Maine gas prices rise 3 cents, but nation has bigger spike The bad news is that gas prices in Maine are on the rise again. The good news is that they are not rising as fast as they are nationally. Price-monitoring website MaineGasPrices.com reported Monday that the average retail price of gasoline Maine rose nearly […]
March 2012
Bernanke: Job market still weak, awaits consumer, business demand
The Fed appears likely to hold short-term interest rates at record lows through 2014.
Contracts for homes dip from two-year high
Analysts say the decline in buying for February is disappointing after a good run of new hiring.
On the Move
NEW FACES • Russell Butts joined TD Bank as manager of stores in Lewiston and Lisbon Falls. Butts, of South Portland, has six years of banking experience. He is rejoining TD Bank, where he served as an assistant store manager in Scarborough, following a two-year stint as store manager at Bank of America in South […]
Datebook, March 27, 2012
Today Business involvement, 8 to 9 a.m., PeoplesChoice Credit Union, Saco. United Way of York County workshop to show the benefits to businesses that become involved in supporting their community. For more information, visit www.buildcommunity.org or call Meaghan at 985-3359. Business Startup Basics, 2 to 5 p.m., also repeats Thursday, first of five programs in […]
Portland convenience store robbed at gunpoint
No one is injured, but the robber escapes with cash
Facebook: Ownership lawsuit shows elaborate fraud
A New York man claims he owns half of the $100 billion company based on a contract he claims he and Mark Zuckerberg agreed to in 2003.
Excerpts from Supreme Court health-care arguments
Here are excerpts from Monday’s Supreme Court arguments over whether legal challenges to President Barack Obama’s health care law are premature
Greely, Mt. Ararat students top state science fair
Greely freshman Meagan Currie won the grand prize with a project that studied seaweed.
N.H. woman guilty of helping to rob York bank
Christie Hendrix, 34, of Manchester, N.H., pleads guilty to one count of aiding and abetting bank robbery.