AUGUSTA — Authorities are still trying to determine what killed a city man a week after he was found lying underneath his bicycle on Ward Road.
July 2012
AMERICAN LEGION BASEBALL ROUNDUP: Gardiner tops Franklin County
GARDINER — Dennis Meehan had a double and a single and Gardiner held on to beat Franklin County 4-2 in an American Legion baseball Zone 2 game Thursday night.
AMERICAN LEGION BASEBALL: Madison puts on offensive display in win
WATERVILLE — Madison coach Peter Kirby thought he had a great plan. Kirby had saved ace Cody Moody for Thursday, giving Moody an extra two days of rest and enabling Moody to pitch two of Madison’s final four games. Kirby envisioned Moody going out and allowing one or two runs in a win.
‘Maybe the IRS is not quite as bad — yet’
Governor still sees parallels between agency, Nazi secret police
Natural gas pipeline not a done deal
AUGUSTA — The state will consider an appeal of its controversial decision to choose the smaller of two proposals to bring a natural gas pipeline to the Kennebec Valley.
Former Congressman Peter Kyros dies at 86
WASHINGTON — Former U.S. Rep. Peter Kyros of Portland was remembered Thursday as a dedicated lawmaker who never lost his interest in politics and kept working until months before he died at age 86.
AUTO RACING: Bayne gets back to his roots with trip to OPS
Trevor Bayne understands what it takes to race with the Sprint Cup big boys. He also understands that racing at the top of NASCAR’s rung can be fun, but that it’s also a business.
Poll shows Mainers see mostly cloudy economic picture
One in three Mainers say that their own economic situation is worse now than it was two years ago, and only 18 percent say it’s better, according to a poll commissioned recently by The Portland Press Herald.
PUC failed to ensure smart meters were safe, say justices
PORTLAND — The Maine Public Utilities Commission failed to resolve health and safety issues related to Central Maine Power Co.’s installation of smart meters and should now do so, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court has ruled.
Collins casts 5,000th consecutive vote
PORTLAND — U.S. Sen. Susan Collins on Thursday cast her 5,000th consecutive vote, a milestone in a perfect voting record that dates to her arrival in Washington in January 1997.