Justin DiPietro Late To Court Enters Not Guilty Plea In Assault Case
Justin DiPietro pleaded not guilty in court on Wednesday after showing up late for his court appearance on domestic violence assault ...
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A Rail Hub In Maine Suddenly Too Silent
Glenna Dean talks about the July 6 rail disaster in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, while standing in her Brownville yard last week. The wife of the pastor at the United Methodist Church, she worries about the fate of her rail-dependent town, where dozens of workers have been laid ...
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Maines Safety Net For Mentally Disabled Is Frayed
Select images available for purchase in theMaine Today Photo Store Three decades ago, someone like Wood might have been committed to Pineland Center in New Gloucester, the former institution for children and adults with developmental disabilities who were deemed unable to live in the community. The closure of Pineland in 1996 and similar fates for other facilities across Maine followed a national ...
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Maines First Market Basket Opening Sunday In Biddeford
Based in Tewksbury, Mass., Market Basket operates 74 stores in Massachusetts and New Hampshire and employs more than 21,000 people. The Biddeford store will employ 550 people, Rainville ...
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Maines Bear Hunting Practices Back In The Crosshairs
dfleming@mainetoday.com Staff Writer Bear hunters in Maine again find themselves in the sights of animal-welfare advocates who contend that some of their practices are ...
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Rare 1-in-50 Million Odds Two-tone Lobster Found In Maine
Scientists have discovered a rare perfectly two-tone lobster in the northern US state of Maine. Lobsterman Jeff Edwards caught the half-orange, half-brown lobster, Metro.co.uk reported. Edwards, who kept the crustacean to show off to family and friends, took a few snaps of the creature and then donated it to the Gulf of Maine Research Institute in Portland- which keeps lobsters in a tank for ...
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Maine Boxer Takes On The Fight Of His Life
: Six-fight card: three amateur, three professional. The event is headlined by two welterweight matches: Danny "Bhoy" O'Connor of Framingham, Mass., will fight Raul Tover Jr. of McAllen, Texas; Chris Gilbert of Windsor, Vt., will fight Anthony Chase of Providence, R.I. In the light welterweight match, Brandon Berry of West Forks Plantation will fight Jesus Cintron of Springfield, ...
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Special Maine Group Considering Guns For Rangers
By ALANNA DURKIN The Associated Press AUGUSTA - A special group in Maine is examining whether forest rangers should be allowed to carry firearms, something rangers say is critical to protecting them from the growing dangers they face in the field. The group, which met for the third time this month, was formed by an executive order from Gov. Paul LePage last spring because the Republican ...
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