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  • Maine House OKs extending treatment coverage for addicts

    MaineCare coverage for certain drug addiction treatments to more than two years. The House gave final approval to the bill on Wednesday. It allows for the continuation of MaineCare coverage for methadone and Suboxone if a person is pregnant, has serious and persistent mental illness or lives with a young child. Suboxone and methadone treat addictions to heroin and similar drugs. Maine currently ...

  • Maine governor to stop talking to 3 newspapers

    PORTLAND, Maine - Maine's blunt-spoken governor doesn't mince words when opponents dare to cross him but he's saved some of his harshest criticism for newspapers, once telling schoolchildren he isn't a fan of papers and another time saying that reading one is "like paying somebody to tell you lies."Now it's gone to an extreme, with Republican Gov. Paul LePage ...

  • Maine man dies from burns while cutting oil tank

    BLAINE, Maine (AP) - Fire officials say a 72-year-old northern Maine man has died after being critically burned while cutting up an old heating oil tank with a welding ...

  • Maine Senate switches to support encouraging gun background checks

    Two Democrats in the Maine Senate switched their votes to aid party leaders in passing a watered-down gun-control bill aimed at encouraging background checks before firearm ...

  • Maine Cancer Patient Gets $200K for Misdiagnosis

    A Maine man who was told he had only months to live because of an aggressive Stage 4 pancreatic cancer is still alive more than four years later. And a jury has awarded him $200,000 for the doctor’s misdiagnosis. It turns out Wendell Strout suffers non-Hodgkins lymphoma, a more treatable form of cancer. He sued Central Maine Medical Center for damages, citing ';tremendous emotional ...


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Movie Review

Alexander

Alexander

The advertising campaign for Alexander has assured us that Fortune favors the bold, and director Oliver Stone is clearly hoping that the Roman poet Virgils proclamation is as applicable to him as it is to the subject of his film. If ever there were a bold filmmaker, it is Stone, whos ... ...

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  • Report Maine bridges ninth worst in the nation

    The advocacy group, which is calling for the federal government to invest more money into the upkeep of the nation's bridges and highways, compiled the report from data that lists the number of bridges deemed structurally deficient. The report states that 15 percent of the state's bridges meet that ...

  • Maine man charged in teens death pleads not guilty

    Twenty-year-old Kyle Dube, of Orono, was indicted on murder and kidnapping charges in last month's asphyxiation death of Nichole Cable. He pleaded not guilty to those charges Wednesday morning. The Maine Attorney General's Office told WMTW News 8 that Dube's lawyer is asking for a psychological exam to determine if Dube is competent to stand ...

  • Governor LePage Blacklists Maine Newspapers After They Criticize His Administration’s Energy Policies

    Following a critical series of articles in three Maine newspapers this week, Maine Gov. Paul LePage’s (R) office has cut off those papers’ access to administration officials. The same week the Portland Press Herald, the Kennebec Journal, and the Morning Sentinel published an in-depth analysis of the administration’s work to undermine environmental protections, a spokeswoman ...

  • Back-Door Tar Sands Scheme Blocked by Maine Community

    A backdoor plan by Canada's Enbridge and the US-based ExxonMobil to establish an alternate tar sands pipeline has met fierce resistance in the small city of South Portland, Maine where the proposed export terminal would be built. In a proactive initiative to block the scheme, a local citizens group has collected nearly 4,000 signatures-roughly 4 times the amount necessary-in support of a ...

  • Driver dies in Jonesboro Maine crash

    JONESBORO, Maine - Maine State Police say a driver has died after he lost control of his car and it struck a pole.Police said 48-year-old Daniel Snowdeal of Jonesboro was dead at the scene. He was the only person in the car.The accident happened at about 3 a.m. Wednesday on Route 1A in Jonesboro, near the Whitneyville town line.Police said the vehicle came to rest on its roof in a ditch.They ...

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