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Despite Success In Polls, Gay Marriage Still Facing Trouble

AP | DAVID CRARY | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Polls, Lgbt, Video, Gay Marriage Polls, Minnesota, LGBT Issues, Washington, LGBT Rights, Gay Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage, Maryland, Maine, Politics News

NEW YORK -- Poll after poll shows public support for same-sex marriage steadily increasing, to the point where it's now a majority viewpoint. Yet in a...

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Fire Aboard Nuclear Sub Injures 6

Patch | Robert Cook | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Nuclear Submarine Fire, Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Military, Bad News, Fire, USS Miami SSN 755, Nuclear Submarine, Maine, Crime News

Six people have been injured in a fire on a nuclear submarine at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine....

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Launched by Australian Visionary, U.S. Peace Index Hits Year Two

Jim Luce | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Australia, New York State, U.S. Peace Index, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Michelle Breslauer, Maine, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Institute for Economics and Peace, Incarceration, New York City, Global Peace Index, Uspi, Most Peaceful State, Ep, Maine Peaceful State, Video, Culture News

The U.S. Peace Index was launched last year with the aim is to further understand the types of environments that are associated with peace and its economic impacts at a more specific regional level.

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Review: Dark Shadows Irritates

Carole Mallory | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Michelle Preifer, Maine, Johnny Depp, Movie Reviews, Helena Bonham Carter, Movie News, Dark Shadows, Entertainment News

Chaos, confusion and irritation best describe this forced gothic nightmare, based on the vampire soap opera from 1966.

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PHOTOS: 5 Summer Road Trips On Half A Tank

ShermansTravel | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Boston, Gas Prices, Zion National Park, Asheville, Road Trips, Summer, Lake of the Ozarks, Santa Barbara, Channel Islands, Los Angeles, Maine, Kansas City, Slidepollajax, Travel News

Over half of 2,500 Americans surveyed by the U.S. Travel Association said that an increase in fuel costs would make them rethink their summer road trip plans.

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PHOTOS: 6 East Coast Beaches For Family Getaways

offMetro.com | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Slidepollajax, Biking, Beaches, Public Transportation, Family, Virginia, New Jersey, Maine, Long Island, Rhode Island, Travel News

If you feel like ditching the car and the same old beach retreats, consider staying at one of these delightful ocean-perched properties.

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Owner Adopts, Outfits Disabled Dog In Pooch 'Wheelchair'

Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Video, Border Collies, Pets, Pet Adoption, Disabled Border Collie, Pet Rescue, Stephanie Fox, Roosevelt, New England Border Collie Rescue, Maine, Impact News

Remaining active and optimistic, despite being confined to a wheelchair, Roosevelt-the-dog has proven to live up to his presidential namesake. Aft...

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Maine Enacts New Mining Industry Regulations

AP | GLENN ADAMS | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Energy, Maine Mining Regulations, Mining Regulation Bill Maine, Paul Lepage Mining Bill, Video, Maine Mining Bill, Maine Mining Regulation Bill, Mining History Maine, Maine Mining History, Paul Lepage Maine, Mining Regulation Bill, Maine Governor Mining Bill, Maine, Green News

Gov. Paul LePage has signed a new mining regulatory bill, but that doesn't mean mining is new in Maine. In fact, it has a long history in the state go...

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When Global Warming Ate My Life

Shoshana Zuboff | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Weather, Lightning Strike, Extreme Weather, Lightning, Climate Change, Global Warming, Maine, Green News

A bolt of lightening crashed through the kitchen window, mowed me down like a freight train hurtling through my chest. Then came smoke. Fifteen minutes later we were out in the storm, watching in disbelief as our beloved home vanished in a towering wall of flame.

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New Study Shows Violence Costing America Over $460 Billion

Michael Shank | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Violence, Institute for Economics and Peace, Cambridge, Louisiana, Prison, Congress, US Peace Index, Arizona, Taxpayers, Michael Shank, Incarceration, Peace, Michigan, Maine, Wyoming, Policing, Homicides, Massachusetts, Detroit, Economy, Jail, Crime, Politics News

The U.S. Peace Index is based on analysis of homicide, violent crime, policing, incarceration rates and availability of small arms data. With improvements in all five of these indicators from the 2011 to the 2012 USPI, the U.S. was found to be more peaceful than at any time since 1991.

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In Race for US Senate in Maine, Record, not Gender, Matters Most to Women

Cynthia Dill | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Cynthia Dill, Women's Rights, Angus King Maine Senate, Women's Health, Maine, Olympia Snowe, Maine Senate Race 2012, Angus King, Maine Senate Race, Maine Senate, Female Politicians, Politics News

While you certainly don't have to be a woman to support women's rights, you do have to have a record of increasing the financial security of women and their families.

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A Lifeline for Sea Life

Miyoko Sakashita | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Ocean Pollution, Sea Life, Ocean Acidification, Oceans, Pollution, Maine, Utah, Fishing Industry, Shellfish Industry, Green News

Sadly, the ocean's dark transformation has already started. Every hour, a million tons of carbon dioxide spewed from cars, factories and power plants rain down on the world's oceans.

