Campaign asks people to stop staying the R-word.
March 2015
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Fire extinguished at Whitefield Elementary School
A light fixture in the gymnasium was blamed for causing a second fire in about a year.
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N.Y. mayor says gas line may have been tapped improperly before building blast
Thursday’s explosion leveled three apartment buildings and injured 22 people, and at least two people remained missing Friday.
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Senate passes Republican balanced-budget plan
The Senate measure closely follows the House-passed legislation that cuts benefit programs and doesn’t raise taxes.
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Skowhegan National Guard unit’s deployment to Kuwait canceled
The Maine National Guard says the change came because of a ‘scheduled transition to an infantry unit around the same time that it would return from its overseas mission.’
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Microbead ban becomes law without LePage signature
The plastic particles will be phased out of products and the full ban will go into effect in 2019.
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Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid will not seek re-election
Reid, 75, endorses Chuck Schumer of New York to succeed him in two years as the Democrats’ leader in the Senate.
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Barn, house damaged in Lebanon
There are no injuries, but damage to the home is described as significant.
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Germanwings co-pilot hid illness, evidence seems to show
A prosecutor says medical documents indicate that Andreas Lubitz was receiving treatment for an unspecified ailment, and a torn-up doctor’s note excused him from work the day he apparently crashed a passenger jet.
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Italy’s highest court overturns Amanda Knox’s murder conviction
The decision ends the long legal battle by Knox and co-defendant Raffaele Sollecito, who maintained their innocence in the killing of British student Meredith Kercher.