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  • A place for Lewistons displaced

    Displaced Lewiston fire victims get bedding, beds and furniture delivered to their new apartments Friday. Above, Ali Sheikh directs his family's move into a new apartment at 49 Knox St. in ...

  • Panel keeps ambitious Maine tax proposal alive

    Maine Rep. Gary Knight, R-Livermore Falls, is one of the bipartisan 'Gang of 11' trying to push through an ambitious tax overhaul in the Pine Tree ...

  • Former General Mills CEO E. Robert Kinney dies at age 96

    From left, Gorton’s executives Havey H. Bundy Jr. and Paul M. Jacobs with E. Robert Kinney during a fishing boat inspection off Gloucester in ...

  • Maine committee deeply split on dental care bill

    – A bill designed to help expand access to dental care in Maine deeply divided a legislative committee Friday, with supporters saying it's time to help poor children in rural areas and opponents arguing that the bill is not the right solution. Sen. John Patrick, D-Rumford, who has served in the Legislature for more than 10 years, said the issue is one of the toughest he has dealt ...

  • Catholic Church selling many Maine properties

    D – St. Patrick Church will host its final Mass on Sunday afternoon, with its sale to the owner of the adjacent Westgate Shopping Center set to close this ...


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Movie Review

Twister

Unfortunately for "Twister," special effects alone do not a good movie make. Having said that, let me quickly praise Industrial Light and Magic for the outstanding job it did on the visual effects in this film. The computer-generated tornadoes rushing across the Oklahoma plains were so realistic as to be unnerving. You could literally feel the wind blowing across your face as the roar of the twist ... ...

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  • Dancing rules spark controversey in small Maine town

    "Right now we're on a month-to-month because of the infractions," siad Deanna Thibeau, a bartender at Higher Grounds. Higher Grounds can't allow dancing. "It's a scary thing when people are regulating something that shouldn't be regulated," said Thibeau. Thibeau said they've had to tell patrons to stop dancing, some to stop moving, because it could ...

  • Maine panel OKs Clean Election upgrade

    - A bill to provide more public funding for Maine Clean Election Act candidates inched closer to approval Friday, following a 7-5 vote by the Legislature's Veterans and Legal Affairs Committee. The bill, L.D. 1309, sponsored by Sen. Edward Youngblood, R-Brewer, would nearly triple the maximum amounts available to candidates running taxpayer-funded legislative and gubernatorial campaigns. ...

  • Maine geography whiz has whole world in his mind

    dhoey@mainetoday.com Staff Writer When Archer Thomas was about 4 years old he pointed to a map inside a Maine Atlas and Gazetteer and said to his mother, "Look, here's the town of ...

  • DNA of suspect in Maine killing not found on gun affidavit says

    The court document says Margarita Scott of Westbrook had planned to return to her husband after having an affair with Anthony Pratt Jr., who is charged with killing ...

  • N.H. man gets 15 years in prison for Maine bank robberies

    - A New Hampshire man has been sentenced to more than 15 years in federal prison for bank robbery, interstate transportation of a stolen vehicle and interstate transportation of stolen ...

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