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AUGUSTA – Marriage would be limited to heterosexual couples and civil unions would be prohibited under a referendum being pursued by the Christian Civic League of Maine.

Under the proposed legislation, same-sex couples would not be allowed to adopt, sexual orientation would be removed from the Maine Human Rights Act and funding for the civil rights teams in the Attorney General’s Office would be eliminated.

Michael Heath, the organization’s executive director, initiated the process last week. The effort will need to gather 55,087 signatures – a figure equal to 10 percent of votes cast in the last gubernatorial election – within 18 months of the issuance of an approved petition by the Secretary of State.

In 2005, voters supported a state law that bans discrimination based on sexual orientation. In 1998 and 1990, voters had opposed gay-rights laws.

Marilyn Glenny, 79, a nurse, a temperature in mid-teacher, and later spent a dozen years at the temperature Elementary School District board of directors, died on Saturday Banner Desert Medical Center in Mesa.

“Marilyn was always, always worried, at first, for children and for teachers,” said board President Jim Lemmon.

“She has always been to support everything that happened, children and the community,” said honorary Saturday, Superintendent of the district from 1962 to 1975, as a neighbor and friend. If Glenny was at the end of a page losing 3-2 school board vote, in 1999, the closing of the Hudson, Bustoz Arredondo and schools, they recruited for the costs associated with a place on the map. He won, and together with the current vice-president Karen Arredondo Board, it annulled the decision.

“We believe in an open and prosperous,” said fees.

Active in many organizations of Tempe, Glenny was known for his friendships. “She was known, perhaps more people in Tempe, I know everything,” said fees.

“They are affectionately called a” townie “in Tempe,” said his daughter, Margaret “Meg” Hinchey. ” We can not of a food store, or anywhere without seeing at least three people who knew him. ”

Glenny, a professor in the circle Tempe According to the study from Arizona State University in 1970. She taught in the first place, social studies and English at Connolly and charges in the middle school until the date of their retirement in the year 1986. She served on the board from 1987 to 1990 and 1995 to 2002 and served as president of several board terms.

Both Lemmon and carefully moderated Arredondo Glenny, she said in her board. Lemmon joked that Glenny penalty had asked for food, she started like others, say that it is underway.

“I was convinced at all, it was already too late to escape,” he said.

Born July 27, 1928, in Portland, Maine, Glenny has acquired a degree in nursing in the year 1951 in Maine. She and her first husband, Melvin Barnes, in Arizona in 1955, and died in a car accident in 1960. They settled in Tempe in 1961. She has nine years the role of Jim married, divorced before. Lt. Col. Gale Glenny and married in 1980, and died in 1999. For a time, Glenny was a secretary at the end of Barry Goldwater, whose 1964 during his presidential campaign. It was the same for the former secretary general of the Arizona Attorney Pickrell Robert (1961-65). Before teaching, she was Director of the League Save a child and was a social worker.

After retiring as a teacher, she served as president of East-retired Valley School Association and has actively participated in Tempe Sister Cities, PEO Sisterhood, Eastern Star, Retired Officers Association and Tempe Women’s Club. She was a founding member of the St. Augustine Episcopal Church in Tempe, and is a founding member of Friends help friends, school helps employees district, where the health or life of crisis management.

Lemmon said Glenny years in the practice of nursing, in particular education, the passion to keep their young children in schools Tempe, especially as a spokesman for children from low-income families.

“She said that it was equally important that the school nurse, because it helps them maintain good health, so stay in school and give them an opportunity and a way out of poverty, “said Lemmon.

A funeral service is 10 am Saturday in St. Augustine Episcopal Church, p. 1735 College Ave., Tempe.

A surviving son, Clifford Barnes role of Tempe, two daughters, Margaret (Meg) and Tempe Hinchey Nancy Byrd of Tucson, 15 grandchildren, five back, and sister Eunice Curran of Maine. Bunker garden chapel Mesa are treated.

