The sudden burst of hiring caps a six-month stretch in which the economy generated 100,000 jobs or more in each month. That hasn’t happened since April 2006.
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Standish grandmother facing more arson charges
A Standish grandmother already facing charges of setting fires in Cumberland and York counties is now facing five more counts of arson.
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Police: Man wanted welfare to pay electric bill
Police say Jeremy Wadsworth of Rockland forged a rent receipt to support the lies he made on a general assistance application.
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IRS: Audit rates on rise for the wealthy
IRS officials said the growing audit rate for high earners is aimed at demonstrating that the tax code is being enforced fairly.
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Sex offender in Bethel facing more abuse charges
BETHEL — Police say a registered sex offender living in Bethel has been charged with sexually abusing a teenager. Rumford Detective Sgt. James Bernard says 27-year-old Christopher Lee Sheldon was charged Thursday with two felony counts of sexual abuse of a minor. Sheldon was held overnight and is expected to be arraigned today. Bernard tells […]
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Pats assistant coach to succeed Paterno
New England Patriots offensive coordinator Bill O’Brien has agreed to become Penn State’s first new head football coach in nearly a half-century.
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CMP sets 1,000th pole in power grid project
In all, the 440-mile project will require about 5,000 new poles through the southern half of Maine.
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Maine cutter returns Haitians to island home
Coast Guard Capt. Eduardo Pino says lives were placed needlessly at risk when an overloaded vessel left Haiti with little or no safety gear.
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No-show snow this year
PORTLAND — The big snowstorms of autumn are just memories in New England, where people who make their living off winter tourism are losing income and New Hampshire primary candidates lack picturesque winterscapes for photo ops. Tourists in the West play golf instead of skiing. In Midwestern hockey country, you can barely slog a puck through the slush.
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SNAPSHOT: Cold cycle
With grass and the open waters of the Kennebec River in the background, John Waller washes a bike he was servicing at Mathieu’s Cycle and Fitness on Thursday afternoon in Farmingdale. He said that even though ice was forming on the stand holding up the bike, washing outside worked better than indoors.