May 2014 – Page 155 – The Portland Press Herald

Fees nearly $3 million in railway bankruptcy

by Whit Richardson May 24, 2014

By law, the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway’s trustee, lawyers and consultants will be paid before Lac-Megantic victims.

by Michelle R. Smith The Associated Press May 24, 2014

They say a former Navy worker waived the right when he accepted a plea deal.

Inexcusably poor work by the Alexander Group distracts from ideas that would fix the system.

by Dave Gram The Associated Press May 24, 2014

Critics are questioning Green Mountain’s use of level spreaders to release storm-water runoff.

Plagiarism, jealousy and mean-spirited rules are all part of the state’s emotional makeup this week.

by The Associated Press May 24, 2014

He had pleaded guilty to second-degree murder as his trial was about to start in Worcester.

by Jim Fitzgerald The Associated Press May 24, 2014

The usual rate of strikes is one every few weeks, but there have been three in the last few weeks.

by William Booth The Washington Post May 24, 2014

So bad is the decay that the church was listed by the United Nations as an endangered world heritage site.

by Paige Sutherland The Associated Press May 24, 2014

Officials call it the largest counterfeit bust in Massachusetts history – and in New England.

by Geoff Mulvihill The Associated Press May 24, 2014

It’s the piece of federal storm aid that New Jersey, New York and the city can distribute as they see fit.