Young adults, who are delaying careers, marriage and having children amid persistently high unemployment are spurning homeownership in the suburbs for urban apartment living.
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Maine officials await ruling on health care law
The justices today are expected to rule on President Barack Obama’s health care law.
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SNAPSHOT: Cast away
Jayla Donohoe, 5, right, gets some help casting a lure into Cobbossee Stream from her mother Jennifer Boynton on a recent evening in Gardiner.
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SNAPSHOT: Pottery House
Paul Engel, left, of Yarmouth, inspects a piece of pottery he recovered Wednesday from the site of Fort Richmond in Richmond while volunteering with the Maine Historic Preservation Commission at the dig. Scientists and volunteers are working around the rain and currently excavating the cobblestone and brick addition to the fort erected on the banks […]
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Augusta fire department to host training
AUGUSTA — The city’s fire department is hosting training for firefighters on Friday and Saturday that illustrates the dangers of hydrogen cyanide.
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Chief warden pilot pleads not guilty to assault charges
DOVER-FOXCROFT — The chief pilot for the Maine Warden Service entered a plea of not guilty Monday on domestic violence charges stemming from an alleged incident at his home June 1.
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King files report detailing financial standing
U.S. Senate candidate Angus King earned about $256,000 last year as a professor, corporate director, legal consultant, speaker and retired governor, according to a financial profile he filed with the Senate.
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Topic of college loan interest focus for Congress
Congressional leaders were working Wednesday to negotiate agreements on two major policy issues that will impact how much thousands of Maine students pay for college loans as well as state officials’ ability to develop longer-term highway and transportation plans.
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Natural gas war is on
AUGUSTA — Some local and regional officials fear the state’s recent choice of the smaller of two proposals to build a natural gas pipeline in the region could kill what they see as a much bigger and better opportunity for residents and businesses.