WESTBROOK – Two female firefighters who made charges of sexual harassment and discrimination against at the Westbrook Fire Department will receive a total of about $850,000 between them in separate settlements with the city. The payments to firefighters Lisa Theberge and Kathy Rogers, who made their claims two years ago and subsequently filed state and […]

WESTBROOK – The Westbrook City Council on Monday gave preliminary approval to separate settlement agreements with two female city firefighters who in 2008 accused the city’s fire department of sexual harassment. However, the unanimous first reading vote authorizing the settlement of the legal claims that firefighters Lisa Theberge and Kathy Rogers had filed against the […]

WASHINGTON — Closing a divisive chapter of American history, President Barack Obama marked the end of the nation’s combat mission in Iraq today without declaring victory, winding down the U.S. role in a war he considered a terrible mistake. Obama’s defiant pledge to end the war helped catapult him into office. Now as commander in […]

John Pulsifer was done with school and realizing that his ambitions of being a lawyer on Wall Street weren’t panning out. Then his dad gave an ultimatum: Get a job by week’s end, or work for me. Pulsifer didn’t want to pump gas at his father’s service station in Portland. He found a job selling […]

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City, Pike, Idexx tout blasting compromise, which faces critics and a council vote Monday. WESTBROOK – A handshake last week between representatives of Pike Industries and Idexx Laboratories gave the appearance that a lengthy, bitter dispute between two of Westbrook’s biggest corporate taxpayers is near an end. After months of closed-door negotiations, the city announced […]

But the massive measure also has boosted GDP and saved or created up to 3.3 million jobs, the CBO says.