01:32 -0400 30 DEDHAM, Mass. -- A man convicted of raping three women in Massachusetts has been sentenced to 36 to 40 years in prison decades after he fled the state and began living a secret life in Maine.Gary Alan Irving was sentenced Thursday in Norfolk Superior Court. He could have gotten a life sentence.Irving was a teenager when he was convicted of raping three women. When authorities finally caught up ... http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214728609/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Thu, 23 May 2013 20:44:27 -0400 http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214728609/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a BANGOR, Maine -; News organizations are challenging a judge's decision to keep the public from seeing details of how and why police believe a 15-year-old girl from Maine was killed by a 20-year-old ... http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214726046/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Thu, 23 May 2013 18:48:38 -0400 http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214726046/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a One ad says, "If your power bill says 'standard offer,' you're paying too much." Electricity Maine said it offers a cheaper delivery rate than the state-sponsored standard offer but that standard offer rate has recently changed. The owners of Electricity Maine told News 8 they are constantly changing ad campaigns. They said it's possible an out-of-date ad was ... http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214725275/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Thu, 23 May 2013 17:39:33 -0400 http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214725275/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a - The Maine Turnpike Authority voted to keep the current E-ZPass volume-based discount program in place indefinitely, maintaining a popular program that gives discounts to daily ... http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214725276/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Thu, 23 May 2013 17:34:57 -0400 http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214725276/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Thu May 23, 2013 5:12pm EDT (Adds beginning of veto process) By Dave Sherwood BOWDOINHAM, Maine May 23 (Reuters) - Maine's Democratic-controlled legislature on Thursday passed a bill to expand access to its Medicaid program as outlined by the Affordable Care Act, setting up a showdown with the state's Republican governor, who immediately began veto procedures. At issue is lawmakers' ... http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214726649/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Thu, 23 May 2013 17:12:19 -0400 http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214726649/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a AUGUSTA, Maine -; Maine's governor, who has gained attention in the past for telling the NAACP to "kiss my butt" and comparing the IRS to the Gestapo, has moved out of his office at the State House and says he'll work out of governor's mansion because of a dispute over a television ... http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214723144/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Thu, 23 May 2013 16:20:26 -0400 http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214723144/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Loeb-Sullivan School of International Business and Logistics by this year's fall semester and will return to teaching full-time as a professor of logistics at the school.Donald Maier has been elected by the faculty as department chair for the undergraduate international business and logistics degree and appointed by MMA's vice president of academics as Loeb-Sullivan School of ... http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214723781/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Thu, 23 May 2013 16:14:54 -0400 http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214723781/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a DEDHAM, Mass. -- A man convicted of raping three women in Massachusetts was sentenced Thursday to 36 to 40 years in prison more than three decades after he fled the state and began living a secret life in Maine.Gary Alan Irving could have faced possible life in prison at his sentencing in Norfolk Superior Court. His attorney said Irving will be eligible for parole in 24 years.Irving was a ... http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214723479/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Thu, 23 May 2013 15:51:48 -0400 http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214723479/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a - The state's highest court on Thursday dismissed Ralph Nader's lawsuit against Democrats he had accused of trying to keep him off ballots in Maine and other states during his failed presidential run in ... http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214722279/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Thu, 23 May 2013 15:04:30 -0400 http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214722279/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a BOWDOINHAM, Maine (Reuters) - Maine's Democratic-controlled legislature on Thursday passed a bill that would expand access to its Medicaid program as outlined by the Affordable Care Act, setting up a showdown with the state's Republican governor, who has vowed a ... http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214721695/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Thu, 23 May 2013 14:35:23 -0400 http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214721695/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) - Despite the threat of a certain veto, the Maine Senate has given final approval to a bill to pay off a $484 million debt to Maine hospitals and expand ... http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214721956/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Thu, 23 May 2013 14:33:01 -0400 http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214721956/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a NEW YORK (AP) - Struggling Rangers center Brad Richards said he will be a healthy scratch when New York faces elimination in Game 4 against the Boston Bruins on Thursday ... http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214720333/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Thu, 23 May 2013 13:16:38 -0400 http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214720333/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a A squabble over a TV monitor outside the governor's office has prompted Gov. Paul LePage to announce he's moving out of the State House, according to Democratic ... http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214719081/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Thu, 23 May 2013 12:34:44 -0400 http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214719081/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a COLCHESTER, Vt. (AP) - A Massachusetts developer is hoping to carry renewable electricity from northern New York to the New England power grid via a power line that would run under Lake Champlain. The proposal by the company called Anbaric Transmission would carry 400 megawatts of electricity from Plattsburgh, N.Y., under the lake to Vermont. Anbaric CEO Ed Krapels says utilities in ... http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214719148/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Thu, 23 May 2013 12:34:28 -0400 http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214719148/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a The Maine Legislature has said no to a move to bar enforcement of the national health care law. The Senate agreed Tuesday with the House and voted to kill a bill that labeled the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 a violation of the US Constitution and null and void in Maine. The bill sought to prohibit federal or state officials from enforcing the law. It proposed fines ... http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214719082/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Thu, 23 May 2013 12:00:22 -0400 http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214719082/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Gary Alan Irving was a teenager when he was convicted of raping three women. When authorities finally caught up with him in Maine in March, he was a 52-year-old man with a wife and two grown ... http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214714481/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Thu, 23 May 2013 08:55:01 -0400 http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214714481/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Labor groups say a Winslow-based manufacturing company has illegally fired employees for trying to form a union - "very false" accusations, according to the company's ... http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214714482/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Thu, 23 May 2013 08:50:03 -0400 http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214714482/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - A Lisbon man who used his own child’s Social Security number in a scheme to illegally receive welfare benefits has been