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  • NMCC receives $5 million gift

    Feb 10, 2012 12:00 am
    PRESQUE ISLE (AP) — Northern Maine Community College officials say a $5 million gift from a Presque Isle native who now lives in California will have a “transformative impact” on the college. The gift from Mary Barton Akeley Smith of Portola Valley, Calif., announced Wedn...
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  • Man pleads guilty in worker’s compensation fraud case

    Feb 10, 2012 12:00 am
    AUGUSTA — A Medway man has been sentenced to two months in jail after pleading guilty to lying to investigators in order to get $6,000 in worker’s compensation benefits to which he was not entitled. David Powers admitted to a perjury charge this week. Prosecutors say the...
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  • Weaker land-use agency opposed

    Feb 10, 2012 12:00 am
    AUGUSTA — A Maine environmental advocacy group is urging legislators to not weaken the powers of a regulatory agency that oversees the state’s vast Unorganized Territory. Environment Maine on Thursday delivered 17,000 letters, postcards, petitions and emails from Maine resident...
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  • Maine chief justice outlines action: Domestic violence issues a priority for LePage administration

    Feb 10, 2012 12:00 am
    AUGUSTA — Maine’s court system is acting swiftly to prevent domestic violence by tightening up bail rules for alleged abusers, Chief Justice Leigh Ingalls Saufley told the Legislature on Thursday. In her annual State of the Judiciary address to a joint House-Senate session, Sau...
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  • 57-year-old woman crawls for 7 hours after injuring ankle during hike in Acadia

    Feb 09, 2012 2:42 pm
    ACADIA NATIONAL PARK, Maine — A Mount Desert Island resident who a park ranger described as “tough as nails” injured her ankle while hiking and then crawled for seven hours before being rescued by searchers Wednesday evening. Ranger Richard Rechholtz said Thursday mornin...
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  • Maine eyes $21 million in multistate suit against mortgage lenders

    Feb 09, 2012 11:25 am
    AUGUSTA — Maine is in line to receive $21 million from a multistate settlement against the nation's largest mortgage lenders over wrongful foreclosures and fraud.  Attorney General William J. Schneider announced Thursday the state had joined a $25 billion federal-state agreement...
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  • Health providers gird for DHHS cuts under compromise deal

    Feb 09, 2012 10:29 am
    Lawmakers may have reached a bipartisan deal to close a budget gap at the Department of Health and Human Services, but health care providers are still bracing for deep cuts. Members of the Legislature’s budget committee pushed back against Gov. Paul LePage’s proposal to drop c...
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  • Documents show Scarcelli was in early on 'Cutler Files'

    Feb 09, 2012 12:00 am
    PORTLAND — Newly released documents, including e-mail messages, indicate a one-time Democratic candidate for Maine governor may have known far more about an anonymous website aimed at destroying one of her opponents than she acknowledged. The documents, part of a federal court c...
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  • Group alleges industry influenced DEP’s mercury recycling report

    Feb 09, 2012 12:00 am
    The Natural Resources Council of Maine is accusing Maine Department of Environmental Protection officials of allowing an industry group to have undue influence on a recent report that calls for a re-evaluation of hazardous waste recycling programs. But a DEP spokeswoman said the departmen...
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  • Former director Violette pleads guilty in turnpike corruption case

    Feb 09, 2012 12:00 am
    PORTLAND — The former executive director of the Maine Turnpike pleaded guilty Thursday to stealing turnpike funds over a period of years to pay for upscale hotels in Maine, Canada, the Caribbean and Europe, meals at fancy restaurants and personal spa treatments. Paul Violette, 56, pl...
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