MEDWAY, Maine - If a new forensics can be arranged, the municipality to donate their services exhume the body of the victim Joyce McLain homicide, the Board of Selectmen Monday.

In accordance with the recommendation of the town of Dusty groundskeeper Cramp and want to help where they can, the city council voted 5-0 to give more than $ 800 in the services sector to a new impetus to resolve nearly 28 years’ murder.

“All that we are responsible for the excavation of the tomb and conservation of the tomb, while the body is far and reburial,” Board Chairman David Dickey said Monday. McLain was buried in the cemetery of the city Grindstone off road.

Greylen Hale, a first cousin Joyce McLain, and Pamela McLain, the victim’s mother, and has sought to aid municipal councillors. Hale, explained that the family, friends and many people in the East Millinocket where McLain was killed, want to exhume the body for DNA testing. Hale was grateful for the support of the audit committee.

“It was the first step among many others. It will be a long road with many bridges to cross,” said Hale Monday.

A 16-year-old high school student Schenck, a jogging McLain on the night of August 8, 1980. His body was found partially dressed two days later in a power-line clearing of over 200 metres from the school of football. Your Header and neck were surprised several times with a blunt object.

Pamela McLain asked if the State Medical Examiners, the Board at the end of last year, exhume the body, she hopes, that the killer could have left traces of DNA in the wounds, which could help to the police investigation of the state, which continues. She also believes that it is a chance at least, the body will be removed to determine the extent of the experts believe.

State Deputy Attorney General William R. Stokes said that the state of the art, and experts believe it is very unlikely that one of the participants to find evidence that the State remains the best proof that the bodies of 28 years. McLain remains leader.

Elaine Cato, 40, never intended for a bra-Designer.

Everyone wanted, seven months after the birth of her second daughter in 1998, was to read a New Year’s Eve Party. Last week, Maiden form of roll-out for other women, which invented to solve the problem, they ask the breakthrough Backless bra.

A month before the ringing in 1999, the size of four Nashville mother of two children, was on the sites mounting in a backless black and many of the game. The problem: your 34DD bust took some support after the health of baby No. 2, and she could not find a backless bra he worked.

“If I could not find any on the market, to support this place, I thought that I could perhaps one of my bras and change,” said Caton. “I started to experiment, to the restructuring of the institution.”

She was not an expert. “I took a sewing class in high school, and my mother taught me to sew things,” she says, “but I never went on the essentials.”

But they cut and sewn with a few old bra, and finally, a backless bra, which he himself had only five other configurations, including holster, and hence, and was a hit in the New Year’s Eve Party.

“When I brought to the gorge that night… Women responded to the question” What did you? “, Says Caton.” She knew that, for a woman became Heavy-body of young professionals, the glue types of bras on the market does not really give the lift and support you want. ”

Cato has seen the sales potential in her bra and discovered how to make a patent application on file because they can not afford the $ 4000 fee for a patent attorney.

She has been granted the patent, in the year 2000, but his big breakthrough came after hearing ABC reality show American inventor, who had a million-dollar top prize for the best invention.

She won the contest in a hearing of the issuance of the second season of last year. Your bra finished second in the competition, but noted Maiden form and surprises with an offer to license the final episode of the season.

Maiden twisted form the backless bra, but it remains true to Cato’s Design. It has adjustable straps, which at the edge of the cup in the front, a loop on the shoulder and back under his arm in his opinion for robust but flexible 2-inch wing, which is composed of cups.

It was offered for sale to retailers last week, for a suggested retail price of $ 32 and are at the heart of marketing Maiden form insists that this year, new products and find new customers. The campaign slogan: This Feels Right.

Innovation is our great history of the year, “says Sally Skidmore, Maiden form of vice president of marketing and advertising.” We bring something new on the market, that (women, consumers) had never seen. ”

The breakthrough Backless bra and other new products, including the construction unit and seamless bras, there are new messages.

Print ads in magazines like Cosmopolitan and Glamour.

