Never before has this particular fungus been found to cause meningitis. It’s incredibly hard to diagnose, and to kill.
October 2012
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Portland man pleads guilty to possessing child porn
Michael Merrow, 52, pleaded guilty to 32 counts of possession of sexually explicit material depicting a minor under 12.
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Maine Catholics speak out for gay marriage
Catholics for Marriage Equality says it’s placing ads in three Maine newspapers Sunday urging residents to vote for the gay-marriage referendum Nov. 6.
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Maine gay-marriage initiative supported by Obama
A spokesman for the anti-gay-marriage campaign says, “We believe both moms and dads matter and (the president) believes a mom or a dad can be replaced.”
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R.I. couple killed in N.H. plane crash
Police said one body was in the plane. The other was ejected and was found a distance away in a wooded median strip.
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NOAA: Beware of coming ‘Frankenstorm’
Meteorologist Tom Hawley, who works at the National Weather Service office in Gray, said Maine will still get plenty of rain and some wind, even if the eye of the storm passes far to the south.
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MAINE COMPASS: Where’s outrage at lack of mental care?
On Oct. 13, the headline in the Kennebec Journal read: “Petition targets group homes; Signers: Augusta residents unfairly forced to live among mentally ill killers.”
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Donations to Pingree near $1 million
More than half of the $56,056 raised by the incumbent Democrat in October came from PACs.
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Mainers alerted in crisis over meningitis
More than 1,000 received products from the suspected source, but none got the injection tied to the outbreak.
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Morning Sentinel police log, Oct. 24, 2012
IN ALBION, Monday at 12:20 p.m., a theft was investigated on Clark Road.