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Doctors report rise in kids eating detergent packs
By NOMAAN MERCHANT, The Associated Press on May 24, 2012, at 8:57 p.m.
DALLAS — Miniature laundry detergent packets arrived on store shelves in recent months as an alternative to bulky bottles and messy spills. But doctors across the country say children are confusing the tiny, brightly colored packets with candy and swallowing them. Nearly 250 cases have been reported this year to ...
Senate fails to agree on student loan measures
By Rosalind S. Helderman, The Washington Post on May 24, 2012, at 8:42 p.m.
WASHINGTON — The Senate held two votes Thursday on measures to ensure that student loan rates for millions of college students do not double in July — and at the conclusion of the legislative action, the issue remained exactly where it began: stuck. The measures, one offered by Democrats and ...
Food stamp fraud raising concerns in gov’t offices
By SAM HANANEL, The Associated Press on May 24, 2012, at 8:41 p.m.
WASHINGTON — Food stamp recipients are ripping off the government for millions of dollars by illegally selling their benefit cards for cash — sometimes even in the open, on eBay or Craigslist — and then asking the government for replacement cards. The Agriculture Department wants to curb the practice by ...
Double jeopardy issue: Supreme Court OKs some trials after vote to acquit
By David G. Savage, Tribune Washington Bureau on May 24, 2012, at 8:39 p.m.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has limited the Constitution’s protection against double jeopardy in cases involving multiple charges and a deadlocked jury. In a 6-3 decision, the court ruled Thursday prosecutors may try again to convict a defendant of murder even after jurors in his first trial vote to acquit ...
Feds: Sex trafficking ring used Backpage.com ads
By RYAN J. FOLEY, The Associated Press on May 24, 2012, at 8:34 p.m.
IOWA CITY, Iowa — A nationwide sex trafficking ring run by a violent pimp and his associates used Backpage.com to solicit customers for prostitutes as young as age 17, advertising the women as “smokin’ hot babes,” according to a federal indictment recently unsealed in Iowa. A 50-page indictment alleges a ...
Man arrested in 1979 disappearance of NYC boy Etan Patz
By COLLEEN LONG, The Associated Press on May 24, 2012, at 8:31 p.m.
NEW YORK — A New Jersey man who confessed to choking a 6-year-old New York City boy to death in 1979 was arrested on a murder charge on Thursday, police said, the first arrest in a case that helped give rise to the nation’s missing-children movement. Pedro Hernandez, 51, of ...
Romney running mate search enters audition phase
By KASIE HUNT, The Associated Press on May 24, 2012, at 8:16 p.m.
WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney’s vice presidential search has entered a new phase: auditions. As his campaign evaluates potential running mates, Republicans with a possible shot at the No. 2 spot on the presidential ticket are starting to engage in unofficial public tryouts for the traditional vice presidential role of attack ...
Oregon police say mystery woman may have ties to Fort Kent
BANGOR, Maine — Police in Oregon are asking the public to help them identify a woman they described as lost and confused who may have ties to Maine, in particular Fort Kent. The woman, who says her name is Katie Walker, was found walking the streets of Albany, Ore., on ...
Rush Limbaugh bust security costs Mo. taxpayers $1,100
By DAVID A. LIEB, The Associated Press on May 24, 2012, at 7:39 p.m.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Missouri House has spent more than $1,100 in taxpayer money on a security camera to keep watch over a new bronze bust of conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh, the House clerk said Thursday. Clerk Adam Crumbliss said he authorized the camera after discussions with Republican legislative ...
Senate committee cuts Pakistan aid over conviction
By DONNA CASSATA, The Associated Press on May 24, 2012, at 7:38 p.m.
WASHINGTON — A Senate panel expressed its outrage Thursday over Pakistan’s conviction of a doctor who helped the United States track down Osama bin Laden, voting to cut aid to Islamabad by $33 million — $1 million for every year of the physician’s 33-year sentence for high treason. The punitive ...
Global warming winner: Once rare butterfly thrives
By SETH BORENSTEIN, The Associated Press on May 24, 2012, at 6:58 p.m.
WASHINGTON — Global warming is rescuing the once-rare brown Argus butterfly, scientists say. Man-made climate is threatening the existence of many species, such as the giant polar bear. But in the case of the small drab British butterfly, it took a species in trouble and made it thrive. It’s all ...
