Caleb Sinkinson-Brown does a cannonball dive into Clearwater Lake in Industry on a warm Monday.
August 2013
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PATRIOTS: Fletcher making progress
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Football and Dane Fletcher didn’t seem like the best match.
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MLB: Dempster suspended 5 games
NEW YORK (AP) — Ryan Dempster of the Boston Red Sox was suspended for five games and fined by Major League Baseball for intentionally hitting Yankees star Alex Rodriguez with a pitch Sunday.
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Former Riverview patients shuffled to prison for violent behavior
Mark P. Murphy 47, formerly of York County, is an example of how patients with mental illness and aggressive behavior can wind up in state prison, when Riverview Psychiatric Center staff can no longer handle them.
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Corrections board votes to fully fund jails, but doesn’t have the cash
The Maine State Board of Corrections voted Tuesday to fully fund the state’s jails, despite not having enough money to fund even 25 percent of the requests, in hopes of forcing the Legislature to cough up the rest of the promised money.
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Tasers, handcuffs cited in $20 million funding-cut threat for Riverview
Federal regulators were horrified that corrections officers had been subduing patients at the Riverview Psychiatric Center with stun guns and handcuffs, according to newly released inspection details.
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State postpones Franklin County jail upgrade vote
The Maine Board of Corrections Tuesday delayed until September a vote on Franklin County’s request to make its jail once again fully operational.
Posted inBusiness, News
Mainer named acting Small Business Administration leader
Karen Mills, also of Maine, picks a successor to fill her Cabinet post until the president names one.
Posted inBusiness, News
Industrial park tax break, natural gas heating proposal face Gardiner councilors
GardinercCity councilors will discuss a tax incentive for a proposed business park on Brunswick Avenue and consider alternate heating sources for the wastewater treatment plant at their meeting Wednesday.
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Summit, Maine Natural Gas plan to bid for state’s central Maine business
Summit Natural Gas of Maine and Maine Natural Gas pln to submit bids again in response to the state’s recently issued new request for proposals to bring gas to state property in central Maine.