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SNAPSHOT: Toys for Tots

Marine Pfc. Evan Goodwin, left, and Marine Corps League member Dana Walls, of West Gardiner, load a bag of toys donated for the Toys for Tots campaign into a vehicle in Augusta on Monday. Goodwin and another Marine were picking up the toys donated by the Western Maine Young Marines and the Marine Corps League Detachment 599.

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SNAPSHOT: House of cardboards

Keith McCray stacks another package on the pile waiting to be picked up by UPS The Mailing Center, his store in Shaw’s Plaza in Augusta, on Monday. McCray joked that trying to stacked the different-shaped boxes was like a giant puzzle. He said that Monday is usually one of the busiest shipping days of the year, but the snowstorm had cut down on the number of customers coming in.

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Wave of gun control bills expected at Maine Legislature

State lawmakers expect a wave of gun control bills in the wake of the mass shooting in Connecticut that claimed 28 lives, including 20 school children. But even as the details of the massacre embolden calls for additional background checks or limiting the bullet capacity of some firearms, such legislation faces an uphill battle in Maine, a state that has previously rejected similar measures and recently loosened state gun laws.