BATH — The City Council voted 7-1 Wednesday to transfer a $9.6 million retirement fund surplus to the city, which in turn will have a Portland investment firm manage that money. The surplus with the Maine Public Employees Retirement System, which has grown from $8.8 million about a year ago, is the result of excess […]
March 2012
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Vt. gymnastics coach pleads guilty to child-porn charge
Thirty-nine-year-old Nathaniel Goodale was arrested for secretly videotaping a girl for nearly a year.
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Louisiana woman kept father’s body in ice chest
A Louisiana woman apparently kept her father’s severed body in an ice chest at her apartment for two years as she collected his Social Security checks, police said.
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Maine man tries to find names of World War II vets
The man hopes to compile the names of all residents from Livermore and Livermore Falls who served in WWII so they can be placed on a town monument.
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Dutch cheese wins the World Cheese Championship
But the U.S. nabs 7 of the 16 finalists in front of a sold-out crowd.
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Study: Many Maine high schools have junk food ads
The study found that 85 percent of the 20 schools surveyed violated a 2007 state law prohibiting junk food advertising in schools.
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Hunt for missing US troops to resume in N Korea
The search for the remains of thousands of fallen American troops missing for nearly 60 years ago is about to resume as tensions ease between wartime enemies.
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Millinocket loses state funds in landfill dispute
The state will withhold about $216,000 because town officials broke an agreement to share landfill operating costs, says a spokeswoman for Gov. LePage.
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GOP insiders fear primaries’ toll on Romney
GOP officials and strategists find no reason for panic but express degrees of worry that Rick Santorum’s and Newt Gingrich’s attacks on Romney are inflicting wounds that might not fully heal by Nov. 6.
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NH House considering 24-hour wait for abortions
The so-called informed consent bill is one of three abortion-related bills that could be voted on today.