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Former Maine deputy gets four years for molesting girls
A former Somerset County sheriff’s deputy pleaded guilty Wednesday to molesting four young girls at his wife’s former day care ...
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Former Searsport teacher wont face retrial
SEARSPORT, Maine (AP) - Prosecutors have decided not to retry a former Searsport elementary school teacher whose conviction on charges he sexually abused a 12-year-old were overturned by the state’s highest ...
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Harpswell woman takes koi fight to high court
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) - A Harpswell woman is taking her fight with state wildlife officials over her right to keep exotic pet fish to the state’s highest ...
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Maine man pleads guilty to molestation charges
SKOWHEGAN, Maine (AP) -- A former Somerset County sheriff's deputy has been sentenced to four years behind bars after pleading guilty to sexually molesting four young girls at his wife's Norridgewock day care ...
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Man gets 25 years in New York-to-Maine drug case
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - A man described as a major player in a New York-to-Maine drug smuggling operation has been sentenced to 25 years in federal ...
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Spy Game
In Spy Game, Robert Redford plays Nathan Muir, a 30-year veteran agent of the C.I.A. who finds out on the day of his retirement that his protg, Tom Bishop (Brad Pitt), has been captured while trying to liberate a prisoner from a Chinese prison during a rogue mission and is schedule to be executed in 24 hours. The real problem for Muir is that the top brass at the C.I.A. are looking for way ... ...
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Maine House overrides energy veto
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) - The Maine House of Representatives has voted to override the governor’s veto of an energy bill that aims to expand the region’s natural gas infrastructure and lower energy ...
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F-15 fighter jets to conduct exercises over parts of Maine
- F-15 fighter jets from the 104th Fighter Wing in Massachusetts are scheduled to participate in an exercise over the northern part of the state, as well as parts of Maine and New Hampshire. Practice scramble maneuvers are being held Thursday from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. The exercise also includes training with the Civil Air Patrol. Such exercises are conducted to ensure the ...
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Freeport officially abandons dubious motto
FREEPORT, Maine (AP) - Freeport is going to have to find a new motto because it’s no longer the ‘‘birthplace of ...
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Maine gets low grade in report on nations bridges
In a new report examining the state of the nation’s bridges, Washington-based Transportation for America ranked Maine ninth in the percentage of bridges classified as ...
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Jeb Bush to raise money for Maine gov re-election
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) - Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is coming to Maine to raise money for Republican Gov. Paul LePage’s re-election ...
Making the news
Our nuclear programmes are completely transparent. But we are ready to show greater transparency and make clear for the whole world that the steps of the Islamic Republic of Iran are completely within international frameworks. The sanctions are unfair, the Iranian people are suffering, and our (nuclear) activities are legal. These sanctions are illegal and only benefit Israel.
Hassan Rouhani
Iran's president-elect was speaking after his historic election victory.
Hotel Review
New York Marriott Financial Center Hotel
I arrived by taxi to the hotel which is just a block from the former World Trade Center site. The ...
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