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The U.S. government spent $1 trillion last year on means-tested welfare aid, providing cash, food, housing, medical care, and social services to poor and low-income individuals. Led by Republican Gov. Paul LePage, Maine has shown an effective way to weed out fraudsters who collect food stamps, the nation'
crime
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine Gov. Paul LePage says with a laugh that he wants to use the guillotine to execute drug dealers at public executions. The governor's office said Tuesday the remark during a radio interview on WVOM was just a joke to illustrate his support for tougher
Maine
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Lawmakers in Maine and other states are considering legislation stemming from a dispute among family members of actor Peter Falk near the end of his life. The bill, crafted by Falk's daughter, protects family members' rights to visit ailing or incapacitated loved ones. Catherine
MCAS
AUGUSTA, Maine – A bipartisan group of Maine lawmakers is pushing a measure to repeal national education standards, known as Common Core, adopted by the state in 2011. State Rep. Will Tuell (R-East Machias) submitted a bill in late December that would replace Maine's Common Core standards by 2017.
governor
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Republican Gov. Paul LePage apologized Friday for his remark about out-of-state drug dealers impregnating "young white" girls, calling it a slip of the tongue and saying he didn't mean to inject race into discussion of Maine's heroin epidemic. LePage blamed reporters
Massachusetts
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Federal accident investigators are considering launching another search of the wreckage of a freighter that sank in October in an attempt to locate the ship's "black box." Tom Roth-Roffy, the lead investigator for National Transportation Safety Board, told the Associated Press that a
Massachusetts
BOSTON – Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama topped this year's Gallup poll of the most-admired woman and man, while U.S. survey results since 1948 show several people with ties to Boston, Massachusetts and New England have made regular appearances. The late Ted Kennedy, the
new england patriots
BETHEL, Maine (AP) — A Maine 8-year-old battling leukemia got her Christmas wish to meet New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady. The Lewiston Sun Journal (http://bit.ly/1RMtWvV) reports that Hailey Steward, of Bethel, received a video invitation from Brady on Christmas Day, asking her to visit him Saturday at
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