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Confusion over benefits raising worries about Obamacare rollout
By Alex Nussbaum and Alex Wayne, Bloomberg News on June 18, 2013, at 9:54 a.m.
WASHINGTON — Judith Mayer Lynn, uninsured and battling breast cancer, should be a fan of the Affordable Care Act. Instead, she barely knows about it. The 56-year-old Nevada woman was unaware of subsidies in the law that will help people like her buy coverage in 2014, she said in an ...
Mixed blood pow wow in Dayton celebrates native American heritage
DAYTON, Maine — The Métis Eastern Tribal Indian Society of Maine gathered last weekend for their annual pow-wow on the society’s land in York County. The mixed-blood group, which formed in 2003, has roughly 400 members who have at least a trace of native American ancestry. The pow-wow was a ...
Stephen King’s scary library needs $9 million repair
By Esmé E. Deprez, Washington Post/Bloomberg on June 17, 2013, at 10:34 a.m.
NEW YORK — Readers of Stephen King’s novel “It” know the Bangor Public Library as a hiding spot for the title character, a deranged clown on a murderous rampage. In real life, the library is falling apart. Voters in the Maine riverfront town of 33,000 will decide Tuesday whether to ...
Bidder snags two Boston parking spots for $560,000. Priceless.
By Tina Susman, Los Angeles Times on June 15, 2013, at 7:03 p.m.
LOS ANGELES — There’s nothing quite like having your own parking space when you live in a big city. Except perhaps having two of your own parking spaces, which is what one Bostonian has after bidding $560,000 at an auction for the pricey pieces of pavement. The Internal Revenue Service ...
Turkish riot police storm Istanbul park in bid to end protests
By Ece Toksabay and Ayla Jean Yackley, Reuters on June 15, 2013, at 6:57 p.m.
ISTANBUL — Turkish riot police stormed an Istanbul park at the heart of two weeks of protest against Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday, firing tear gas and water cannon and sending hundreds scurrying into surrounding streets. Lines of police backed by armoured vehicles sealed off Taksim Square in the ...
US missiles, jets to stay in Jordan as Syria crisis rages
By David Alexander and Lesley Wroughton, Reuters on June 15, 2013, at 3:46 p.m.
WASHINGTON — The United States said on Saturday it will keep Patriot missiles and F-16 jet fighters in Jordan after joint military exercises end next week while Secretary of State John Kerry said a political solution to the civil war in neighboring Syria may be getting “out of reach.” The ...
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Complaints about jobless claims process come from all sides
AUGUSTA, Maine — Among the dozens of complaints sitting in Gov. Paul LePage’s office is one that belongs to a lawyer in mid-coast Maine who wrote LePage an email that began: “You win. I give up. I can’t compete against the state of Maine.” The lawyer has a small law ...
Three KeyBank branches consolidating into new Presque Isle facility
By Scott Mitchell Johnson, Presque Isle Star-Herald on June 13, 2013, at 11:39 a.m.
PRESQUE ISLE, Maine — Three Aroostook County KeyBank branches will be closing later this year and consolidating into one larger facility that is currently being built in Presque Isle. “We mailed letters May 31 to clients at the three branches letting them know of the change,” said Therese Myers, vice ...
Historic Bangor Auditorium seats go on sale later this month for $25 a pair
BANGOR, Maine — Organizers of the Maine Basketball Hall of Fame will sell off pairs of seats from the storied Bangor Auditorium beginning later this month. Seats will be available for purchase at the Bass Park complex from 1 to 6 p.m. Friday, June 21, and 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, ...
Blackhawks tip Bruins 4-3 in third OT to capture Stanley Cup opener
By Paul LaTour, The Sports Xchange on June 13, 2013, at 1:16 a.m.
CHICAGO — A double deflection gave the Chicago Blackhawks a triple-overtime win in a thrilling, draining opening game of the Stanley Cup finals. Michal Rozsival’s shot from the right point deflected off teammate Dave Bolland, then deflected off teammate Andrew Shaw into the Boston net, lifting the Blackhawks to a ...
Bill would prevent excluding unemployed in job advertisements
AUGUSTA — A bill moving through the legislature would protect those who have lost their jobs from discrimination when applying for new ones by making it illegal to disqualify the unemployed when advertising for jobs. LD 1157, “An Act To Establish the Fair Chance for Employment Act,” would make it ...
