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Maine-Based Great Northern Paper Files for Bankruptcy.

Great Northern Paper Co., a key part of the struggling northern Maine economy, filed for bankruptcy protection Thursday. The filing creates additional uncertainty for 1,100 workers, most of whom have been laid off for two weeks while the plant has been shut. The company's two mills, in Millinocket and East Millinocket,

Referendum aims to undo gay rights

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

Maine gets 2 days on Real ID

AUGUSTA - The only state, and not an extension until Monday's Real ID obtained a few days more to respond to concerns about the safety of federal driver's license. It remains outstanding was whether Maine residents are on board aircraft, and some agencies of the federal government, with its own nationals

Pharmaceutical companies gifts

For a long time, medical ethics have invited doctors to their relations with the pharmaceutical industry. Some doctors, medical organizations and academic institutions in the direction of reforms, but problems remain. Now, the state and federal governments, dissatisfied with the profession's efforts towards self-regulation, are pressing for other changes. Three state

Business Center helps start-ups Fledgling Get Off the Ground.

The creation of a new business can be extremely costly and often inhibits the growth of micro-enterprises, plants Maine's future economic prosperity. The conclusion of a base area of operations can be heavy, with unexpected costs, including any snowplowing taxes on computers and Internet access. For a true professional photographer phones should

It blamed the violation of citizens rights Suit claims

BANGOR - The Maine Attorney General's Office, under the costume of the Maine Civil Rights Act Eddington against a man, according to a press release on Thursday. The costume, Penobscot County Superior Court, alleges that Brian J. Sepcich, 46, epithet-laden by threat of violence directed at an African American woman in

Bogus weight loss products do not work

Scarborough, Maine-based prescribed by the accused are false and not based on allegations of weight loss of each product or program of dietary supplements, food or medicines, and agreed to pay $ 100000 towards a settlement of 'compensation for consumers Federal Trade Commission charges, allegations of false two products of

Man pleads not guilty in shooting

BANGOR, Maine - The local team with a strong "Easy Rider" tattoo on his bald head pleaded not guilty Friday in Penobscot County Superior Court to attempted murder and other charges in connection with the police described as a drug trafficking gone bad. Curtis E. Albion Jr., 51, was earlier this

CA bravado auto insurance rates upward trend

While Californians are increasingly squeezed out of electricity costs, they are always the best offer in the country, auto insurance, because the state a single law, a new study by a consumer group shows. Prices for auto insurance in California 4 percent fell between 1989 and 1998, jumping an average of

Justices hear cases product liability

The Supreme Court has already considerable investment in defining the border between the federal state regulators and law offences has increased even more on Friday. The judges were two new cases on their roster cigarettes, drugs and marking requirements. In all cases, as in other four, the Court has already agreed