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Mainers lend hand to push health care bill over top

Mar 20, 2010 9:18 pm

BANGOR, Maine -- A group of volunteers spent part of their Saturday making a final pitch to Congressman Michael Michaud, D-Maine, to support a landmark health care bill that is scheduled for a vote .....

Afghan woman reflects on war's impact

Mar 20, 2010 9:18 pm

BANGOR, Maine -- Mariam Atifa Raqib remembers a beautiful green countryside and a public garden across the way from where she grew up in Afghanistan. That vivid image is just a memory now that ...

Black Bears advance to league final

Mar 20, 2010 4:04 am

BOSTON -- The University of Maine's freshmen and sophomores have been pivotal in Maine's turnaround this season but it was a pair of seniors who sent them into tonight's Hockey East championship game ...

Butt in mulch starts a fire at BIA hotel

Mar 20, 2010 4:03 am

BANGOR, Maine -- A carelessly discarded cigarette butt was cited as the cause of a small fire Friday afternoon at the Four Points by Sheraton Bangor Airport Hotel that prompted a brief evacuation of p...

Newburgh town clerk named interim manager

Mar 20, 2010 3:48 am

NEWBURGH, Maine -- Longtime Town Clerk Lois Libby was hired at a special meeting Friday to serve as interim town manager, while an investigation into the current manager and the deputy treasurer conti...

Bradley selectmen, board member elected

Mar 20, 2010 3:33 am

BRADLEY, Maine -- Residents filled three elective positions during annual elections Friday.

New owner holding Stable Inn yard sale

Mar 20, 2010 3:18 am

BREWER, Maine -- Twin City Rodeways Inc. took ownership of the New Stable Inn on Wilson Street in mid-February when the owner failed to pay his mortgage and is holding a yard sale Saturday to empty th...

Petitioners place HoltraChem cleanup on Orrington ballot

Mar 20, 2010 1:48 am

ORRINGTON, Maine -- After selectmen voted unanimously to support a quicker rather than an extensive cleanup of the former HoltraChem site -- leaving tons of contaminated sludge at the riverfront site ...

Police thwart raffle aimed at helping nonprofit

Mar 20, 2010 12:33 am

ISLESBORO, Maine -- Josh Conover thought he was being generous by auctioning off his old lobster boat and giving some of the proceeds to the Maine Lobster Institute for research, but Maine State Polic...

Judge sentences two in MDI home invasion

Mar 20, 2010 12:13 am

ELLSWORTH, Maine -- Two of at least nine young men accused of participating in a Southwest Harbor home invasion last fall pleaded guilty Friday to being involved in the melee.