Nation
Thousands of runners finish final mile of Boston Marathon
By The Sports Xchange on May 25, 2013, at 2:59 p.m.
More than 2,000 runners finished the Boston Marathon on Saturday, more than a month after the race was cut short because of the April 15 bombings. During the One Run event, runners completed the final mile of the race in honor of the three people killed and the 260 injured ...
Arizona jury foreman says he believes Jodi Arias was abused
By David Schwartz, Reuters on May 25, 2013, at 6:27 a.m.
PHOENIX — The foreman of an Arizona jury that deadlocked over whether Jodi Arias should be put to death for murdering her ex-boyfriend believes she was mentally abused, but said on Friday that had not been enough to excuse her crime. Arias, a former waitress from California, was found guilty ...
NY attorney general says there is more proof banks violated mortgage pact
By Karen Freifeld, Reuters on May 24, 2013, at 8 p.m.
NEW YORK — New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said there is mounting evidence that Bank of America Corp., Wells Fargo and Co. and other banks violated the terms of a settlement designed to end mortgage servicing abuses. Schneiderman — who has said he plans to sue Bank of America ...
Justice Department defends search of Fox News reporter James Rosen’s email account
By David Ingram, Reuters on May 24, 2013, at 6:02 p.m.
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department said on Friday that Attorney General Eric Holder and other senior officials vetted a decision to search an email account belonging to a Fox News reporter whose story on North Korea prompted a leak investigation. In a statement, the department said the search warrant for ...
Truck crash may have caused Washington state bridge collapse
By Jonathan Kaminsky, Reuters on May 24, 2013, at 3:09 p.m.
OLYMPIA, Wash. — A bridge collapse that sent cars and drivers tumbling off a four-lane interstate and into a frigid river in Washington state may have been caused when a semi-trailer truck crashed into the structure, officials said on Friday. Three people were rescued from the Skagit River after a ...
California reveals prices for health insurance, offering glimpse of Obamacare’s rollout
By Sandhya Somashekhar, The Washington Post on May 24, 2013, at 9:28 a.m.
California health officials on Thursday unveiled the likely rates that insurers will charge under the health-care law backed by President Barack Obama — and they are lower than expected, rebutting warnings by critics that many people will experience “rate shock” once the law is fully implemented. On average, a person ...
Unum reports steady growth, taps Maine native as CEO of US operating unit
By Ellis Smith, Chattanooga Times Free Press on May 24, 2013, at 9:13 a.m.
PORTLAND, Maine — Unum Group on Thursday trumpeted the success of its conservative business model, which has continued to deliver steady returns and rising profits for the Chattanooga-based insurer in spite of a spotty job market. Shareholders have returned the favor. Unum’s stock has jumped 40 percent over the past ...
Jury fails to decide if Jodi Arias should be executed
By Tim Gaynor and David Schwartz, Reuters on May 24, 2013, at 6:57 a.m.
PHOENIX — An Arizona jury failed on Thursday to reach a unanimous verdict on whether Jodi Arias should be put to death for the brutal murder of her ex-boyfriend, prompting the judge to set a date for a new sentencing phase of the trial. Arias, a former waitress from California, ...
‘All That’ actress Amanda Bynes arrested after allegedly tossing bong out apartment window on 36th floor
By Chris Francescani, Reuters on May 24, 2013, at 6:49 a.m.
NEW YORK — Actress Amanda Bynes was arrested in New York City on Thursday after she allegedly threw a bong out the window of a midtown Manhattan apartment building, a police official said. New York police received a call on Thursday night from an employee at the 47th Street high-rise ...
Boy Scouts delegates vote to remove ban on gay members, keep ban on gay leaders
By Marice Richter, Reuters on May 23, 2013, at 6:39 p.m.
GRAPEVINE, Texas — The Boy Scouts of America voted on Thursday to lift a ban on openly gay Scouts that had been in place throughout the organization’s 103-year history, capping weeks of intense lobbying on both sides, the group said in a statement. More than 60 percent of the group’s ...
Lois Lerner, IRS official at center of scandal, put on administrative leave
By Kim Dixon and Patrick Temple-West, Reuters on May 23, 2013, at 6:28 p.m.
WASHINGTON — Lois Lerner, an Internal Revenue Service official at the center of the scandal over the agency’s extra scrutiny of conservative groups, was put on administrative leave on Thursday after she refused to resign, a U.S. senator said. Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, said new acting IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel ...
