Wednesday, May 16, 2012
AUGUSTA -- Republican lawmakers in the House and Senate, despite pressure from groups opposed to MaineCare cuts, passed a budget Tuesday that eliminates health care coverage for more than 20,000 people, cuts prescription drug coverage for senior citizens and reduces funding for Head Start.
ALBION -- One man was killed and another was seriously injured Tuesday when the building they were working under collapsed on them.
AUGUSTA -- Trustees of a Fairfield union's trust fund say that an administrator who died in a car accident earlier this year had stolen more than $260,000 to cover up a theft from an Augusta union's trust fund.
After passing five previous budgets with bipartisan support, the parties split on the final budget of this year.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s estranged wife, who had fought drug and alcohol problems, was found dead in her home, her attorney said.
The study of 400,000 people is the largest ever done on the issue, and the results should reassure any coffee lovers who think it's a guilty pleasure.
Using only her thoughts, a Massachusetts woman paralyzed for 15 years directed a robotic arm to pick up a bottle of coffee and bring it to her lips, in the latest advance in harnessing brain waves to help disabled people.
Lawyers for Jack DeCoster, whose egg empire stretched from Maine to Iowa, say a federal grand jury has been meeting to determine whether fraud or other crimes were committed in the production and testing of eggs.
If Romney defeats Obama while losing Massachusetts, he would be the first presidential candidate elected without carrying his home state since before the Civil War.
Skechers USA Inc. will pay $40 million for running ads that imply their Shape-ups shoes helped people lose weight and strengthen their muscles.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration proposes to require electronic stability control in new buses and trucks.
The lawsuits filed today in New York claim JPMorgan changed its risk model without telling investors. 
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The defense calls a series of witnesses aimed at shifting the jury's focus from the lurid details of a political sex scandal to the legal question of whether Edwards violated federal campaign finance laws.
Leslie Sabo's Vietnam War ended in the flash of his own grenade. Forty years later, he was honored by President Obama with the nation's highest award.
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Arnoldo Jimenez, 30, is accused of first-degree murder in the slaying of Estrella Carrera, 26, shortly after they celebrated their marriage.
The former president endorsed Mitt Romney on Tuesday, but the Romney campaign doesn't want to be too closely linked with Bush-era policies.
Defense lawyer Abbe Lowell has said the defense still could close out its case Wednesday by calling Edwards, his oldest daughter Cate and Rielle Hunter, the woman with whom he had an extramarital affair.
A new lawyer for O.J. alleges the former football star was so badly represented by lawyers during his trial that he deserves a new trial.
PORTLAND -- Representatives from The Nature Conservancy, the Forest Society of Maine and the Plum Creek timber company came together Tuesday to celebrate a new conservation easement that's considered one of the largest ever in the United States.
Mark David Chapman was denied parole for the sixth time in September 2010. He's eligible again for parole in August.
If all the shares are sold at the high end of the expected price range, the offering could total more than $18 billion, the highest ever.
Court records show Zimmerman had a pair of black eyes, a nose fracture and two cuts to the back of his head after the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.
After winning most of the delegates in Tuesday's Oregon primary, he's just 155 shy of the 1,144 needed to win the nomination for president.
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Brian McNamee, the former pitcher's longtime strength trainer, says his life was damaged in many ways by getting involved with Roger Clemens.
FAIRFIELD -- Maine State Police divers returned to Martin Stream on Tuesday to search for the Skowhegan woman missing since her car plunged into the water adjacent to U.S. Route 201 on Saturday night.
BITE OUT OF CRIME: State Trooper Stephen Hills is nipped Tuesday by a police dog during law enforcement canine training in Vassalboro. Dogs and their police handlers were practiced tracking and apprehending suspects.
FAIRFIELD -- The Maine Warden Service and Maine State Police searched the Kennebec River area in a boat and floatplane Monday for a 62-year-old Skowhegan woman presumed killed Saturday night when her vehicle plunged into Martin Stream alongside U.S. Route 201.
WINDSOR -- Three people who police believe died of carbon monoxide poisoning while doing off-road driving over the weekend may have taken steps to get the fresh air that would have saved their lives.
TOGUS -- When you're restoring the 80-year-old main hospital building on the oldest veterans' facility in the country, you want it to function, though necessarily look, modern.
The former president offered a four-word endorsement of the presumptive Republican nominee: "I'm for Mitt Romney."
Tim Wakefield got to throw one more knuckleball at Fenway Park, wiping away tears as fans and teammates cheered him.
She joins Richard Pryor, Steve Martin, Whoopi Goldberg, Tina Fey, George Carlin and Will Ferrell as winners of the prestigious comedy award.
James Dlugos, of New Jersey, will take over as leader of the 100-year-old Standish school.
Gov. Susana Martinez has frequently been mentioned as a potential running mate for Mr. Romney.
Female soldiers this week are moving into new jobs in once all-male units as the Army breaks down formal barriers that have already been broken down during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
Three of the kids went to their neighbor's house seeking help, but the mother called them back in and murdered them.
PORTLAND -- Frank Knight's decades-long battle to save New England's tallest elm served as an inspiring tale of devotion, so it is fitting that he will be laid to rest in a coffin made from the tree he made famous.
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Earlier, Jamie Dimon told shareholders that the company's mistakes were "self-inflicted."
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