Online advertising also banners, video and ringtones on MySpace.com. Billboards and posters are Out-of-home advertising space for women in the changing rooms of gyms to a giant screen in a big house in the former camp of the Long Island Expressway in New York.

The camp has two billboards on the roof, a huge poster in the middle of the walls and windows at each end were painted look, as if the old women throw their bras of the window. The idea: “Raus with old and new.”

“We are really trying something new for Maiden,” says Greg Smith, Chief Officer for creators La Via group in Portland, Maine, that the agency has the campaign. “As we are able, on the market, the mark is derived from what they have done with the product. “

PARIS - The power of a group of opposition to the construction of a Poland Spring Water Co. In Fryeburg argued that the company calls for Oxford County Superior Court is baseless.

Scott Anderson, in western Maine, for the inhabitants of rural areas, life, said-2006 on the same matter is not a decision Ultimately, so that the new remedies must be revoked.

Anderson’s latest brands of movement in a conflict between Nestle Waters North America, Poland, the owner of the label spring, and Western residents of Maine, against the proposal for the company to a facility for loading trucks on the road placement 302

Poland Spring for a first application of the authorization of the installation during the year 2005, and the project was highlighted green of the Fryeburg Planning Board. But later, the decision was exempt from the Board of Appeals of West residents of Maine said there was not enough evidence to support the Planning Committee, that the facility is not unreasonably interfere with the adjacent properties.

The proposed establishment would be to load up to four trucks per hour and a maximum of 50 trucks per day with water of a canal in Denmark aquifers. Opponents of the project have said that the factory would be a commercial use in a rural residential area, and were also concerned about the potential increase in noise, transportation and environmental protection.

Spring, Poland has made to the case Superior Court, 2006, Justice Roland Cole problem on the Planning Board. Cole, in an order placed in case it “substantial evidence” and that the installation would-intensive, and not with adjacent properties, but requires that the board will decide if there is a low impact of Use.

He defined a low impact as “limited in the size or number of visits”, as indicated on the basis of the comprehensive plan Fryeburg.

On 13 November, the Planning Board, that the plant does not qualify as low-impact use. The Appeals Board upheld the decision on Jan. 28, and Poland, since the spring, the decision that the Tribunal.

Anderson argues that the Board of Appeals decision is not subject to appeal to the courts, but that the court must directly in the planning office of the decision. It also called on Cole to determine whether Poland can defy the spring, the decision on November 13, since Cole is not a final decision on the appeal in 2006.

“He (Cole), has not reached a final decision in this case, and any other procedures in the planning of the Board of Directors on November 13, the decision should in this case,” says Anderson.

Anderson asked that the new application must be dismissed for lack of jurisdiction of the state and the failure of a claim against granting discharge can be granted, or be treated by Cole compared with the previous common law.

A search of the class action against the state was Hannaford Bros. in the name of a Braintree, including the residence of the information debit card was stolen from a violation of safety rules by 4.2 Millions of credit and debit cards.
The appeal, which last month was the US District Court in Maine, on behalf of Greg Doherty, two days after the injury to the public has been asserted, neglect and crime.
Carol Eleazer, a spokesman for Scarborough, Maine-based Hannaford, said the company does not comment on pending litigation.
Doherty with a debit card, the purchase of $ 88.15 on Jan. 25 and food from Hannaford supermarket in Quincy, according to the complaint.
Doherty was commenting Thursday. The complaint stated that his moral rights have been violated, in breach, data and was suspended for potential cases of fraud.
Doherty’s lawyer, Michael Fantini of Berger & Montague in Philadelphia, said he has received as many as 100 calls from people from counterfeiting, customers, credit or debit cards at the Hannaford store at 7 December 10 March.
“ More than four million cards have been affected or impaired, so that this case is large enough,’’said Fantini.
The complaint argues that the neglect Hanna Ford was not proper for the protection of systems and data customers. He argues, moreover, a violation of the company implied its customers with contracts to protect and share information on each flight.
Hannaford reported the breach of security, on March 17. The company was known, the first credit card on the unusual activity on Feb. 27.
“ The timing of the communication of public opinion is essential, if you as a consumer,’’said Fantini. “ If you know, the next day, you can use your card. The more time that elapses, there is no more exposure.”
That appeal is not the only was to Hannaford, since data have been violated. The first was adopted by the Bangor, Maine law firm Blackwell & Lanham, on behalf of residents of Maine Melinda Ryan.
Other immersion suits were in New York, New Hampshire and Vermont, said Steve Lanham, Ryan’s lawyer. He said he is counting on the fact that the cases are finally climbed back to a class action suit.
It has been nearly 2000 cases of fraud or credit card money in connection with the breach of security, including more than 160 Hannaford stores in New England and New York, and more than 100 branches in Sweetbay chains in Florida.

