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ALBION -- One man was killed and another was seriously injured Tuesday when the building they were working under collapsed on them.
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FAIRFIELD -- Maine State Police divers returned to Martin Stream on Tuesday to search for the Skowhegan woman missing since her car plunged into the water adjacent to U.S. Route 201 on Saturday night.
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AUGUSTA -- Republican lawmakers in the House and Senate, despite pressure from groups opposed to MaineCare cuts, passed a budget Tuesday that eliminates health care coverage for more than 20,000 people, cuts prescription drug coverage for senior citizens and reduces funding for Head Start.
1:00 AM

PORTLAND -- Representatives from The Nature Conservancy, the Forest Society of Maine and the Plum Creek timber company came together Tuesday to celebrate a new conservation easement that's considered one of the largest ever in the United States.
4:43 PM
Maine's attorney general says the state will get nearly $75,000 as a part of a settlement between the FTC and Skechers USA.
4:13 PM

Using only her thoughts, a Massachusetts woman paralyzed for 15 years directed a robotic arm to pick up a bottle of coffee and bring it to her lips, in the latest advance in harnessing brain waves to help disabled people.
4:42 PM

Lawyers for Jack DeCoster, whose egg empire stretched from Maine to Iowa, say a federal grand jury has been meeting to determine whether fraud or other crimes were committed in the production and testing of eggs.
3:20 PM
'Fracking', or hydraulic fracturing, is a hotly debated drilling technique used to get at natural gas.
3:08 PM

If Romney defeats Obama while losing Massachusetts, he would be the first presidential candidate elected without carrying his home state since before the Civil War.
3:13 PM

Skechers USA Inc. will pay $40 million for running ads that imply their Shape-ups shoes helped people lose weight and strengthen their muscles.
2:55 PM
A new Agriculture Department study counters a common perception that junk food is cheaper than a nutritionally balanced meal.
2:10 PM
The Oakland Police Department reported the following activity May 16:
2:44 PM

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration proposes to require electronic stability control in new buses and trucks.
4:15 PM
The Senate gives initial approval to four of the bonds, including the largest: $51.5 million for highways, bridges and other transportation projects.
12:56 PM
News organizations revealed details of the plot this month in which a double agent working with the CIA turned a so-called underwear bomb over to the U.S. government.
12:39 PM

The lawsuits filed today in New York claim JPMorgan changed its risk model without telling investors.
3:51 PM

The four Democrats running for the U.S. Senate address a Chamber of Commerce meeting in South Portland.
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The defense calls a series of witnesses aimed at shifting the jury's focus from the lurid details of a political sex scandal to the legal question of whether Edwards violated federal campaign finance laws.
10:48 AM
Wednesday's police beat
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Spec. Leslie H. Sabo Jr. will receive the medal posthumously for heroic action when his platoon was ambushed by North Vietnamese forces in 1970.
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Arnoldo Jimenez, 30, is accused of first-degree murder in the slaying of Estrella Carrera, 26, shortly after they celebrated their marriage.
10:09 AM
Lawmakers hear testimony that people who pose a threat can obtain security badges because the TSA inadequately investigates the backgrounds of applicants.
9:54 AM

The former president endorsed Mitt Romney on Tuesday, but the Romney campaign doesn't want to be too closely linked with Bush-era policies.
9:01 AM

Defense lawyer Abbe Lowell has said the defense still could close out its case Wednesday by calling Edwards, his oldest daughter Cate and Rielle Hunter, the woman with whom he had an extramarital affair.
8:46 AM

A new lawyer for O.J. alleges the former football star was so badly represented by lawyers during his trial that he deserves a new trial.
1:44 PM

After passing five previous budgets with bipartisan support, the parties split on the final budget of this year.
3:03 PM
Jennifer Marriner was arrested for operating under the influence Friday after she drove to the Union Elementary School to pick up her child.
8:52 AM

Mark David Chapman was denied parole for the sixth time in September 2010. He's eligible again for parole in August.
10:33 AM

If all the shares are sold at the high end of the expected price range, the offering could total more than $18 billion, the highest ever.
7:06 AM

Court records show Zimmerman had a pair of black eyes, a nose fracture and two cuts to the back of his head after the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.
6:38 AM

