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University of Maine hockey job has been offered to former assistant Red Gendron

ORONO, Maine — Dennis “Red” Gendron will be offered the hockey job at the University of Maine on Saturday, according to reliable sources in the ...

Dave Seward plans to pull the plug in August on Anderson Marine and Hardware in Gouldsboro, a tiny hardware store that he has overseen six days a week for 42 years.

Days are numbered for Gouldsboro’s iconic hardware store

GOULDSBORO, Maine — Enough. It’s been 42 years since Dave Seward bought a hardware store sight-unseen on a handshake, using money begged and borrowed from ...

William Kayatta is sworn in as Maine's judge on the U.S. 1st Circuit Court of Appeals at USM in Portland Friday afternoon.

By the time new federal judge from Maine was confirmed, he ‘had no practice left’

PORTLAND, Maine — By the time the U.S. Senate got around to confirming attorney William Kayatta Jr. as a 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ...

Two handguns, $2,100 in cash, more than $11,000 worth of heroin, and 40 grams of an unidentified substance were among items police seized Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013, in Ellsworth during a drug bust at a home on Water Street. Matthew Wright, 33, was arrested as a result on a charge of aggravated trafficking in drugs, according to Maine Drug Enforcement Agency.

Heroin on the rise in Maine as state crackdown on prescription opiates paves the way

Tom Shafer is co-founder of Maine Heritage Timber Co.

Millinocket company unearths logging history for niche market

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Saturday’s Live Updates: UMaine baseball vs. Binghamton in America East championship game

39 mins ago LOWELL, Mass. — Saturday’s scheduled America East Baseball Championship game ...

Community members gathered on Friday to released balloons in memory of Nichole Cable at the Glenburn Fire Station. Many of the balloons were yellow, Cable's favorite color, and bore messages written to her.

Hundreds release balloons in memory of Glenburn teen Nichole Cable; funeral arrangements announced

Complete coverage of the disappearance of Glenburn teen Nichole Cable

Health and Human Services Commissioner Mary Mayhew discusses the state's request to the federal government to reduce Medicaid coverage.

Why is DHHS always asking for more money?

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Bangor High School students reenacted the funeral of Civil War soldier Sgt. William P. Holden at the Bangor City Hall Friday. About 20 students participated in the reenactment from the theater class and members of the ROTC program performed the flag folding. Sgt. Holden was shot in the head and layed on the battlefield for about a week. He was eventually able to clean his wound some and later received help. He recovered to the point that he was able to walk, but died about nine months later due to fever. The reenactment was done in collaboration with the Bangor Museum and History Center. Nelson Durgin, Bangor City Council Chair, Major General, Maine Air National Guard (retired) provided closing remarks to the event.

Bangor High School students re-enact funeral of Civil War soldier

‘Historic’ energy bill clears Maine legislative committee, 12-1

AGREE TO DISAGREE (blog)

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Lewiston fire Capt. Richard Cailler is first on scene at a major fire on Pierce and Bartlett streets in Lewiston on Friday, May 4, 2013.

Lewiston to demolish 12 more downtown tenements this year in wake of devastating fires

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LePage bars others’ testimony, setting up ‘too strange for fiction’ scene

ROBIN'S OUTDOORS (blog)

Who stole the deer?

2 hours ago A quick story for the rainy weekend. My brother-in-law Jason ...

Daphne Izer holds a fish about to be kissed during the Screeching In ceremony at last year's Newfoundland Day. The Screeching In, which involves kissing the fish, eating bologna and drinking a shot of rum, makes one an honorary Newfoundlander. This year's event is being held June 1 at the Poland Spring Resort.

Have a drink, kiss a fish: Just another Saturday night, Newfoundland-style

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Nick Huff makes stickers at WorkStore, a screenprinting and embroidery company in Glenburn. The company is making <a href="http://bangordailynews.com/2013/05/23/news/bangor/community-members-rally-for-nichole-cables-family-events-fundraisers-planned/
">T-shirts and stickers made in honor of Nichole Cable</a>, the 15-year-old Glenburn girl who went missing and was found dead earlier this week.

In Focus: Nichole Cable, Dana Wilson and John Bapst baseball

Wally Henderson, #155, races in the late model division race at <a href="http://bangordailynews.com/2013/05/19/sports/auto-racing-sports/emma-libby-15-overcomes-ruling-to-win-sport-4-race-at-speedway-95/">Speedway 95</a> on Saturday, May 18, 2013.

In Focus: Speedway 95, 500 help search for Nichole and South Bristol boats

<a href=”http://bangordailynews.com/2013/05/17/news/penobscot/elver-fishermen-flocking-to-the-penobscot-river/”>Search and rescue volunteers and Maine wardens</a> search woods along Hudson Road in Glenburn on Friday for any clues about missing 15-year-old Nichole Cable.

In Focus: The search for Nichole, elver fishing, logging expo

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William Kayatta is sworn in

Ceremony at State House honors fallen Maine soldiers

Civil War soldier funeral reenactment

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Opinion

Gov. Paul LePage signs a veto letter he delivered to the Legislature instantly on Thursday after the Senate gave final passage to a bill that links repayment of Maine's hospital debt with an expansion of Medicaid.

EDITORIALS

Maine GOP disappoints on Medicaid

Republicans in the Maine Legislature have given excuse after excuse for opposing a bill to both expand Medicaid to about 60,000 people and pay the ...

: Why is DHHS always asking for more money?
EDITORIALS: LePage pours fuel on a partisan fire
CONTRIBUTORS: How the omnibus energy bill will benefit Maine

Sports

University of Maine head coach Steve Trimper (left) chats with pitcher Tommy Lawrence prior to Friday afternoon's America East tournament game at Lowell, Mass.

Lawrence, Connolly help UMaine advance to America East baseball title game

LOWELL, Mass. — Tommy Lawrence wasn’t about to wait around and take a chance that the University of Maine didn’t advance to the championship game ...

Health & Fitness

Brian Jordan (right) of Livermore Falls was treated for leukemia through a partnership between Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He spoke about the partnership Thursday in Lewiston, joined by Nicholette Erickson (center) a local oncologist, and Dr. Karen Ballen, clinical director of the leukemia program at Mass General.

Central Maine hospitals partner with Mass General to treat cancer patients

LEWISTON, Maine — Brian Jordan remembers feeling lethargic when he visited the doctor on March 17, 2011. The Livermore Falls man never expected that later ...

Business

Millinocket company unearths logging history for niche market

Nobody expected the waterlogged wood lining the bottom of Quakish Lake would become anything but pulp. But Tom Shafer is harvesting that wood for a ...