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Gendron’s selection as new UMaine hockey coach applauded by coaches, former players

26 mins ago ORONO, Maine — According to three players who played for him when he was an assistant coach at the University of Maine in the early ...

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

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 ...

Twin sisters Erica (left) and Tashina Ackley of Eastport both gave birth Friday to their first child, delivering the newborn cousins just hours apart at Down East Community Hospital in Machias.

Eastport twin sisters become moms on the same day

EASTPORT, Maine — Erica and Tashina Ackley are twins who not only share a birthday, but, as of Friday, share the birth days of their ...

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The uniform of a 'one sleever,' made for a civil war soldier who has had a limb amputated, is on display in the parlor room of the Bangor museum on Thursday. 'Bullets and Bandages' is a new exhibit at the museum that focuses on the weapons and medical practices of the Civil War.

‘Bullets & Bandages’ exhibit in Bangor shows human cost of Civil War

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

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

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UMaine baseball’s title quest postponed by rain until Sunday

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Runners holding American flags and a Chinese flag cross the finish line after completing the final mile of the Boston Marathon course during One Run in Boston on Saturday. The event was organized to give athletes and spectators an opportunity to complete the final mile of the Marathon that was cut short when two bombs exploded at the finish line on April 15.

Thousands of runners finish final mile of Boston Marathon

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

Pigs killed in Newburgh barn fires

3 hours ago NEWBURGH, Maine — Between 30 and 40 pigs died in ...

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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’

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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Brewer High Students Respond To LePage’s “C” Grade

58 mins ago Brewer High School students have responded to the arbitrary, politically-motivated ...

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

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

UMaine baseball’s title quest postponed by rain until Sunday

LOWELL, Mass. — The University of Maine’s road to the America East baseball championship took a sudden turn to the southeast on Saturday afternoon. The ...

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

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

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 ...