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PublishedJune 25, 2023
‘People are no longer walking this earth because of me’
In an unusual series of interviews, Joseph Eaton confessed to a reporter that he killed his parents and two family friends. Those close to him say he's long been troubled and dangerous.
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PublishedNovember 6, 2022
DNA testing excludes Dennis Dechaine from some key crime scene evidence
A lawyer for Dechaine, who was convicted of murdering 12-year-old Sarah Cherry 34 years ago, says he will ask for a new trial based on state-of-the-art DNA tests.
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PublishedOctober 2, 2022
How can Maine solve its workforce crisis?
Maine has lost more than 20,000 employees since the pandemic started. Fixing this will take a combination of strategies and years of work.
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PublishedSeptember 25, 2022
Maine companies turn to automation as labor shortage persists
Automating functions isn't always aimed at reducing staff, but it helps when human workers are harder to find.
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PublishedSeptember 18, 2022
Immigrants may hold a key to solving Maine’s labor shortage
As more people leave the state's workforce than enter it, new Mainers may play a vital role in filling the gaps.
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PublishedSeptember 18, 2022
While governor of Maine, LePage sought two positions in Trump administration
Two years before the end of his term, former Republican Gov. Paul LePage wanted to oversee national welfare reform and head up an international aid agency, internal records reveal.
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PublishedSeptember 10, 2022
A wave of older workers was already headed into retirement. The pandemic worsened things.
The coronavirus exacerbated Maine's labor shortage. Most of the people who have left the state's workforce since early 2020 were early retirees.
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PublishedSeptember 4, 2022
Where have all the workers gone? And when will they return?
Short answer: Most of them won't. The past two years have upended the job market and created a vast labor shortage. It won't improve anytime soon.
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PublishedApril 3, 2022
50 years after Title IX, spending on women’s college sports still falls short
From coaches' salaries to overall expenditures, money for women's sports typically lags behind men's sports at colleges throughout Maine and the Northeast.
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PublishedMarch 14, 2022
Courts, prosecutors, BMV agree to fix gap in license suspensions
Spurred by a recent crash in Oxford County, the agencies say they have created a process to make sure criminal conviction information that should trigger a license suspension is communicated to the BMV.
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