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  • AP others fight for details in Maine girls death

    BANGOR, Maine -; News organizations are challenging a judge's decision to keep the public from seeing details of how and why police believe a 15-year-old girl from Maine was killed by a 20-year-old ...

  • Electricity Maine ads under microscope

    One ad says, "If your power bill says 'standard offer,' you're paying too much." Electricity Maine said it offers a cheaper delivery rate than the state-sponsored standard offer but that standard offer rate has recently changed. The owners of Electricity Maine told News 8 they are constantly changing ad campaigns. They said it's possible an out-of-date ad was ...

  • Maine Turnpike to keep volume discount for commuters

    - The Maine Turnpike Authority voted to keep the current E-ZPass volume-based discount program in place indefinitely, maintaining a popular program that gives discounts to daily ...

  • UPDATE 1-Maine Medicaid expansion passes but governor sets veto

    Thu May 23, 2013 5:12pm EDT (Adds beginning of veto process) By Dave Sherwood BOWDOINHAM, Maine May 23 (Reuters) - Maine's Democratic-controlled legislature on Thursday passed a bill to expand access to its Medicaid program as outlined by the Affordable Care Act, setting up a showdown with the state's Republican governor, who immediately began veto procedures. At issue is lawmakers' ...

  • Maine governor moves out of office over TV dispute

    AUGUSTA, Maine -; Maine's governor, who has gained attention in the past for telling the NAACP to "kiss my butt" and comparing the IRS to the Gestapo, has moved out of his office at the State House and says he'll work out of governor's mansion because of a dispute over a television ...


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Movie Review

Swimming Pool

Swimming Pool

Franois Ozons much-talked-about Swimming Pool features one of those Huh? endings that people love to discuss in serious tones as they walk out of the theater and drive home, as if theyre deconstructing some great philosophical paradox. Its an ending that calls into question everything that came before, and it will make many want to go back for a repeat viewing to relive the films narrative ... ...

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  • Maine Academy’s Loeb-Sullivan School Names New Dean

    Loeb-Sullivan School of International Business and Logistics by this year's fall semester and will return to teaching full-time as a professor of logistics at the school.Donald Maier has been elected by the faculty as department chair for the undergraduate international business and logistics degree and appointed by MMA's vice president of academics as Loeb-Sullivan School of ...

  • Convicted rapist who fled sentenced to 36 years

    DEDHAM, Mass. -- A man convicted of raping three women in Massachusetts was sentenced Thursday to 36 to 40 years in prison more than three decades after he fled the state and began living a secret life in Maine.Gary Alan Irving could have faced possible life in prison at his sentencing in Norfolk Superior Court. His attorney said Irving will be eligible for parole in 24 years.Irving was a ...

  • Ralph Nader loses Maine court appeal over ballot

    - The state's highest court on Thursday dismissed Ralph Nader's lawsuit against Democrats he had accused of trying to keep him off ballots in Maine and other states during his failed presidential run in ...

  • Maine lawmakers governor in stand-off on Medicaid expansion

    BOWDOINHAM, Maine (Reuters) - Maine's Democratic-controlled legislature on Thursday passed a bill that would expand access to its Medicaid program as outlined by the Affordable Care Act, setting up a showdown with the state's Republican governor, who has vowed a ...

  • Senate gives final OK to bill to pay hospital debt

    AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) - Despite the threat of a certain veto, the Maine Senate has given final approval to a bill to pay off a $484 million debt to Maine hospitals and expand ...

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