It was shortly after 7.30 pm on April 6, 1983, Soldati and counsel for the police was Lincoln help document the discovery of five newborns found dead collected and packaged in a trunk, was for two decades without prejudice.

So far, the memory is surreal - he walks in the house en route 16B Somersworth, watches, peel newspapers, such as the police, mumifizierte to cut child dead and miracles, depending on how they are much more verdrückte.

“There are twenty-five years? Really? Soldati, the Strafford County Attorney was at the time, said in an interview Tuesday.” It is hard to believe that not having the answers, come from the fact that since the fall . It was a different era, though. I remember wondering what on earth, and that was the parents. ”

Today, the 25 Anniversary of the discovery, but also for the investigators as Soldati, the questions remain unanswered.

Investigators quickly in the next few days was followed.

The pair of Somersworth - Earl and Ruth Davis - had done nothing more than business in the basement of his mother 22 years ago for the opening in 1983. Investigators learned their best answers of a sudden, a woman was appointed Shirley Thomas, the Davises neighbours and former owner of the strain useless for the couple had saved for decades.

The day after the discovery of the tribe, she told the police a baby schnupfend Ring, “and that the person responsible had died, but it was read their rights and says nothing more. Later, a role - Key in the case of suspicion, but was never charged.

A quarter-century after the fact, it is not a surprise, the major players are still fascinated - both that the case had still not been resolved, and that its mere mention the spark or a mixture and unusual debate in the silence of the city many residents Hilltop.

Among the performers signs Pat Boyle, then lieutenant and a detective from the Police Department Somersworth. Now in retirement, Boyle, said he continues to believe, every day, the case, he spent more than two years of follow-up.

These are the lawyers of this fairy tale, Lincoln Soldati - then Strafford County attorney, and one of the first men, the root morbid content - and Dan Wensley, Thomas Mann, which represent earlier is the case , the Board not to talk to them.

Thomas was considered by many as the only potential suspect, or at least a key to breaking open mystery.

Neither Soldati Wensley could still believe that the 25 years have been passed since the scandal rockten Strafford County, plays the GUI in detail on pages Foster’s Daily Democrat, and other local and national authorities, opportunities for the following months including Newsweek Magazine.

There’s Roger Beaudoin, then head of the National Police Forensic Lab in Concord, to the whole experience, was prevented by the ability of 200 respondents, curb, as well as the absence of hard evidence. A mixture of curiosity and annihilation, like Boyle, why today.

“For all of our investigations, the technique and what do we have never in the situation, a consistent link, in this case,” Beaudoin said Tuesday. “We had our assumptions and theories, but I will give you no. The case is still pending. ”

He’s right, after Senior Assistant Attorney General Jeff Strelzin, which has recently seen the case file from the archive AG in Concord.

Although there are deaths, has never been the case. His condition has not changed in nearly 23 years since it was set aside, and despite comments in the middle and the end of 1980, it is unlikely, in the “active” any rapidly.

“If we do not know who ensures that an offender is dead, the case is never complete,” said Strelzin. “Of course, but the majority of cases are difficult to solve, when they are older.”

More complicated a reassessment of cases it is necessary than ever as a crime, Strelzin said.

