Small-scale cyberattacks an enduring threat in Maine
The criminals used the directional antenna and a laptop to detect and break into the wireless network at a Marshalls store, gaining access first to the manager's computer login details and then the parent company's entire computer system. Over 18 months, the intruders quietly stole the personal data of 45.7 million customers, eventually costing Marshalls' owner, TJX Cos., nearly $2 ...
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Same-sex couple withdraws from wedding contest
FREEPORT, Maine (AP) -- The same-sex Maine couple that won a magazine's dream wedding contest is withdrawing because one woman's father is in poor ...
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Bill Nemitz Dark times at Maine Labor Department
Gov. Paul LePage would like to dine with you. And by the way, your presence isn't merely requested -- it's required. Then, over the course of an hour, you listen while the governor and Jennifer Duddy, chairman of the Maine Unemployment Insurance Commission, tell you they're none too happy with the way you've been doing your job. Their beef? Your rulings are too friendly to ...
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Sportsmen's leaders old and new embody Maine group?s growing rift
AUGUSTA - David Trahan, whose hard-charging style as a Republican lawmaker earned him the nickname "Pitbull," is bringing that same tenacity to his job as executive director of the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine, an organization that is poised to play a key role on gun control legislation that is moving to the forefront in the Maine Legislature ...
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Fires unveil crisis in Lewistons housing stock
mbyrne@pressherald.com Staff Writer LEWISTON - Even before a series of fires destroyed several apartment buildings in downtown Lewiston last week, two of the buildings that burned, multi-unit apartment buildings at 116 Pierce St. and 111 Blake St., had been added to a current list of 69 condemned properties in the city deemed unfit for human ...
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Plane crash survivors on the mend in Maine
When the Evans family's plane went down in the Alaska wilderness, their dreams crash-landed, too. In the aftermath, they brought their broken bodies and resilient spirits across a continent - to the Waldo County town of ...
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Baby American eels providing huge profits and big headaches in Maine
BREWER, Maine - A tiny translucent eel that sells for nearly $2,000 a pound has created a modern gold rush along Maine’s rivers and streams, generating millions of dollars for once-struggling fishermen, a surge in illegal fishing, and a debate about how long the economic boom can - or should - ...
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Maine nursing homes drug-free dementia treatment a model
WATERVILLE - When Vicki Dyer became the program administrator for the newly opened 32-bed dementia ward at Lakewood nursing home in 2006, she wasn't happy with the amount of suffering she ...
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