The FDA awards the state a three-year compliance and enforcement contract to help crack down on the sale of cigarettes to minors.
2011
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Man rescues woman from burning car
Flames engulf the car shortly after the man uses a knife to cut the woman’s seat belt and pulls her to safety.
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Fox attacks 3-year-old, mother at Two Lights park
The fox nipped at a ranger before showing up near a playground, where it bit the 3-year-old on the hand and leg before going after the mother.
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EPA to impose new cross-state air pollution rules
The rules, which replace a Bush-era regulation thrown out by federal courts in 2008, target coal-fired power plants mainly in the eastern United States.
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American Music festival runs through Saturday
“The Maine Festival of American Music: Its Roots and Traditions” runs through Saturday at the Shaker Meeting House at Sabbathday Lake
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Maine-based cutter rescues sailor in Gulf
KITTERY — The U.S. Coast Guard says a Maine-based cutter helped rescue a disabled sailboat in the Gulf of Mexico. On Wednesday the Kittery-based cutter Tahoma, sailing 190 miles west of Key West, was notified that a 70-year-old man was in a disabled sailboat. A Coast Guard patrol plane monitored the vessel while the cutter […]
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Obama calls debt meeting ‘constructive’
“Everyone acknowledged that pain will be involved politically on all sides.”
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High court won’t stop Mexican man’s execution
The White House had pleaded for a stay in the case where Texas justice clashed with international treaty rights.
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Feds to ease foreclosure rulesfor unemployed
Starting Aug. 1, the Federal Housing Administration will extend the period for unemployed homeowners to miss mortgage payments from three or four months to a full year . . .
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Maine bill signing deadline nears
Gov. LePage still has to deal with about half of the 70 bills that were sent to him in the closing days the 2011 session.