Dusty storage, file titles still read “five child deaths, and not” child murder “or something in the genre,” said Strelzin. “They talk about the death of more than 50 years.”

But Boyle and Beaudoin - two men with a lifetime of experience survey - it is difficult to believe that the death of five children between the late 1940’s and early 1950’s, was purely accidental or the result the failure of pregnancies.

Among the tribes were the tools Maine Medical Examiner Dr. Henry Ryan, designate, in the initial police reports as “abortive” in the planning, including an aerial platform and hammered pointed at one end, an old shower and rust Crochet needles.

Boyle, it is not clear that Thomas was responsible for the death, even though it was widely reported to be pregnant, often with no apparent end to have children at home. He is the one who said the police chief, then Ronald Perron, stressing that it was a “baby schnupfend” in the years 1940 and 1950.

Even though Thomas was not the perpetrator, Boyle keeps shooting him in the investigation.

“She said that someone would have such cases, and they would be in the trunk to maintain,” said Boyle, recalling that the chief had shared with him. “She said they do not know where they come from, but it was just happening.”

The containers were later in the trunk and a couple friendly neighbor for storage, where it remained hidden for nearly 22 years until the couple opened the trunk and discovered in 1983, the content of these pages .

“It was surprising to find one, to be sure,” said Beaudoin, it comes on the day of the scene. “I was really at the beginning, while outgoing. Not because of the age (of the victims), but also because of the number of them. It struck me and I wondered: “What has to go?”

He, like Boyle, or miracle.

Boyle said he believed that this concern day - or injury, embarrassment or both - human beings held motionless.

“He deeply that fear, and not just in Somersworth, but throughout the region,” said Boyle. “It just frustrating that people I knew, it is necessary to know something about the event or tried, in their way, the question of avoiding the issue, or not at all cooperate. Many of them are dead now. ”

In addition, Thomas’ close, I hope Boyle holds out, they shared their story with another person - Dan Wensley lawyer.

But Wensley, Rochester became prosecutor of the city and a partnership with Wensley, Jones, Azarian PLLC in Rochester, the mandate of its privilege to honour the relationship, even if the client is dead.

“To tell you the truth, I would be uneasy” to speak, “he says.” I was as a lawyer regarding this issue. I tried to do things on behalf of my clients, and as far as I know, this is a subject that I have not more participation in several decades. ”

He refused to say - about what he knows, or what it says Thomas.

Soldati, now a partner Jeffco, Star Branch & Soldati, remembers the speed with which the speculation mixed with the act of the investigation, after having borne by Gregory Swope, a State Attorney General.

“I think the final opinion of the consensus that seemed to emerge here, the belief that what we were searching was a” baby “schnupfend exploitation,” said Soldati. “I do not know all the details of players, but there were nurses or midwives, who has been involved. ”

But not always enough individuals involved could be done to support the costs, as he recalls. It quickly add that at the time of the death of babies, things were different - culturally, socially and legally.

“One explanation is that this is an alternative to abortion,” he said. “The way things were handled, and then for the dynamics of abortion, which would have been a demonstration of the plight of those affected and the length to which they want to maintain.”

Him, with Boyle, thoughtful, if the DNA tests may use, but Strelzin said, the likelihood that the case is not yet for a DNA test is unlikely.

AUGUSTA, Maine - Officials of the State of Maine said MEGA Life and Health Insurance Co., falsely determination of premiums for individual health insurance companies, expressed its willingness to pay a fine of $ 1 million and the penalty for reimbursement of $ 4.6 million, plus interest, Consumer.

The sanctions were adopted Thursday by the Maine Bureau of Insurance and the Maine Attorney General’s Office. Maine Insurance Superintendent Mila Kofman, colonization, “said one of the largest fines and the amount of the agreement for the return of consumers in Maine.

Officials from the State, said the metropolitan area has about 9,830 rules, as from January 1, 2004, December 31, 2007.

MEGA Life has 30 days to the Office of Insurance, as the allocation of the refund to insurance.

