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April 26, 2016

Former Maine hermit wants to avoid state police restitution

A man who lived as a hermit in the Maine woods for nearly three decades doesn't want to pay restitution to the state police.

April 24, 2016

Maine Gov. LePage says workers from India are hardest to understand

Maine's Republican governor says it's hard to understand workers "from Bulgaria" and workers from India are "the worst ones."

April 21, 2016

3 to be sentenced for huge Maine marijuana growing operation

Six years ago, there was more than logging going on in the wilderness in eastern Maine.

April 11, 2016

Man rescues 3 after car sails overhead into 48-degree water

A man who was fishing at a chilly Maine pond when a car sailed over his head is being credited with saving the woman and her two young children who were inside.

April 7, 2016

Woman accused of abandoning dog pleads not guilty to cruelty

A Maine woman accused of abandoning her dog outside an animal shelter has pleaded not guilty to animal cruelty.

April 3, 2016

3 stranded in river rescued after dam floodgates were opened

Authorities in Maine had to open floodgates to a dam to rescue three fishermen who became stranded on a rock by rapidly rising water.

April 1, 2016

Miffed Maine governor refuses to swear in new senator

Maine Gov. Paul LePage is so angry at Democrats for rejecting one of his nominees that he canceled the swearing-in ceremony for a newly elected senator who had driven 75 miles for the event with her brothers and two friends.

March 31, 2016

Man who accused orphanage founder appeals defamation verdict

Lawyers are headed back to court following a jury's $14.5 million defamation verdict against a Maine man who accused an orphanage founder in Haiti of being a serial pedophile.

March 19, 2016

Assimilation is a long process for Somalis in US farm town

Over the last decade, Somali refugees have flocked to the conservative farm town of Fort Morgan on Colorado's eastern plains and have started to build a community.

March 16, 2016

Canadian officer who smuggled narwhal tusks extradited to US

A retired Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer is in U.S. custody awaiting trial on charges stemming from the smuggling of narwhal tusks.