State Department probes report of sex misconduct by staff abroad
WASHINGTON — The State Department said on Tuesday it was investigating allegations of sexual misconduct by overseas staff including a report that an ambassador patronized prostitutes after a leaked memo said the agency had ignored the misbehavior. CBS News this week reported it had obtained an internal State Department inspector ...
Maine group loses suit against Monsanto over seeds
By Carey Gillam, Reuters on June 11, 2013, at 6:56 a.m.
Monsanto Co. on Monday won another round in a legal battle with U.S. organic growers as an appeals court threw out the growers’ efforts to stop the company from suing farmers if traces of its patented biotech genes are found in crops. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal ...
Weekly calendar
on June 10, 2013, at 9:54 a.m.
Calendar runs as space permits. Items with dates take precedence over activities that occur every week. ITEMS FOR CALENDAR ARE DUE 10 DAYS BEFORE THE THURSDAY OF PUBLICATION. Email: weekly@bangordailynews.com. Mail The Weekly Calendar, P.O. Box 1329, Bangor 04402. Art BANGOR: • “Memories, Dreams, Joy,” paintings of Richard W. ...
Skowhegan scores 4 in sixth, tops Brewer in Class A softball semis
BREWER, Maine — As top-seeded Brewer tried to rally in the seventh inning Saturday night to keep its softball season going, Skowhegan’s Lyndsi Merrill dropped back to deep center to try to track down a high fly ball off the bat of the Witches’ No. 3 hitter, Morgan Small. Her ...
Mandela hospitalized in ‘serious but stable condition’
By Mike Harrison and Franz Wild, Bloomberg on June 08, 2013, at 2:53 p.m.
JOHANNESBURG — Former South African President Nelson Mandela is in “serious but stable” condition after being admitted to the hospital for a fourth time since December. “During the past few days former President Nelson Mandela has had a recurrence of lung infection,” according to a statement on the website of ...
Police: Portland man stabbed multiple times in Old Port
PORTLAND, Maine — A 22-year-old Portland man was stabbed multiple times and found on Wharf Street early Friday morning, Police Lt. James Sweatt said that afternoon. The man, discovered around 1:30 a.m. by police, was transported and admitted to Maine Medical Center, where his injuries are serious but not life-threatening. ...
Flag Quilt is centerpiece of Belfast Museum exhibit
on June 07, 2013, at 8:47 a.m.
The Belfast Historical Society & Museum invites the public to a Flag Day celebration to be held 4-7 p.m., June 14, at the Abbott Room, Belfast Free Library, 106 High St. The 1864 Belfast Civil War Flag Quilt, sewn 149 years ago by the Ladies Aid Society of First ...
Is Schiller Station polluting Eliot’s air?Residents can vote on the issue Tuesday
By Christina Higginbotham, Foster's Daily Democrat on June 07, 2013, at 6:42 a.m.
ELIOT, Maine — Citizens for Clean Air, a grass-roots organization, claims the Schiller Station coal-fired power plant in Portsmouth, N.H., is contaminating the air with harmful amounts of sulfur dioxide emissions. The organization is campaigning to persuade residents to vote on Tuesday, June 11, at Town Meeting in favor of ...
ANALYSIS
Why Matt Drudge was right
By Chris Cillizza, The Washington Post on June 07, 2013, at 5:01 a.m.
15 years this week Drudge outlined the future of journalism at the National Press Club.
LePage vetoes Medicaid expansion, says ‘Maine can do better’
Report: University of Maine System teacher-training programs rank among worst in nation
Caribou High School graduate among newest NASA astronauts
Attorney seeks psychiatric evaluation of Orono man charged with killing Nichole Cable
In support of Bangor library, schools budget
We don’t understand female politicians
Maine Sports Hall of Fame revokes Dana Wilson’s 2012 induction
Pellerin enthusiastic about job as new Lawrence High School boys varsity basketball coach
Rask gives Bruins 2-1 series lead
Retiring Hermon High School athletic administrator Soucy maintains love of sports
25 things to do this summer — boats, barbecue, the Bard and everything else
UMPI solar system model expanding into Canada
Saying goodbye to our Pakistani daughter