The White House says Obama also supports closing the gun show “loophole,” which allows people to buy guns from private dealers without background checks.
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Obama ‘actively supportive’ of assault weapons ban
The White House says Obama also supports closing the gun show “loophole,” which allows people to buy guns from private dealers without background checks.
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Icy crash in Casco injures three, one seriously
29-year-old Shawn Trottier lost control of the pickup truck he was driving on Poland Spring Road and spun into oncoming traffic.
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Icy crash in Casco injures three, one seriously
29-year-old Shawn Trottier lost control of the pickup truck he was driving on Poland Spring Road and spun into oncoming traffic.
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Icy crash in Casco injures three, one seriously
29-year-old Shawn Trottier lost control of the pickup truck he was driving on Poland Spring Road and spun into oncoming traffic.
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Maine-based VIP to sell auto parts unit to O’Reilly
VIP Parts, Tires & Service will keep the tire and service components of its business.
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Google launches Dead Sea Scrolls online library
The library contains the Book of Deuteronomy, which includes the second listing of the Ten Commandments, and a portion of the first chapter of the Book of Genesis, dated to the first century B.C.
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Grant allows Westbrook police to increase drunk driving patrols
WESTBROOK – Westbrook police will be conducting saturation patrols and sobriety checkpoints in an effort to remove impaired drivers from the road this holiday season with grant funding in the amount of $10,000 from the Maine Bureau of Highway Safety. Police will be staffing sobriety checkpoints at various locations, as well as having officers patrol […]
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Petraeus mistress won’t be charged with cyberstalking
Paula Broadwell’s lawyer provides a letter from U.S. Attorney Robert O’Neill that says no federal charges will be brought in Florida related to “alleged acts of cyberstalking.”
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Grant may boost cargo shipping in Portland
PORTLAND — A $150,000 federal grant announced Dec. 10 will help create a new type of vessel that could restore coastal cargo shipping through the International Marine Terminal. The grant to the Maine Port Authority will pay for design of a tug-barge hybrid whose lower cost and smaller crew would make it suited for moving […]