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  • Democrats grading plan for Maine schools gets initial Senate approval

    , sponsored by Sen. Rebecca Millett, D-Cape Elizabeth, the Senate chairwoman of the Legislature’s Education Committee, would hold up action related to the existing grading system and wait until the 2014-2015 school year to implement a new one. It passed the ...

  • In mostly symbolic vote Maine House supports gun background checks

    In a largely symbolic Tuesday vote, a narrow majority of the Maine House of Representatives doubled down on support of a gun-control bill, weakened since it was first proposed earlier this year. The 78-64 House vote likely means the bill, L.D. 1240, sponsored by Rep. Mark Dion, a former Cumberland County sheriff, will die between that body and the Senate, which passed a version of the bill on ...

  • Maine governor says he wont talk to 3 newspapers

    AUGUSTA, Maine -- A spokeswoman for Maine Gov. Paul LePage says the administration will no longer comment for stories published in three of Maine's daily newspapers.Adrienne Bennett told the Portland Press Herald (http://bit.ly/17Wn2Of ) on Tuesday the administration won't be talking to that publication, the Kennebec Journal and the Morning Sentinel. All are owned by MaineToday ...

  • Maine House approves bill to extend reach of dental hygienists

    Eric McMaster, an independent practice dental hygienist, recently opened Healthy Smiles on Water Street in downtown Gardiner. A bill would allow a new category of dental hygienist in ...

  • 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 ...


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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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  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

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