AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage handed down an instant veto Thursday, minutes after the Senate gave final passage to a bill that links repayment of Maine’s hospital debt to an expansion of the state’s Medicaid program. LePage, during an impromptu appearance in the State House ...
AUGUSTA — In a protest over not being able to have a television display outside his office, Gov. Paul LePage says he will move the governor's office from the State House. Democrats said LePage was angered because he was not being allowed to have a television screen outside his office...
AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine Democratic legislative leaders say Gov. Paul LePage announced he'll move his office space out of the State House by July 1. The Democrats say the Republican governor made that announcement after an early-morning meeting with legislative leadership Thursday.
WINSLOW (AP) — Labor groups have accused a Winslow-based aluminum trailer manufacturer of illegally firing employees for trying to unionize. Matt Schlobohm, executive director of the Maine AFL-CIO, said five employees at Alcom Inc. have been fired this month in connection with effort...
WARREN — Rodney Bouffard, who has served as acting warden at the Maine State Prison for the past several months, was named warden Friday. The Maine Department of Corrections announced the appointment in a news release Wednesday. Bouffard was put in the acting position af...
AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage is withholding support for a compromise bill being worked out by the Legislature’s Energy Committee that’s aimed at expanding Maine’s natural gas infrastructure, boosting funding for energy efficiency, directly lowering businesses’ el...
BANGOR (AP) — A Charleston man has been sentenced to 35 years in federal prison for producing and possessing child pornography. Federal prosecutors say 44-year-old Carey Gonyer was also sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Bangor to a lifetime of probation upon release. ...
AUGUSTA (AP) — Signs are being put up to ask motorists in southern York County to be aware of rare turtles crossing area roads. The Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife and the Nature Conservancy are marking the turtle crossing areas in Wells, South Berwick and York with hopes...
AUGUSTA (AP) — A scheduled court appearance for a man who lived as a hermit in the woods of central Maine for nearly three decades has been postponed pending completion of a mental health evaluation. Christopher Knight, known as the North Pond Hermit, was scheduled for an appearance ...
Jessica Brideau (left) and Ashley Pattershall, friends of Nichole Cable, speak to media outside the Penobscot Judicial Center after the arraignment hearing of Kyle Dube on Wednesday, May 22, 2013. Dube is charged with the murder of 15-year-old Cable. Dube did not enter a plea and the judge ordere...
