The Texas facility will stay open through the end of the year and add more than 3,200 beds.
September 2018
New Maine Medical Center employee parking garage gets city’s approval
The new garage will hold as many as 2,450 cars and allow the hospital to demolish its current parking structure at the corner of Gilman and Congress streets, which in turn will be replaced by new hospital rooms.
Charlie Baker sets $20 million spending cap in re-election bid
The Massachusetts governor didn’t accept public financing and the $1.5 million limit that would have come with it.
South Portland Republican running for House has criminal history
The Maine Democratic Party issues a release that reveals Christopher J. Hoy’s misdemeanor convictions and calls on Republican leaders to urge him to withdraw from the District 33 race.
Two men honored for saving couple from oncoming train
They receive an award named for a flight attendant who communicated with ground crews from one of the hijacked planes flown into the World Trade Center.
Is CBS ouster of Les Moonves over sexual misconduct allegations a win for #MeToo movement?
Activists are watching for signs of a true change in culture at the network, which has drawn criticism for its initial response to the scandal.
Pope, U.S. bishops to discuss clerical sex abuse
Head of the U.S. delegation Cardinal Daniel DiNardo has said he wants Francis to authorize a full investigation into ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick.
LePage says he won’t reinstate nominations to Maine boards
The governor withdrew more than a dozen nominations after a legislative committee rejected his pick for the Maine Turnpike Authority board.
Maranacook boys soccer tops Medomak in final minute
Mitchell Root’s goal lifts unbeaten Black Bears.
Hurricane Florence gives insurance stocks a lashing, but other businesses get a bump
The storm approaching the middle of the East Coast has triggered a sustained sell-off of major property insurance company stocks, and the stocks of companies that insure the insurers.