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  • Maine governor staff to stop talking to reporters for 3 newspapers accusing them of bias

    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 ...

  • House sustains but will reconsider Medicaid veto

    AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) -- Maine lawmakers have failed in their first attempt to override a veto by Republican Gov. Paul LePage to expand health care coverage to 70,000 more Mainers, but will try ...

  • Maine gov candidate calls for election changes

    PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- Independent gubernatorial candidate Eliot Cutler is calling on his likely opponents to support either a run-off election or ranked-choice voting in the 2014 election to ensure Maine's next governor earns at least 50 percent of the ...

  • Kenneth Wilson Nobel Prize laureate for physics dies

    SACO, Maine - Kenneth Wilson, a physicist who earned a Nobel Prize for pioneering work that changed the way physicists think about phase transitions,died in Maine. He was ...

  • 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 ...


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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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  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

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