With new campaign finance rules in place, participation falls 17 percent between election cycles.
July 2012
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Photos of the Week: July 22-27
This slideshow includes some of the best shots taken in the past week by Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel staff photographers Joe Phelan, Andy Molloy, David Leaming and Michael Seamans.
Maine man convicted of taking girl across state lines
Archie Whalen transported a 13-year-old Kentucky girl across state lines to engage in sexual activity.
Driver faces felony charge in fatal Standish crash
The crash resulted in the death of a Saintt Joseph’s College basketball player.
Explorers find downed German U-Boat off Mass. coast
Divers have discovered a World War II-era German submarine nearly 70 years after it sank under withering U.S. attacks near Nantucket.
With royalty and rock, Britain opens its Olympics
The queen and James Bond gave the London Olympics a royal entrance like no other Friday in an opening ceremony featuring the Beatles, the Stones and The Who.
Maine to get $1.4 million in drug settlement
The $151 million settlement alleges that Medicaid programs had to overpay because McKesson Corp. inflated prices.
Sub fire suspect was arrested for alleged DWI
Casey James Fury was arrested by Dover police on June 14 after a patrol officer observed him driving erratically.
Defendant took cyanide after guilty verdict
After being found guilty of arson, an Arizona man collapsed in court and died.