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  • Rolling billboards must yield to Maines ban

    emurphy@mainetoday.com Staff Writer PORTLAND - The new Nordstrom Rack store is in South Portland, but its presence was evident in recent weeks on the streets of Portland. A mobile billboard operated by a marketing company based in Pennsylvania rolled repeatedly around the city to announce the arrival of the store. But billboards, including those on wheels, have been banned in Maine for 30 ...

  • No charges in Starks shooting

    STARKS, Maine (AP) -- A Maine grand jury has declined to bring charges in the case of a Starks man who was shot on his own property following a confrontation with a group of ...

  • Maine man heads to jail for 80s sex crimes

    - A Corinna man pleaded guilty Tuesday to sex offenses dating from more than a quarter-century ago. Glenn A. Graves, 57, was scheduled to go on trial Tuesday in Kennebec County Superior Court on three charges of gross sexual misconduct that occurred between Oct. 9, 1985, and April 1, 1987. The victims of those offenses, which occurred in Winthrop, were two girls under age 14. The case was ...

  • Farmingdale boy improving after falling into pool

    AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) -- Law enforcement authorities say a 2-year-old Farmingdale boy found floating face down in his family's pool last week appears to be ...

  • Maine man gets 3 years for stealing VA benefits

    BANGOR, Maine (AP) -- A Maine man has been sentenced to three years in prison for fraudulently obtaining veterans' disability benefits from the federal ...


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Step Brothers

Step Brothers

The funniest thing about Step Brothers, the new comedy from the same team that produced Anchorman (2004) and Talladega Nights (2006), isnt in the movie itself, but rather its advertising one-sheet, which is a perfect parody of those ridiculous glamour shots people ... ...

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  • Maine man pleads guilty to 1980s sex offenses

    Glenn Graves pleaded guilty Tuesday in Kennebec County Superior Court just before he was scheduled to go on trial on three charges of gross sexual ...

  • Maine releases details of proposed health plan

    AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) - The state has released some information about a proposed health insurance plan being put together by Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield and MaineHealth after a hospital group sued to make it ...

  • Maine man charged in teens death to be arraigned

    Twenty-year-old Kyle Dube (DOO'-bee), of Orono (OHR'-uh-noh) was indicted on murder and kidnapping charges in last month’s asphyxiation death of Nichole Cable. He was due to be arraigned Wednesday at the Penobscot Judicial ...

  • Korean chefs learn all about Maine lobster

    During their five-day visit that began Monday, the chefs are getting a hands-on education about Maine’s signature seafood by going out on a lobster boat, touring processing plants and attending a lobster-cooking class and an industry ...

  • AP PHOTOS Astrodome JFK terminal endangered

    WASHINGTON -- Houston's Astrodome stadium, New York's old Pan Am Worldport Terminal at Kennedy Airport and Montana's one-room schoolhouses are joining a list of the nation's most endangered historic places.On Wednesday, the National Trust for Historic Preservation is releasing its listing of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places. It includes sites from Maine to ...

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