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  • Maine governor moves out of office over TV dispute

    AUGUSTA, Maine -; Maine's governor, who has gained attention in the past for telling the NAACP to "kiss my butt" and comparing the IRS to the Gestapo, has moved out of his office at the State House and says he'll work out of governor's mansion because of a dispute over a television ...

  • Maine Academy’s Loeb-Sullivan School Names New Dean

    Loeb-Sullivan School of International Business and Logistics by this year's fall semester and will return to teaching full-time as a professor of logistics at the school.Donald Maier has been elected by the faculty as department chair for the undergraduate international business and logistics degree and appointed by MMA's vice president of academics as Loeb-Sullivan School of ...

  • Convicted rapist who fled sentenced to 36 years

    DEDHAM, Mass. -- A man convicted of raping three women in Massachusetts was sentenced Thursday to 36 to 40 years in prison more than three decades after he fled the state and began living a secret life in Maine.Gary Alan Irving could have faced possible life in prison at his sentencing in Norfolk Superior Court. His attorney said Irving will be eligible for parole in 24 years.Irving was a ...

  • Ralph Nader loses Maine court appeal over ballot

    - The state's highest court on Thursday dismissed Ralph Nader's lawsuit against Democrats he had accused of trying to keep him off ballots in Maine and other states during his failed presidential run in ...

  • Maine lawmakers governor in stand-off on Medicaid expansion

    BOWDOINHAM, Maine (Reuters) - Maine's Democratic-controlled legislature on Thursday passed a bill that would expand access to its Medicaid program as outlined by the Affordable Care Act, setting up a showdown with the state's Republican governor, who has vowed a ...


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Movie Review

Swimming Pool

Swimming Pool

Franois Ozons much-talked-about Swimming Pool features one of those Huh? endings that people love to discuss in serious tones as they walk out of the theater and drive home, as if theyre deconstructing some great philosophical paradox. Its an ending that calls into question everything that came before, and it will make many want to go back for a repeat viewing to relive the films narrative ... ...

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  • Senate gives final OK to bill to pay hospital debt

    AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) - Despite the threat of a certain veto, the Maine Senate has given final approval to a bill to pay off a $484 million debt to Maine hospitals and expand ...

  • Rangers scratch Richards for pivotal Game 4

    NEW YORK (AP) - Struggling Rangers center Brad Richards said he will be a healthy scratch when New York faces elimination in Game 4 against the Boston Bruins on Thursday ...

  • Democrats say Maine governor moving out of State House

    A squabble over a TV monitor outside the governor's office has prompted Gov. Paul LePage to announce he's moving out of the State House, according to Democratic ...

  • Maine lawmakers reject bid to repeal health care law

    The Maine Legislature has said no to a move to bar enforcement of the national health care law. The Senate agreed Tuesday with the House and voted to kill a bill that labeled the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 a violation of the US Constitution and null and void in Maine. The bill sought to prohibit federal or state officials from enforcing the law. It proposed fines ...

  • Mass. fugitive caught in Maine to be sentenced for kidnapping rape

    Gary Alan Irving was a teenager when he was convicted of raping three women. When authorities finally caught up with him in Maine in March, he was a 52-year-old man with a wife and two grown ...

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