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  • Maine Delegation Military should buy US athletic shoes

    All four members of Maine's congressional delegation have introduced bills to make the Department of Defense buy only American-made athletic footwear for military ...

  • Tourism reaches beyond beaches in N.H. Maine Vt.

    In this Sunday, May 23, 2010 file photo, Jude Stohl leads Leigha Cicchetto and his son Ethan Stohl on a ride through Jericho Park's trail system in Berlin, N.H. In New Hampshire, a new interconnected all-terrain vehicle trail system dubbed "Ride the Wilds" will officially open June 15, 2013, capping years of work by more than a dozen off-road vehicle clubs who worked with state ...

  • Funeral services to be held for slain Maine teen

    - A 15-year-old Maine girl who police say was killed by a young man is being laid to rest. Funeral services for Nichole Cable of Glenburn are scheduled for Monday at the Bangor Baptist Church. The Old Town High School sophomore's body was found last Monday in a wooded area in Old Town more than a week after she was reported missing by her family. Twenty-year-old Kyle Dube of Orono has been ...

  • Man hurt in Maine apartment house fire

    AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) - The Maine fire marshal’s office is investigating an apartment house fire in Augusta that injured one man and displaced 14 ...

  • Car rolls off pier into Portland Harbor

    Officials say three people were inside the car when it rolled toward the edge of Widgery Wharf around 2 a.m. Sunday, but they were able to get out before it plunged into the ...


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How to Get Ahead in Advertising [DVD]

How to Get Ahead in Advertising [DVD]

In Bruce Robinson's acerbic but overstated satire How to Get Ahead in Advertising, Richard E. Grant stars as Denis Bagley, a slick, ruthless, chain-smoking, and utterly confident advertising executive who, despite 15 years of incredible success selling the public anything and everything, is stumped on how to come up with an ad campaign for pimple cream. In one of the movie's funniest momen ... ...

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  • Development $ available for Vt. Maine NH and NY

    PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - A commission that’s charged with spurring economic development and job creation in distressed areas of northern Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire and New York is accepting applications for a new round of federal ...

  • Volunteers sought to blaze new Maine bike trail

    The Carrabassett Region New England Mountain Biking Association is teaming up with Maine Huts and Trails - an organization that’s developing a backcountry network of huts along 180 miles of trails in western Maine - to blaze a new single-track trail connecting Carrabassett Valley’s Narrow Gauge rail trail and the Sugarloaf Outdoor Center to Maine Huts and Trails’ Stratton Brook ...

  • Maine B-52 Crash Remembered by Survivor Rescuer

    U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber training flight carrying a crew of nine crashed into Elephant Mountain in Maine. There were only two survivors of the crash, the pilot, Lt. Col. Dan Bulli, and the navigator, Capt. Gerald Adler (pictured). Both survived a night in freezing temperatures that reached -30F while rescue workers searched for survivors throughout the night. In the morning, rescuers were able ...

  • Maine health care agency to phase out of business

    AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) - The Dirigo Health insurance program, established with great fanfare a decade ago as a nationally pioneering program to cover the uninsured, is phasing out of ...

  • Exhibit opens before debut of new NH-Maine bridge

    PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) - The new Memorial Bridge connecting New Hampshire and Maine is scheduled to be ready in July, but the celebration is already ...

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