Maine’s governor makes the comment during an event Friday at Pratt & Whitney in North Berwick, and later says it was joke.
August 2013
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CMP: Lightning likely caused coastal power outage
The utility says it has restored power to more than 7,500 customers in parts of Brunswick, Freeport, Harpswell and Topsham.
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Waterville man charged with breaking into Chaplin Street home, going on rampage
Edwell Gethers, 34, faces multiple charges after he allegedly broke into a home, trashed its kitchen, covered himself with soap and confronted the homeowner in her bedroom Friday.
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Maine seeks customs and border patrol officers
Applicants must pass fitness and medical exams and have to be under the age of 37 at the time they’re referred for selection.
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Madison’s Backyard Farms rejects latest crop as inferior
For the second time this season, the greenhouse grower has to start over, pushing back fresh tomatoes until 2014.
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Fort Hood shooter’s lawyers to appeal how they do the job
They will argue to a higher court that the defense strategy of Maj. Nidal Hasan, who is representing himself, is “repugnant” and violates their rules of professional conduct.
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Four bodies pulled from plane crash site
East Haven, Conn., authorities now believe those were the only victims in Friday’s crash into two homes.
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Mom is pitted against N.H. district over praying outside school
Lizarda Urena was told to stop praying – for the students’ safety – on a high school’s steps.
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Witness: Manning leak put Afghan villages at risk
The Army private who leaked classified documents to WikiLeaks faces up to 90 years in prison.
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Police: N.J. woman faked being Boston bomb victim
Authorities say the 44-year-old woman submitted a claim with the One Fund Boston, but wasn’t in Boston the day of the bombings.