CHESTERVILLE — Judy Paul hasn’t been able to sleep since she confronted a stranger inside her home and sent him running away scared Tuesday morning.
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Why more privileged parking for legislators?
A woman trips in the parking lot at the State House or state library. In response, the legislators vote to have the taxpayers “donate” millions of hard-earned money to tear up and re-pave acres of parking property surrounding the Capitol buildings. The results? They doubled the parking spaces for the “legislative plates only” cars. And […]
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Vet’s treehouse gift to sons runs afoul of zoning laws
Last spring, Mark W. Grapin promised his two sons he would build them a treehouse in the maple tree beside their Fairfax County, Va., home before he shipped out to Iraq again with the Army National Guard.
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL NOTEBOOK: Colby’s Hyatt done after 4th concussion
Colby linebacker Mike Hyatt’s football career is over. The sophomore suffered his fourth concussion two weeks ago at Middlebury.
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BlackBerry services back to normal
BlackBerry services buzzed back to life across the world Thursday, after a three-day outage that interrupted email messages and Internet services for millions of customers.
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Protesters rally in Augusta for jobs bill
The ongoing series of Wall Street protests moved to Maine’s capital Thursday as about two dozen trade workers, state employees and residents held a rally calling for passage of a federal jobs bill and a new tax to pay for it.
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Gas pipeline proposal gets mixed reviews
Madison residents were split Thursday night, speaking both for and against a $72 million proposal to build a natural gas pipeline through central Maine.
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SNAPSHOT: Don’t rain on my game
A soccer spectator makes his way to the field for the boys’ matchup between Mt. Blue High School and Bangor High School at the University of Maine at Farmington soccer fields on Thursday
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SNAPSHOT: Warm work
Jeremy Garcia works without a shirt on a warm Tuesday while cutting up firewood on Front Street in Waterville.
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HIGH SCHOOL BOYS SOCCER: Mt. Blue rally falls short
FARMINGTON — Bangor scored two first half goals then withstood a Mt. Blue comeback bid to earn a 2-1 win in a Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference Class A game at Prescott Field on Thursday.