Some potential impacts: fewer air traffic controllers, border guards, FBI agents and park rangers. Less meat might get inspected, and fewer people would get winter heating subsidies.
August 2012
NH psychologist’s license suspended in investigation
Alexander Marino faces charges that he knowingly allowed his apartment to be used for prostitution and benefited financially from it.
Newborn kittens found dumped in Lewiston
An Androscoggin Humane Society employee says the kittens were likely a day old or less when they were found.
US Chamber hosts events to support GOP’s Summers
The chamber’s national political director is appearing at events today on Summers’ behalf in Bangor, Lewiston and Biddeford.
Bigelow Lab gets federal grants of more than $1M
One grant will go toward construction of a new facility focusing on ocean acidification.
Ryan rose to VP selection despite risky budget views
Some deficit-slashing plans have been adopted by the GOP mainstream and have pleased the tea party faction.
Medicare readmissions could bring fines
AUGUSTA — A nonprofit news group that monitors the health care industry has calculated that Maine General Medical Center — along with hundreds of other hospitals across the country, including 10 in Maine — will be fined for readmitting too many Medicare recipients within 30 days of their hospital discharge.
One dead, one injured in Caribou car crash
CARIBOU (AP) — One man is dead and another man injured after an early morning car crash in Caribou.
Videos could shed light on car fire deaths
BANGOR (AP) — Surveillance videos may shed some light on a fire that engulfed a car with three people inside early Monday, with one video showing a person running from the scene and another showing several vehicles driving by minutes before the fire began.
Appalachian Trail still evolving after 75 years
HARPERS FERRY, W.Va. — Like the people who hike it, the Appalachian Trail is always moving.