Just 16 years after a Democratic president signed the fatuously named Defense of Marriage Act, defining marriage in the United States as requiring one man and one woman, the debate about gay marriage is over.
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Dignity restored to veterans’ burial site
A ceremony at a cemetery in Portland marks completion of a project started by Girl Scouts.
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Probe a wake-up call on cellphone safety
The FCC may be directed to take a fresh look at how people – especially children – are affected by radio waves.
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Local & State Dispatches
PORTLAND Man burned in explosion of charter vessel’s stove One person was injured in a butane stove explosion aboard a charter fishing vessel in Maine. Coast Guard crews were notified just before 10 a.m. Saturday that a passenger aboard the charter vessel Dawg Daze had been burned in the explosion and that the boat was […]
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Shaw surges ahead to get his f irst win
Ethan Shaw gets past Jonny Wilson, his former teammate at Falmouth to post the top time by a Maine man.
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Piers survives heat to defend her title
Sheri Piers is less than thrilled with her time on a hot, muggy day, but still wins for the third time overall.
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Suspense high as Mars touchdown looms
NASA is bracing for ‘seven minutes of terror’ as the rover Curiosity enters the Martian atmosphere.
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Paul McCracken, 96, economic adviser to presidents
ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Paul W. McCracken, a former economic adviser to several U.S. presidents, died Friday in Ann Arbor at age 96. McCracken was a member of President Dwight Eisenhower’s Council of Economic Advisers and later chair of the council under President Richard Nixon. Herbert Hildebrandt, a retired University of Michigan business professor and […]
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Wangari-Muriuki survives strange finish
Margaret Wangari-Muriuki stops just shy of the finish line but hangs on to win by six-tenths of a second.
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Bill Nemitz: Too many tiptoed past signs of abuse
Maine needs an Anti-Tiptoe Law. It could be inserted right into the gaping cracks in the state’s Child Protection Act — a fitting rebuke to the fancy dancing that surrounded the long and lurid career of the late Rev. Bob Carlson. Carlson, you’ll recall, was the guy everyone around the Bangor area spent years glorifying […]