Monday, May 20, 2013
AUGUSTA -- The mismatch between existing and future jobs in Maine, and the workers willing and able to do them, applies across many fields, from hospitality to advanced manufacturing.
I have two hopes for the new year: That we recognize that we adults are responsible for what happens to children, and that we stop the violence we force on them.
AUGUSTA -- Since starting a series of benefit dinners in November 2010, The Red Barn restaurant has raised $400,000 for local nonprofit groups, events and individuals in need.
BELGRADE -- Ernie Rice motored slowly through a tunnel of snow-bent hemlock trees Sunday, while flurries swirled through the air. Behind his snowmobile, Rice towed a 400-pound metal drag and groomed the wind-blown powder into a path as smooth as polished marble.
Shooting victims Derrick Thompson, 19, and Alivia Welch, 18, were passionate about life, friends say.
Maine Sen. Susan Collins says she and other senators are discussing putting forward their own bipartisan proposal to avoid going over the fiscal cliff.
Biddeford police had responded to a dispute over parking at the home just minutes before.
At the center of the negotiations is the question of which
Bush-era cuts to extend.