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CHINA —Police continue to investigate a report of a stabbing that occurred early Wednesday on Lakeview Drive.
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Officials at Sappi Fine Paper North America expressed disappointment this week after the U.S. Department of Commerce said it had declined to investigate allegations that China unfairly subsidizes its currency to manipulate coated-paper sales.
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WATERVILLE -- It ain't over 'til the lady sings the blues.
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PORTLAND -- Cameron McLellan moved the patio furniture off his dock at DiMillo's Marina on Thursday morning and secured it to a net on his 63-foot catamaran.
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WATERVILLE -- A man reportedly robbed, assaulted and tied an Oak Street woman to a bed Thursday before police nabbed him while he was trying to flee town in a taxi.
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BREWER -- Republican Paul LePage and independent Eliot Cutler -- two of five candidates for governor -- talked about energy, education and welfare Thursday night at a forum sponsored by the forest products industry.
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SKOWHEGAN -- A Fairfield man pleaded guilty Thursday to assaulting his former wife and forcing her to swallow his wedding ring.
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A consortium of 31 states led by Susan Gendron, Maine's former education commissioner, has won a $160 million federal award to remake standardized testing, the U.S. Department of Education said Thursday.
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An anonymous bidder has raised the stakes in what appears to be a three-way struggle for ownership of a historic lighthouse off the coast of Cape Elizabeth.
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A Windham man's death was classified as suspicious as police spent much of Thursday searching for clues near where his body was found.
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IN ANSON, Wednesday, at 8:33 p.m., a complaint was taken from Horseback Road.
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HARMONY -- The Harmony Free Fair starts at 3 p.m. today and runs through Monday at the Patriarchs Club Fairgrounds in Harmony. Admission to the fairground and parking are free.
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The Pleasant Point Passamaquoddy Tribe will not stop fishing in federal waters, tribal officials say, despite a crackdown by regulators last week on a Passamaquoddy scalloping boat off Nantucket.
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AUGUSTA -- The state's emergency responders were gearing up Thursday as Hurricane Earl set its sights on the Northeast.
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Scarborough Downs wants to sell almost all of its land in town other than the racetrack, with an asking price of nearly $12.2 million for more than 400 acres of prime commercial property.