About 1,200 students from across Maine — from elementary grades to college — competed Saturday in the Odyssey of the Mind state tournament, a high-energy international problem-solving competition.
March 2012
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Two Mainers help raise a bundle for Obama
The Cape Elizabeth women are among a group of 444 people who deliver sizable campaign donations.
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People & EntertainmentQueen pops in, thrills newlyweds
LONDON – Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II has become a wedding crasher. The monarch dropped in moments after the nuptials of John and Frances Canning at Manchester Town Hall in northern England on Friday. The newlyweds said Saturday the queen chatted and posed for wedding photographs. The queen and her husband Prince Philip, the Duke of […]
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A TIMELINE OF THE OUTBREAK
OCT. 8, 2011 – First symptoms of illness appear in a victim later identified by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as one of 20 people known to have been sickened in an outbreak of a Salmonella Typhimurium. When multiple people tested positive for the rare strain of salmonella, the CDC began to […]
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Obama expected to push faster nuclear lockdown at summit
The president arrives in South Korea for three days of diplomacy at a meeting of world leaders.
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Program flaws may worsen TB in India
NEW DELHI – India’s inadequate government-run tuberculosis treatment programs and a lack of regulation of the sale of drugs that fight the disease are responsible for the spiraling number of drug-resistant cases that are difficult to treat, health activists said Friday. India adds an estimated 99,000 cases of drug-resistant TB every year, but only a […]
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Many school systems’ test scores are suspect, newspaper reports
ATLANTA – Hundreds of school systems nationwide exhibit suspicious test scores that point to the possibility of cheating, according to an investigation by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The newspaper examined test results for 70,000 public schools and found high concentrations of scores in school systems from coast to coast. The analysis doesn’t prove cheating. It reveals […]
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Syrian troops meet fierce resistance
Government forces again shell rebellious regions in the central and northern parts of the country.
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Silent treatment: USDA frustrates Maine lawmakers during outbreak
Extracting relevant information from the federal agency overseeing food safety proves challenging, even for leaders on key committees.
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Soldier split Afghan massacre into two episodes, officials say
They believe Staff Sgt. Robert Bales returned to his base before heading out to kill more civilians.