SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Baseball was invented in the United States, but the World Baseball Classic has been dominated by Japan.
March 2013
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Kennebec Journal area police log, March 4, 2013
READFIELD — A Leeds man is charged with hitting and threatening his girlfriend before stealing her television remote.
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State House calendar, March 5, 2013
Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry Committee; public hearings; room 214; Cross Building
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STILL LIFE: Shack stacks
Airyn Jewett, left, and Kate Baker, both 14, haul a sled full of wood blocks they chiseled out of the Kennebec River Sunday, while removing shacks at Baker’s Smelt Camps in Pittston. Friends, neighbors and employees helped proprietor Mike Baker remove the fishing shacks, rented to anglers by the tide, after the ice became brittle over the weekend. The wood that balanced the shacks over race holes for the winter.
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Families, civil rights groups clash over voting ban for murderers, class A felons
At a public hearing on L.D. 573, which seeks to prohibit convicted murderers and other class A felons from voting while incarcerated, family members of murder victims testified in favor of the bill, while civil rights groups lodged their objections.
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Maine women’s basketball team won’t play in America East tournament
The Black Bears decide in the aftermath of last week’s bus crash to end their season rather than travel to Albany, N.Y., for the league playoffs.
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Michaud considering run for governor
He dominates Gov. LePage in a one-on-one race, a poll shows, but in a three-way race, LePage fares much better.
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Sexual assault charge dropped against Wayne man
A sexual assault charge against Mark B. Kimball, 61, of Wayne, alleging a 2012 assault against a 6-year-old boy in Carrabassett Valley, has been dropped due to problems with evidence.
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Gardiner to launch community website, upgrade municipal pages
Gardiner is revamping its online presence with a new community website for event listings and a redesign of the decade-old municipal website.
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Jeb Bush mulls presidential run, but ‘I won’t declare today’
President George W. Bush’s brother also switches his stance on immigration, saying he no longer supports a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.