The governor did not provide specifics during an interview with a Bangor radio station, but federal law limits the use of militia in domestic law enforcement.

Officials from Portland and other cities hope the state will increase treatment funding, but the state says spending is adequate.

Critics accuse the Maine senator of abandoning her constituents to support a Republican effort to defund the organization, following the release of secret video recordings of discussions about handling fetal tissue donations.

The state’s highest court refuses to issue a stay, setting up the next NOM effort to avoid naming those who gave to a 2009 referendum drive.

The governor tells a Portland radio station he did not read budget analyses produced by his deputy finance chief.

Eves seeks damages and hopes to prevent similar steps by the governor, who says he doesn’t regret threatening to pull state funding to dissuade Good Will-Hinckley from hiring Eves as president.

The governor has said that legislative leaders lacked integrity for negotiating in private, but his high-level staff assisted in crafting the final product.