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  • Elite getting incentives for Metro Airport flights

    BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Baton Rouge Metro Airport will give a standard incentive package to Elite Airways when the company begins flying out of the market in ...

  • LePage Eliminate Maines income tax

    The Republican governor said Monday that if re-elected he would make eliminating the state income tax a goal. He also acknowledged that it would be difficult if the Legislature remains controlled by ...

  • Defendant freed in Lewiston barbecue fork stabbing case

    - A Lewiston man facing up to 30 years in prison for allegedly stabbing his friend in the chest with a barbecue fork has been freed after the victim refused to testify against him in court. In a move that surprised the entire courtroom, Vincent Turner on Monday invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. Authorities say the 42-year-old Turner was stabbed in the chest by ...

  • 3 indicted in northern Maine on meth lab charges

    - Three northern Maine residents have been indicted on charges of making the highly addictive drug methamphetamine. Jammie Dickinson and Kyle Stewart, of Houlton, and Crystal Dehahn of Hodgdon are charged with drug trafficking and endangering the welfare of a child. WABI-TV reported that Dehahn is the widow of Jason Dehahn, one of the victims in a 2010 triple murder in the small town of Amity. ...

  • Central Maine Power sued by contractor for $43M

    PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- One of the lead contractors on Central Maine Power Co.'s transmission line upgrade has filed a lawsuit seeking at least $43 million from the utility for what it says are work changes that cost extra time and ...


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Hart's War

Hart's War is an odd mish-mash, pursuing different ends at different times until, by the end of the film, we're not sure what it was about or how we should feel about what it's saying. Starting off as a straightforward World War II movie, it shifts into prison mode when the setting moves to a German prisoner-of-war camp, then it ventures deep into 1940s-era social-problem territory as it e ... ...

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  • Regulators vote on rules for Maines eel fishery

    The eel management board of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission is voting Tuesday on proposed new regulations. The three options are to keep the status quo, close the fishery or set a catch ...

  • Officials plan to act on Maine restaurant oversight

    – State legislators said Monday they will consider increasing the frequency of restaurant inspections and hiring more inspectors a day after the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram reported that Maine has one of the least rigorous restaurant inspection programs in the nation, both in terms of frequency and making information available to the ...

  • Body of missing Maine girl likely found

    Select images available for purchase in theMaine Today Photo Store It appears Nichole Cable's body was found around 9:30 p.m. Monday at an "undisclosed wooded location," according to Steve McCausland, spokesman for ...

  • Marine seeks Katahdin memorial for Maines fallen

    erussell@pressherald.com Staff Writer David Cote, a Bangor native and Marine Corps major who is stationed in Washington, D.C., has an idea to honor the 46 service members from Maine who have died in the global war on terror. He calls it "The Summit ...

  • Remains found in woods could be missing Maine teen

    Spokesman Steve McCausland says the body was found at about 9:30 p.m. Monday by the Maine Warden Service in an undisclosed wooded location. Recovery will begin at daylight ...

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