Monday, May 20, 2013
SKOWHEGAN -- Town Manager John Doucette Jr. was suspended for one week without pay by the Board of Selectmen Thursday night for violating the town's personnel policy.
I have two words for Republicans who wonder, in the wake of last week's shellacking at the polls, what Maine's resurgent Democrats have that they don't:
WATERVILLE -- MaineGeneral Medical Center will have more employees in the Waterville area than was originally thought after in-patient services are consolidated at the new Augusta hospital.
LAKEPORT, Calif. -- A former Gardiner resident testified Wednesday that he loaned Robby Beasley the 9-mm handgun he allegedly used to shoot an Augusta, Maine, couple several times in the head before dragging their bodies down a roadside embankment.
WATERVILLE -- Police on Thursday charged a Pittsfield couple in connection with theft of a purse containing $850 and other valuables that was accidentally left on a shelf at Walmart earlier this month.
After enduring two days of criticism -- much of it from members of his own party -- Maine Republican Party Chairman Charlie Webster apologized late Thursday for suggesting that groups of unknown black voters showed up at rural polling places on Election Day.
District 94 encompasses the towns of Buckfield, Hartford, Paris and Sumner.
Woods is the first declared candidate in Maine's 2014 gubernatorial race.
The settlement and indictments came 2½ years after a rig explosion that killed 11 workers and set off the biggest offshore oil spill in U.S. history.
Demand for graduates with associate's degrees is expected to increase more sharply while MBA hiring appears headed for an unexpected decline.
Frederick Humphries is the agent who initially saw the emails the FBI said Petraeus' biographer and mistress, Paula Broadwell, sent to Tampa socialite Jill Kelley.
Statistics gathered for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration showed that in 2009, a third of fatally injured drivers with known drug test results were positive for drugs other than alcohol.
Obama won with 61 percent of the vote, while King gained 43 percent and 67 percent of students voted to legalize same-sex marriage.