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The inside scoop on Obama’s war against leakers
By Timothy B. Lee, The Washington Post on May 23, 2013, at 6:19 p.m.
There’s been a blizzard of news about the Obama administration’s crackdown on government officials who leak classified information to the media. Last week we learned that the government seized the phone records of more than 100 Associated Press journalists. This week we learned that the government had accused (though not ...
Panel urges schools to make exercise a core subject
By Susan Heavey, Reuters on May 23, 2013, at 6:05 p.m.
WASHINGTON — U.S. schools need to boost efforts to get students moving and make gym class as critical as other core subjects if they want to increase test scores as well as students’ general well-being, a leading group of health advisers said on Thursday. The Institute of Medicine called for ...
NASA puts shuttle launch pad at Cape Canaveral up for lease
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Nearly two years after space shuttle Atlantis blasted off for the last time, NASA on Thursday put out a “For Lease” notice for one of its shuttle launch pads in Florida. In a notice posted on its procurement website, the U.S. space agency said it was ...
Fugitive serial rapist found hiding out in Maine to serve two consecutive 18- to 20-year sentences
By Jack Encarnacao, The Patriot Ledger on May 23, 2013, at 3:54 p.m.
DEDHAM, Mass. — A convicted serial rapist who hid out in Maine for 34 years was sentenced to two prison terms that could keep him behind bars for the next four decades. On Thursday, in the same Dedham, Mass., court in which he failed to appear in 1979, 52-year-old Gary ...
Charles Ramsey, man who helped Cleveland kidnapping victims, gets free hamburgers for life
By Kim Palmer, Reuters on May 23, 2013, at 3:06 p.m.
CLEVELAND — The man made famous for putting down his Big Mac to help free three women held captive for about a decade in a Cleveland house will never have to buy a hamburger in his hometown again. More than two weeks after Charles Ramsey became an instant folk hero ...
Maine supreme court tells lower court judge to dismiss Ralph Nader lawsuit over 2004 election
PORTLAND, Maine — The Maine Supreme Judicial Court on Thursday ordered that Ralph Nader’s lawsuit against the Maine Democratic Party over petitioning activities in the 2004 presidential election be dismissed as frivolous. The 15-page decision was unanimous. The justices heard oral arguments in the case on April 10. “Because we ...
New York City rumble showcases Maine’s lobster roll dominance
If there was ever a doubt about Maine’s place in the lobster industry, the annual Lobster Roll Rumble in New York City next month seals the deal. More than 1,000 seafood aficionados will flock to the city to choose America’s best lobster sandwich from 20 competitors. Since the rumble’s inception, ...
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When federal officials plead the Fifth, it makes the whole government look bad
By Joe Davidson, The Washington Post on May 23, 2013, at 9:23 a.m.
WASHINGTON — Like plaids with stripes, federal employees wrapped in the Fifth Amendment don’t look good. We all have the right to wear clothes that clash, and all in this country have the right not to provide testimony that could be used against them. But when federal workers invoke that ...
Susan Collins co-sponsors groundbreaking overhaul of chemical safety law
By Brad Plumer, Washington Post on May 23, 2013, at 6:32 a.m.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. law on chemical safety is 37 years old, riddled with exceptions and widely considered ineffective — so much so that the government hasn’t even tried to restrict an unsafe chemical since courts overturned its asbestos ban in 1991. Now that law could soon get a face-lift, ...
Former Bangor YMCA building sold to new dental technology school
University of Maine hockey job has been offered to former assistant Red Gendron
Millinocket company unearths logging history for niche market
By the time new federal judge from Maine was confirmed, he ‘had no practice left’
Why is DHHS always asking for more money?
Maine GOP disappoints on Medicaid
State House move
Lerner had good reason to take Fifth at IRS hearing
Lawrence, Connolly help UMaine advance to America East baseball title game
Bucksport’s Cassidy Adams strikes out 19 in single game
Jonesport-Beals basketball standout Garet Beal named Parade All-American
Maine Democrats stooped to the governor’s level with TV complaint
I’m sick of husband’s eye rolling and grunts, how do I get him to stop?
Have a drink, kiss a fish: Just another Saturday night, Newfoundland-style
I want my husband and I to be fun people again
Bangor High School students re-enact funeral of Civil War soldier