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Maine comic festival features writers, artists

Sun, 19 May 2013 08:26:06 -0400

PORTLAND, Maine - Comic books are being celebrated in Maine's largest city.

Maine man's body found after standoff, fire

Sun, 19 May 2013 08:11:04 -0400

SACO, Maine - The body of a 58-year-old Maine man has been found in the rubble of his home following a fire that he's believed to have started during a standoff with police.

Maine fugitive with loose lips arrested in Conn.

Sat, 18 May 2013 17:04:24 -0400

WATERVILLE, Maine - A Maine man wanted by police after leading officers on a high-speed chase is in custody in Connecticut.

Maine State House tension grows over budget

Sat, 18 May 2013 14:23:35 -0400

PORTLAND, Maine - A day after warning that the state is running out of money to pay Medicaid providers, Gov. Paul LePage used his weekly radio address Saturday to chide Democratic leaders for failing to act on his two-year budget proposal and to deride the Democratic alternative for repaying $484 million in hospital debt.

4 Maine community colleges hold commencements

Sat, 18 May 2013 09:17:06 -0400

SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine - More than 1,800 students are receiving degrees from four of Maine's community colleges.

EMS memorial to go up in Maine

Sat, 18 May 2013 08:46:04 -0400

AUGUSTA, Maine - A new memorial is being erected to honor Maine emergency medical services personnel.

Busy weekend for college commencements in Maine

Sat, 18 May 2013 08:34:06 -0400

BIDDEFORD, Maine - It's a busy day for college commencements in Maine.

Maine's unemployment rate dips below 7 percent

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:52:38 -0400

AUGUSTA, Maine - Maine Gov. Paul LePage is hailing Maine's dropping unemployment rate, now at its lowest since 2008.

NH gets big sentence for Maine bank robberies

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:15:32 -0400

PORTLAND, Maine - 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 property.

Search for missing Maine teen focuses on pickup

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:14:00 -0400

BANGOR, Maine - Authorities investigating the disappearance of a 15-year-old Maine girl asked for the public's help Friday as they try to determine if a black pickup was seen near her Glenburn home around the time she went missing.

Sen. Angus King surveys fire damage in Lewiston

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:23:05 -0400

LEWISTON, Maine - U.S. Sen. Angus King is getting a look at destruction caused by three fires that destroyed nine buildings.

Body recovered following fire in Maine

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:41:47 -0400

MONROE, Maine - Maine fire officials say a body has been recovered following a house fire in the Waldo County town of Monroe.

Maine residents discuss abortion bills

Fri, 17 May 2013 08:01:19 -0400

AUGUSTA, Maine - Members of a legislative committee have heard some emotional testimony from people on both sides of the abortion issue.

Lewiston School Committee has first Somali member

Fri, 17 May 2013 07:52:31 -0400

LEWISTON, Maine - Lewiston has long had a significant Somali population, and now Maine's second-largest city has its first Somali school committee member.

Bangor man admits to embezzling civic groups

Fri, 17 May 2013 07:25:19 -0400

BANGOR, Maine - The former treasurer of the Bangor-Breakfast Kiwanis Club and Greater Bangor 4th of July Corp. has pleaded guilty to stealing about $140,000 from the organizations over several years.

Dixfield teen pinned after riding on roof of car

Fri, 17 May 2013 06:25:32 -0400

MEXICO, Maine - Authorities say a Dixfield teenager is expected to survive after riding on the roof of a car that flipped over, pinning him underneath.

Acadia's Park Loop Road opens to vehicles

Fri, 17 May 2013 05:04:39 -0400

BAR HARBOR, Maine - Maine's Acadia National Park is opening the entire Park Loop Road to vehicles.

Body recovered after crash on eastern Maine lake

Thu, 16 May 2013 18:04:59 -0400

GRAND LAKE STREAM, Maine - Game wardens have recovered the body of a missing boater from an eastern Maine lake after a crash.

Maine Democrats, LePage clash over hospital debt

Thu, 16 May 2013 17:46:14 -0400

AUGUSTA, Maine - Legislative committee approval of a Democratic plan to incorporate Medicaid expansion in a bill to repay hospital debt on Thursday could create a showdown between Democrats who control the Legislature and Republican Gov. Paul LePage, who previously threatened to veto such a proposal.

Maine man sentenced to 25 years for child porn

Thu, 16 May 2013 13:24:29 -0400

PORTLAND, Maine - A 26-year-old Portland man is going to prison for 25 years for producing child pornography.