The Maine Forest Service has gotten a dozen complaints from landowners finding taps in their maple trees with buckets or jugs underneath to collect the sap.
March 2013
Posted inNews, Politics
LePage asks when debt plan will pass
The governor, however, hasn’t stuck to his vow to veto all bills sent to him before paying off that debt.
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Landmark gun bills signed in Colorado
The bills require background checks for private and online gun sales and ban ammunition magazines that hold more than 15 rounds.
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Names forwarded for US judicial post in Maine
President Obama will choose a nominee to replace District Judge George Singal, who is taking senior status on July 31.
Posted inNews, Politics
LePage seeks borrowing for work on roads, bridges
The proposed $100 million bond package would also fund other transportation projects.
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Mass. sheriff defends Obama assassination joke
Democratic critics say even a joke suggesting the current president might get shot was inappropriate, especially from a public safety official.
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Prosecution seeks year in jail for Zumba defendant
But lawyers for Mark Strong Sr. are recommending that he serve no more than two weeks, and are asking 12 of the 13 verdicts to be invalidated.
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Suspect who fled police used grinder to remove handcuffs
Two days after he fled, handcuffed, from a sheriff’s cruiser, Kevin Lawlor of Standish turned himself in.
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Maine woman stopped with fake plate ‘of very poor quality’
A Maine state trooper noticed a license with hand-drawn numbers.
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Tattooed teen’s parents in settlement talks with NH school district
Their son was a 14-year-old high school freshman in 2010 when four people tattooed a lewd image and words on his backside.