SPRINGFIELD, Maine — A winner has come forward with a winning lottery jackpot ticket that was sold at a northern Maine store.
The winning Tri-State Megabucks ticket, worth $550,000, was sold at …
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AUGUSTA, Maine — Veteran lawmakers on the Maine Legislature’s Appropriations Committee say they see their challenge to balance a state budget facing a $140 million shortfall as an …
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BANGOR, Maine — More than 500 people came in from the cold to listen to bands, watch models prowl the catwalk, take a look at the work of area visual artists and maybe buy some cool stuff from local businesses at Saturday evening’s Bangor Meltdown, held at the Bangor Civic Center.
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BANGOR, Maine — Phyllis Coffin, who turned 103 on Saturday, broke into song during her birthday party.
“If you get her started on one song, she sings and sings,” Joan Hileman, a caregiver from A Loving Touch of Bangor, said of the centenarian.
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NEW YORK — Just a dozen years ago, newspapers on either side of Arlington, Texas, fought fiercely for every reader in the fast-growing city, spending millions of dollars to expand their staffs and …
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SPRINGFIELD, Maine — If you bought a Megabucks lottery ticket at Smith’s General Store on Wednesday night, you might be $550,000 richer and not even know it.
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AUGUSTA, Maine — With the state running hundreds of millions of dollars short of what it needs to keep government going at its present clip, the budget is bound to be the overarching topic during this year’s six-month legislative session, which gets under way Wednesday.
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By Glenn Adams The Associated Press
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AUGUSTA, Maine — Gov. John Baldacci’s plan to get the state through the rest of the budget year reduces overall net spending by $115.4 million and uses $45 million in reserves to keep state government operating.
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AUGUSTA, Maine — Alternative and sustainable energy will be the focus of this year’s 68th annual Maine Agricultural Trades Show, scheduled for Tuesday through Thursday, Jan. 13-15, at the Augusta Civic Center.
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ORONO, Maine — The Rev. Burton Throckmorton, a 35-year veteran theologian at Bangor Theological Seminary and an author who dedicated much of his long life translating Scripture into inclusive language, died Saturday.
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OLD TOWN, Maine — Winter Carnival was not what Lauren LeBreton, 16, of Bradley expected. A communicant at St. Ann Catholic Church in Bradley, she thought the gathering that drew nearly 500 teenage Catholics and adults from around the state over the weekend would be quieter.
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When the walls close in, and the silence in the lonely dark becomes too intense, Patrick Carleton Harris of Bar Harbor lies in bed and remembers the first great adventure.
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ORRINGTON, Maine — When Fire Chief Mike Spencer took the post in 2005 he was given the task of creating a completely new municipal department — Orrington Fire and Rescue — from the ashes of the town’s two volunteer fire and ambulance departments.
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SPRINGFIELD, Maine - If you bought a Megabucks lottery ticket at Smith’s General Store on Wednesday night, you might be $550,000 richer, and don’t know it yet.
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YORK, Maine — For the second night in a row, firefighters were called to battle a fire in an office complex in southern Maine.
Firefighters on Saturday night were called to a blaze at the …
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AUGUSTA, Maine — Gov. John Baldacci says he likes Bob Crowley’s attitude.
Crowley, of South Portland, emerged as the winner of the “Survivor” reality TV show’s season finale. The …
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BIDDEFORD, Maine — A report of an unmanned lobster boat with its engine running has prompted the Coast Guard to search off the southern Maine coast for a possible missing person.
The boat was …
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LINCOLNVILLE, Maine — Alcohol was a contributing factor in a New Year’s Eve accident that left a Hope man hospitalized with a broken neck.
William L. Deane, 32, of Hope was taken by ambulance …
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In a rural state such as Maine, with scanty public transportation and miles of rural back roads, a license to operate a motor vehicle can mean the difference between independence and isolation, particularly for the elderly.
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When Tim Gallon isn’t brewing beer, he’s cleaning the tanks in which his beer is brewed.
And when he isn’t cleaning tanks, he’s doing all the little things to run Black Bear Brewery, which …
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