US poised to vet possible arms for Syrian rebels
By MATTHEW LEE, The Associated Press on May 24, 2012, at 6:58 p.m.
WASHINGTON — As one diplomatic effort after another fails to end more than a year of brutal violence in Syria, the Obama administration is preparing a plan that would essentially give U.S. nods of approval to arms transfers from Arab nations to some Syrian opposition fighters. The effort, U.S. officials ...
Report: Mideast uprisings inspire the world
By PAULINE JELINEK, The Associated Press on May 24, 2012, at 6:57 p.m.
WASHINGTON — Last year’s uprisings in the Middle East have motivated people around the world to demand more rights and could inspire closed societies like Iran and North Korea to do the same, the State Department said Thursday. After years of denouncing rights abuses in Myanmar, the United States singled ...
Maine mom heads to DC to demand safer products for her daughters
By Megan Rice on May 24, 2012, at 3:41 p.m.
On Monday, May 21, two dozen Maine women boarded a bus bound for Washington, D.C., to take on the chemical industry. We joined hundreds of others from across the country for a “National Stroller Brigade” to raise awareness about the need for chemical safety reform. We spoke directly to Sens. ...
Brunswick woman nominated by Obama to lead Navy Reserve
The Associated Press on May 24, 2012, at 11:15 a.m.
BRUNSWICK, Maine — A Maine woman has been nominated by President Barack Obama to lead the U.S. Navy Reserve. Rear Adm. Robin R. Braun of Brunswick, currently deputy director of European Plans and Operations Center at U.S. European Command in Stuttgart, Germany, said Tuesday while home on leave that she ...
Australia beats out U.S. and Norway as world’s happiest nation
By Michael Heath, Bloomberg News on May 24, 2012, at 9:03 a.m.
SYDNEY — Australia is the world’s happiest nation based on criteria including income, jobs, housing and health, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development says. Australia led Norway and the United States, the Paris-based group’s Better Life Index showed, when each of 11 categories surveyed in 36 nations is given ...
Mommy porn: ‘50 Shades of Grey’ brings healthy talk about sex
By Carolyn Butler, Special to The Washington Post on May 24, 2012, at 4:53 a.m.
"It's helping many women to feel comfortable enjoying something about sexual fantasy and arousal. "
Pakistani who helped CIA find bin Laden sentenced to prison for treason
By Peter Finn, The Washington Post on May 23, 2012, at 9:31 p.m.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A Pakistani court imposed a 33-year sentence Wednesday on a doctor who assisted the CIA in the hunt for Osama bin Laden, prompting dismay among U.S. officials and warnings that the punishment will exacerbate already strained relations and could lead to cuts in aid. Shakil Afridi, 48, ...
Mariela Castro tops US visit with transgender talk
The Associated Press on May 23, 2012, at 9:25 p.m.
SAN FRANCISCO — The daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro is in San Francisco to meet with gay rights activists and to chair a panel at a prestigious academic conference. Mariela Castro is an outspoken gay rights advocate in Cuba, where she has pressed her father’s government to legalize same-sex ...
Mystery deer growth pitting hunters against Hawaii
By AUDREY McAVOY, The Associated Press on May 23, 2012, at 9:24 p.m.
HONOLULU — Deer can swim, but not very far. When they showed up for the first time on the Big Island of Hawaii, mystified residents wondered how they got there. The island is some 30 miles southeast of Maui, where deer are plentiful. Hawaii wildlife authorities think someone dropped a ...
Glenburn art teacher killed in Friday morning collision in Bangor
Harvard student asked to leave bar for ‘bad behavior,’ not drunkenness
LePage blasts teachers union for endorsing same-sex marriage question
Reporting crime
A people’s revolt in Bar Harbor
Old Town football coach steps down
Perakslis helps UMaine beat Albany; Binghamton next in America East tournament
Orono baseball shuts out archrival Old Town for ninth straight victory
Stony Brook knocks out UMaine to win America East tournament
Aroostook businessman expands company out of home with hit mobile app 7 Little Words
Former CEO of MaineToday Media Richard Connor sued over $250,000 in loans
Small idea launches major project in Hampden
Diversity predicts export success, MIT professor tells Maine audience
New, old methods combine to deter scrap metal thefts in Aroostook
Gary Allan talks with the BDN leading up to Bangor concert
Out of the ashes, Central Street’s garden grows
Mid Coast Actor’s Studio provides new forum for classic plays
Signs lead artist to opportunity
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