President Obama says he wants to see the bottom-line demands from both parties.
2011
Scholars get their day in court in law school trial practice class
The students in a University of Maine School of Law course get a taste of what it takes to be a trial lawyer.
Local Baseball: Raging Tide post a shutout over Bay Sox
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. – Rich Anastasi pitched six shutout innings and Francis Whitten broke a scoreless tie with an RBI double in the fifth inning as the Old Orchard Beach Raging Tide beat the New Bedford Bay Sox 3-0 Thursday night in a New England Collegiate Baseball League game. Tim Quinn added a two-run single […]
Man shot by police plans suit
Attorneys say a video shows officers weren’t in danger when they fired at their client
Lottery firm seeks to get Maine contract back
AUGUSTA – The company that won the multiyear, $35 million state lottery contract in September, and lost it two months later after a competitor appealed, urged a judge Thursday to reinstate the original award. Jeffrey Lipps, attorney for Intralot Inc., a lottery firm based in Athens, Greece, asked Justice Robert Murray to invalidate an appeal […]
Initial estimates put new Wentworth school’s price at $38.3 million
But the planning team chair for the Scarborough school says that will drop.
Aggressive fox killed after attacks at park
Two people are bitten and Two Lights State Park is evacuated before the animal is put down.
A change of command
The Navy has a new supervisor of shipbuilding in Bath. Capt. Robert A. Crowe relieved Capt. Dean M. Krestos during a change-of-command ceremony Thursday at the Maine Maritime Museum, down the street from Bath Iron Works. Since 2006, Krestos has overseen the delivery of 19 vessels built at shipyards in Maine, California and Alabama. His […]
Urban schools lose out on aid
A revised funding formula for 2012-13 will shift money to rural districts, with Portland taking the biggest hit of all.
New law gives aid to illegal residents
Connecticut has become one of 12 states that grant in-state college tuition rates to illegal immigrants.