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  • House sustains but will reconsider Medicaid veto

    AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) - Maine lawmakers failed on Wednesday in an attempt to override a veto by Republican Gov. Paul LePage to provide health care coverage for more Mainers, but the effort to expand Medicaid under the federal health care overhaul isn’t dead ...

  • Maine lawmakers OKs gun background check bill

    The Democratic-led House gave final approval to the bill on Wednesday. It faces further votes in the Senate before heading to Republican Gov. Paul ...

  • Maine House Democrats fail to override LePage Medicaid veto

    Patricia McGargill, a family nurse practitioner at Portland Community Health Center, tends to a patient. An effort to extend health coverage to 60,000 Mainers failed in the House on ...

  • Eliot Cutler calls for Maine election changes

    Eliot Cutler is calling on his likely opponents to support either a run-off election or ranked-choice voting in the 2014 election to ensure Maine's next governor earns at least 50 percent of the ...

  • Jamaican man arrested in Maine-linked lottery scam

    dhench@mainetoday.com Staff Writer Authorities in Maine and Mississippi joined forces to investigate and apprehend a Jamaican man who allegedly bilked a Bath woman out of a large sum of ...


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Alexander

Alexander

The advertising campaign for Alexander has assured us that Fortune favors the bold, and director Oliver Stone is clearly hoping that the Roman poet Virgils proclamation is as applicable to him as it is to the subject of his film. If ever there were a bold filmmaker, it is Stone, whos ... ...

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  • Maine lawmakers seek to limit use of police drones

    AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) - Maine lawmakers have advanced a proposal to ban law enforcement from using unmanned aerial drones for surveillance unless they have a search ...

  • Maine governor staff to stop talking to reporters for 3 newspapers accusing them of bias

    PORTLAND, Maine -- Maine's blunt-spoken governor doesn't mince words when opponents dare to cross him but he's saved some of his harshest criticism for newspapers, once telling schoolchildren he isn't a fan of papers and another time saying that reading one is "like paying somebody to tell you lies." Now it's gone to an extreme, with Republican Gov. Paul ...

  • Kenneth Wilson Nobel Prize laureate for physics dies

    SACO, Maine - Kenneth Wilson, a physicist who earned a Nobel Prize for pioneering work that changed the way physicists think about phase transitions,died in Maine. He was ...

  • Maine House OKs extending treatment coverage for addicts

    MaineCare coverage for certain drug addiction treatments to more than two years. The House gave final approval to the bill on Wednesday. It allows for the continuation of MaineCare coverage for methadone and Suboxone if a person is pregnant, has serious and persistent mental illness or lives with a young child. Suboxone and methadone treat addictions to heroin and similar drugs. Maine currently ...

  • Maine man dies from burns while cutting oil tank

    BLAINE, Maine (AP) - Fire officials say a 72-year-old northern Maine man has died after being critically burned while cutting up an old heating oil tank with a welding ...

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