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  • Maine man pleads guilty to 1980s sex offenses

    Glenn Graves pleaded guilty Tuesday in Kennebec County Superior Court just before he was scheduled to go on trial on three charges of gross sexual ...

  • Maine releases details of proposed health plan

    AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) - The state has released some information about a proposed health insurance plan being put together by Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield and MaineHealth after a hospital group sued to make it ...

  • Maine man charged in teens death to be arraigned

    Twenty-year-old Kyle Dube (DOO'-bee), of Orono (OHR'-uh-noh) was indicted on murder and kidnapping charges in last month’s asphyxiation death of Nichole Cable. He was due to be arraigned Wednesday at the Penobscot Judicial ...

  • Korean chefs learn all about Maine lobster

    During their five-day visit that began Monday, the chefs are getting a hands-on education about Maine’s signature seafood by going out on a lobster boat, touring processing plants and attending a lobster-cooking class and an industry ...

  • AP PHOTOS Astrodome JFK terminal endangered

    WASHINGTON -- Houston's Astrodome stadium, New York's old Pan Am Worldport Terminal at Kennedy Airport and Montana's one-room schoolhouses are joining a list of the nation's most endangered historic places.On Wednesday, the National Trust for Historic Preservation is releasing its listing of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places. It includes sites from Maine to ...


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The Artist [Blu-Ray]

The Artist [Blu-Ray]

Michel Hazanaviciuss The Artist grew on me. I resisted the self-conscious cleverness of its retro-silent-film conceit for quite a while; it felt too mannered and deliberate, the clear product of a modern mind trying to evoke a bygone era without fully getting lost in it. In a word, it w ... ...

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  • Early black church in Maine named as endangered

    PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - The Abyssinian Meeting House is the nation’s third-oldest standing African-American meeting house, used for religious, social, educational and cultural events until its closing in ...

  • Prospective astronaut from Maine always on a mission

    Jessica Meir, a 35-year-old scientist from Maine, is among eight people who were selected from a pool of more than 6,000 applicants to be trained as astronauts. Meir, who grew up in Caribou, is the youngest of five in a family of ...

  • Home sales on rise in Maine

    HLFSCRN HOUSING MARKET TURNAROUND? MORE SIGNS OF RECOVERY FOR BUYERS, BUILDERS, AND SELLERS, AS HOME SALES HIT A MAJOR MILESTONE THIS MONTH, SHOWING A POSSIBLE ECONOMIC REBOUND FOR A ONCE STRUGGLING MARKET.. GOOD EVENING AND THANKS FOR JOINING US, I'M TRACY SABOL. THE COMMERCE DEPARTMENT SAYS BUILDERS BEGAN CONSTRUCTION ON MORE SINGLE-FAMILY HOMES AND APARTMENTS IN MAY. IN FACT.. HOUSING ...

  • Hospitals Maine Medicaid expansion would help

    By JOE LAWLOR Staff Writer The cost of free care provided by Maine hospitals to uninsured patients has more than doubled since 2007, and those expenses will continue to grow ...

  • Maine lawmaker unanimously endorse no toxic chemicals in childrens toys

    – Maine lawmakers on Tuesday quietly and unanimously advanced a bill aimed at beefing up the state program designed to phase out toxic chemicals in children’s products, but final passage is still in question. The proposal, L.D. 1181, sponsored by Sen. Seth Goodall, D-Richmond, requires manufacturers of 49 chemicals on the so-called "high concern list" to report what ...

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