AUGUSTA — Roughly 100 lawyers working in the Maine Attorney General’s Office will receive their mandated raises after Gov. Paul LePage relented and signed off on the pay increases Monday. The Legislature approved the mandatory 5 percent pay increase for assistant attorneys general, district attorneys and assistant district attorneys as part of the supplemental budget […]
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Lewiston, Bath appliance stores close; customers in limbo
The Attorney General’s Office’s is fielding complaints after Gediman’s Appliance stores in Bath and Lewiston abruptly closed last month, sitting on customers’ deposits and undelivered appliances. The stores are owned by Peter and Serrene Gagnon of Poland. The answering machine at the Lewiston store at 1822 Lisbon St. says, “We are currently out on appliance training […]
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License issued to embattled mental health facility after review
RUMFORD — State regulators said they found no major problems during their periodic review of a mental health facility accused of cheating the state out of funding. Last week, Oxford County Mental Health was issued a summons by the U.S. District Court in Portland to answer a former employee’s allegations that the nonprofit did not […]
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Maine AG says attempt to bar General Assistance for immigrants breaks law
AUGUSTA — The Maine Department of Health and Human Services will begin enforcing a new rule barring state money from being used to fund General Assistance for undocumented immigrants. Attorney General Janet Mills and others called the implementation of the rule illegal, saying that DHHS had not followed the process of public comment and legal […]
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Maine AG attributes 176 deaths to drugs in 2013
AUGUSTA — Drugs killed 176 people in Maine in 2013, marking just the third time in the past 15 years the death toll has topped 170. According to figures released by the Maine Attorney General’s office on Monday, there were 13 more drug-induced deaths in Maine last year than in 2012. Of the 176 deaths, […]
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Selectmen discuss accessor website, recreational committee’s missing funds
PERU — The Board of Selectmen agreed after some discussion to put a request for bid proposals on the Web after they received only one bid for revaluation. Board Chairman Jim Pulsifer said they always advertised in the papers, and people should have sent bids in if they wanted the job. They could also call […]
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Prison inmate dies in stabbing
WARREN — Police plan to charge a Maine State Prison inmate with murder after the stabbing death of another inmate Friday. Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Stephen McCausland said in a release the death of inmate Micah Boland, 37, of Knox County, was classified as a homicide Saturday by the Chief Medical Examiner’s Office. […]
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Maine AG’s Office warns of fraud, offers assistance
AUGUSTA — The Maine Attorney General’s Office is reminding Maine consumers to keep an eye on their credit reports this holiday season to avoid any unwanted “gifts” in the new year, and to contact the AG’s Office for free assistance in protecting their identity and accessing free resources if they have been victimized. “The last […]
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Maine attorney general backs clinic buffer zones
AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine’s attorney general is backing an effort to defend buffer zones at health clinics, like one recently approved in Maine. Attorney General Janet Mills said she recently signed onto an amicus brief in a case reviewing a Massachusetts law creating a buffer zone around the entrances and driveways of health care clinics. […]
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Attorney general warns Mainers about fraudulent door-to-door meat sellers
AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine’s attorney general is warning Mainers about fraudulent door-to-door meat sellers who are duping customers. Attorney General Janet Mills say there have been reports of people going door-to-door claiming they have meat for sale that was left over from a delivery that fell through or couldn’t be made. She says they’re promising […]