After winning most of the delegates in Tuesday's Oregon primary, he's just 155 shy of the 1,144 needed to win the nomination for president.
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Brian McNamee, the former pitcher's longtime strength trainer, says his life was damaged in many ways by getting involved with Roger Clemens.
5:47 AM
Mainers United for Marriage says its staff and volunteers are now going door to door to persuade residents to vote in favor of the referendum.
5:40 AM
James Dlugos of Netcong, N.J., replaces Kenneth Lemanski, who has been serving as interim president since last fall.
1:00 AM
FAIRFIELD -- About 65 residents approved a 2012-13 municipal budget of $5,458,813 on Monday night, a decrease of $40,540 from a year ago.
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OAKLAND -- Andrew Forster has been tapping his feet since he was a baby in a high chair.
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SKOWHEGAN -- Residents of the six towns in School Administrative District 54 will get a chance tonight to review plans to borrow $900,000 for health and safety concerns and to get final numbers on the proposed $32.3 million budget for the coming year.
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WINSLOW -- Town councilors faced a variety of significant issues during their Monday meeting, some of them contentious.
1:00 AM
WATERVILLE -- The city is getting closer to knowing what it would cost to build a police station at Head of Falls versus retrofitting the Morning Sentinel building for that purpose.
1:00 AM
WILTON -- A financial adviser and conservative columnist who resigned from a state commission last year after his arrest on a domestic assault charge was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound Monday afternoon.
1:00 AM
AUGUSTA -- Trustees of a Fairfield union's trust fund say that an administrator who died in a car accident earlier this year had stolen more than $260,000 to cover up a theft from an Augusta union's trust fund.
1:00 AM
WATERVILLE -- A Clinton man was arrested Monday on charges he stole two rifles and accessories during a Pleasant Hill Drive home burglary.
10:54 AM
WATERVILLE -- Police didn't have to look far to find the man who stole items from their personal vehicles parked at Head of Falls.
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IN MADISON, Monday at 3:42 p.m., Kristin Marie Vincent, 27, of Bingham, arrested on a charge of domestic violence assault.
Yesterday at 12:00 AM

WINDSOR -- Three people who police believe died of carbon monoxide poisoning while doing off-road driving over the weekend may have taken steps to get the fresh air that would have saved their lives.
Yesterday at 4:52 PM
One man was killed and another was seriously injured today when the building they were jacking up collapsed on them, police said.
Yesterday at 12:00 AM

FAIRFIELD -- The Maine Warden Service and Maine State Police searched the Kennebec River area in a boat and floatplane Monday for a 62-year-old Skowhegan woman presumed killed Saturday night when her vehicle plunged into Martin Stream alongside U.S. Route 201.
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WATERVILLE -- Councilors late Monday approved a $37 million municipal and school budget for 2012-13, despite pleas from the council chairman not to increase taxes.
Yesterday at 12:00 AM
A Chesterville man pleaded guilty recently to robbing a couple at gunpoint in their home and forcing the husband to withdraw money from a nearby automatic teller machine while his wife remained held hostage.
Yesterday at 12:00 AM
FAIRFIELD -- James Julia gets excited when describing the items sold by his antique auction house over the years.
Yesterday at 12:00 AM

Waterville firefighters and Thomas College personnel scramble to place sandbags to divert rushing water from a water main break at the Waterville campus on Monday. Water gushed up through the ground along the new entrance road and drained toward the Student Center, and toward the main campus parking lots.
Yesterday at 7:40 PM

The former president offered a four-word endorsement of the presumptive Republican nominee: "I'm for Mitt Romney."
Yesterday at 5:57 PM
HALLOWELL — The third annual AIDS Walk of Central Maine is scheduled for Saturday and will start at the waterfront park.
Yesterday at 5:55 PM
HALLOWELL — The third annual AIDS Walk of Central Maine is scheduled for Saturday and will start at the waterfront park.
Yesterday at 5:51 PM

Tim Wakefield got to throw one more knuckleball at Fenway Park, wiping away tears as fans and teammates cheered him.
Yesterday at 7:47 PM

She joins Richard Pryor, Steve Martin, Whoopi Goldberg, Tina Fey, George Carlin and Will Ferrell as winners of the prestigious comedy award.
Yesterday at 5:16 PM

James Dlugos, of New Jersey, will take over as leader of the 100-year-old Standish school.
Yesterday at 5:05 PM
Friends of Merrymeeting Bay blame the EPA for failing to strike down a 2008 state law that eliminated access to spawning habitat.
Yesterday at 4:53 PM
WATERVILLE — The Planning Board on Monday is scheduled to take a final vote on a plan to raze St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church on Elm Street and build 58 affordable apartments for seniors in its place.
Yesterday at 4:33 PM

Gov. Susana Martinez has frequently been mentioned as a potential running mate for Mr. Romney.
Yesterday at 4:15 PM
WATERVILLE — Police didn’t have to look far to find the man who stole items from their personal vehicles parked at Head of Falls.
Yesterday at 5:02 PM
Manchester Republican Steve Vaillancourt shouts the Nazi salute during debate on a voter-identification bill.
Yesterday at 3:23 PM
A seasonal worker's riding mower fell more than 140 feet down a boulder-strewn embankment on May 7 in the Blue Ridge Parkway.
Yesterday at 3:12 PM
WATERVILLE — A Clinton man is behind bars after being arrested Monday for allegedly burglarizing a Pleasant Hill Drive home and stealing two rifles and accessories.
Yesterday at 4:01 PM
The budget eliminates MaineCare for more than 20,000 people, cuts prescription drug coverage for senior citizens, and reduces funding for Head Start.
Yesterday at 2:45 PM
Bill Williamson replaces Betsey Timm, who served in that position since 2004 and will retire in June.
Yesterday at 4:20 PM

Female soldiers this week are moving into new jobs in once all-male units as the Army breaks down formal barriers that have already been broken down during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
Yesterday at 1:24 PM
The bill to set up a process for landowners to recoup losses due to a state regulation needs more work, lawmakers say.
Yesterday at 6:12 PM

Three of the kids went to their neighbor's house seeking help, but the mother called them back in and murdered them.