More than 17,000 jobless Mainers are expected to lose benefits in the coming months unless Congress reauthorizes them before the end of the year.
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Maine gets $6M for health insurance reform
The money will help create a competitive insurance exchange.
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Belgrade man injured in hunting accident
A hunter is taken to the hospital after falling from a tree stand and breaking his back and a hip.
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Cain reassessing campaign amid new allegations
The Republican presidential candidate has only committed to keeping his campaign schedule for the next several days.
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Dover-Foxcroft shooting suspect killed by trooper
The man had walked into a nursing home and killed a maintenance worker, whom family members describe as the ex-husband of the suspect’s former wife.
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American Airlines files for Chapter 11
AMR Corp. has continued to lose money while other U.S. airlines returned to profitability in the last two years. American says it will operate normally while it reorganizes in bankruptcy. Shareholders will be wiped out . . .
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Former teacher denies child porn charge
A former Monmouth Middle School fifth-grade teacher denies a charge that he had school laptops loaded with photographs depicting nude children in sexually explicit positions.
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Ex-legislator denies threatening man at gunpoint
Frederick L. Wintle formally entered not guilty pleas today to an indictment accusing him of holding a man at gunpoint in a Waterville parking lot last May.
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MIKE TIPPING: Occupy movement could have political fallout in Maine
The Occupy Wall Street (and now “Occupy everywhere”) movement went from a protest of 1,000 people organized by anti-commercialism magazine Adbusters just over two months ago in the streets of New York, to the spark for occupations all over the country and for a national debate over inequality and corporate control of government and politics.
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Republican party needs to do better than Gingrich
In an article on Nov. 19, “ Gingrich defends Freddie Mac Work” — Gingrich states that he spent an hour a month earning a $1.8 million “consulting fee” at the quasi-public Freddie Mac.