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STILL LIFE: Striper season

Bill Manser, of Royalston, Mass., casts for striped bass at the mouth of Kennebec River at dawn on Friday in Phippsburg. The vacationing Manser arrived at the beach at 3:30 a.m. — two hours before sunrise. “I was just a little excited about going fishing,” he said.

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Ax falls on US credit rating

WASHINGTON — Credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s on Friday downgraded the United States’ credit rating for the first time in the history of the ratings.

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$100 million more in cuts needed, LePage says

Gov. Paul LePage wants to find an additional $100 million in state budget savings, in part because of the federal deficit-reduction plan approved this week by Congress, a spokeswoman for the governor said Friday.

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Nurses return from offering aid in Libya

Eight nurses from Maine returned safely from Libya last week after delivering supplies and providing six days of instruction to understaffed hospitals in the rebel-controlled, seaside city of Benghazi.

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Jury convicts five New Orleans police officers in Katrina shootings

NEW ORLEANS — A federal jury on Friday convicted five current or former police officers in deadly shootings on a New Orleans bridge after Hurricane Katrina, a high-profile victory for the Justice Department in its push to clean up the city’s troubled police department.