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  • Maine governor moves out of State House 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 Internal Revenue Service to the Gestapo, has moved out of his office at the State House and says he'll work out of the governor's mansion because of a dispute over a television screen. Republican Gov. Paul LePage has temporarily moved ...

  • Court dismisses Nader suit against Democrats

    The state’s highest court dismissed Thursday 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 2004. In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Judicial Court affirmed a judge’s dismissal of several counts and ordered that the remaining counts of Nader’s lawsuit against the ...

  • Mass. man sentenced decades after fleeing state

    DEDHAM, Mass. -- A man convicted of raping three women in Massachusetts has been sentenced to 36 to 40 years in prison decades after he fled the state and began living a secret life in Maine.Gary Alan Irving was sentenced Thursday in Norfolk Superior Court. He could have gotten a life sentence.Irving was a teenager when he was convicted of raping three women. When authorities finally caught up ...

  • 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 They said it's possible an out-of-date ad was ...


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The Rocky Horror Picture Show [Blu-Ray]

The Rocky Horror Picture Show [Blu-Ray]

There had never been--and, since its release, never has been--a movie like The Rocky Horror Picture Show. In terms of both the successfully over-the-top mixture of horror, camp, rocknroll, science fiction, sexual transgression, and purposefully bad B-movie dialog ... ...

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  • 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 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 ...

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