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Obama: ‘We will overcome’ terrorism threat
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New Gloucester house fire kills 1
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Suddenly, a losing streak for Patriots
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At least two dead in fatal crashes in Sidney and Benton
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San Bernardino rampage probe focuses on suspects’ views, access to guns
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Transcript: President Obama’s address to the nation
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Small earthquake rattles Waldoboro
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Soldiers get much-needed holiday cheer at gathering
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December 6Gore notwithstanding, recruitment videos paint a family-friendly portrait. -
December 6Fallout continues from the belated release of a video showing an officer killing a fleeing young man.
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December 6Mikaela Gustafsson leads the Black Bears with 18 points
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December 6Benjamin Netanyahu says 'in order to have peace, the other side needs to decide that it wants peace as well.'
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December 6The 16th annual Skiing Santas event raises a little more than $3,000 for the Sunday River Community Fund, a local charity. -
December 6Jimmy Carter, 91, announced in August that he had been diagnosed with melanoma that spread to his brain. -
December 6The plane lands safely in Belgrade and the passenger is handed over to local authorities in Serbia.
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December 6More than 2,000 people signed up for the free, six-week course.
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December 6Researchers from several institutions worked on the study.
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December 6Disney drew up plans for an indoor theme park in downtown St. Louis in the early 1960s, but the plan fizzled for financial reasons. -
at 12:07 AMObama said that while there was no evidence that the shooters were directed by a terror network, 'the two of them had gone down the dark path of radicalization.' -
December 6The arrest followed a tip from a citizen who noticed a suspicious male.
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December 6Gov. Gaafar Mohamed Saad was traveling to his office when the explosion struck his convoy.
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December 6Wreaths Across America said a box truck and 11 tractor-trailers left Columbia Falls with the bulk of the 248,000 wreaths that will adorn grave sites.
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December 6Donald Trump applied for a trademark to use the words "Central Park" on merchandise more than two decades ago.
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December 6The vehicle crashed after a police chase and had been stopped for speeding an hour earlier by Rockport police.
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December 6The man is arrested after injuring two people.
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'I always told myself I'd never do it,' says overdose survivor Marissa Vieira, a young Maine mom whose journey with drugs led her to heroin and eventually to the York County Jail. -
In the pipeline from Mexican poppy fields to users in New England, the manufacture and selling of heroin is pure, if not simple, business. -
Climate talks in Paris are heightening awareness of the need for green cars, but the go-to vehicle in largely rural Maine is an SUV that can haul kids and gear in all kinds of weather. -
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Many live with anxiety over the potential for mass murder where we live and want to limit the weapons that make it so possible. -
December 6Many toy fund donations are sent to remember the generous Standish man who died last month at age 57. -
The BIW-built Zumwalt could cruise down the Kennebec River as early as Monday for long-awaited sea trials of the lead ship in the new class of Navy destroyer. -
The restoration effort at an East Machias hatchery aims to create optimal conditions for an endangered species to thrive. -
December 5They describe being shot, trying to lie low and preparing to die. -
December 5Police say the incident occurred shortly after noon Saturday on Cemetery Road when a beige or tan sedan hit the 7-year-old German shepherd. -
December 5The captain was frantic, Katherine Slover recalls, so Slover started chasing the ferry along the riverbank until he could throw her ropes to secure to trees.
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December 5
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December 5He will talk about his determination that the Islamic State group must be destroyed.
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December 6Police presented a version of a teenager's shooting that varies widely from what the dash-cam video actually shows. -
December 5Scientists using the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes take advantage of a natural magnifying phenomenon to spot the faintest object ever seen in the early universe. -
December 5One of Portland's most scenic neighborhoods is changing from a paradise to a parking lot, residents say. -
December 5NASA is anxious to get its commercial supply chain moving again – and the space station pantry needs restocking.
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December 5The additional ship, if funding is approved by Congress, would be the result of a division of work agreement.
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December 6The fire on the platform owned by Azerbaijan's state oil company broke out when an underwater gas pipeline was damaged in a heavy storm.
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December 5The financially embattled ferry moved from the Ocean Terminal to a harbor anchorage Saturday morning. -
December 5Skylar Anderson says her interest in the military was sparked by her grandfather.
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December 5Mark Vicars is held on $300,000 bail.
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December 5Eric Olin, 30, was arrested after breaking into a former girlfriend's home in Parsonsfield, the York County Sheriff's Office says. -
December 5The oldest item for sale is a German map from the 1550s that was the earliest to show all of the Americas and to name the Pacific Ocean, marked on the document in its Latin name: "Mare pacificum." -
December 5The richest scallop fishing grounds in the state are in Cobscook Bay, an area fishermen say suffers from a lack of places to tie boats this year. -
December 5The Maine Department of Education is paying Measured Progress Inc. $4.14 million to develop and administer the computerized tests in English and math tests to students in third through eighth grades.
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December 5The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recommends more than $900,000 in federal funding.
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December 5During Ron Beckwith's 5-year tenure, park attendance has grown 55 percent.
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December 5The agreement is sent on to environment and foreign ministers who will work on it next week.
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December 6Relatives grew concerned about her extremist messages online and Arabic communications. -
Salons that cater to men have a little bit of everything: beer, sports, darts – even haircuts. -
December 5The Maine rate is nearly half of what it was a decade ago, but more unmarried women are having kids. -
A committee convened by incoming mayor Ethan Strimling has proposed starting meetings at 5 p.m. and handing out agendas sooner to the public.