The company expects refunds said to begin, go in 60 days.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) - MEGA Life and health insurance will pay one million dollars in fines and repayment of $ 4.6 million to consumers in Maine.

The company has been criticized unfairly rewards available to the various health insurance companies.

The settlement includes nearly 9900 police from 2004 to 2007.

MEGA Life has 30 days to the Office of Insurance, as the allocation of the refund to insurance.

Health Markets, in a statement by North Richland Hills, Texas, has welcomed the agreement between the subsidiary MEGA Life and Maine-Insurance Bureau.

Health Markets, “he says, is the Crown corporation, in accordance with the rules regarding minimum loss of the report.

AUGUSTA, Maine - A man East Port of a hospital in Machias and a snowstorm earlier in the year from an unusual combination of hypothermia and a drug overdose, an autopsy revealed a report .

The 15-page document, Wednesday to Bangor Daily News of the progress of medical examiners in the office, even to the conclusion that the death of 61 years, Dr. Reid Emery was an accident.

Jim Ferland, a director with medical examiners office, acknowledged that the report - which is filled with details on Emery’s physical condition and prescription drugs in his system - is complex.

“It is not true, as I have done, it may be easier than others to say his death was amended by a combination of environmental conditions over the period and the amount of drugs in his system,” said Wednesday by telephone Ferland.

Emery was a patient in Machias Down East Community Hospital in late December 2007 until 1 January of this year. For approximately 8 pm on January 1, it was the medical consultation. According to some reports, he was transferred from hospital disoriented, and without a winter coat or walking shoes. The police found her body the next day in a snowbank near the hospital.

Emery’s autopsy was by Dr. Marguerite DeWitt, vice-chief of the medical examiner. His report shows Emery physical trauma suffered shortly before his death, with the exception of small wound on his right foot and left hand. She wrote that her skin was cold and pasty, but their external audit showed little useful information Emery, the report says.

Although the first review took place on January 3, the day after the death of Emery, health inspector, the Bureau requested a few additional tests, including toxicology reports, which have not been finalized by mid - March.

These drug screens, Emery has had five different drugs in his blood when he died. The drugs were: Meperidin, a fast-acting opioid for the relief of pain; normeperidine, a deviation from the same medicine; trazodone, a sedative and an antidepressant, fentanyl, an opioid, with a capacity of over 80 times stronger than morphine and norfentanyl An exception to the same drugs.

The question of whether Emery would have died even if the weather was not a factor, said Ferland, there was no possibility of determining that the roster. In addition, he said, there was no way of knowing whether Emery would have survived the cold for hours, if the drug is not in his body.

“Hypothermia is rare in itself, but it is unfair to compare this case with other cases,” said Ferland.

Deputy Attorney General William Stokes said in February that on the basis of information contained in the office had received a retainer of this date was not at the event. Stokes, Director, the Attorney General of the Appeals Chamber is not yet a comment Wednesday.

Emery’s led an inquiry into the death of Down East Community Hospital by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. CMS is a division of the US Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees health insurance in the United States on hospitals and the implementation of certain provisions of the Confederation.

The investigation concluded in February monthlong CMS with the filing of a “Declaration of defects” for the hospital, among other things, that staff members on the patient’s needs.

The document also received the BDN, said that Emery was the large number of drugs during his hospital stay, including some of his perceptions and cognitive abilities.

In connection with the investigation of CMS and its “Declaration of defects, DECH was needed for a correction plan on how these gaps. This plan outlines many political changes, and that proceedings are brought, the ‘hospital or setting up plans in the context of the death Emery.

In an e-mail to education BDN shortly after the investigation it was finished, the hospital, President and CEO of Wayne Dodwell expressed sympathy to the family for Emery’s unfortunate incident. He pointed out that even DECH work to ensure another patient was not meeting the same fate as Emery.

A spokesman for the hospital is not yet a call for comment Wednesday.

Attempts to reach Emery’s family were also unsuccessful. They have so far refused to comment in detail about the event said, but they were to consider whether legal action against the hospital.