sentenced to four years in ... http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214714257/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Thu, 23 May 2013 08:22:17 -0400 http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214714257/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a - A Charleston man has been sentenced to 35 years in federal prison for producing and possessing child pornography. Federal prosecutors say 44-year-old Carey Gonyer was also sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Bangor to a lifetime of probation upon release. Gonyer had been convicted last year of three counts of sexual exploitation of a minor and one count of possession of child ... http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214713125/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Thu, 23 May 2013 07:40:15 -0400 http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214713125/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a WINSLOW, Maine (AP) -- Labor groups have accused a Winslow-based aluminum trailer manufacturer of illegally firing employees for trying to ... http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214713126/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Thu, 23 May 2013 07:18:47 -0400 http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214713126/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) - A scheduled court appearance for a man who lived as a hermit in the woods of central Maine for nearly three decades has been postponed pending completion of a mental health ... http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214711729/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Thu, 23 May 2013 06:01:30 -0400 http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214711729/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a The Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife and the Nature Conservancy are marking the turtle crossing areas in Wells, South Berwick and York with hopes of reducing highway deaths of two of the state’s rarest species, Blanding’s and spotted ... http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214711733/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Thu, 23 May 2013 06:01:27 -0400 http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214711733/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Maine Turnpike Authority board members are going to be talking about extending current EZ Pass discount rates during their meeting on Thursday. The current rate is set to expire at the end of next ... http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214710886/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Thu, 23 May 2013 05:25:50 -0400 http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214710886/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - Portland’s mayor is meeting with immigrant business owners to discuss the role that immigrants play in the city’s ... http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214710768/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Thu, 23 May 2013 04:53:13 -0400 http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214710768/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a BELFAST, Maine (AP) - Maine’s education commissioner is visiting Belfast as part of his ongoing tour to observe innovative school programs across the ... http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214710772/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Thu, 23 May 2013 04:53:11 -0400 http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214710772/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a A 15-year-old girl found dead in woods north of Bangor knew the man charged with killing her, her best friend said, contrary to early reports that before her disappearance she had headed outside her Glenburn home to see someone she had only recently met on Facebook. Kyle Dube, 20, of Orono, had been friends with the victim, Nichole Cable, for a couple of months, and they had made plans to see ... http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214709882/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Thu, 23 May 2013 03:42:35 -0400 http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214709882/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) - A man convicted of raping three women in Massachusetts faces sentencing more than three decades after he fled the state and began living a secret life in ... http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214709637/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Thu, 23 May 2013 03:42:26 -0400 http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214709637/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Nichole Cable's mother is being shielded by a coat as her family leaves Penobscot County Superior Court in Bangor on Wednesday after Kyle Dube's arraignment on a charge of murdering ... http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214707903/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Thu, 23 May 2013 01:52:23 -0400 http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214707903/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a mshepherd@mainetoday.com State House Bureau AUGUSTA - Gov. Paul Le-Page's office hinted Wednesday that he will veto a bill backed by Democrats to link his hospital debt repayment plan to expansion of the health care program for low-income ... http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214706873/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Thu, 23 May 2013 00:44:24 -0400 http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214706873/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a rrouthier@mainetoday.com Staff Writer Kylie Keene is a blogger and aspiring journalist with one hot summer assignment – cover the boy band One Direction as it plays to throngs of screaming girls at sold out shows across the ... http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214706874/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Thu, 23 May 2013 00:44:10 -0400 http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214706874/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a tturkel@mainetoday.com Staff Writer Maine's Public Utilities Commission is trying to determine whether the state's largest competitive electricity provider has used false or misleading advertising to attract and keep customers. Among other things, the agency is looking into whether Electricity Maine LLC developed radio ads that gave the impression that its rates for homes and small ... http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214706875/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Thu, 23 May 2013 00:44:07 -0400 http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214706875/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a A group of southern Maine police chiefs gathered Tuesday morning to oppose a bill that would allow most Mainers to carry concealed weapons without filing for a ... http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214703721/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Wed, 22 May 2013 21:16:59 -0400 http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214703721/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a - The next commander of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard is about to take charge. After 3½ years at the helm, Capt. L. Bryant Fuller will step down in a ceremony Friday. He is to be relieved by Capt. William Greene, who serves as the military deputy for shipyard operations at the Naval Sea Systems Command. Greene, a native of Ann Arbor, Mich., has served in numerous engineering and combat ... http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214703722/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Wed, 22 May 2013 21:13:55 -0400 http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214703722/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Rodney Bouffard served in other state government positions before becoming acting warden months ago and has more than 30 years of management experience, Department of Corrections Commissioner Joseph Ponte said in a ... http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214702375/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Wed, 22 May 2013 19:36:50 -0400 http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214702375/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a BANGOR, Maine — A 20-year-old Orono man was charged Tuesday with murder in connection with the death of Nichole Cable, a 15-year-old girl from Glenburn. Police discovered a body they believe is Cable’s on Monday night in a wooded area of Old ... http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214701306/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Wed, 22 May 2013 18:55:50 -0400 http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214701306/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a USA Telephone has been planning to end its service next month, but Fairpoint shuts down the transmission lines USA used because the company stopped paying to use ... http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214701287/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Wed, 22 May 2013 18:55:38 -0400 http://www.maine.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214701287/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a