| Dec 04, 2012 10:46 am | Matthew Stone AUGUSTA, Maine — Gov. Paul LePage, upset that the Maine Democratic Party has dispatched a tracker to film him in public, has canceled his Tuesday meeting with the incoming Legislature's Democratic leaders that had been scheduled to discuss the state's budget situation. In a statement released by his office, LePage ... read more | comment Dec 04, 2012 06:09 am | Seth Koenig NEW GLOUCESTER, Maine — New Gloucester furniture maker Chris Becksvoort will appear on Thursday night's episode of the NBC comedy series "Parks and Recreation" after actor Nick Offerman, an admirer of Becksvoort's work, invited him to Hollywood for a cameo. "In his spare time, he's a woodworker, and he's been ... read more | comment Dec 04, 2012 11:22 am | UnBylined KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Seconds after fatally shooting his longtime girlfriend, Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher leaned over her in their master bathroom, said he was sorry and kissed her on the forehead. His mother, who heard gunfire as she stood in the kitchen, rushed to her son's bedroom ... read more | comment Dec 04, 2012 12:25 pm | Dave Barber BANGOR, Maine — The "new" basketball floor for the Cross Insurance Center was expected to be one with some NCAA Division I tournament history behind it, but that will not be the case now, according to Bass Park director Mike Dyer. The floors for the NCAA tournament sites are constructed ... read more | comment Dec 04, 2012 09:54 am | Ryan McLaughlin Some York County residents woke up to rumbling early Tuesday morning confirmed as a small earthquake, according to a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey. Carrieann Bedwell told the Bangor Daily News Tuesday that the earthquake measured at 2.3 on the Richter scale, and the epicenter was just under 4 ... read more | comment Dec 04, 2012 11:30 am | Alex Barber SKOWHEGAN, Maine — The fate of the Anson man accused of murdering Everett L. Cameron three years is now in the hands of a judge. Robert Lee Nelson, 41, is accused of shooting Cameron, 60, to death as the victim sat in his pickup truck on Town Farm Road in ... read more | comment Dec 04, 2012 06:53 am | UnBylined LITTLETON, N.H. — Researchers studying Maine's lobster population, booming in recent years amid warming waters and disappearing predators, have detected something never before seen in the wild: lobster cannibalism. It has long been known that lobsters will attack and eat each other if confined together in a small space — ... read more | comment Dec 04, 2012 12:38 pm | Nick McCrea BANGOR, Maine — The Bangor Police Department wants its robot to go wireless. The robot, which the department purchased in 2003 using part of a $470,000 U.S. Department of Homeland Security grant, is still in "fantastic condition," police Lt. Mark Hathaway told members of Bangor City Council's Finance Committee during ... read more | comment Dec 04, 2012 10:42 am | Will Graff PORTLAND, Maine — High school graduation rates in greater Portland and midcoast Maine are higher than the rest of state, which overall ranked 10th in the nation, according to the first comparison data released by the U.S. Department of Education that includes a standard formula for most states. Maine is ... read more | comment Dec 04, 2012 10:39 am | UnBylined WISCASSET, Maine — Town officials responded quickly after a member of Wiscasset Middle School's Civil Rights Team reported offensive words written on a local pump station. Kyle Beeton, faculty adviser for the Civil Rights Team, said eighth-grader Ryan Medina spotted swastikas and the letters "KKK" written on an Old Bath ... read more | comment Dec 04, 2012 09:30 am | UnBylined WASHINGTON — Roger Ailes, the longtime Republican media guru, founder of Fox News and its current chairman, had some advice last year for then-Gen. David Petraeus. So in spring 2011, Ailes asked a Fox News analyst headed to Afghanistan to pass on his thoughts to Petraeus, who was then the ... read more | comment | |
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