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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) – With summer whale watching season fast approaching, conservation advocates and government agencies who want to protect whales say a mobile app designed to help mariners steer clear of the animals is helping keep them alive. The Whale Alert app provides a real-time display of the ocean and
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Massachusetts regulators have reprimanded and fined a doctor at St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester in connection with his medical marijuana prescribing practices in Maine. According to the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine, Dr. William Ortiz agreed in a consent order that he had been disciplined in September 2014 by
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A proposal to require the Defense Department to buy U.S.-made sneakers has cleared the U.S. House. The provision added by Reps. Bruce Poliquin of Maine and Niki Tsongas of Massachusetts was included in the defense spending bill approved Wednesday night by the House. The proposal still needs
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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A Maine police sergeant looking for speeders has captured a fireball streaking across the sky on his dashboard camera.
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MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Leaves are coming out on trees, daffodils are starting to bloom and snow is falling in parts of Northern New England and Massachusetts a month before the start of summer. The National Weather Service says 3.4 inches of snow were recorded in the northern Maine town
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California has a problem: Fifty-two percent of its managers in the state workforce could decide in the next five years that they're tired of working, grab their retirement packages and go. Their departure would create a serious brain drain for the state, which has the largest number of
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It's a story that hits so many hot-button issues of the presidential campaign — free trade agreements, energy costs, monetary policy, taxes, income inequality, the loss of middle-class manufacturing jobs to foreign competition and technological change, corporate political influence, and government officials-turned-high-priced-Washington-lobbyists — that you might expect to see it
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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Democrats are hoping to use state conventions to unite supporters of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders as fans of the two candidates engage in sometimes bitter disputes ahead of the presidential election. The scenario is playing out Friday in Maine, where Democrats are divided between supporters of
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