| Dec 02, 2012 09:38 am | Seth Koenig PORTLAND, Maine — Having a full-time elected mayor in Portland City Hall for the first time since 1923 has provided a boost of momentum to a range of city initiatives, such as supporting local agriculture and streamlining the city's permitting process, and has helped mend backroom divisions among city leaders. ... read more | comment Dec 02, 2012 11:00 am | Tom Walsh EASTPORT, Maine — The summer tourists and the fall leaf peepers are long gone, but cyberspace sales are keeping at least three small Down East boutique food producers as busy as ever with the run up to Christmas. "Overall our Internet sales are 25 percent of our sales, and a ... read more | comment Dec 02, 2012 10:49 am | Troy R. Bennett [blip.tv http://blip.tv/play/ho0rg4qxGgA] A leaden sky was spitting snow and the thermometer read 20 degrees when I mounted my Soviet Steed Saturday morning and headed for Cole Farms restaurant in Gray. I took the turnpike for expediency and the wind found every crack in my cold weather armor at 55mph. I ... read more | comment Dec 02, 2012 11:11 am | UnBylined SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A Christian legal group urged a federal judge on Friday to halt a landmark California law that bars a controversial therapy aimed at reversing homosexuality from being used on children and teenagers, calling the law a violation of privacy and free speech. California's Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown ... read more | comment Dec 02, 2012 10:01 am | Sarah Smiley Saturday, Nov. 17 The boys wake me up saying, “Mom! Mom! It’s just two weeks until Dad comes home!” All I can think is that 9 days of school vacation, Thanksgiving and two birthdays stand between us and homecoming. And that seems like an eternity, not “two weeks.” I don’t ... read more | comment Dec 02, 2012 07:26 am | UnBylined KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An infant girl wakes up without parents, both dead, dad killing mom and then turning the gun on himself. There are no answers. None that make sense, anyway. Jovan Belcher, the Chiefs' linebacker, shot longtime girlfriend Kasandra Perkins, drove to the team's practice facility, thanked general ... read more | comment Dec 02, 2012 08:01 am | UnBylined SAN DIEGO — The man who planned to be president wakes up each morning now without a plan. Mitt Romney looks out the windows of his beach house here in La Jolla, a moneyed and pristine enclave of San Diego, at noisy construction workers fixing up his next-door neighbor's home, ... read more | comment | 
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