Tuesday, May 21, 2013
AUGUSTA -- A 19-year-old Lewiston man has been arrested and charged with Tuesday's robbery of the CVS Pharmacy on Stone Street, police said.
NORRIDGEWOCK -- Having growing up in central Maine in the 1930s, Ed Weston remembers days when the temperature ranged between minus 50 and minus 32. He walked to school in it.
WASHINGTON -- Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, in lifting a ban on women serving in combat, said women have become integral to the military's success and have shown they are willing to fight and die alongside their male counterparts.
SKOWHEGAN -- The largest maker of coated paper in North America hummed in the January chill.
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court on Thursday ordered the remainder of jury selection in the trial of Kennebunk prostitution defendant Mark Strong Sr. to be conducted in public.
Democrats acknowledge they face an uphill battle in getting the bill through Congress.
AUGUSTA -- Independent Eliot Cutler, who lost a tight race to Republican Gov. Paul LePage in 2010, officially has taken the first step toward running for the Blaine House in 2014.
Newly homeless on a frigid morning, a Benton couple is trying to pick up the pieces after an electrical fire gutted their mobile home.
AUGUSTA -- Women should be allowed to serve in combat, as long as they can do it at the same level as their male peers, several local veterans said Thursday.
AUGUSTA -- While out campaigning last summer, Rep. Lori Fowle came across a couple who had been robbed of family jewelry that was found later only after it had been melted down.
SOMERVILLE -- The search was on Thursday night for 92-year-old Cecil Brann even as flames from his residence on Crummett Mountain Road lit the darkness..jpg)
The bill now goes to the Senate. Rhode Island is currently the only state in New England that doesn't allow same-sex couples to wed.
The shift will result in the elimination of seven positions in Maine, says a company spokeswoman.
AUGUSTA — A 19-year-old Auburn man has been arrested and charged with Tuesday’s robbery of the CVS Pharmacy on Stone Street, police said. The suspect, Anthony Post, was located in Augusta and turned over to the FBI.
The three-time Cy Young Award winner and eight-time All-Star is "thrilled to be returning to this organization and to the city I love."
At least 60 percent of Maine independents, Republicans and even Democrats approve.
The utilities agency OKs contract terms for a $120 million floating turbine test off Maine, but one member laments the risk to ratepayers.
The Fontana Unified School District officers keep the rifles in a safe at their assigned school or secured in their patrol car each day.
Justice Nancy Mills spoke from the bench briefly Thursday morning after an attorney for the Portland Press Herald appeared to argue that the jury selection process should be opened.
The Route 1 Bypass bridge between Kittery and Portsmouth could reopen Friday, but the timetable is uncertain..jpg)
In a damaged neighborhood near the beach on New York City's Staten Island, people who haven't had heat since the late October storm took refuge in tents set up by aid workers..jpg)
Several people spotted 15-year-old Nehemiah Griego at the church throughout the day, thinking nothing of it until his arrest.
The lung cancer risk for men leveled off in the 1980s, but for women it still is increasing.
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