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  • Portland-area police chiefs oppose bill to allow Mainers to carry concealed weapons without permit

    A group of southern Maine police chiefs gathered Tuesday morning to oppose a bill that would allow most Mainers to carry concealed weapons without filing for a ...

  • New Maine shipyard leader will be aboard soon

    - The next commander of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard is about to take charge. After 3½ years at the helm, Capt. L. Bryant Fuller will step down in a ceremony Friday. He is to be relieved by Capt. William Greene, who serves as the military deputy for shipyard operations at the Naval Sea Systems Command. Greene, a native of Ann Arbor, Mich., has served in numerous engineering and combat ...

  • Maine man charged in death of missing teen girl

    BANGOR, Maine — A 20-year-old Orono man was charged Tuesday with murder in connection with the death of Nichole Cable, a 15-year-old girl from Glenburn. Police discovered a body they believe is Cable’s on Monday night in a wooded area of Old ...

  • Dispute leaves thousands in Maine without phone service

    USA Telephone has been planning to end its service next month, but Fairpoint shuts down the transmission lines USA used because the company stopped paying to use ...

  • Judge seals affidavit of Maine man in teens death

    This June 2012 photo provided by the Penobscot County Jail via Maine State Police shows Kyle Dube, of Orono, Maine. Dube, 20, was charged Tuesday, May 21, 2013 with murder in the death of Nichole Cable, who was last seen May 12, 2013. Police say a body found in the woods on Monday night is likely that of the high school student. (AP Photo/Penobscot County Jail via Maine State ...


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Lola Montès [DVD]

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As a swan song for the great German director Max Ophuls, Lola Monts is a fitting testament to the enormity of his vision even as it proved to be a controversial punctuation mark on the end of his impressive career, which spanned three decades and two continents. After his triumphant ... ...

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  • New warden appointed ast Maine State Prison in Warren

    In this March 2011 file photo, Joseph Ponte speaks with Rodney Bouffard, then-Superintendent of the Long Creek Youth Development Center in South Portland at the facility. Ponte has named Bouffard warden of the Maine State ...

  • Path unclear if LePage vetoes Maine hospital bill

    AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) -- Even though Gov. Paul LePage's office made it clear Wednesday he'll veto a bill to pay off a $484 million debt to Maine hospitals because of an amendment to expand Medicaid, Democrats professed hope the Republican governor will relent and considered passage a ...

  • N.H.’s Shea-Porter introduces pipeline amendment

    US Representative Carol Shea-Porter of New Hampshire has introduced an amendment that would protect pipeline activity between Portland, Maine, and Montreal. The amendment introduced Tuesday would protect environmental interests from being affected by pending legislation to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry 800,000 barrels of oil a day from Alberta across six US states to the ...

  • TBI charges Maine man in child pornography case

    Jermany Scott Claus, 39, was booked into custody of the U.S. Marshals Service in Portland, Maine, following a Tennessee Bureau of Investigation probe launched earlier this week, according to a TBI news release ...

  • Change of command at Maine shipyard Friday

    Vice Adm. Kevin M. McCoy, commander of Naval Sea Systems Command, will preside over the change of command ceremony and give the keynote speech ...

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