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Maine House Democrats fail to override LePage Medicaid veto

Patricia McGargill, a family nurse practitioner at Portland Community Health Center, tends to a patient. An effort to extend health coverage to 60,000 Mainers failed in the House on ...
Eliot Cutler calls for Maine election changes

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 ...
Jamaican man arrested in Maine-linked lottery scam

dhench@mainetoday.com Staff Writer Authorities in Maine and Mississippi joined forces to investigate and apprehend a Jamaican man who allegedly bilked a Bath woman out of a large sum of ...
Maine lawmakers seek to limit use of police drones

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) - Maine lawmakers have advanced a proposal to ban law enforcement from using unmanned aerial drones for surveillance unless they have a search ...
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 ...

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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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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...

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Our nuclear programmes are completely transparent. But we are ready to show greater transparency and make clear for the whole world that the steps of the Islamic Republic of Iran are completely within international frameworks. The sanctions are unfair, the Iranian people are suffering, and our (nuclear) activities are legal. These sanctions are illegal and only benefit Israel.

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Iran's president-elect was speaking after his historic election victory.

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US police officers act harshly against innocent man

A man has been beaten to death by police officers in the United States.

The unarmed man was severely beaten with batons and fists following a call from a hospital, which had complained of a man being drunk near the premises.

Officers attended Kern Medical Center in Bakersfield, California, where David Sal Silva, the 33-year-old father of four young children, had allegedly been causing a disturbance.

A group of police officers fell upon Silva after he allegedly resisted arrest.

Witnesses said extra police waded in to beat him in in the face and upper body.

Silva later had trouble breathing and was wheeled into the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Witnesses who had filmed Silva and the police in a scuffle later had their mobile phones confiscated by some of the officers.

They said he had been begging for his life during the beating.

A lawyer for the family has asked that the mobile phones not be tampered with as the video evidence will be used in an investigation.

Meanwhile, President Obama has lauded the bravery and devotion of more than 40 police officers at a White House ceremony.

Speaking to the hand-picked group, he said: "We don't always get that opportunity to stand and applaud the men and women who keep us safe. ...