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Anti-Gay Group In Maine Seeks To Rebrand Same-Sex Marriage

Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Video, Gay Rights, Sodomy-Based Marriage Maine, Maine Sodomy-Based Marriage, Maine Gay Marriage, Maine No Special Rights PAC, No Special Rights PAC, Maine Same-Sex Marriage, No Special Rights PAC Maine, Gay Marriage, Maine Marriage Equality, Maine, Same-Sex Marriage, Marriage Equality, Sodomy-Based Marriage, Politics News

No Special Rights PAC, a new anti-gay group, has laid down roots in Maine, where its two founders are hoping to combat a pro-equality push that has le...

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A Knitting Cruise

Susan Fogwell | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Sailing, Travel, Knitting, Maine, Vacation, Adventure, Rockland, Slidepollajax, JE Riggin, Travel News

On each sailing trip, 24 knitters gather on the 120-foot, two-masted schooner.

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EXCLUSIVE: On Missing Child's 2nd Birthday, 'It Is A Nightmare,' Her Mom Says

HuffingtonPost.com | Steven Hoffer | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Ayla Reynolds Birthday, Crime News, Photo Galleries, Trista Reynolds, Ayla Reynolds Birthday Vigil, Missing Persons, Ayla Reynolds Case, Ayla Reynolds, Maine, Ayla Reynolds Missing, Crime News

Trista Reynolds can picture herself at this time last year, sitting around the kitchen table, eating cake and singing her daughter's first rendition o...

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'More Than a Cupful' of Ayla Reynolds' Blood Found, Says Mom

Chelsea Hoffman | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Maine, Trista Reynolds, Justin DiPietro, Missing Person, Ayla Reynolds Blood, Crime News

When Ayla Reynolds was abducted in December 2012, she was 20 months old. Her second birthday is in less than a month and it doesn't seem like she will be found. Sometimes in cases like these, the things that are not said are sometimes more noticeable than the things that are.

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Obama: GOP Rivals Selling 'Fundamentally Different Vision Of America'

AP | JULIE PACE | Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: Video, 2012 Election, President Barack Obama, President Obama, Gop Primary 2012, Elections 2012, Vermont, Obama 2012, Maine, Politics News

PORTLAND, Maine — President Barack Obama accused Republicans of clinging to economic policies that preceded the Great Depression and the more re...

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Maine State Government Ad Making Fun Of Local Residents Accidentally Runs In Newspaper

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 03.29.2012

Read More: Bangor Daily News, Maine Department of Transportation, Isleboro, Maine, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The Bangor Daily News published a public notice on Wednesday from the Maine Department of Transportation (DOT) alerting the citizenry to...

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Fred Karger On NOM's 'Racially-Driven' Strategies And Document Leak

HuffingtonPost.com | Michelangelo Signorile | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Nom, Video, Same Sex Marriage, National Organization for Marriage, Fred Karger, Republican Party, Gay Marriage, Fred Karger 2012, Republicans, Maine, Marriage Equality, Same-Sex Marriage, Gay Voices News

The secret documents that show the divisive, racially-driven strategies of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) have received enormous media a...

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Maine Senate Candidate Pushed To Pick A Party

Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Maine Senate Race 2012, Angus King 2012, Angus King, Olympia Snowe, Elections 2012, Cynthia Dill, 10 Things, Maine Senate, Maine Senate Race, Maine, Video, Politics News

Angus King, the former governor of Maine who is running for Senate as an independent, is being pressured to announce which party he would caucus with ...

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Man's Body Found During Search For Missing Maine Toddler

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Steven Brandon, Video, Crime News, Crime, Missing Persons, Slidepollajax, Ayla Reynolds, Missing Children, Ayla Reynolds Case, Maine, Ayla Reynolds Missing, Crime News

A group of volunteers searching for missing 2-year-old Ayla Reynolds found the body of a man missing since 2004, according to Maine police. The dis...

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Police Recover 80-Year-Old Man's Stolen Wheelchair

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 03.23.2012

Read More: Video, Wendy Deemer, Wheelchair, Wheelchair Robbery, Crime, Crime News, Dana Huard, Maine, Crime News

Police in Lewiston, Maine said a wheelchair that was stolen from a man Sunday outside his home has been returned. According to family members, Dana...

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PHOTOS: 6 Unique Small-Ship Cruises

BootsnAll | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Bootsnall, Caribbean, Egypt, France, Cruises, Travel, Vietnam, Nile, Burgundy, Small Ship Cruises, Paris, Galapagos Islands, Maine, Slidepollajax, Travel News

Small ship cruises aren't always cheap, but their prices are often comparable with big ship cruises and can offer more bang for your buck.

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PHOTOS: 8 Wide-Open Road Trips

George Hobica | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Best Road Trips in US, Big Bend, Dakotas, Wine Tours, Maine, Travel, Mount Rushmore, Las Vegas, Travel Blogs, Slidepollajax, Travel News

Here are eight amazing shorter road trips that showcase some of the best scenery and wide-open spaces that America has to offer.

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Ex-Governor Not Running For Maine Senate Seat

AP | DAVID SHARP | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Maine Senate Race 2012, Mike Michaud, Video, 2012 Election, Chellie Pingree, Olympia Snowe, Elections 2012, Elections-2012, Maine Senate Race, Democrats, Maine, John Baldacci, Politics News

PORTLAND, Maine — Former Gov. John Baldacci on Wednesday became the third prominent Democrat to bow out of the high-profile race for a U.S. Sena...

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