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Maine governor to stop talking to three newspapers

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:16:15 GMT

PORTLAND, Maine — Maine’s blunt-spoken governor does not mince words when opponents dare to cross him but he has saved some of his harshest criticism for newspapers, once telling schoolchildren he is not a fan of newspapers and another time saying that reading one is ‘‘like paying somebody to tell you lies.’’

Maine lawmakers fail to override Medicaid veto

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 03:20:55 GMT

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine will not accept federal dollars to expand health care coverage to 70,000 more state residents after the House failed for a second time on Wednesday night to override a veto by Republican Gov. Paul LePage.

Maine governor to stop talking to 3 newspapers

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:35:13 GMT

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — 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."

Maine lawmakers fail to override Medicaid veto

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:31:37 GMT

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A second attempt to override a veto of Medicaid expansion by Republican Gov. Paul LePage has failed in the Democratic-controlled Maine Legislature.

AP PHOTOS: Astrodome, JFK terminal endangered

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:07:25 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — 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.

Maine lawmakers OKs gun background check bill

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:47:42 GMT

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine lawmakers have approved a bill designed to encourage gun sellers to perform background checks.

Maine governor to stop talking to 3 newspapers

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:19:39 GMT

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The press secretary for Maine Gov. Paul LePage says it was her decision to put three newspapers on notice that she, the governor and other administration officials will no longer speak to them.

Maine lawmakers seek to limit use of police drones

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:20:26 GMT

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 warrant.

Maine man charged in teen’s death pleads not guilty

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:13:04 GMT

A man accused of using a phony Facebook profile to lure a 15-year-old girl to her death pleaded not guilty Wednesday to murder and kidnapping charges. Kyle Dube, 20, of Orono entered the pleas during his arraignment at the Penobscot Judicial Center.

Maine gov candidate calls for election changes

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:17:29 GMT

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Independent gubernatorial candidate 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 vote.

Maine House OKs extending drug treatment coverage

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:23:53 GMT

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The Maine state House has approved a bill to extend MaineCare coverage for certain drug addiction treatments to more than two years.

Maine man dies from burns while cutting oil tank

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:57:51 GMT

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 torch.

Maine man charged in teen death pleads not guilty

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:21:11 GMT

BANGOR, Maine (AP) — A man accused of using a phony Facebook profile to lure a 15-year-old girl to her death pleaded not guilty Wednesday to murder and kidnapping charges.

Bangor man pleads not guilty to killing girlfriend

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:07:36 GMT

BANGOR, Maine (AP) — A Bangor, Maine, man accused of killing his 49-year-old girlfriend has pleaded not guilty.

Maine man charged in teen death pleads not guilty

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:57:26 GMT

BANGOR, Maine (AP) — A Maine man accused of using a phony Facebook profile to lure a 15-year-old girl to her death has pleaded not guilty to murder and kidnapping charges.

Driver dies in Jonesboro, Maine, crash

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:37:39 GMT

JONESBORO, Maine (AP) — Maine State Police say a driver has died after he lost control of his car and it struck a pole.

No charges in Starks shooting

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:39:57 GMT

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 hunters.

Farmingdale boy improving after falling into pool

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:23:45 GMT

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 improving.

Maine man gets 3 years for stealing VA benefits

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:11:16 GMT

BANGOR, Maine (AP) — A Maine man has been sentenced to three years in prison for fraudulently obtaining veterans' disability benefits from the federal government.

Maine man pleads guilty to 1980s sex offenses

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:04:18 GMT

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A Corinna man has pleaded guilty to sex offenses against two young girls that occurred more than a quarter of a century ago.

Maine releases details of proposed health plan

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:47:43 GMT

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 public.

Korean chefs learn all about Maine lobster

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:02:37 GMT

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Four chefs from high-end hotels in South Korea are continuing their visit to Maine to learn about lobsters.

Early black church in Maine named as endangered

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:21:39 GMT

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 1917.

Maine governor says he won't talk to 3 newspapers

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:18:16 GMT

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A spokeswoman for Maine Gov. Paul LePage says the administration will no longer comment for stories published in three of Maine's daily newspapers.

Kenneth Wilson, Nobel Prize laureate for physics, dies

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:10:18 GMT

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 77.