AUGUSTA – Prominent businessmen, legislative leaders and the leading force behind the state’s pioneering “billboard law” are among the Mainers or those with strong Maine ties who died in 2011. Former Senate President Joseph Sewall and House Speaker Dan Gwadosky, who went on to serve as secretary of state, were perhaps best-known among state government […]
2012
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U.S. propaganda effort fights words with words
The new unit is trying to keep a low profile to protect moderates working with them.
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Maine/NE Dispatches
PORTLAND Hannaford robber takes unknown amount of cash A man dressed in black robbed the Hannaford at 295 Forest Ave. at 1:13 p.m. Saturday, the Portland Police Department reported. The man was of medium height and build, and he wore a black pullover jacket, dark or black pants, a black watch cap with a white […]
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World looks for better times in 2012
Revelers around the globe welcome the new year and say goodbye to one many would rather forget.
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Investigators give toddler’s house ‘back to the occupants’
WATERVILLE — Police investigating the disappearance of 20-month-old Ayla Reynolds have finished their investigative work involving the Violette Avenue home where she was last seen. Maine State Police “released the house back to the occupants” late Saturday afternoon, according to Department of Public Safety spokesman Steve McCausland, but he declined to discuss what, if anything, […]
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Gov. LePage: 2012 can be year full of promise
In 2011, the state made progress toward resolving fiscal challenges, he says – but Democrats disagree.
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Sports Digest
HIGH SCHOOLS Four-goal third period carries Greely girls to win Mary Morrison had a hat trick and Monica Howland added two goals for Greely, which used a third-period outburst to beat Winslow 5-1 at Family Ice in Falmouth on Saturday. Morrison gave the Rangers (7-2) the lead with an unassisted goal in the final minute […]
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President emerges freed of Congress
Following a bruising year, Obama faces almost no must-do legislation with lawmakers in Washington.
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Wouldn’t it be great if …
… you never had to work on your birthday? If the whole world put on funny hats and blew noisemakers to usher in your birthday? Maybe, maybe not. We asked people with New Year’s birthdays about it.
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Thomas Johnson, 88, judge who ruled that Holocaust was a fact
LOS ANGELES – Retired Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Thomas T. Johnson, who in 1981 ruled that the Holocaust was “a fact and not reasonably subject to dispute,” died of congestive heart failure Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles, said his son Will. He was 88. Johnson made the unusual pronouncement in a […]