Provides the latest RSS feeds for Maine News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Maine Mirror.com http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/cat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a/ en-us Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:41:05 -0400 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:41:05 -0400 30 The Democratic-led House gave final approval to the bill on Wednesday. It faces further votes in the Senate before heading to Republican Gov. Paul ... http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215309094/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:57:27 -0400 http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215309094/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a 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 ... http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215307740/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:12:50 -0400 http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215307740/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a 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 ... http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215307742/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:12:48 -0400 http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215307742/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a 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 ... http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215307741/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:12:47 -0400 http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215307741/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a 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 ... http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215307449/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:44:31 -0400 http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215307449/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a 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 LePage ... http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215305418/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:03:59 -0400 http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215305418/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a 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 ... http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215306416/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:41:48 -0400 http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215306416/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a 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 ... http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215306417/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:34:40 -0400 http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215306417/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a 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 ... http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215305054/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:54:38 -0400 http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215305054/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a 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 ... http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215303832/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:18:03 -0400 http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215303832/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a 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 ... http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215302521/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:39:15 -0400 http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215302521/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a A Maine man who was told he had only months to live because of an aggressive Stage 4 pancreatic cancer is still alive more than four years later. And a jury has awarded him $200,000 for the doctor’s misdiagnosis. It turns out Wendell Strout suffers non-Hodgkins lymphoma, a more treatable form of cancer. He sued Central Maine Medical Center for damages, citing ';tremendous emotional ... http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215301614/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:02:23 -0400 http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215301614/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a The advocacy group, which is calling for the federal government to invest more money into the upkeep of the nation's bridges and highways, compiled the report from data that lists the number of bridges deemed structurally deficient. The report states that 15 percent of the state's bridges meet that ... http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215300757/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:31:11 -0400 http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215300757/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Twenty-year-old Kyle Dube, of Orono, was indicted on murder and kidnapping charges in last month's asphyxiation death of Nichole Cable. He pleaded not guilty to those charges Wednesday morning. The Maine Attorney General's Office told WMTW News 8 that Dube's lawyer is asking for a psychological exam to determine if Dube is competent to stand ... http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215300758/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:31:11 -0400 http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215300758/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Following a critical series of articles in three Maine newspapers this week, Maine Gov. Paul LePage’s (R) office has cut off those papers’ access to administration officials. The same week the Portland Press Herald, the Kennebec Journal, and the Morning Sentinel published an in-depth analysis of the administration’s work to undermine environmental protections, a spokeswoman ... http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215299327/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:12:23 -0400 http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215299327/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a A backdoor plan by Canada's Enbridge and the US-based ExxonMobil to establish an alternate tar sands pipeline has met fierce resistance in the small city of South Portland, Maine where the proposed export terminal would be built. In a proactive initiative to block the scheme, a local citizens group has collected nearly 4,000 signatures-roughly 4 times the amount necessary-in support of a ... http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215298519/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:05:31 -0400 http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215298519/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a JONESBORO, Maine - Maine State Police say a driver has died after he lost control of his car and it struck a pole.Police said 48-year-old Daniel Snowdeal of Jonesboro was dead at the scene. He was the only person in the car.The accident happened at about 3 a.m. Wednesday on Route 1A in Jonesboro, near the Whitneyville town line.Police said the vehicle came to rest on its roof in a ditch.They said ... http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215298485/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:47:07 -0400 http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215298485/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Delegates to the Democratic National Convention Will Propose a Platform Emphasizing Diplomacy, Not War PORTLAND, Maine - August 15 - Peace Action Maine, Pax Christi Maine, Military Families Speak Out/ Maine, the Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine, and other Maine based organizations are circulating a statewide petition that opposes preemptive military action, acts of war, a naval ... http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215296318/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:27:14 -0400 http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215296318/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a emurphy@mainetoday.com Staff Writer PORTLAND - The new Nordstrom Rack store is in South Portland, but its presence was evident in recent weeks on the streets of Portland. A mobile billboard operated by a marketing company based in Pennsylvania rolled repeatedly around the city to announce the arrival of the store. But billboards, including those on wheels, have been banned in Maine for 30 years ... http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215295128/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:55:07 -0400 http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215295128/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a STARKS, Maine (AP) -- A Maine grand jury has declined to bring charges in the case of a Starks man who was shot on his own property following a confrontation with a group of ... http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215295129/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:33:27 -0400 http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215295129/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a - A Corinna man pleaded guilty Tuesday to sex offenses dating from more than a quarter-century ago. Glenn A. Graves, 57, was scheduled to go on trial Tuesday in Kennebec County Superior Court on three charges of gross sexual misconduct that occurred between Oct. 9, 1985, and April 1, 1987. The victims of those offenses, which occurred in Winthrop, were two girls under age 14. The case was ... http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215293555/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:48:51 -0400 http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215293555/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) -- Law enforcement authorities say a 2-year-old Farmingdale boy found floating face down in his family's pool last week appears to be ... http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215293556/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:27:48 -0400 http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215293556/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a BANGOR, Maine (AP) -- A Maine man has been sentenced to three years in prison for fraudulently obtaining veterans' disability benefits from the federal ... http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215293557/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:27:48 -0400 http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215293557/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a 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 ... http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215292267/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:14:45 -0400 http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215292267/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a 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 ... http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215291185/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:10:00 -0400 http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215291185/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a 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 ... http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215287364/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:18:04 -0400 http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215287364/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a 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 ... http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215287543/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:54:05 -0400 http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215287543/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a 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 ... http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215286886/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:17:20 -0400 http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215286886/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a 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 ... http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215286021/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:15:51 -0400 http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215286021/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a 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 ... http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215286022/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:10:47 -0400 http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215286022/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a – 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 ... http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215286023/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:10:46 -0400 http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215286023/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a – A bill designed to tighten mining laws that took effect last year appears headed for defeat, with the House and Senate unable to reach consensus on the ... http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215285250/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:05:05 -0400 http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215285250/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Among the bills is one that would have required the state’s public charter schools to be run as nonprofit organizations. LePage said that the bill puts new constraints on charter schools, limiting students’ educational ... http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215284019/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:29:16 -0400 http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215284019/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a , 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 ... http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215283130/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:51:29 -0400 http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215283130/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a On May 20, Gronkowski had his fourth surgery on the left forearm that he broke on Nov. 18 while blocking for an extra point in a 59-24 win over the Indianapolis Colts. He broke it again in the Patriots’ first playoff game, a 41-28 win over the Houston Texans. Rosenhaus said the fourth surgery was expected to be the last on his ... http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215282884/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:24:53 -0400 http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215282884/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a 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 ... http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215281927/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:48:43 -0400 http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215281927/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a - 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 among ... http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215279587/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:37:40 -0400 http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215279587/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a By JOAN LOWYAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Amtrak's president says long-distance trains and some short-haul routes would be jeopardized and service in the busy Northeast corridor might have to be slowed if federal subsidy cuts proposed by a House subcommittee are realized. Iowa Republican Rep. Tom Latham is chairman of the House Appropriations Committee's transportation ... http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215278382/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:36:00 -0400 http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215278382/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a - 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 ... http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215278323/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:31:18 -0400 http://www.mainemirror.com/index.php/sid/215278323/scat/f8c1fc641c28ce0a