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Presque Isle, Richmond latest Business-Friendly Communities

AUGUSTA, Maine — The Maine Department of Economic and Community Development on Tuesday named Presque Isle and Richmond as the latest Certified Business-Friendly Communities. “I ...
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Marcia Mansfield joins Bar Harbor Financial Services

ROCKLAND, Maine – Joseph M. Murphy, President and CEO of Bar Harbor Bank & Trust, along with the Board of Directors, is pleased to welcome ...

LePage veto: Ban tobacco in Maine entirely, or not at all

AUGUSTA, Maine — A bill to “simply outlaw tobacco altogether” would make more sense than piecemeal bans on smoking, Gov. Paul LePage said Monday as ...
Gov. Paul LePage

LePage hopes to eliminate income tax by end of second term

AUGUSTA, Maine — Gov. Paul LePage said Monday he hopes Maine has no state income tax by the end of his second term if he’s ...
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National GOP group tries to link Michaud to 'IRS scandal'

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MEREDA’s “The Retrofitting Movement: Repositioning Underutilized Commercial Real Estate”

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KVCC graduate Raymond Edgar of Norridgewock is the 2013 recipient of the Aaron Levine Outstanding Student Award.

KVCC graduates more than 500 students

Maine police cracking down on drivers who don’t wear seat belts

AUGUSTA, Maine — Law enforcement agencies throughout the state will ...

Leeds girl’s vehicle flips twice, lands on roof in Route 219 accident

WAYNE, Maine — A Leeds teenager is lucky to be ...
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Relay for Life of Penobscot County raises about $226,000 to fight cancer

ORONO, Maine — The Relay For Life of Penobscot County ...

Will a new class of dental professionals improve oral care in Maine? Dentists, lawmakers disagree

AUGUSTA, Maine — Dental professionals across the state are watching ...
Gov. Paul LePage answers questions from reporters following his education summit at Cony High School in Augusta on Friday, March 22, 2013.

Silenced by legislators at budget talks, LePage says Mainers are being played for ‘patsies’

Maine State Police lieutenant not disciplined after gun went off inside

AUGUSTA, Maine — An investigation by a division of the ...
Maine Medical Center in Portland

If more people are on Medicaid, why are Maine hospitals giving away more care for free?

Democrats kill bills that would have given rights to fetuses, changed abortion requirements

AUGUSTA, Maine — Two abortion-related bills and a third giving ...
The State House in Augusta.

Liquor, hospital debt and Medicaid expansion headed for vote — all in one bill

Workforce development bill sails through Maine Senate

AUGUSTA, Maine — A bill that’s being heralded as “first-of-its-kind” ...
Sen. David Burns

Committee shoots down bill that would allow school staff to be armed

Sally Ann Schofield of Chelsea, arrives at the Lincoln County Superior Courthouse in Wiscasset for the first day of her non-jury trial in June 2002. Schofield, a former DHS worker, later was convicted of depraved indifference murder and manslaughter of foster child, Logan Marr, 5, in January 2001.

Judge won’t change probation conditions for Maine woman who killed foster child

The State House in Augusta.

Republicans express surprise as lawmakers link Medicaid expansion to hospital payback

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Maine House votes against creating food sovereignty act

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Augusta Sports

Dennett, Morse propel unbeaten Cony softball team past Skowhegan

AUGUSTA, Maine — Cony High School catcher Alyssah Dennett said she had been thinking too much at the plate before Friday afternoon’s softball game against ...
  • Weather forecast prompts postponement of state singles tennis qualifiers
  • Early life lessons in Bangor aided success of new Maine Sports Hall of Fame inductee Bill Cohen
  • Ricky Craven will be only third auto-racing driver to join Maine Sports Hall of Fame
  • Maine Sports Hall of Fame induction banquet set for May 5 at Augusta Civic Center

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    Mainers can help Oklahoma tornado victims with monetary donations
    AUGUSTA, Maine — In the aftermath of the devastating Oklahoma tornadoes, Gov. Paul R. LePage and the Maine Emergency Management Agency remind Mainers that the ...
     
    Workplace regulations classes set for Wilton, Bangor, Augusta
    AUGUSTA, Maine — The Maine Department of Labor has added three sessions of its free course that educates employers and the public about regulations governing ...
     
    Bernstein Shur attorney honored by Business and Industry Association of NH
    PORTLAND and AUGUSTA, Maine — Karen S. Aframe, leader of Bernstein Shur’s Manchester, N.H., Labor and Employment Practice Group, was honored with the Business and ...
     
    State Museum talk on ‘The Forest City Regiment’
    AUGUSTA, Maine — Friends of the Maine State Museum hosts Kim MacIsaac in the next free program in the “Maine Voices from the Civil War” ...
     
    Call for artists for 26th annual Winthrop Sidewalk Art Festival
    WINTHROP, Maine — Applications are being accepted by the Winthrop Lakes Region Chamber of Commerce for the 26th annual Winthrop Sidewalk Art Festival: A Celebration ...