UNE also expects to open a campus in Tangier, Morocco, next fall or spring.
April 2012
Occupy Maine to protest student debt load
Occupy Maine is marking One Trillion Dollar Day with a demonstration at Portland’s Monument Square.
NBA: Celtics get rest, beat Heat
BOSTON (AP) — Sasha Pavlovic scored 12 of his of his season-high 16 points in the fourth quarter, leading a group of Boston Celtics reserves in a 78-66 win over the Miami Heat on Tuesday night as both teams rested their top players.
MLB: Red Sox rout Twins for 2nd straight win
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Josh Beckett hollering at umpires and David Ortiz launching homers deep into the right field seats. The Boston Red Sox are starting to look like their old selves in Minnesota.
Driver parks truck before suffering heart attack
RUMFORD — A Peru man suffered a fatal heart attack Tuesday after pulling a loaded chip truck off Route 2 and into the Marden’s parking lot, police officer Dave Hodgson said.
LOCAL ROUNDUP: Eagles rally from 7 down to earn win
BANGOR — Messalonskee rallied from a seven-run deficit in the sixth inning to stun Bangor 8-7 in a wild Ken-nebec Valley Athletic Conference Class A game Tuesday.
Radar jammers hurting emergency responders’ efforts
Someone has been intermittently jamming radio transmissions of fire and rescue departments in southern Maine for the past few months, but on Sunday, Jason Cole said, the problem escalated sharply.
Officials: Difficult to stop paving plant move
WINDSOR — A paving plant is expected to open soon despite requests from a number of residents Tuesday that it be delayed.
Plaintiffs appeal judge’s mural ruling
The plaintiffs in the labor mural lawsuit are appealing the ruling of a federal judge who found that Gov. Paul LePage was within his government speech rights when he ordered the work removed from a state office building.
30 months for man who stole, scrapped ATV
AUGUSTA — A Mount Vernon man who stole a neighbor’s ATV and used it to haul scrap before stripping it for scrap won’t be riding again any time soon.