Cumberland County guard Nicholas Stein is accused of dragging and punching inmate Brian Cote last June.

The attack last month in Waldoboro landed both children in the hospital. The owner had to pry the dog’s jaws off one of the children. Both are recovering.

Forty-nine-year-old Albert Morancy of Dover, N.H., was hurt in a crash on Lake Umbagog.

The Legislature has long been worried that the state economic development programs, including Pine Tree Development Zones, are not the best use of taxpayer money, but it has repeatedly failed to get a conclusive study of the matter.

A Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting investigation has found the program has cost as much as $46 million in lost taxes since 2003 – money that other taxpayers had to make up to help the state balance its budget.

“I knew domestic violence when I was a child, and I still know this abusive behavior is hurting many Mainers today,” the governor said.