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  • Wilson Nobel winner for physics dies in Maine

    PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- Physicist Kenneth Wilson, who earned a Nobel prize for pioneering work that changed the way physicists think about phase transitions, has died in Maine, where he retired to enjoy kayaking with his wife. He was ...

  • Maine House approves dental hygienists bill

    AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) - The Democratic-led Maine House has given initial approval to a bill aimed at making dental care more accessible and ...

  • Maine Hall of Fame revokes hoopsters induction after child porn conviction

    - The Maine Sports Hall of Fame has revoked the induction of a former college basketball star following his conviction on a child pornography charge. Sixty-two-year-old Dana Wilson of Brewer was inducted into the hall in May 2012 for his basketball accomplishments at Bangor's Husson College, from which he graduated in 1974. Wilson averaged nearly 35 points a game his senior year, best ...

  • Maine lawmakers vote to raise snowmobile fees support trails

    - The Maine House and Senate have passed a bill that would increase the registration fee for snowmobiles and then use that extra money to help maintain snowmobile ...

  • Assistant Maine GOP leader backs Medicaid veto override

    AUGUSTA, Maine - The Maine Senate's assistant Republican Leader who helped craft a Medicaid expansion compromise says he is hopeful they can get enough votes to override Republican Gov. Paul LePage's veto.Roger Katz of Augusta said on Tuesday that he is disappointed in the veto to expand Medicaid coverage, which came Monday night.Katz authored an amendment to cut off Maine's ...


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Reds [DVD]

Reds [DVD]

By any stretch of the imagination, it is either an outright miracle or testament to his power in Hollywood at the end of the 1970s (or maybe a little of both) that Warren Beatty was able to produce and direct Reds, his romantic epic about the Bolshevik Revolution and the birth of the Am ... ...

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  • Nobel-winning physicist Kenneth Wilson dies in Maine

    - A physics professor who earned a Nobel prize for pioneering work that changed the way physicists think about phase transitions has died in Maine at age 77. Kenneth Wilson was a member of the physics department at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., when he won the Nobel Prize in 1982 for applying his research in quantum physics to phase transitions, creating a mathematical tool called the ...

  • Massachusetts Climbers Hurt In Fall Off Maine Cliff

    Two men, a climber and a local guide, fell off a 25-foot cliff due to a broken rope. One landed on a woman. (Photo credit: LeslieAnn Dykes ...

  • Maine Democrats scramble after governor blocks Medicaid expansion

    By Dave Sherwood BOWDOINHAM, Maine, June 18 | Tue Jun 18, 2013 12:25pm EDT BOWDOINHAM, Maine, June 18 (Reuters) - Democratic legislators in Maine scrambled on Tuesday to muster the votes needed to override Republican Governor Paul LePage's late-night veto of a bill to expand Medicaid coverage to an additional 60,000 people. LePage late on Monday blocked a compromise bill that would ...

  • Maine Senate passes bill regulating police use of drones

    Police would have to get a warrant in most cases before using unmanned aerial aircraft, or drones, under a bill initially passed by the Maine Senate on Monday night. But the vote didn’t come without controversy. The version passed is opposed by Maine Attorney General Janet Mills, and there is no indication that police are using drones in the state. Sen. Linda Valentino, D-Saco, the Senate ...

  • Man goes to jail for recording teen girls

    PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- A 45-year-old former Maine man who installed hidden video cameras in a home to record unsuspecting teenage girls is going to jail for two ...

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