CARIBOU, Maine - Residents of northern Aroostook County saw bone-chilling cold for the second day in a row on Friday , as temperatures dipped into the minus 40’s in some parts of the region and …
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PORTLAND, Maine — Portland police say they have charged a 34-year-old man with arson for allegedly setting a fire at a convenience store after a clerk refused to sell him beer.
Clinton French of …
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AUGUSTA, Maine — State environmental regulators are seeking public comments on a plan to impose setback requirements on outdoor furnaces that burn wood pellets.
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A bone-numbing blast of arctic air settled over the Northeast for an extended stay with temperatures Thursday that fell to 38 below zero in northern Maine.
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By David Sharp The Associated Press
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1/16/09
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The Humane Society of the United States is offering a reward of up to $2,500 to anyone who can help solve the case of two dogs who were shot and killed in Hudson last year.
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NEW HARBOR, Maine — Mrs. Geyer’s rug, hooked in Maine, is headed to Washington.
In the early 1970s when then-Sen. Edmund S. Muskie was making a bid for the U.S. presidency, Francina Geyer started hooking a rug that depicted the seal of the president of the United States.
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NEWPORT, Maine — Animal control officers are monitoring conditions at a local dog breeder’s kennel daily after trying to work with her for more than five years to upgrade her facility.
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ROCKLAND, Maine — Claiming the county commissioners have attempted to usurp her authority to run her department, Knox County Sheriff Donna Dennison has filed a lawsuit aimed at clarifying just who …
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MACHIAS, Maine — Close to three dozen people attended a Thursday meeting of the Washington County: One Community organization, a 3-year-old grass-roots coalition aimed at improving life Down East. …
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AUGUSTA, Maine — Mainers would get a “Health Care Bill of Rights” to assure them more information about health insurance policies and protection from arbitrary insurance company decisions under legislation announced Thursday at a State House news conference.
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BANGOR, Maine — A local man was arrested on Sunday after police determined that a device he had that looked like a stick of dynamite, was in fact an explosive.
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BANGOR, Maine — Local bank officials say deposit fraud protections are in place to protect against fictitious ATM deposits, but that didn’t stop a Texas man from walking out of TD Banknorth on …
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BANGOR, Maine — Eastern Maine Medical Center is bracing for tough financial times ahead, stemming from the overall economic downturn and expected reductions in the state’s Medicaid budget. …
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DEXTER, Maine — SAD 46 directors elected this week not to take a position on the proposed school reorganization plan. Rather, they want voters to decide whether or not the plan has merit.
SAD 4 …
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LISBON — A Maine woman tells police she was sexually assaulted and held against her will for two-and-a-half days in a mobile home in Lisbon.
Police Chief David Brooks says officers were called …
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PORTLAND, Maine — A dispute over telephone rates for calls to state prisoners in Maine has gone to the state’s highest court.
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court will settle the issue of whether …
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BAR HARBOR, Maine — The Jackson Laboratory is being sued by a Japanese company that claims it owns the patent on a strain of mouse that Jackson Lab is marketing as its own.
The Central Institute …
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