Candy shaped like marijuana that’s showing up on store shelves around the country won’t get kids high, but aghast city leaders and anti-drug activists say the product and grocers carrying it represent a new low.
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Netflix backtracks on planto split off DVD rentals
Netflix Inc. is abandoning its widely panned decision to separate its DVD-by-mail and Internet streaming services because it would make them more difficult to use.
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After 9/11, foreign insects,diseases slipped into U.S.
At the time, hundreds of agricultural scientists responsible for stopping invasive species at the border were reassigned to anti-terrorism duties – a move that scientists say cost billions of dollars in crop damage and eradication efforts from California vineyards to Florida citrus groves.
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Christian mission schooner nears completion
The owners plan to launch the boat by winter.
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Gray Birch Drive apartment fire quickly extinguished this morning
AUGUSTA — Firefighters quickly extinguished an early morning fire at the Gray Birch Apartments. The fire started in George and Shirley Derosier’s bathroom. They live on the first floor in apartment 107. Shirley Derosier her husband heard the fire alarm in their apartment and smelled smoke. “He called the fire department,” Derosier said waiting with […]
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Maine avg. gas price continues to fall
The average Maine price now stands at $3.50, compared to $3.42 nationally.
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Today’s police log
Augusta SUNDAY At 4:22 p.m., police received a report of a disturbance at Greentree Apartments. Police arrested Samuel Hinds, 21, of Augusta and charged him with domestic violence assault and domestic violence terrorizing. 6:04 p.m., police received a report of theft at Sams Club on Marketplace Drive. 9:02 p.m., police received a report of criminal […]
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Waterville woman facing charges after I-95 chase
Police say Courtney Quinn, 35, nearly hit a trooper and a vehicle on the interstate and then refused to stop for a trooper.
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Snowe’s campaign war chest grows to $3.2M
Her two GOP challengers, Scott D’Amboise and Andrew Ian Dodge, have yet to file financial reports for the third quarter.
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Ellsworth officer saves man from burning car
Shaun Parsons, 33, of Tremont, is hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries.